Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming. Climate change has both direct and indirect effects on agricultural productivity...

The unique geography of Bangladesh makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change and warrants appropriate tools and strategies to combat and mitigate negative impacts. Bangladesh has been one of the countries most affected by climate change in the last 15 years. It is the seventh most vulnerable country on the Climate...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) agreed to work together to develop a suite of innovative tools for bolstering the resilience of the UAE’s food system. Under a cooperative agreement signed by Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Acting Director General of ICBA, and Professor...

De acuerdo con los lineamientos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (fao, 2013), los bancos de germoplasma deben ser unidades de conservación de recursos genéticos localizados en instalaciones delimitadas que sirvan como repositorios de material biológico y faciliten la conservación de todo material...

El presente trabajo de relevamiento y diagnóstico fue llevado a cabo por la Asociación Civil “Instituto de Intervenciones Situadas” (IN SITU) como iniciativa propia anexada a las acciones implementadas en el marco de un convenio con la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), la Universidad...

To be sustainable, agriculture must meet the needs of present and future generations, while ensuring profitability, environmental health, and social and economic equity. Sustainable food and agriculture (SFA) contributes to all four pillars of food security – availability, access, utilization and stability – and the dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social...

Costos fijos: Asistencia técnica, arriendo, análisis de suelos, costos administrativos y financieros. Costos variables: cambian en proporción a la actividad o labor del sistema productivo. Costos indirectos: son todos los demás gastos que se requieren para los productos del cultivo, como pago de administración, entre otros. Si bien el costo...

Presentación de experiencias de Sistemas Territoriales de Innovación agropecuaria: Territorios Innovadores y Socioecológicamente Resilientes, la Red de Innovación para la sostenibilidad de los Montes de María, Estrategia de Innovación Rural Participativa, el Centro de Innovación y Apropiación Social de la Caficultura – Cicaficultura Caucana y la estrategia de Conectividades Socioecosistémicas:...

In collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, the office of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Kazakhstan has launched a “Call for good practices on digital agriculture in Kazakhstan”. This call will enable to identify, showcase the good practices and innovative solutions that have proven successful in advancing...

El proyecto *Sembrando Capacidades lo invita a participar en el evento virtual Presentación de resultados: Lineamientos de política pública para la agroecología en Colombia, que tiene como objetivo dar a conocer dos productos trabajados durante el desarrollo del proyecto: Algunos resultados del Mapeo de iniciativas y procesos de transición agroecológica...

Sustainable food and agriculture are at the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. One of the ways of achieving Better Production, Better Nutrition, Better Environment, and Better Life, leaving no one behind, is through agroecology. Agroecology helps ensure food and nutritional security, reduce poverty, mitigate climate change and restore...

IFOAM - Organics International and its Seeds Platform recognize initiatives worldwide seeking to create an alternative model of seed production. For all these experiences to be successful some common obstacles have to be overcome. There are farmers, breeders, institutions and civil society actors that are committed to producing seeds compatible...

FAO helped to enhance diversification and competitiveness of Albanian smallholders through the promotion of agritourism and digitalization in the agrifood sector. The one-year project, which ended recently, targeted three pilot areas in the country (Belsh, Melesi Madhe, and Korca). For real impact, the project combined training and knowledge sharing leading to...

We are at an important crossroads. The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate variability and extremes, conflict, and the persistence of hunger and malnutrition have shown us that now is the time for us to build more resilient agrifood systems. If we don’t, agrifood systems will not be able to ensure food...

The Water School is a platform to learn comprehensive knowledge of diverse communities spread all across the world to conserve water, recharge aquifers and revive catchments & landscapes. The Water School will give you access to an array of successful community driven & managed, decentralised water conservation methods. Language-neutral tools will...

Animal health is an important issue in Central Asia, with livestock being a staple part of the economy. Tajikistan is not an exception either, where almost half of the population works in agriculture. Therefore, the ability to prevent, detect, and manage animal diseases is critical to for the sector’s growth, as...

2021 IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR We are making progress. Child labour has decreased by 38% in the last decade. But, 152 million children are still in child labour. It’s time to accelerate the pace of progress. It’s time to inspire legislative and practical actions to eliminate child...

De acuerdo con la teoría evolucionista, las poblaciones con baja variabilidad genética tienen menor potencial adaptativo (por tanto, menor capacidad de acoplarse a los cambios ambientales) que las poblaciones con elevados niveles de variabilidad genética. En consecuencia, preservar la diversidad genética es esencial para asegurar la supervivencia de las poblaciones...

Plátano-Musa sapientum.  Fuente principal Modelo productivo para la producción de plátano en los Llanos Orientales Modelo productivo para el cultivo de plátano en la zona central cafetera de Colombia :paquete tecnológico URI http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12324/36907 Colecciones Infografías [231]

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the global inadequacy of social-protection floors in safeguarding marginalized communities, in the process exacerbating poverty and vulnerability. The social-development case studies in this issue of SAMUDRA Report (pp 63-93) clearly demonstrate how the small-scale fishing communities in Asia, the Caribbean and Central America took a major...