Food and Agriculture Organization
From BioenergyWiki
(Redirected from UN Food and Agriculture Organization)
Bioenergy > International cooperation > Organizations > Food and Agriculture Organization
| Notice - High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy to be held by FAO in Rome, Italy, 3-5 June 2008. This event is webcast live here. BioenergyWiki page for this event: High-Level Conference on World Food Security. | ||
Information about biofuels and bioenergy and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Contents |
[edit]
Activities
- Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) - FAO serves as the secretariat for the GBEP.
- Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project - analyzes "linkages between bioenergy and food security"
[edit]
Events
- 3-5 June 2008, Rome, Italy: High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy - (Themes: food security, climate change). Organized by FAO. To be preceded by a series of expert meetings and stakeholder consultations; see meetings schedule.
[edit]
News
- U.N. Report Seeks Action to Address Food Crisis, 29 May 2008 by New York Times: "In anticipation of a global summit on the food crisis, the United Nations called on world leaders Wednesday to agree to urgent measures to ease demand for grains and alleviate high food prices."
- "The report, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, suggests that countries might need to reconsider policies that encourage the production of ethanol and other biofuels."
- Read the FAO report: Soaring Food Prices: Facts, Perspectives, Impacts and Actions Required (PDF file)
- "The report, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, suggests that countries might need to reconsider policies that encourage the production of ethanol and other biofuels."
- FAO unveils new bioenergy assessment tool - Weighs impact on food security, 8 February 2008, FAO press release: "A decision-support tool developed by FAO will help ensure that countries can enter the rapidly growing field of bioenergy industry to produce benefits for the poor without jeopardizing their food security....The tool, an “analytical framework” designed by a team of economists...was unveiled at a two-day experts’ meeting of FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) project."
- "A prerequisite for running the framework is the establishment of a bioenergy development scenario....The analytical framework then makes it possible, through five steps, to assess: technical biomass potential; biomass production costs; the economic bioenergy potential; macro-economic consequences; national and household-level impact and consequences on food security."
- "The framework will be field-tested in three countries – Peru, Thailand and Tanzania – before the analytical framework methodology is made available to the international community at large."
[edit]
Reports
- OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017 (PDF file) - This report finds that the "energy security, environmental and economic benefits of biofuels production based on agricultural commodity feed stocks are at best modest, and sometimes even negative."[1]
| United Nations | edit | |
| FAO (GBEP) | UNDP | UNEP | ||
