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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

Conference paper
“Capacity Building Workshop for utilizing evidence to advance sustainability in West Africa: Monitoring Agroecology’s impact, using the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)”

The need for harmonized evidence on agroecology was a systematic recommendation from the various global and regional consultations on agroecology organized by FAO between 2014 and 2018 and specifically requested by FAO governing bodies in 2018. To respond to these mandates, FAO and a large number of partners have developed...
2022

Video
European Union-FAO support to agricultural land consolidation in North Macedonia

Funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the MAINLAND project is implemented in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy and other partners in North Macedonia, supporting farmers and rural communities to overcome the excessive...
North Macedonia
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Case study
Money where it matters for nature and climate

Financing EbA lessons from China, Peru, Uganda and South Africa
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a proven cost-effective approach to address interlinked societal challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Though there is still insufficient funding for it with little funding flowing to local implementors including local communities, indigenous people, local NGOs and governments. This collection explores four distinctive but complementary finance...
China - Peru - South Africa - Uganda
2022 - International Climate Initiative ( IKI )

Practices
Estrategias de manejo y mantenimiento: Manejo agronómico de especies leñosas

En un sistema silvopastoril, existen situaciones en las cuales se debe realizar poda a las especies leñosas. Fuente principal Modelo productivo sistemas silvopastoriles de estratos múltiples para el sistema de producción bovina doble propósito en la región Caribe de Colombia 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)

Book
Special Issue "Reconnecting People with Nature through Agriculture"

There is an urgent need to reconnect society with the sustainable use of agroecosystems by fostering resilient social-ecological systems, emphasizing the links between the functioning of natural systems and human well-being, and stressing the benefits that people derive from them. This Special Issue of ‘’Agriculture’’ belonging to the section "Agricultural Systems and...
2022

Blog article
Cycle of exchanges – rural women and cooperativism: inspiring shared experiences

The WRF, together with six participating member organisations, organised in March and April 2022 two webinars, within the series Rural Women and Cooperativism. Insightful and valuable experiences of women’s farming groups or cooperatives from East and Central Africa, Latin America and Asia were shared.  The Rural Women and Cooperativism virtual exchange cycle aimed to promote the...
2022 - WRF

Guidelines
Guía para el establecimiento de escuelas de campo con enfoque de seguridad alimentaria y nutricional

Esta guía está dirigida al equipo técnico de las Unidades Agropecuarias, de Seguridad Alimentaria y Medio Ambiente a nivel municipal, y presenta una propuesta metodológica para el desarrollo de temáticas integrales en seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en el marco de la metodología de Escuelas de Campo para Agricultores Familiares. El documento...
El Salvador
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Case study
Tradition and innovation: the success of a family farmer's cactus cookies

Bringing small producers closer to urban consumers in Mexico
Corn, chocolate, tomato, avocado, chili peppers… when we think of Mexico, many delicious products come to mind. Those products are already part of many diets around world. However, unless you live in Mexico or one of its neighboring countries, you may never have tried cactus pear pads or even heard...
Mexico
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report
Fortalecimento da agricultura familiar e desenvolvimento sustentável

Em 2020, a FAO deu início ao projeto “Apoio ao Programa de Fortalecimento do Cooperativismo na Agricultura Familiar - TCP/BRA/3702/C2”, por meio do escritório de projetos sul da FAO no Brasil, em parceria com a Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado do Paraná (SEAB) e IDR-Paraná. Reconhecendo a importância do...
Brazil
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Newsletter
IIED Climate change newsletter October 2022

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 focus on the upcoming climate negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Along...
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
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