The pace and scale of agrarian changes that have taken place in Preah Vihear in the last two decades are unprecedented. The province has exhibited transformations that are characteristic of dynamics observed widely across Cambodia. Central to these transformations is a process of agrarian expansion driven by boom crop export markets...

Ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean met today to foster healthy diets, galvanize inclusive rural development and promote sustainable and resilient agriculture in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to discuss ways to mitigate the impact of rising food and fertilizer prices on the region, the...

The global impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever clearer, and natural resources and ecosystems are being depleted. Despite some progress, hunger and poverty persist, and inequalities are deepening. The world is realizing that unsustainable high external inputs and resource-intensive industrialized systems pose a real danger of biodiversity loss,...

  Since 2018, European Space Agency Astronaut (ESA) Thomas Pesquet has been working with FAO to advocate for greater food security, the fight against hunger and climate change, and more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems. After officially being nominated an FAO Goodwill Ambassador in 2021, he sent a message...

Le lien supposé entre intensification des productions animales et fréquence grandissante des maladies humaines émergentes à potentiel pandémique est une des controverses majeures qui touchent le système alimentaire mondial. Historiquement, les animaux domestiques ont contribué à l’apparition de maladies humaines majeures et sont le réservoir ou l’hôte intermédiaire de plusieurs...

Shexian dryland stone terraced system is a rain-fed agricultural system in the mountains, developed by the local ancestors through adapting to and transforming the harsh natural environment and inherited from generation to generation. The dryland terrace system has outstanding soil and water conservation abilities. This practice explains the process of...

FAO Agroecology Newsletter of October 2022

A l’occasion du Salon international de l’agriculture 2022, le Cirad lance son podcast « Nourrir le vivant », avec une première saison intitulée L’alimentation change le monde. Au cours de six épisodes, chacun rythmé par une expérience de terrain au Sud, découvrez différents leviers de transformation de nos systèmes alimentaires....

The purpose of the guide is to provide guidance on designing and developing e-learning-based solutions for trainers and instructional designers who are new to e-learning design. The guide also provides basic concepts and information on the processes and resources involved in e-learning development, which may be of interest to human resource and capacity-development...

An FAO review dated November 2021 of the 2012 Hidden Harvest Report concluded that small-scale and subsistence fisheries provide livelihood to 113 million people, of whom around 40 per cent are women.  According to the report, these women are present in pre-harvest (gear fabrication and boat building), harvest, post-harvest (processing...

One month from today, negotiators from around the world will meet in Geneva for crucial preparatory talks on the new global biodiversity framework. The framework aims to halt and reverse our current catastrophic loss of biodiversity. Locally-led action must be central to global biodiversity efforts, as Ebony Holland and Dilys...

América Latina es ya una de las regiones del mundo más afectadas por los impactos del cambio climático. Los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, como las sequías, las olas de calor, los ciclones tropicales y las inundaciones, han provocado decenas de muertes y graves daños en la producción de cultivos y en...

Modalidad: Self-study course | Desde el 17-11-21 hasta el 31-12-22 The Course “Short supply chains in Family Farming” is part of the Regional Technical Platform for Family Farming (https://www.fao.org/americas/daf/plataforma/es/) in alliance with the Projects "Sembrando Oportunidades" (ABC, MAPA Brazil, MADR Colombia and FAO ) and the Farmers Organizations for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries - FO4ACP (FIDA, EU,...

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...

Rodrigo Pacheco is a world-renowned Ecuadorian chef known for much more than his delicious recipes. This food hero is also cooking up a storm in the name of agrifood sustainability.  Working with nature is key for Rodrigo. His vision for sustainable food and agriculture focuses on integrating the biodiversity that surrounds...

The need to address climate change impacts in agrifood systems has never been clearer. In the face of increasing extreme climate events around the globe, including extreme precipitation, heatwaves and droughts, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis” warns of...

CARI is launching a dynamic Desertif’actions 2022 initiative with activities to build and carry out advocacy throughout the year. Desertif’actions 2022 aims to put agroecology at the top of the agenda in the fight against desertification and land degradation, by sharing and pooling the results of actions carried out by civil...

Sobre la importancia de la agroecología al proponer soluciones de bajo costo, locales y sostenibles, porque promueve el uso eficiente de los recursos de la propia finca; el reciclaje del agua, los nutrientes, la biomasa y la energía; el aumento de la agrobiodiversidad y la gestión sostenible de los recursos...

Los pastos en Colombia ocupan un área de 37,4 millones de hectá‑ reas. Constituyen el cultivo más grande del país, puesto que ocupan 79,3 % de las 47,2 millones de hectáreas dedicadas a explotación agropecuaria. En ellos pastorean 23 millones de cabezas de bovinos (Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística [dane], 2017),...

Nixtamal, proviene del náhuatl nextli (cal de cenizas) y tamalli (masa cocida de maíz) y se refiere al grano de maíz cocido con agua y cal que se usa en la preparación de diferentes platillos típicos. El proceso conocido como nixtamalización es una técnica tradicional, usada desde la época prehispánica, que consiste en neutralizar la...