This video depicts the first session of the second day of the regional consultation on ‘’Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation during and post COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia’’ held on  8 and 9 December 2021.  The session on 'Enhancing rural communities’ initiatives and development,...

This course provides an overview of adaptation and mitigation strategies that can be implemented in response to climate change impacts on the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

Ma Thi Ninh thought farming would be relatively easy. The Yen Duong area of Viet Nam where she lives has excellent, arable land and offers many sought-after products, including organic sticky rice, seasonal vegetables and bamboo used for traditional handicraft products. But once she started to farm and trade in...

This study attempts to look at the value chain of dried fruits in Fiji with particular emphasis on the market overview in order to identify possible market and marketing opportunities of dried fruits for FRIEND (Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises N Development) an NGO who is interested to begin commercial...

he International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has contributed a US$544,795 grant to alleviate the pressure of the COVID pandemic on the Syrian rural community. Under this grant, the Livelihoods Resilience Building Project (LRBP) will complement the farming activities and meet needs of the most vulnerable and fragile rural communities--including...

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...

FAO has recently partnered with the organization IN SITU to measure the impact of agroecology through the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) in 60 farms surrounding Rosario City in the State of Santa Fe, Argentina. The results of that assessment and their connection to public policies for territorial development will be shared in the...

What does agroecology mean? How is it practiced? Who are the holders/creators of agroecological knowledge? What are the exciting questions or recent advances in agroecology research? This session discussed the interpretation of agroecology evolution as a practice, research discipline, and social movement.

Este evento busca conocer las experiencias exitosas tanto en Brasil como en Colombia en Circuitos Cortos de Comercialización identificando las principales lecciones aprendidas y ubicando retos y desafíos para Colombia y Brasil, en el marco de la cooperación Sur-Sur trilateral.

The FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme has supported a number of Indonesian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to train and mentor 550 new independent forest monitors across Indonesia since 2017. Expanding the scope and reach of Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) contributes to the robustness and credibility of...

Tras la llegada de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Bolivia, el Gobierno de Bolivia ha enfrentado grandes desafíos para responder a esta crisis, que provocó efectos adversos  en todos los sectores, y el sector agropecuario no ha sido una excepción. El presente documento es el reflejo de un trabajo conjunto y...

For many tribes in the tropics (e.g. the Kutai and Banjar tribes in East Kalimantan, Indonesia), fishing in peatland catchments is their main livelihood. Peatlands are their main resources area. They traditionally catch fishes and reptiles, and collect fuel wood and grass in peatlands. In January and February, fishes migrate...

There have been many calls for an agroecological transition to respond to food shocks and crises stemming from conventional food systems. Participatory action research and transformative epistemologies, where communities are research actors rather than objects, have been proposed as a way to enhance this transition. This article aims to understand the...

The potential of organic agriculture and agroecological approaches for improving food security in Africa is a controversial topic in  global discussions. While there is  a  number of meta-analyses on  the  environmental, agronomic and financial performance of organic farming, most of the underlying data stems from on-station field trials from temperate...

Pastoral systems have evolved to function with the natural environment and therefore with variability. By identifying variability as an entry point, this paper aims at (i) engaging FAO in the mainstreaming of pastoralism by establishing the understanding of pastoralism, and its systematic inclusion in the normal operations of FAO, and...

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...

Even before COVID-19, hundreds of millions of people suffered from hunger. Billions more were malnourished, with no access to healthy diets. The agriculture food systems (agri-food systems) of the world are under tremendous stress from loss of biodiversity and climate change. To meet the challenges of growing enough food for...

La presente cartilla es un producto del Macroproyecto de Investigación Participante “Este es mi campo” de la Fundación Universitaria Agraria de Colombia; experiencia articuladora de las funciones sustantivas universitarias (formación, investigación y extensión), de los pilares institucionales (sostenibilidad ambiental, cultura del emprendimiento y desarrollo regional); y al mismo tiempo, integradora...

Forests, and the communities who protect and manage them, are critical in tackling climate change and nature loss. From COP26, guest blogger Gustavo Sánchez explains why they can no longer be ignored in the distribution of climate finance and describes a new fund that gets money directly to local forest...

We present results from the FAOSTAT agri-food systems emissions database, relative to 236 countries 21 and territories and over the period 1990-2019. We find that in 2019, world-total food systems emissions were 16.5 billion metric tonnes (Gt CO2eq yr-1 22 ), corresponding to 31% of total anthropogenic emissions. Of the...