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Global Land Outlook 2nd edition

The second edition of the Global Land Outlook (GLO2), Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience, sets out the rationale, enabling factors, and diverse pathways by which countries and communities can reduce and reverse land degradation by designing and implementing their bespoke land restoration agenda. Land restoration for recovery and resilience...
2022 - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Journal article
The Analysis of Family Farm Efficiency and Its Influencing Factors: Evidence from Rural China

Improving the efficiency of family farms is of great significance to rural revitalization and agricultural modernization in China. In order to find out the development status and shortcomings of family farms in China, and put forward targeted policy recommendations to improve the efficiency of various family farms, this paper applies...
China
2022 - Wuhan University, China

Working paper
Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems in Liberia and Sierra Leone

This booklet explains the work done by FAO empower youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This work has been funded by the Federal Government of Germany and the FAO Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism.        
Liberia - Sierra Leone
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Smallholder farmers gain greater recognition in 2022 and unify their voice

Significant steps have been taken in 2022 to raise the visibility of forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) and gain greater recognition of their important role in reversing climate change, biodiversity loss, and stamping out persistent rural poverty and inequality. FFPOs are grassroots-led self-organized entities, including farmers unions, cooperatives, Indigenous Peoples...
2022 - AFA

Blog article
Madagascar: l'agro-écologie, un modèle pour arriver à l'autonomie alimentaire ?

A Madagascar, se nourrir devient un défi de tous les jours pour la majorité de la population. Pourtant ce ne sont pas les surfaces cultivables qui manquent sur l’île. Mais l’accès limité à l’eau dans certaines régions, l’enclavement des zones agricoles et les sols qui s’appauvrissent sont autant d’obstacles au...
Madagascar
2022

Case study
Agritourism promotes food traditions in Palau

Advancing gender equality and protecting the environment through agritourism in Small Island Developing States
Rose Ongalibang shows off the pinkish-purple powder in a small bag. “It’s taro flour,” explains the genial retiree at her home on Palau’s largest island, Babeldaob. With its distinctive heart-shaped leaves, taro is traditionally cultivated by Palauan women in plots of land around the shores of this tiny Pacific country. The...
Palau
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Website
Reduce Rural Poverty

Ending poverty and hunger are at the heart of FAO's work and they are central goals of countries worldwide. By 2030, UN member countries have committed to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger for people everywhere. As a partner in this objective, FAO is helping countries develop and implement evidence-based pro-poor...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
Determinants of farm-level adaptation strategies to flood: Insights from a farm household-level survey in coastal districts of Odisha

Farmers choose different strategies to cope with disasters. The scientific information on what adaption strategies do farmers across different socio-economic and regional strata choose to cope with disasters can help policymakers to make informed farm-level support interventions. Odisha is a flood-prone state in eastern India. The flood adaptation strategy choices...
China
2022 - Institute for Social and Economic Change, India

Video
For feminist agroecologies

What is the story behind the food you eat? What if people actually valued all the underpaid and unpaid labor that goes into food? What if women were not doing most of the work? And if women and girls weren’t the last ones to eat? What if it weren't mostly...
2022 - Agroecology Now

Technical paper
Promouvoir l’agroforesterie à base de palmiers à huile :un atout pour la durabilité de la filière

Le développement massif des palmeraies industrielles et villageoises s’est réalisé en suivant un dispositif de plantation en culture pure du palmier à huile (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Cependant, divers systèmes de culture alternatifs ont émergé, dans lesquels sont associés des cultures et des animaux à diverses phases du cycle de culture...
2022 - CIRAD

Video
¿Cómo mantener las condiciones del invernadero?

Mantener las condiciones adecuadas de un invernadero es muy importante para la productividad de un cultivo, el investigador de AGROSAVIA Cristian Dominguez, nos da tips para poderlo implementar.   Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Event
2nd meeting of the Thematic Group on Strengthening the position of farmers in the organic food supply chain

As acknowledged by the Action Plan for Organic Production in the EU, organic farming can be characterised by its scattered nature, with producers having limited access to markets. Imbalances in the food chain can limit the bargaining power of organic farmers even as the overall market share of organic products in the...
2022 - EU CAP Network

Video
Building sustainable livelihoods in Ghana

Tele-Bere, a community-focused organization, is helping smallholders to boost their incomes, market their sustainable forest products, and more. It is a member of the Trillion Trees: Sahel and Great Green Wall community and a Forest and Farm Facility partner.
Ghana
2022 - World Economic Forum

Blog article
Changement climatique et océan : quel avenir pour les poissons ?

Les poissons sont particulièrement sensibles aux variables environnementales qui peuvent générer des modifications de leur comportement et de leur fonction physiologique (croissance, alimentation, maturation, reproduction). L’augmentation de CO2 aquatique conduit également à une diminution de l’oxygène disponible dans l’eau. Or les poissons soumis à une hypoxie (diminution de la concentration en...
2022

Website
Seed systems in emergencies

This animated video explains the significance of seed systems in emergency context and why it is crucial to strengthen and rebuild seed systems after disaster. The video gives examples from a project in response to cyclones Idai and Kenneth in southern African countries in 2019.
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report
Drought in numbers 2022

The report, an authoritative compendium of drought-related information and data, helps inform negotiations of one of several decisions by UNCCD’s 196 member states, to be issued 20 May at the conclusion of COP15.
2022 - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD

Blog article
Pacific countries highlight the benefits of safe food for better health

World Food Safety Day is celebrated annually on 7 June to draw attention and mobilize action to prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks and improve human health. Coordinated jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO), under the theme for this...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Journal article
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment

In many industrialized countries, there is a strong presence of women farmers in alternative food networks, including within short food supply chains. Studies attribute this phenomenon to the values of care underpinning such initiatives, the possibility for participating women farmers to pursue their own projects (empowerment), and the development of...
Canada
2022

Guidelines
Guide sur la gestion des forêts et de l’eau

De nombreuses personnes dans le monde ont des difficultés à avoir accéder et à obtenir de l'eau propre pour répondre à leurs besoins de base. La disponibilité de l'eau est un facteur majeur limitant la capacité de l'humanité à répondre aux futurs besoins alimentaires et énergétiques mondiaux (D'Odorico et al....
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Mapping Rural Development: How to use GIS to monitor and evaluate projects

If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a map must surely be worth far more. Especially if it is a map enriched with data – one that shows what and where activities are planned, are happening, and have been achieved. This practical manual provides guidance on how to use geographic...
2022 - IFAD
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