Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) has been organizing landless families to occupy, settle, and farm throughout the country since the dictatorship ended in 1985. Agroecology–a highly sustainable form of agriculture–has become increasingly central to their platform of land reform, and it is taught in 2,000 schools that have been established in...

Las hortalizas son alimentos de consumo básico y fuente importante de nutrientes para la salud. En Colombia los problemas fitosanitarios limitan el rendimiento y competitividad en mercados internacionales. Con el objetivo evaluar la diversidad de la entomofauna asociada en cinco cultivos colindantes como ahuyama, berenjena y dos especies de frijol...

Smallholder farmers in India face considerable challenges in terms of market access. The Indian government supports farmer producer companies (FPCs) as a legal-institutional innovation to achieve market benefits for small-scale farmers. FPCs have key agency-enhancing features that distinguish them from India’s traditional cooperative legal structure, but they also demonstrate weaknesses...

When Edy Prasetyo began farming catfish in 2001, he couldn’t have imagined how popular it would become for Indonesian street food culture. Today, grilled-catfish vendors line the streets of Jakarta and other urban centres on the archipelago, catering to city dwellers whose appetite for pecel lele often outruns the supply. But...

Bonn Hub Leader and Managing Director of CIFOR Germany, Christopher Martius, explores why the world should fight climate change from two sides: protecting carbon-rich ecosystems and growing biomass.

Organic farming seeks to protect the genetic integrity of living organisms, and this is why no GMOs are used in the organic production process. It ensures the availability of enough GMO-free and organically compatible resources. The organic sector commits to meeting consumers’ highest expectations about the genetic resources it is...

Ante los interrogantes que tienen los productores ganaderos de lechería especializada de trópico alto del departamento de Nariño sobre cuáles son los volúmenes de agua requeridos para la producción de biomasa como pasturas o praderas, y en función de las condiciones agroclimáticas de la región cuál es el nivel o...

El género Diatraea Guilding, es considerado el de mayor importancia económica en los sistemas productivos de caña de azúcar en Colombia. Debido al desconocimiento del comportamiento sexual, a la amplia distribución de Diatraea saccharalis (Fabricius, 1974) y a la variación geográfica de la composición de su feromona sexual, el objetivo de este trabajo fue...

In light of the new Organic Action Plan for the EU, which recognises the importance of research and innovation for organic, knowledge exchange on organic farming, and building organic agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS), TP Organics’ study, based on mapping and screening existing cases in Europe, presents seven organic...

Huili Li and Asanka Bandara from CIFOR-ICRAF and the Kunming Institute of Botany explore the potential of mushrooms to fulfil dietary needs and provide livelihood options.

En América Latina y el Caribe las desigualdades en relación a la inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional, la situación de pobreza y capacidades de respuesta ante el cambio climático se encuentran fuertemente ancladas en diferencias de género, origen étnico-racial, grupo etario y territorio, situación que demanda observar la naturaleza entramada de...

Every five seconds, roughly one soccer field of soil is eroded. This alarming fact reaffirms the need to raise awareness of this growing problem on World Soil Day, 5 December, as the earth’s population expands. Going organic can help end soil erosion and jumpstart much-needed soil restoration worldwide.

Este manual de consulta incluye diferentes aspectos relacionados con la producción de los cítricos, como el tipo de infraestructura recomendadas; la descripción de las condiciones ambientales adecuadas para el desarrollo de las plantas; la selección y acondicionamiento de semillas; las principales características y fuentes de sustratos para la producción de...

Social FARMS is an innovative Strategic Partnership project started in November 2020 and ending in October 2022, granted under the European Union Programme Erasmus+ within the Key Action 2 Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices. The project focuses its priorities on access for disadvantaged, with specific attention...

A central principle of the 2030 Agenda is the assurance that “no one will be left behind” and the universal nature of the 2030 Agenda entails that youth should be considered across all goals and targets. In its Strategic Framework 2022–2031, FAO has identified “youth” as an important group whose...

While agroforestry is a well-established approach for agroecological intensification, rice is less often integrated with trees than other annual staple crops. The benefits and risks from rice agroforestry practices have not been systematically explored. Considering the need for strategies that may address low fertility and high degradation of arable soils...

A comprehensive study provides an in-depth analysis of the status of mangroves globally, highlighting the critical challenges these vital ecosystems face, including deforestation, climate change, and coastal development. The study underscores the urgent need for coordinated conservation efforts to protect and restore mangrove forests, which are essential for coastal protection,...

Eating “less but better” meat can be a strategy to guide meat consumption in Western or high-income countries towards sustainability, but what “better” means depends on the perspective. Multiple studies and reports suggest that agroecological farming systems could contribute to a broad range of sustainability benefits, but few studies have examined the...

Introduction. In Colombia, achira (Canna edulis, Ker) starch production is important in the Andean zone, in the departments of Nariño, Huila, and Cundinamarca. Objective. To evaluate the effect of planting density and fertilization on achira starch and rhizome yield, and the relationship between them, in the department of Nariño, Colombia....

To address the impacts of the war in Ukraine on the global agricultural sector, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched a new $17 million project to help Ukrainian farmers save the upcoming harvest in July-August while ensuring export of critical agricultural goods to international...