FAO and the International Fertilizer Association (IFA) are pleased to announce the webinar "Fertigation – a tool to simultaneously improve water and nutrient use efficiency", as part of the new series focused on sustainable plant nutrition.Following a successful first event on microbials, this new webinar will focus on fertigation, a...

Today's challenges require systemic responses that reconcile the economic, environmental, and social dimensions. Agroecology can give that opportunity to generate a necessary and urgent conversation about transforming food systems towards sustainability. This article documents how municipalities throughout Argentina are committed to the proposal of promoting agroecology, generating markets, fairs, knowledge exchange meetings, and...

The purpose of this booklet is to create broader awareness, promote deeper understanding and enhance capacities (through training) of rural people's movements on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). As popular education context-based toolkit, this booklet can empower peasants to improve...

Modality: Self-learning | From 15-12-21 to 31-12-22 This course provides a guide on how to evaluate agroecology using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation  (TAPE) which enables a multidimensional diagnosis to be made in a variety of contexts. It explains how the analytical framework proposed by FAO was developed, what are its underlying principles, and what are its methodological components...

Following the COP26 summit (October 31 – November 12, 2021) to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Secretariat hosted this virtual event on November 18, 2021, to highlight the inextricable link between...

Brazil used to be a country rich in biodiversity, but in the semi-arid North East of the country, extensive livestock raising, slash and burn agriculture and uncontrolled demand for wood fuel have led to widespread environmental degradation of its unique Caatinga biodiversity. This video depicts the story of Adeline and...