The INCREASE Horizon 2020 project proposes a new approach to promote the conservation and use of plant genetic resources. ‘Participatory science’ is placed at the middle of the project, involving stakeholders and citizens in the development of a new model and strategy for the conservation and use of seeds. The...

This year’s report presents evidence that Arab States face significant challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets related to hunger, food security, and nutrition, as undernourishment, moderate or severe food insecurity, and malnourishment are increasing. Child wasting and overweight are higher, and adult obesity is double the global average....

En ce début d'année 2023, le monde est au bord d'une crise de la dette particulièrement redoutable. Après une décennie de constante augmentation des niveaux d'endettement, les finances publiques des pays à faible revenu se sont trouvées lourdement impactées par la pandémie du COVID-19. Les perturbations économiques qui ont suivi...

To raise awareness of the importance of work to strengthen urban agrifood systems in the region of Europe and Central Asia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a webinar in early June focusing on the challenges and opportunities in urban food agrifood systems faced by...

IIED's climate change newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our research to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and locally led adaptation to climate change.In this edition we invite you to join us for the launch of the Anticipatory...

In Angola around 80 percent of farmers are smallholders, so the agriculture sector still represents an important source of income, employment and food for a large part of the production.   Women constitute the majority of the labour force in agriculture and are critical agents of change in the fight against rural...

We cannot end hunger and poverty without empowering both men and women in agrifood systems. Today, agriculture and food systems face an unprecedented array of challenges. We must feed a growing global population in a context of emerging and persisting crises - economic, energy, environmental, food and social. These include conflicts,...

El presente documento fue preparado con el objetivo de realizar recomendaciones de política pública para el fortalecimiento de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur y está dirigido a las autoridades nacionales de pesca y acuicultura en los países de la región. Estas recomendaciones...

Poverty alleviation products are made by impoverished producers and marketed as such to improve producers’returns. We implement an online discrete choice experiment on rice in China to explore consumer preference forproducts specifically labelled as poverty alleviation products that represent multiple dimensions of poverty. Wealso differentiate the nature of public and...

Recent years have seen Brazil’s social and environmental policies weakened and dismantled at a frightening scale. Rights violations, lack of access to benefits, and a complete disregard for the sector during the pandemic has led to a rise in inequality and poverty. Our research confirms a lack of government initiative...

Exploring Georgia’s gastronomy offers tourists unique insights into the country and its culture.   Enriching tourists’ experiences also has the potential to attract more visitors which can generate vital income in rural communities.   The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are...

Despite the acknowledged benefits of crop diversification, the transition towards more diversified cropping systems needs to be supported, mainly due to socio-technical lock-ins favoring major dominant crop species. This calls for the development of new approaches to support the design of locally tailored diversified cropping systems. This paper aims to...

Ce numéro thématique est publié avec l'appui du COSTEA et en collaboration avec le CTFD. Articles de recherche présent dans le numéro thématique: Les « chemins fonciers » de l’agrobusiness dans le delta du SénégalAmandine Hertzog-Adamczewski, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Oumar DiopPublished online: 01 August 2023L’accès collectif au foncier irrigué à Ross...

In a new CAP that largely maintains the status quo, social conditionality emerges as one of the few truly innovative elements. But is it going to be a real game-changer? This new legislative tool has the potential to improve the working conditions of millions of farm workers. But does it...

Le secteur agricole est un pilier majeur de l’économie de la Tunisie, assurant non seulement la sécurité alimentaire mais aussi la création d’emplois et la gestion des ressources naturelles. Cependant, l’agriculture pluviale, qui constitue 92% de l’agriculture tunisienne, est vulnérable aux aléas climatiques et à la dégradation des sols. Avis...

During the past 10–15 years, agroecology has grown in prominence in global agricultural discourse based on a belief that it can dramatically transform agrifood systems (Anderson et al., 2021). The concern of proponents of agroecology – that modern agriculture, often referred to as conventional or industrial, has been principally responsible...

Agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific can be strengthened by tapping on agrifood-tourism linkages. When tourism and agrifood systems interact, both synergies and competition appear. Agriculture and tourism compete between themselves and other sectors for land, water, labour, capital, and transport and logistics services. Cross-sectoral synergies arise when agriculture...

The importance of research on safe and efficient post-harvest technologies in fisheries as well as the free and widespread dissemination of the research and the sharing of the technologies cannot be overstressed. This issue of Yemaya documents two initiatives in postharvest fish processing, one from Uganda and the other prototyped...

Innovation in agrifood systems must go beyond merely providing women farmers with new types of seeds or irrigation pumps—now, change in agrifood research and development requires something more socially sophisticated and transformative.

The International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while making a worldwide call to action to strengthen efforts for supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The United Nations theme for the observance of IWD 2023 is "...