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Blog article
From Italy to Georgia: regenerating rural communities with agritourism

Exploring Georgia’s gastronomy offers tourists unique insights into the country and its culture.   Enriching tourists’ experiences also has the potential to attract more visitors which can generate vital income in rural communities.   The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are...
Georgia - Italy
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
A participatory and multi-actor approach to locally support crop diversification based on the case study of camelina in northern France

Despite the acknowledged benefits of crop diversification, the transition towards more diversified cropping systems needs to be supported, mainly due to socio-technical lock-ins favoring major dominant crop species. This calls for the development of new approaches to support the design of locally tailored diversified cropping systems. This paper aims to...
France
2023 - Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Report
Le foncier irrigué : enjeux et perspectives pour un développement durable

Ce numéro thématique est publié avec l'appui du COSTEA et en collaboration avec le CTFD. Articles de recherche présent dans le numéro thématique: Les « chemins fonciers » de l’agrobusiness dans le delta du SénégalAmandine Hertzog-Adamczewski, Philippe Lavigne Delville and Oumar DiopPublished online: 01 August 2023L’accès collectif au foncier irrigué à Ross...
2023 - Cahiers Agriculture

Blog article
CAP Social Conditionality: A Game Changer for Farm Workers?

In a new CAP that largely maintains the status quo, social conditionality emerges as one of the few truly innovative elements. But is it going to be a real game-changer? This new legislative tool has the potential to improve the working conditions of millions of farm workers. But does it...
European Union
2023 - ARC2020

Blog article
L’impact du changement climatique sur l’agriculture pluviale

Le secteur agricole est un pilier majeur de l’économie de la Tunisie, assurant non seulement la sécurité alimentaire mais aussi la création d’emplois et la gestion des ressources naturelles. Cependant, l’agriculture pluviale, qui constitue 92% de l’agriculture tunisienne, est vulnérable aux aléas climatiques et à la dégradation des sols. Avis...
Tunisia
2023

Article
Editorial: Why agroecology?

During the past 10–15 years, agroecology has grown in prominence in global agricultural discourse based on a belief that it can dramatically transform agrifood systems (Anderson et al., 2021). The concern of proponents of agroecology – that modern agriculture, often referred to as conventional or industrial, has been principally responsible...
2023

Book
Linking agriculture and tourism to strengthen agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific

Agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific can be strengthened by tapping on agrifood-tourism linkages. When tourism and agrifood systems interact, both synergies and competition appear. Agriculture and tourism compete between themselves and other sectors for land, water, labour, capital, and transport and logistics services. Cross-sectoral synergies arise when agriculture...
2023 - FAO

Newsletter article
From the Editor, Yemaya Newsletter No.68, December 2023

The importance of research on safe and efficient post-harvest technologies in fisheries as well as the free and widespread dissemination of the research and the sharing of the technologies cannot be overstressed. This issue of Yemaya documents two initiatives in postharvest fish processing, one from Uganda and the other prototyped...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Conference proceedings
Gender-transformative innovation requires more attention to social norms and consequences: conference wrap-up

Innovation in agrifood systems must go beyond merely providing women farmers with new types of seeds or irrigation pumps—now, change in agrifood research and development requires something more socially sophisticated and transformative.
2023 - CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform

Website
International Women’s Day 2023 - DigitALL - Innovation and technology for gender equality

The International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while making a worldwide call to action to strengthen efforts for supporting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. The United Nations theme for the observance of IWD 2023 is "...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Local Authorities Making Farmland Work for the Public Good

The Access to Land Network is releasing a new handbook to provide guidance for officials and staff of local governments on how to make a difference in the way agricultural land is used and shared, for the benefit of people and the planet. Local action is key to a regenerative future....
2023 - The Access to Land Network

Book
Buen vivir y saberes locales: Sistemas andinos y agroecología

Este libro reúne los resultados de investigación de los becarios de la segunda cohorte del Programa de Investigación y Formación en Sistemas Agroecológicos Andinos apoyado por la alianza entre Fundación McKnight y CLACSO. Este proyecto ha permitido que estudiantes de posgrado lleven a cabo investigaciones relevantes para la agricultura de...
2023 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

Newsletter article
Community-led transnational cooperation project boosts local rural tourism offer

 TNC partnerships help communities achieve results that they could not have achieved by working alone. The LEADER TNC project ‘Living Museums’ shows how this works in practice. LAGs use their transnational cooperation (TNC) funds to help local communities learn from peers in different areas and countries about new ways of developing...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network

Blog article
Por desnudar a Coca-Cola reciben premio internacional

La investigación sirve para explicar cómo esta corporación logró que los mexicanos nos convirtiéramos en los mayores consumidores de su bebida en el mundo y por qué nos convertimos en una de las poblaciones con los mayores índices de sobrepeso, obesidad, diabetes y muertes por diabetes en el planeta.
Mexico
2023 - El Poder del Consumidor

Website
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing - International Day on the fight against IUU fishing | 5 June

Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a broad term that captures a wide variety of fishing activity. IUU fishing is found in all types and dimensions of fisheries; it occurs both on the high seas and in areas within national jurisdiction. It concerns all aspects and stages of the...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Event
Workshop regional: Tomar acción en el sector de la biodiversidad para la alimentación y la agricultura en América Latina y el Caribe

El workshop regional "Tomar acción en el sector de la biodiversidad para la alimentación y la agricultura en América Latina y el Caribe" se enmarca dentro de una serie de cuatro talleres que se celebrarán en diferentes regiones del mundo. Estos eventos se organizan en colaboración con la Federación Internacional de Asociaciones...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Organic and agroecological farming: Safeguarding long-term food security

Food security has different dimensions: availability, access, stability over time, and utilisation2. In the current European context, only accessibility and stability are of concern. Food supply or availability is not at stake in the EU despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, but soaring food prices mean low-income households struggle to...
2023 - TP Organics

Report
Manual for trainers: Frontline In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training

This manual provides details of the Frontline In-Service Applied Veterinary Epidemiology Training (ISAVET) programme’s structure, core competencies, learning outcomes, training activities (training modules, field assignments), supervision, monitoring, and evaluation for Trainees. The intended audience of the manual are individuals enrolled in the Frontline (ISAVET) at the national level. The manual...
2023 - FAO; AGRILIFE;

Report
Agroecology – Making Ecosystem-based Adaptation Work in Agricultural Landscapes

The aim of this report is to encourage the agriculture and climate communities to find common, integrated, and systemic responses to one of the most urgent questions for humanity: How to develop climate-resilient and sustainable food systems in times of multiple crises that are threatening global food security? Today’s planet...
2023

Blog article
Agroecology is critical in the wake of climate change - expert

In this article, Francis Shivonje, the Policy and Advocacy National Coordinator for the Biovision Foundation in Kenya, underscores the importance of a National Agroecology Strategy. He highlights that smallholder farms, responsible for 75% of Kenya's agricultural production, are pivotal for both food security and the nation's economic stability. Agroecology, by...
Kenya
2023
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