A number of organisations made submissions to the CAP consultation, which closed last week. Here we outline three differing ones  – one from public health, one from farming  and one, which we devote more space to, from a platform bringing a number of organisations together in Germany.

Floods, landslides, drought, storms, earthquakes and forest fires . . . Bosnia and Herzegovina is prone to natural disasters that hurt agriculture. Supported by the Swiss Government, FAO organized a conference here today on “Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Guidelines,” presenting findings and recommendations for improving current methodologies for assessing damages and...

Le monde produit 1,5 fois plus de nourriture qu’il n’en faut pour nourrir l’ensemble de la population, mais un tiers de la nourriture est perdu ou gaspillé. En outre, pendant que la plupart des paysans du Nord et du Sud étaient en pleine crise et voyaient leurs revenus fondre, les...

Agriculture, forestry and land use change together account for about one fifth (21.5%) of global GHG emissions. In 2014, they accounted for 10.6 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide equivalents2. Agriculture alone is directly responsible for 5.1 GtCO2-eq, which is about 10% of total global GHG emissions (Danila et al., 2016)....

HPC has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs of labour, money and other external resources while increasing farm diversity, reslience, health, education...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

In this film, organic market gardeners Frank and Josje talk about why the supermarket system doesn’t work and how Community Supported Agriculture fits into a new story for food growing. CSA members help farmers to grow the best quality vegetables and to nurture healthy soils by committing to receive vegetable...

Overview of FAO’s work in Europe and Central Asia – especially the Western Balkans, Caucasus, and Central Asia. Produced by Visiontime International LLC for the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia. 

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

This booklet has been written by the European Access to Land network in cooperation with Urgenci, the network for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), based on CSA members’ stories from across Europe. Land and communities – new building stones for European food and agriculture. In the last 10 years alone, Europe has...

The FAO Director-General argued that the world's rural areas will be the key battleground in the push to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda, since it is there that poverty and hunger are most concentrated.At the same time, most of the increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

Investir em diferentes tipos de produtos em uma mesma propriedade traz muito mais que benefícios financeiros, representa também benefícios para o meio ambiente. A forma como se cultiva os alimentos faz toda a diferença. A escolha do que plantar, quando plantar e como plantar pode ser fundamental para conservar a...

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...

With only one-quarter of expected rainfall received in the Horn of Africa in the October-December period, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called for an immediate response to prevent widespread drought conditions from becoming a catastrophe. “The magnitude of the situation calls for scaled up action and coordination at national and...

Les difficultés de commercialisation entravent le bon fonctionnement de la filière dattes en Algérie, particulièrement pour les cultivars à faible valeur marchande. Afin de tirer profit des expériences extérieures, et notamment de celles des agriculteurs des pays européens et des pays voisins (Maroc et Tunisie), de nombreux mécanismes et outils...

Historieta breve que busca introducir, principamente a los productores, en los temas comunes del campo y en prácticas sustentables. Por ejemplo: manejo agroecológico de plagas, manejo poscosecha, pastoreo, fertilidad y otros. En cada ejemplar se presenta un conflicto de la vida cotidiana de los productores, que es posible solucionar, mediante...

The report confirms earlier systematic reviews that described a scarcity of studies investigating the potential beneficial health effects of an organic diet. The largest of the epidemiology studies looking at allergies and atopic disease, the PARSIFAL study, studied 14 000 children aged 5–13 years in five European countries. It showed that children on a...

El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...