FAO Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (FAO RAP), in collaboration with the SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), an intergovernmental organization of the eight Member States in the South Asia region, Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), organize a regional consultation...

Documenting and analyzing the development of agroecology in different countries and context is important to enhance the scaling up and scaling out of agroecology at the European level. With an innovative and multiscale methodology, inspired by previous mapping (Agroecology Europe, 2020), the Agroecology for Europe (AE4EU) project aims at providing...

ECHO East Africa is pleased to announce the Fourth Pastoralist Symposium. The Pastoralist Symposium will provide a network and training opportunity for those involved in improving nutrition and livelihoods in pastoralist areas. It will consist of two afternoons featuring a plenary session and several lightning talks (5 minutes focused talks) plus a live 'meet the...

This brief identifies entry points within agri-food systems to improve biodiversity and diets, two levers that can be used to enhance nutrition and optimize environmental sustainability while ensuring social equity, especially of the most vulnerable people. It also presents recommendations for concrete actions by key stakeholders – governments, academia, civil...

Humankind is facing a perfect storm of climate change, biodiversity loss, and multiple forms of malnutrition (stunting, wasting, micronutrient deficiencies, and obesity) coexisting in the same country, community, household, and even individual. Challenges from each of these areas are well known and recognized, but what seems to be missing in...

Urban and peri-urban agriculture has shown positive results in the mitigation of food insecurity in urban areas, however, it is a process that requires economic and technical support in order to optimise results, and for these to be appropriated by the population. In Colombia there are currently no government policies...