This brief provides emerging evidence from the implementation of the Climate-Smart Agriculture project in Malawi. We analyze factors governing farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation strategies and evaluate the potential impact of adoption on crop productivity...

Since social protection and smallholder agricultural interventions often cover the same geographic space and target the same households, there are opportunities for synergies and complementarities that strengthen livelihoods of poor rural households.

Habilitar a las personas para alimentarse por sí mismas es la obligación primaria de los Estados. Cuando los individuos son incapaces de hacerlo, por ejemplo en los casos en que el VIH/SIDA los hace...

In November 2011 an online discussion on "Measuring Food and Nutrition Security"was held by FAO's Food and Nutrition Security Forum. Participants discussed factors affecting their choice of indicators and how this choice affects their work....

This sample spread sheet accompanies the simple price monitoring tool to assess monthly changes in food prices.

En todo el mundo, un acceso desigual al poder y a los recursos es un punto central en la discriminación contra las mujeres en la comunidad, el mercado, el Estado e incluso en sus propios...

Indigenous peoples are among the world’s most vulnerable groups and poorest socio-ethnic populations. They make up a significant percentage of the food insecure, often facing chronic hunger and malnutrition. Paradoxically, due to a growing dependency...

The Negociatrix Policy Game is a tool for training in multilateral negotiation, which has been developed through a partnership between FAO and the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands. This tool is a software based...

Les peiples autochtones sont parmi les groupes socio-ethniques les plus vulnérables et les plus pauvres du monde. Ils représentent un pourcentage significatif des personnes exposées à l’insécurité alimentaire, souvent confrontées à la faim chronique...

This is an updated version, with extension of projections to 2050, of two of the key chapters (Chapters 2 and 3) of the study World Agriculture: Towards 2015/30 completed in 2002 and published in 2003...