The FAO Africa Gender Team is pleased to invite you to this year's virtual International Women's Day celebration, which will be taking place on 9 March, from 10:00-11:30 AM GMT. The virtual celebration will highlight how peasant and indigenous women are actively promoting healthy food systems through agroecology, regenerative approaches...

To officially launch the upcoming  Good to Grow Weekend of Action , Capital Growth, Good to Grow and Sustain are organising a webinar on 15 March to discuss the climate and nature emergency and how to apply agroecological principles in urban community gardens. During the webinar, it will be covered: How urban food growers can address the climate...

23 and 24 February 2022  | 13:00 –17:30 CEST Pollination is a fundamental ecosystem service for plant reproduction, agricultural production and the maintenance of terrestrial biodiversity. Almost 90 per cent of the world’s flowering plants are pollinated by insects and other animals, and it is estimated that about one-third of the global food...

Food systems governance reform and food systems multi-stakeholder mechanisms (MSMs) have been recognized as key interventions during the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) and the related Summit Member State Dialogues and National Pathways. Meeting global demand for healthy and nutritious food in ways that are equitable, efficient and sustainable requires solutions...

This guide explores the climate-smart intensification of upland and lowland crop production systems in the dry-zone of Sri Lanka and provides technical guidance to achieve the productive objectives of selected strategic crops (as deemed relevant by the Government of Sri Lanka). The first edition focuses on maize and groundnut upland...

Solving the problem of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures, and ensuring citizen participation are some of the challenges that affect the dynamics of food systems.  From different scales and perspectives of analysis, this book addresses the role of Latin American...