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Nurturing trees from an early age

FAO and partners set up school clubs for Tanzania’s children for a forest-friendly future
When it comes to learning how to nurture seedlings to grow into trees, improving your surroundings and restoring the land around you, you’re never too young to make a start. That’s the thinking behind a project in Tanzania, supported by FAO and its partners, setting up more than 30 clubs...
United Republic of Tanzania
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena arroz

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de arroz enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Website
¿Qué es un ecosistema?

El ecosistema es el conjunto de especies de un área determinada que interactúan entre ellas y con su ambiente abiótico; mediante procesos como la depredación, el parasitismo, la competencia y la simbiosis, y con su ambiente al desintegrarse y volver a ser parte del ciclo de energía y de nutrientes....
Mexico
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Journal article
Perceptive study on policy interlinkage and institutional arrangement of agrobiodiversity with climate change, food and nutrition

A study was conducted to find out interlink, assessing the implementation status, challenges and opportunities in mainstreaming the nexus of agro biodiversity, food and nutrition and climate change in policies and programs. An online survey tool (mwater) was used to deploy the pretested questionnaire to different professionals of Nepal. Out...
Nepal
2022 - Siani

Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe Nº 67. Febrero 2022

Proyecto Gestión productiva y económica de pequeños y medianos emprendimientos porcinos de Argentina y Uruguay vinculados al CIAP 1
Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto "Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala" y del "Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas CIAP". Presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión...
Argentina
2022 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Video
Regenerative grazing with Nikki Yoxall, Grampian Graziers

Nikki Yoxall farms with her husband James, using Holistic Management and Regenerative Principles to run a profitable but highly biodiverse business. Year-round grazing is key to their system so managing for winter stockpile and wildlife habitat and plant species richness feature heavily. All animals are 100% pasture-fed, and their system...
2022 - Nature Friendly Farming Network

Report
Forest products in the global bioeconomy

This report addresses the role of forest products in replacing fossil-based and GHG-intensive products. The overarching objective is to provide recommendations to strengthen the contribution of substitution by forest products to sustainable development. To that end, this report firstly provides an overview of the understanding of the bioeconomy and the...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Urban farming for healthy life

Rapid urbanization, industrialization, land ceiling, construction of multi-storeyed buildings, wide roads, offices, markets have resulted in the non-availability of land for gardening work in big cities and towns. Ever-increasing population in cities and increasing vehicles have resulted in an alarming increase in pollution. There is a great need to break...
India
2022 - Leisa India

Journal article
Effects of riboflavin supplementation level on health, performance, and fertility of organic broiler parent stock and their chicks

Data from breeder hens and chicks are particularly critical for the development of vitamin B2 recommendations for organic poultry. To test safe thresholds of supplementation, 100 breeder hens (Hubbard JA 57 K) and ten cockerels were allocated to ten housing groups, with each receiving supplementation of either 4.0 (treatment CON) or 2.5 mg...
2022

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena avícola

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de avícola enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Fact sheet
Community Forest Rights - A Theory of Change

Many governments have policies in place that make it possible for Indigenous and local communities to apply for forest tenure rights. This figure shows the impact pathways through which such policies can contribute to improved livelihoods, forest conservation and local self-determination. Whether these pathways materialize depends on the conditions mentioned...
2022 - Tropenbos International

Blog article
En Casamance, le pari de l’agroécologie pour endiguer l’exode de la jeunesse

Du 7 février au 15 mars 2022, la Dynamique pour une transition agroécologique au Sénégal (DyTAES) – réseau qui fédère la plupart des acteurs de l’agroécologie du pays – a entrepris une grande caravane pour rencontrer les agriculteurs et agricultrices sénégalais. Carte des 45 départements du Sénégal de 2008 à 2021. Amitchell125/Wikipedia, CC BY Après les Niayes, le Nord-Sénégal et...
Senegal
2022

Report
Print Send Towards sustainable food and nutrition security in Latin America and the Caribbean in response to the global food crisis

The most recent spike in international food prices began in the middle of 2020, driven mainly by the behaviour of the prices of vegetable oils and cereals. Pandemic-induced inflationary pressure was expected to be transitory. However, the war in Ukraine has caused further ruptures in key productive chains, such as...
2022 - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)

Guidelines
Protecting pollinators from pesticides – Urgent need for action

Pollinators are essential for fruit, vegetable, oilseed and forage production, as well as for the production of seed for many root and fibre crops. In addition to being essential to food security and quality, pollinators contribute to the production of medicines, biofuels (e.g. canola and palm oil), fibres (e.g. cotton...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Una nación enseñando a enfermar y contaminar

“En el próximo ciclo escolar, que está por iniciar, todo indica que se volverá a la normalidad, pero ya no debe ser a la vieja normalidad, debe ser a una nueva normalidad en que tengamos escuelas saludables y limpias (…)”.
El artículo aborda una investigación efectuada en una escuela primaria a partir de la basura que se genera de los alimentos y se encontró que existe un alto consumo de calorías por bebidas y alimentos ultraprocesados.
Mexico
2022 - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos (ACO)

Project
Mainstreaming of the National Land Consolidation Programme (MAINLAND)

The European Union-FAO funded MAINLAND project is implemented by FAO in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy (MAFWE) of North Macedonia. Until 2022 the project will assist the country’s MAFWE to manage and implement the National Land Consolidation Programme by developing the expertise and strengthening the technical and administrative...
North Macedonia
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena banano

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de banano enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
The Land Gap Report

This Report shows that countries’ climate pledges rely on unrealistic amounts of land-based carbon removal. These cannot be achieved without significant negative impacts on livelihoods, land rights, and ecosystems. Our research suggests that countries should seek to reduce their expected reliance on land-based carbon removal and must instead make much...
2022 - Land Gap

Blog article
Aquaculture value chain actors enhance knowledge of post-harvest management practices

The international fish trade is expanding due to sustained demand, trade liberalization policies, globalization of food systems, and technological innovations. To address these and other issues arising from post-harvest management among actors in the aquaculture value chain, FAO’s timely FISHCap project conducted a three-day regional workshop in Bodrum, Turkey, which concludes today....
Türkiye
2022

Journal article
Planning food system transitions: Exploring spatial, citizen-driven, and agroecological approaches

As goals are set for greenhouse gas emissions, self-sufficiency in energy, and adaptation to climate change, much prominence is given to urban plans for sustainable mobility and energy efficiency in the built environment. This Special Issue draws attention to the food issue within the planning and its strong implications on...
2022
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