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Agricultural trade in the Global South

An overview of trends in performance, vulnerabilities, and policy frameworks
The importance of South countries1 in global agrifood markets and trade has been increasing over the last two decades, with growth in their participation, as both exporters and importers, having outpaced that of North countries. South countries, as a group, are net exporters of fruits, vegetables, fats and oils, and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Blog article
Rural Europe Takes Action | Seeds of Collaboration

“Rural Europe Takes Action – No more business as usual”, a policy guide for rural Europe by ARC2020 and Forum Synergies, launched in June 2022. Today’s extract from Rural Europe Takes Action tells the story of the Balkan Seeds Network, a network of scientists and seed savers’ organisations tapping into...
2022 - ARC2020

Report
Inquérito Nacional sobre Insegurança Alimentar no Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19 no Brasil

Relatório - II VIGISAN
A Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Rede PENSSAN) apresenta à sociedade brasileira os resultados do II Inquérito Nacional sobre Insegurança Alimentar no Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19 no Brasil (II VIGISAN), cumprindo com o compromisso de contribuir para o conhecimento e o debate cientificamente...
Brazil
2022 - Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar – Rede PENSSAN

Miscellanea
Del huerto familiar a la mesa

Recetas saludables utilizando los productos cultivados en las escuelas de campo
El recetario "Del huerto familiar a la mesa" presenta una serie de recetas saludables que incorporan ingredientes cultivados en el marco de las escuelas de campo en El Salvador, implementadas con el apoyo de Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO. El propósito del recetario es promover el aprovechamiento de los recursos producidos...
El Salvador
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Practices
Establecimiento: Planificación y diagnóstico

Se busca definir las condiciones de la unidad ganadera, las metas esperadas de establecer el Sistema Silvopastoril, y las actividades y recursos para lograrlo. Con esta información se determinará su viabilidad. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Guidelines
Animal traction technology

Majority of farmers in the West Nile region of Uganda are smallholder farmers who produce for subsistence use and only sell the surplus yet they have vast and productive land for farming. Use of rudimentary tools like the hand hoe that are labour-intensive is predominant. The use of animal traction...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development

Video
The 10 Elements of Agroecology: Enabling transitions to sustainable agriculture and food systems

Agriculture and food systems are facing wide-ranging and interlinked challenges that demand urgent actions. The 10 Elements of Agroecology have been internationally endorsed as a framework to support research and development efforts in the design of differentiated paths for agriculture and food systems transformation. The 10 Elements are interlinked and interdependent and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Practices
Establecimiento: Producción de material vegetal

Siembra estructurada y uniforme de especies vegetales de estratos medio (arbustivas), y medio-alto (arbóreas) Establecimiento de arbustivas en franjas de mayor densidad. Especies arbóreas dentro del potrero y maderables en la cerca perimetral. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
The essential role of poultry farming in the equilibrium of farming families

After a particularly complicated and violent period in its history under the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia can boast of having halved its poverty rate between 2014 and 2022. Even if extreme poverty is still far from being eradicated today, this progress proves that it is not inevitable.
Cambodia
2022 - Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF)

Book
Review of existing legislation to protect pollinators from pesticides in selected countries

Honeybees (Apis mellifera), wild bees, and other pollinators can be adversely affected by pesticides as well as other stressors, with potentially large economic and ecological consequences. Legislation is one possible tool which can be used to support actions to protect pollinators from pesticides. Several documents have been published at the...
Australia - China - Dominica - Ireland - Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Samoa - Solomon Islands - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2022 - FAO

Article
Farmer-led agroecology for biodiversity with climate change

The increasing pace of climate change is an existential threat to farming continuity and biodiversity. Agricultural innovation is running too slowly but could be accelerated by a change in the agroecological narrative. A farmer-led agroecology prioritising farming continuity for biodiversity would speed up innovation and better serve science and society.
2022

Blog article
Agroecology – A promising alternative to the biodiversity crisis in agriculture and industrial food systems

Agroecology builds biodiversity into agriculture and food systems and should be a focus of global biodiversity conservation efforts as if lives and nature depend on it – because they do. The world’s nations are currently gathering at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP15 in Montreal to finalize a “Global Biodiversity Framework” for the...
2022

Report
Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems

A FAO-NORAD project in sub-Saharian Africa
In support of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), conceptualized a project focused on...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Pro-poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia

"This collection of essays provides a wealth of information and analysis about the Philippine economy and the role of agriculture and economic policy in it. The Philippine experience has been quite different from the highly successful Asian economies, with a long period of low growth until the turn of the...
Philippines
2022 - Books on Agricultural Research and Development

Article
Morphoagronomic characterization of a germplasm collection of Furcraea spp. and Agave spp.

This work was carried out in Antioquia, Colombia, in a collection of the Furcraea and Agave genera, important in the country for manufacturing strings, sacks, geotextiles, and handicrafts Currently, to enhance its use, applications have been developed in textiles, biodegradable materials and thermo-acoustic insulation, among others. The aim of this...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Technical paper
Priorities for FAO in the region under the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-31

The 42nd FAO Conference unanimously approved the Strategic Framework 2022-31. The strategic narrative guiding the Strategic Framework is supporting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Event
36th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East

Healthy diets for a growing, increasingly urban population in the presence of water scarcity and advancing climate change necessitate urgent changes and transformations in the agrifood systems of the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.   In this light, the 36th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for the Near East (NERC...
Iraq
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Practices
Estrategias de manejo y mantenimiento: Balance o presupuesto forrajero

El cálculo de la cantidad de forraje disponible en un potrero, permite planificar y usar de forma eficiente el sistema silvopastoril. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
HOMEF trains Rivers farmers on Agroecology

Framers selected from different parts of Rivers State have been trained on food and farming systems organised by Health of Mother Earth Foundation(HOMEF) in Port Harcourt, the state capital. During the two days training which concluded yesterday, the participants were trained on how stick to agroecology for better farming system....
2022 - Health of Mother Earth Foundation(HOMEF)

Report
Ten years of FAO experience on ending child labour in agriculture in Africa

A compendium of practices from Malawi, Mali, the Niger, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda
This compendium is the result of a first-of-its-kind stocktaking exercise looking at FAO activities to address child labour in agriculture in Malawi, Mali, Uganda, the Niger and the United Republic of Tanzania over a decade (2010–2020). It is intended to make a practical contribution to the field of child labour...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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