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Rural women in Haiti invest in themselves
Village savings and loan associations help Haitian women build their businesses and futures
The way Yolande Saint Louis describes herself is someone who likes to help others, offering her services to whomever is in need of them. When other women ask how she manages, she says she loves her community of Mapou in southeast Haiti, and she doesn’t want to live elsewhere. That’s...
Haiti
2023 - FAO
Journal article
Mechanization and sustainable agri-food system transformation in the Global South. A review
There is an urgent need for agri-food system transformation to achieve global sustainability goals. Innovations can play a key role in this transformation but often come with both sustainability synergies and trade-offs. One such innovation is agricultural mechanization, which is spreading rapidly in parts of the Global South and is...
2023 - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Technical paper
Greening for the greater good
By using a multimethod strategy, we seek to generate more rigorous evidence on landscape restoration and its impacts at the household level. Using pre-restoration remote-sensing data, a machine-learning algorithm is used for the identification of similar pieces of land to Action Against Desertification (AAD) restoration sites. Comparison households were then...
Nigeria
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Guidelines
Quick Tips: Working with Nature in Agriculture and Livestock
Agriculture is a fundamentally important human activity that intrinsically depends on nature and at the same time poses a threat to it. Agriculture depends on healthy ecosystems and ecosystem services, such as fresh water, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, pest regulation and pollination. Biodiversity forms the foundation of food production: without...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Georgia - India - Morocco - Tunisia - Ukraine
2023 - European Commission
Blog article
Animal Agriculture: Is it All Bad?
Animal agriculture is a leading driver of ecological destruction. But what if it’s not all bad?
2023
Blog article
Meet Mary an exemplary Kenyan coffee farmer
Mary Wairimu Oloo, who lives in Kenya’s Trans Nzoia County, moved back to her family’s coffee farm after retiring from a government role. Since then she has been diligently improving productivity on the farm, diversifying her income and helping others along the way.
Mary Wairimu Oloo is not just a wife...
Kenya
2023 - Solidaridad Network
Report
Safe food for everyone
FAO's work on food safety: science, standards and good practices
A life necessity, a social event, an act of love, a way of expressing ourselves: food is all of these things, as well as an important source of employment and the heartbeat of every economy.
But the food chain – growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, distributing, trading, purchasing, preparing, consuming, and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The Global Report on Food Crises 2023
The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 is the result of a collaborative effort among 16 partners to achieve a consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity in GRFC countries. The report aims to inform humanitarian and development action by providing independent and consensus-based evidence and analysis.
2023 - FSIN and Global Network Against Food Crises
Report
Guidelines on integrating the “leave no one behind” principle into development planning in Europe and Central Asia
The imperatives to leave no one behind (LNOB) and endeavour to reach the furthest behind first – as pledged by the 193 Member States of the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are gaining more traction among development practitioners as...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Livestock industry in Central Asia looks into digital solutions to build resilience
Dairy and meat businesses in Central Asia, especially smaller ones, are being hit by multiple shocks – from the war in Ukraine, to droughts, to the lingering effects of COVID-19.
Production costs have skyrocketed, while consumers’ purchasing power has weakened, making it difficult for agribusinesses to stay afloat.
One way to help...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter
IFOAM Organics Europe newsletter no. 134- September 2023
In this issue we present our new Board, cover recent political developments (e.g. on the EU Farm to Fork, Organic Regulation, Animal Welfare, GMOs..) and present key upcoming events such as the EU Organic Day, the EU Organic Awards and the European Organic Congress. Read it to discover more!
2023 - IFOAM Organics Europe
Blog article
Videos help bring agriculture to schools in Kenya
The Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (known as ERAs) of Access Agriculture (www.accessagriculture.org) have been working with youth in schools and farming communities surrounding the schools as part of a joint project with the Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture in Africa (KCOA), a programme funded by BMZ and implemented by GIZ....
Kenya
2023 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Ce que l'agroécologie peut apporter à la lutte pour la sécurité alimentaire
L'agroécologie, quel drôle de mot! Probablement le genre de terme qui n'enflamme pas les esprits. Qui ne fait pas forcément chauffer les cellules nerveuses, pour que les synapses se mettent à faire feu par milliers, voire par millions, comme si une session de pyrotechnie était en cours, dont la majorité...
2023
Report
Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2023
Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies in 54 countries, including the 38 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 11 emerging economies. It finds that support to agriculture has reached record levels amidst subsequent crises, although the increase in support has been less than the sector’s...
2023 - OECD
Blog article
Farming For Gender Equality
Agroecology in Practice
Small-scale farming communities across the world are using agroecology to simultaneously tackle food security soil health, and gender equality.
2023
Blog article
Open seed conservation project
The INCREASE Horizon 2020 project proposes a new approach to promote the conservation and use of plant genetic resources. ‘Participatory science’ is placed at the middle of the project, involving stakeholders and citizens in the development of a new model and strategy for the conservation and use of seeds. The...
2023 - EU CAP Network
Report
Near East and North Africa – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022
Trade as an enabler for food security and nutrition
This year’s report presents evidence that Arab States face significant challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 targets related to hunger, food security, and nutrition, as undernourishment, moderate or severe food insecurity, and malnourishment are increasing. Child wasting and overweight are higher, and adult obesity is double the global average....
2023
Report
Rompre le cycle des systèmes alimentaires non durables, de la faim et de la dette
En ce début d'année 2023, le monde est au bord d'une crise de la dette particulièrement redoutable. Après une décennie de constante augmentation des niveaux d'endettement, les finances publiques des pays à faible revenu se sont trouvées lourdement impactées par la pandémie du COVID-19. Les perturbations économiques qui ont suivi...
2023 - IPES-Food
Blog article
Agricultural heritage benefits today’s urban agrifood systems
To raise awareness of the importance of work to strengthen urban agrifood systems in the region of Europe and Central Asia, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organized a webinar in early June focusing on the challenges and opportunities in urban food agrifood systems faced by...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter
International Institute for Environment and Development IIED climate change newsletter October 2023
IIED's climate change newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our research to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance and locally led adaptation to climate change.In this edition we invite you to join us for the launch of the Anticipatory...
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
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