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Journal article
Centering context when characterizing food environments: the potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research

Food environments are a critical place within the food system to implement interventions aimed at enabling sustainable diets. In this perspective article, we argue for the need for food environment research to more comprehensively examine the different types of food environments that people access within their communities to ensure that...
Cambodia
2024 - Rutgers School of Public Health

Video
Des cultures numériques en Afrique de l'ouest

Le développement du numérique est porteur de nombreuses promesses de développement et d’inclusion. Mais qu'elle est la réalité de l'appropriation de ces nouveaux outils ? Ce documentaire offre une fenêtre sur les réalités numériques du monde rural en Afrique de l'ouest. Il a été réalisé dans le cadre de Fracture...
2024 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

Video
Empowering nutrition: Gender-sensitive best practices revealed

The gender-responsive nutrition training conducted by CGIAR Gender Equality Initiative (HER+) has yielded promising results. It has begun to dismantle social norms that hinder food access and consumption, paving the way for a more inclusive and healthier future. The training has successfully engaged men and private and public sector partners, emphasizing...
2024 - CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform

Journal article
The future of the sugarcane industry in Fiji: climatic, non-climatic stressors, and opportunities for transformation

This study explores the complex dynamics of Fiji’s sugarcane industry, shedding light on the challenges it faces and the implications for agricultural system resilience and sustainability. The primary aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between climatic and non-climatic stressors and farmers’ decisions to abandon sugarcane farming. A...
Fiji
2024 - Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research

E-learning
CURSO AUTOAPRENDIZAJE: Adaptación al Cambio Climático en el sector Agropecuario

En este curso aprenderá los conceptos clave vinculados al tema de cambio climático con especial énfasis en adaptación. También conocerá cuáles son los principales impactos del cambio climático observados y esperados para la región y el sector agrícola y qué procesos se necesitan para menguar esos efectos, por lo que...
2024 - Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (PLACA)

Fact sheet
Production practices to increase yield, quality and safety of fruits and vegetables

Find out how to increase yield, quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. Healthy plants contribute to enhanced productivity and profitability. Moreover, fruits and vegetables from robust plants exhibit greater appeal to consumers, boasting extended shelf life, heightened nutritional content, and reduced microbial and chemical risks—factors that not only bolster...
2024 - FAO

Book
Protecting crops through plant diversity

In a world increasingly focused on sustainable agricultural solutions, this book presents fresh perspectives and comprehensive insights. It delves into the effectiveness of crop protection strategies that leverage plant diversification within agricultural plots and landscapes. The book thoroughly examines both the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing these strategies. It...
2024 - INRAE

Project
PAPA: Projet d’appui aux politiques agricoles

  Le Projet d’appui aux politiques agricoles (PAPA) est une initiative du Gouvernement du Sénégal financé par l’USAID-Sénégal dans le cadre de l’initiative « Feed The Future » et mise en œuvre pour une période de 3 ans (2015 – 2018) par le ministère de l’Agriculture et de l’Équipement rural avec l’appui de...
Senegal
2024 - USAID

Journal article
Women’s leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: defining a future research agenda

Women's leadership is increasingly considered critical for achieving climate-resilient agrifood systems. Numerous initiatives and policies highlight the business case for women's leadership to deliver a range of positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. In this Perspective, we examine the business case, finding uneven evidence linking women's leadership to increased resilience to...
2024 - Environmental Research Climate

Book
Applying MEV-CAM tools: Participatory video

The Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) toolkit provides process documentation facilitators with instruments for documenting change through participatory video to generate knowledge, monitor impact, and share practices. This toolkit sheds light on how to develop a participatory video process in all its stages: beginning with stakeholder identification,...
2024 - FAO

Video
Desafío Mujer Rural - Colección de vídeos formativos

Se incluyen vídeos formativos que pretenden contribuir a la presentación de oportunidades del emprendimiento femenino en el ámbito rural, así como a concretar el proceso de creación de una empresa de acuerdo a las características del medio rural, dotando a las emprendedoras de conocimientos para definir la estrategia y un...
2024 - Instituto de las Mujeres, organismo adscrito al Ministerio de Igualdad del Gobierno de España

Fact sheet
Integrated services for innovation and agrifood systems

Rural producers operate in a very complex reality. They are faced with serious and interconnected challenges such as globalized and unstable markets, volatile prices, a degrading natural resource base and the effects of climate change. In addition, especially in developing countries, access to markets represent a serious problem due to,...
2024 - FAO

Technical paper
Farmers’ adoption on potato zero-tillage and straw mulching in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh

Key messages • Potato zero-tillage and rice straw mulching (PZTM) was introduced in the fallow season as a strategy for climate adaptation in Khulna where potato is a new crop to grow.• 56% (239 HHs) of the intervention households adopted PZTM in the following cropping season without any subsidies or...
Bangladesh
2024 - International Potato Center

Blog article
Le néoféminisme libéral dans les entreprises et les exploitations agricoles

Les mondes de l’entreprise ont vu apparaître au cours de ces dernières années une demande sociale de plus en plus importante en vue de lutter contre les inégalités et les discriminations touchant les femmes (Collectif, 2023). Cette revendication peut emprunter un certain nombre de codes et de logiques d’actions ainsi...
2024

Blog article
Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects

A new tool based on IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)—developed by IFPRI and the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA)—provides a streamlined way to track and evaluate impacts on women’s empowerment in development projects. The tool was applied in an impact evaluation...
2024 - IFPRI

E-learning
Migrant workers in agrifood systems

Topic outline This course focuses on the essential role that migrants play in our food systems, and how we can reduce the many vulnerabilities they face. It considers the key aspects of safe and regular migration channels for migrant workers in agrifood systems, and practical actions that can be taken by...
2024 - FAO

Report
Key lessons and priority research and investments for Community Fish Refuge-Rice Field Fisheries

Rice field ecosystems make up the majority of the agricultural land in the Lower Mekong region (Ingalls et al. 2018). In Cambodia, WorldFish research found that one hectare of a rice field ecosystem can provide enough wild fish and other aquatic animals to feed 2.6 people for a year (Freed...
Cambodia
2024 - World Fish

Blog article
Entre la place que l’on prend et celle qu’on nous laisse : partage genré des tâches en ostréiculture

En mars 2017, je réalise un stage d’un mois comme ouvrière agricole au sein d’une entreprise ostréicole sur le Bassin d’Arcachon, avec un jeune chef d’exploitation. Je ne vois aucune autre femme sur le port à part les serveuses du restaurant voisin. Un des ostréiculteurs du port, qui prend chaque...
France
2024

Article
The socio-economic issues of agroecology: a scoping review

In recent years, agroecology has gained prominence as one of the innovative approaches to agriculture that could positively contribute to achieving sustainable food systems. As a transdisciplinary science, agroecology could benefit from the contribution of socio-economic sciences. This study aims to give an overview of how scholars have approached socio-economic...
2024

Article
How can Tanzania build capacity to accelerate women’s economic empowerment?

  Achieving gender equality in Tanzania requires equal legal rights for all. The World Bank's Women, Business, and the Law team recently reviewed Tanzania's progress and future needs. Tanzania has enacted laws against sexual harassment and gender discrimination and provided maternity and paternity benefits. However, gaps remain, such as restrictive nationality...
United Republic of Tanzania
2024 - World Bank Group
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