The Brazilian Association of Agroecology (ABA-Agroecologia) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) present the IV ''Agroecological Transition Collection''. The book analyses the relations between biodiversity, food culture, and gender relations, from the perspective of food security and food and nutritional sovereignty.

Animals, so important for food security – they provide us with milk, with eggs, with meat. But as global population growth has accelerated, so has the demand for animal produce – putting a strain on both farmers and the environment. Simply raising more animals is not an option; it would...

Las transiciones hacia sistemas agroalimentarios justos, resilientes y sostenibles, requieren del re-conocimiento y re-valorización de sistemas tradicionales que han sido desarrollados y preservados por la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria (ACFC).

latest podcast episode focuses on the digitalisation of agriculture in the EU. We hear from one enterprising cereal farmer in Ireland who has seen his yields grow as the time he spends on repetitive tasks in the field declines, and speak to a scientist at the European Space Agency who...

Through support from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, the Organization Asociación Balam has connected local carpenters to legal timber producers in the northern Guatemalan department of Petén by building and strengthening cooperatives. FAO’s partners also provided dedicated trainings to Municipal Government officials on good forest governance...

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...

With Turkey hosting more than 3.6 million Syrians, that makes it home to the world’s largest refugee population. Many of those refugees, who have been granted “temporary protection” in Turkey, work in the agri-food and livestock sectors, which offer the most opportunities in the areas where they reside. However, these opportunities...

La propagación asexual mediante injertos se emplea para mantener la identidad genética de los materiales en las plantaciones nuevas de cacao. Dos de las técnicas de injertación más utilizadas por los viveristas en el proceso de multiplicación de plantas de cacao son la de parche y la de púa terminal....

Experience FAO’s work with pastoralist communities in the Greater Karamoja Cluster in East Africa. In this immersive 360° experience, use your mouse to scroll inside the video and explore our work through the eyes of the beneficiaries: from Pokot and Karamojong shepherds, and a young girl’s passion for farming, to...

This is an inspiring story from Nigeria. In 1984 a Nigerian, Father Godfrey Nzamujo created a sustainable Zero-Waste farm, 'Songhai ' in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, designed to mimic natural ecosystem. He said he got the idea after the devastating drought and famine in Ethiopia and decided to create a...

Somos una red nacional de cooperativas vinculadas a la cadena agroalimentaria. Buscamos construir cadenas de valor cooperativas, donde la producción, la industrialización, la comercialización y el consumo queden en nuestras manos.  Promovemos la agroecología como modo de producción, el agregado de valor basado en la industrialización de nuestros cultivos, minimizando la...

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...

957 billion. That has just been confirmed by the UN as the average amount that low- and lower-middle-income countries invest annually in agriculture. So, if agriculture accounts for more than 25% of GDP in some developing countries, employs 63% of the world’s poor people and has the potential to improve...

Fin 2019, avant le déclenchement de la pandémie de la Covid-19, la FAO estimait que 20 % d’Africains, soit 250 millions de personnes, étaient sous-alimentés. Cette prévalence était deux fois et demie supérieure a la moyenne mondiale. Se combinaient alors plusieurs facteurs : sécheresse, inondations, épidémies acridiennes, instabilité des marchés...

The Federal Republic of Germany, through the German Development Bank (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau - KfW) has contributed EUR 17,950,000 to support work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to rehabilitate key irrigation and agricultural infrastructure in Yemen and communities training. The three-year resilience programme (2021–2023) in...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in close cooperation with Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, provided seeds of white bean, mung bean, maize, carrot, and cucumber to flood-affected farmers in the south-western part of the country. This critical livelihood support aims at safeguarding the incomes of vulnerable rural...

The Tripartite of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization recently announced this year’s theme for the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance is the new theme with Antimicrobials: Handle with Care still the overarching slogan. The global event is celebrated...

En la tarde de este viernes 23 de abril, se llevó a cabo de manera virtual una reunión extraordinaria del Consejo Directivo Central (CDC) junto a la Comisión de Ganadería de FAA, convocada luego de haberse conocido las nuevas medidas sobre regulación para el sector. En la tarde del jueves se...

Ghana signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union in 2009, as part of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan to address illegal logging.     In this context, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme partnered with Kumasi Wood Cluster (KWC) through two consecutive projects to assist Small...

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...