This biennial report sets out a comprehensive review of world fisheries and aquaculture, as well as examining selected policy issues including capture-based aquaculture, labour standards, fisheries management and CITES, trade issues, ...

In some parts of the world mushrooms have had a central role in religious ritual ceremonies. Ethnomycological studies among the Indian tribes of Mexico - the Aztecs and the Chichimecas - revealed the mushrooms to be hallucinogenic.

Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, 67th meeting, Rome, 20-29 June 2006

This publication contains specifications of identity and purity in certain food additives, prepared at the 61st meeting of a joint FAO/WHO Committee, held in Rome in June 2003.

Ce guide d’éducation nutritionnelle est destiné aux facilitateurs des champs écoles-producteurs (CEP), aux agents de vulgarisation agricole (facilitateurs CEP et techniciens agricoles) et aux autres acteurs communautaires.

International food aid has rightly been credited with saving millions of lives and is often the only thing that stands between vulnerable people and death.

This report reviews the scientific evidence on the effects of diet, nutrition and physical activity on chronic diseases and makes recommendations for public health policies and programmes.

The assessment included a review of the Codex Guidelines for the Control of Campylobacter and Salmonella in Chicken Meat (CXG 78-2011). The Campylobacter will be reviewed by another meeting.

Geographical indications represent a powerful way to foster sustainable food systems through territorial approaches and market linkages, especially for small-scale actors.

This is an update of the global seaweed market: production figures from culture and capture, the size of the international market for seaweed and its commercially important issues, the leading countries by region, developments in processing ...