South Asia, comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to about 1.8 billion people -- nearly 25% of the world’s population. But with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers, or some 1% of the world’s area, South Asia is the most densely...

For thousands of years, farmers have looked to the clouds for the next sign of rain to irrigate their crops. Now farmers are also looking to another cloud—the digital cloud—for insights that can make a critical difference for their operations. Through this network of servers, satellites, and mobile devices, the...

Os próximos dez anos reservam à agricultura familiar um tempo de ascensão e destaque mundial. A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO), agência que lidera esforços para a erradicação da fome e combate à pobreza, lançou a Década da Agricultura Familiar entre os dias 27 e 29 de maio neste ano,...

Traditionally, extensive farming has been one of the activities that has fixed more population in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and the Mediterranean. Moreover, it creates jobs and shapes most of our ecosystems. However, isolation and depopulation in these areas translate into the loss of their activities and the landscapes...

This book comprises a total of 14 articles addressing the issue of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and its impacts, not only on the Amazonian environment and wildlife but particularly on the communities inhabiting the area. These impacts are being facilitated by informal dynamics for which the state is largely...

The FAO project “Strengthening food security and nutrition in Caucasus and Central Asia” has proven to be an innovative initiative that is concretely contributing to the eradication of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition of the most vulnerable communities in the region. Funded by the Russian Federation, the project is working...

El avance de este trabajo fue presentado en formato poster en las Jornadas de Ciencia y Técnica organizadas por la UNR en 2018, y también se realizó un artículo con lo trabajado hasta ese momento en el mismo año. Esta investigación interdisciplinaria, sobre las formas de expresión con relación al...

The e-Agriculture is a global community of practice where people from all over the world come to exchange information, ideas and resources related to the use of ICTs for agriculture. In this context, a number of activities are carried out such as Capacity Development; Good Practices; Blogs and Webinars. These activities are...

AFSA continued the work started in 2017 with more training courses on bio-fertiliser production and saw a growing demand and uptake of the technologies. Trainees have been energised to pass on the knowledge to others, and have recognised through practice and on-farm trials that this technology is a success, and...

This report provides a medium-term outlook for major EU agricultural markets and agricultural income to 2030. It is based on a set of coherent macroeconomic assumptions deemed most plausible at the time of the analysis, including the continuation of current agricultural and trade policies. The analysis relies on information available...

The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in Africa, international organizations which support the...

Every day since the early 1990s some 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt. Over the years not only the scale but also the range of threats to food, water and income security of vulnerable communities around the world...

Constituye un honor para la República Dominicana, y para el Ministerio de Agricultura, en particular, presentar el Plan Nacional de Agricultura Familiar 2019-2028. El Plan es el fruto de un amplio proceso de discusiones entre diversos actores que, de manera participativa e incluyente, formularon una estrategia nacional para la agricultura...

Agroecology is increasingly evoked at the core of international discussions on the future of food and agricultural systems across the world, emerging as one of the pertinent responses to major global challenges in terms of economic & social development and the environment, largely reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):...

The objective of the forum is to identify concrete - practical, innovative and collaborative - solutions to address water scarcity in agriculture in a changing climate. With a focus on Small Island Developing States and West African countries, the forum is expected to illustrate how water scarcity in agriculture can be...

For centuries, fishing has been an activity of great importance for indigenous peoples. They inhabit and relate to water ecosystems, which conserve their cultural heritage, food sovereignty (the right to access healthy and culturally appropriate food) and in many cases are a main source of income. In Central America the...

Two of the major challenges of our times are malnutrition in all its forms and the degradation of environmental and natural resources. Both are happening at an accelerated pace. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report (SOFI 2019) shows that the number of the undernourished has...

The urbanisation trend raises very salient questions for food security and agriculture next to the cities. However, surprisingly, even if the phenomenon is well documented, there had not been, to date, any thorough literature review on its causes.

Young people have key roles to play in helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. With this in mind, FAO is actively trying to involve young people in taking actions for a better future. One of the ways recent FAO has done this is through an annual youth camp held...

Río Pilcomayo, columna vertebral del Gran Chaco Americano, en base a su comportamiento cientos de lugareños participar y conforman la Red de Sistema de Alerta que aportan permanentemente al Sistema de Monitoreo.