Tackling rural poverty, together

Extract

This study is the latest forward assessment by FAO of possible future developments in world food, nutrition and agriculture, including the crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries sectors. It is the product of a multidisciplinary exercise, involving most of the technical units and disciplines present in FAO, as well as specialists from outside FAO. It continues the tradition of FAO's periodical perspective studies for global agriculture, the latest of which was published in 1995 (Alexandratos, 1995). Earlier editions were Alexandratos (1988), FAO (1981a) and FAO (1970). An interim, less complete version of the present study was published in April 2000. Comments received on the interim report helped shape the study in its present form.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction and overview
2. Prospects for food and nutrition
3. Prospects for aggregate agriculture and major commodity groups
4. Crop production and natural resource use
5. Livestock production
6. Forestry
7. Fisheries
8. Agriculture in poverty alleviation and economic development
9. Agricultural trade, trade policies and the global food system
10. Globalization in food and agriculture
11. Selected issues in agricultural technology
12. Agriculture and the environment: changing pressures, solutions and trade-offs
13. Climate change and agriculture: physical and human dimension