International Standards & Practice Guidelines (IS&Gs)

From the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):

1. FAO Country Profiles
   
2. Themes & Topics Over 50, see especially
   —Antimicrobial Resistance
   —Capacity Development
   —Climate change
   —Climate-Smart Agriculture
   —Environmental and Social Standards
   —Family farming
   —Food loss and food waste
   —Hunger and Malnutrition
   —Influencing food environments for healthy diets
   —Livestock and the environment
   —Nutrition
   —School food
   —Sustainable Food and Agriculture
   —Sustainable Food Value Chains Knowledge Platform
   —Urban agriculture
   —World Food Situation
3. Publications
   —FAO Documents Repository (30,000 documents, includes search function)
   —FAO eBooks
   —Free E-Learning Courses
   —Infographics collection—Flagships “State of ” collections See especially
   —Food & Agriculture: SOFA
   —Food Insecurity: SOFI
4. Statistics See especially
   —FAO statistics website (FAOSTAT)
   —Food security statistics
5. Livestock’s long shadow

Missions Specific Best Practices Documents

(Demonstrate Compliance with International Standards & Guidelines)

I. FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION (FBO) OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS/RESOURCES:
A. Christian Connections for International Health (CCIH) Resources See Especially:
—Food Security

B. Contact Publication of the World Council of Churches (WCC) and former Christian Medical Commission (CMC). Includes numerous articles demonstrating FBO work in the establishment as well as promotion of IS&Gs.
—Food Price Crisis: What does it mean? What can we do about it?

C. William Carey International Development Journal (Click full screen icon & scroll down to page number)
—Agro-based Corporative Community as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction and Farmers’ Empowerment p3

D. Faith-based organizations providing services in this area include:
1) ECHO–Fighting world hunger website
—ECHO Community Garden Toolkit
2) Farming God’s Way website
—Resources

II. SECULAR OPEN-ACCESS DOCUMENTS: