Este documento va dirigido a las personas que día a día trabajan en la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur, hombres y mujeres que permiten que tengamos alimentos sanos y nutritivos, y que contribuyen a la seguridad alimentaria y al desarrollo local. Se presentan...

Hos Salop’s days always began very early. She would cook breakfast for her husband and her three-year-old grandchild before working on her family farm in the village of Pongro in northwest Cambodia. She collected vegetables, fed the chickens and a pig, cleaned her house and dropped her grandchild off at...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Le Réseau des Femmes pour la Paix (REFEPA) travaille sur l’accès des femmes au foncier depuis plusieurs années. Dans ce cadre, une boite à images a été conçue, avec l’appui technique du RECA, pour susciter le débat au sein de groupes de femmes sur les possibilités d’accès au foncier. Elle apporte...

Women are crucial to respond to climate change. This paper finds that investing in rural women helps achieve climate goals, while simultaneously addressing gender inequality and poverty. Climate-related projects and policies that involve women deliver better environmental outcomes. Funders and investors need to mobilize climate finance while addressing gender gaps and...

Virtual, 31/05/2023 - 31/05/2023 Empowering women seafood harvesters, processors and vendors is key to attaining sustainable fisheries. CFI and FAO experts share their knowledge and experience in order to achieve this goal.

Well before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was not on track to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Parliamentarians – with their powers to draft and adopt legislation, approve public budgets and monitor the implementation of public policies and government commitments – are well placed...

As with every iteration of Foresight Africa, this 2023 edition aim to capture the top priorities for the region in the year ahead, offering recommendations for supporting Africa at a time of heightened global turbulence. The autors hope that Foresight Africa 2023 will promote dialogue on the key issues influencing development...

In a chronically dry region of Kenya, outside Nairobi, women are becoming farmer scientists, working with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers to find ways to make the often-parched soil produce food for their families and the market. The women are testing different types of mulch to see which works best in their difficult conditions. Their next...

IIED's biodiversity newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our work exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods. In this edition we share a recent podcast on women's leadership, blogs on ecosystem-based adaptation and innovative labelling systems, recent global biodiversity news and more.

The effects of climate change are evident in the coastal areas of Nigeria, particularly in the Ilaje region of Ondo State in southwestern Nigeria. They result in crop failure, erosion and loss of livelihoods due to extreme weather events such as droughts and floods. The coastal region of Nigeria is particularly...

Esta será la tercera ocasión que Regeneration International realice la Cumbre Alimentaria de los Pueblos. Este evento único en su clase, es una gran celebración de 24 horas del Día Mundial de la Alimentación, el 16 de octubre de 2023, en la que participarán ponentes apasionantes de todas las regiones...

  On a working day of June 2018 under my previous organization, I visited Shibuyunji district to conduct my usual technical support to the extension staff as well as project beneficiaries. Having had a short meeting with the extension staff, we immediately proceeded into the field to conduct on-site visits. I...

It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State of Telangana in South India. We were in the office of the Deccan Development Society in Zaheerabad Block in Medak district. And since I am from the capital city of Hyderabad,...

To advance the use of gender-transformative approaches in climate-resilient agriculture (CRA), a review of practical resources that could support researchers and practitioners in applying gender and CRA was undertaken. The review consolidates and assesses diverse, practical resources—including research tools, methods and broader guidance—that aim to address gender inequalities/inequities, climate and...

It was early February 2020. I was headed off with my camera crew, our field officer – Kumar and our NGO partner from Bagalkot to visit and film some Fiar Price shops. There were muttered rumours of a virus called COVID. WhatsApp messages, sounding the alarm of a pandemic, were...

Sara’s childhood was full of sunshine. She remembers herself in farming fields under the sun, in the dry valleys of Bolivia. Many seasons had lacked rain which dried the soil and the air she breathed. The landscape became a palette of brown colours, intensifying the feeling of heat. Sara grew...