A study tour brought representatives of Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and North Macedonia to Hungary to learn about improving their seed systems. The visit on 16–20 May constituted part of an FAO project aiming to enhance climate resilience in agriculture. Specifically, national professionals and policy-makers from the three countries deepened their knowledge in...

The sixth European Union – African Union Summit will be held in Brussels on 17-18 February. On this occasion, as peasant farmers in Africa and Europe, we jointly express the urgent need to rebuild food sovereignty on our two continents. Today, people in Europe and Africa are still fed by peasant...

  Marula has long been a staple in Namibian homes, where both the nut and the fruit have a reputation for being healthy and the nut oil is popular for skin care and cooking. In recent years, international companies, too, have caught on to the oil – and with demand booming,...

Existen principalmente dos categorías de bioinsumos: biofertilizantes (abonos verdes) y bioplaguicidas (biofungicidas, bioinsecticidas, metabolitos secundarios y más) que se pueden usar de manera integrada. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/

Limiting and managing the impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture, will largely depend on the sector's ability to implement mitigation and adaptation strategies. FAO supports member countries and partners to achieve this goal, thinking first at all those people that depend on the sector for their nutrition, income...

This report presents the main findings and recommendations from a vulnerability and capacity assessment (VCA) of coastal and fishing communities in Saint Kitts and Nevis. The overall goal of the assessment was to improve understanding of local climate change impacts and vulnerabilities for effective adaptation in the fisheries sector. It...

Seminar Recording | 06 July 2022 | 14:00 CEST Fertilizers are used in agricultural production to improve plant nutrition and enhance plant health and productivity, but since the beginning of 2022 fertilizers prices recorded an additional 30 percent increase because of several factors, including surging input costs, energy price increases, supply disruptions caused by...

Agroecologie enables the improvement of agricultural production through the enhancement of local natural resources and traditional know-how. It contributes to maintaining biodiversity and restoring land in drylands, which are particularly threatened by global warming and food insecurity, while contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Within the framework of the...

FAO launched a new initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina to help selected local authorities boost agriculture and economic development through local agriculture and rural development plans and corresponding action plans. The project builds on experiences gathered in the Livno area (Canton 10), where similar activities took place a few years ago. As the cornerstone...

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) to smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can increase and diversify farmers’ income while also incentivizing practices for ecosystem services, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. The world’s 480 million smallholder farmers produce one third of the world’s food supply on one quarter...

For decades, mainstream climate debates, both nationally and internationally, largely ignored agriculture. Now, thankfully, the climate community has woken up to the importance of agriculture and food systems in tackling climate change. At the same time, this new awareness makes it imperative that climate experts who are new to the...

Almost all the liquid freshwater in the world is groundwater. Life would not be possible without groundwater. Most arid areas of the world depend entirely on this resource. Groundwater supplies a large proportion of the water we use for food production and industrial processes. Groundwater is also critically important to...

Este encuentro regional busca impulsar una reflexión conjunta respecto de cómo potenciar el rol de la agricultura familiar hacia sistemas agroalimentarios sostenibles, inclusivos y resilientes, enfrentando las crisis actuales y futuras a través de una recuperación transformadora. Los principales resultados de esta discusión serán sistematizados en una declaración conjunta de...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Rwanda Development Board has launched a new project to enhance the digital skills and innovation capabilities to foster agri-preneurship among youth and women in Rwanda. “This project is coming in addressing first of all the critical challenge...

Tanzania has a goat population of about 24.8 million most of which belong to the Small East African breed distributed in almost all agro-ecological zones. The different goat populations and the production system in which they are raised are not well characterized depriving animal breeders useful information in designing and...

Some 19.7 million people, almost half of Afghanistan’s population, are facing acute hunger according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis conducted in January and February 2022 by Food Security and Agriculture Cluster partners, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World...

Esta publicación le brinda al productor, en un lenguaje natural de fácil entendimiento, algunos aspectos clave para el cultivo de fríjol. Está enfocado en temáticas como el clima, el uso de suelo, las plagas y las enfermedades, con conocimientos actualizados con el fin de mejorar las prácticas en su actividad...

La Agencia de Desarrollo Rural, ADR y la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria, AGROSAVIA. En equipo continúan con tips para el manejo de Agroinsumos. Este video habla sobre el control biológico, cuando usamos enemigos naturales para bajar la cantidad de población que hay en un cultivo. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la...

Fish provides more than 4.5 billion people around the world with a critical share of their daily protein requirements. For many, it’s an essential daily meal key for nutrition, health and well-being. And while fish may not be enough to ensure global food security, there will be no global food...

En la región de América Latina y el Caribe, la FAO ha apoyado a gobiernos de 29 países en el diseño e implementación de 58 proyectos en todas las áreas focales del GEF, movilizando más de USD 224 millones de este donante. En un contexto de constante incremento de la cartera...