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TALLER: Políticas y estrategias nacionales para la participación en Mercados de Carbono: desafíos para el sector agrícola en un contexto de cambio climático

La Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (PLACA), junto a Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) han organizado el Taller "Políticas y estrategias nacionales para la participación en mercados de carbono: desafíos para el sector agrícola en un contexto...
Argentina - Colombia - Paraguay
2024 - Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (PLACA)

Blog article
Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences

Dans cet article, nous proposons d’analyser la manière dont le travail des femmes cis appartenant au secteur de l’agriculture familiale est configuré dans les processus de transition agroécologique. Nous commençons par comprendre et problématiser la triple journée de travail à partir de ses sphères : productive, reproductive/de soins et communautaire,...
2024

Video
L'agriculture familiale au Sénégal, les défis et les enjeux...

La chaine TV5 Afrique s’est intéressée à la situation des exploitations familiales au Sénégal. Ce document vidéo spécial partage les réactions et témoignages d’acteurs de l’agriculture familiale qui expliquent les enjeux du secteur.
Senegal
2024 - TV5 Monde Afrique

Blog article
Com apoio do Brasil, países da América Latina e do Caribe aprovam novo plano de combate à fome

Região passa a contar com um plano unificado de segurança alimentar, que poderá servir de base para a criação da Aliança Global Contra a Pobreza e a Fome, no âmbito do G20
Os países latino-americanos e caribenhos definiram nesta terça-feira (16.01), em Santiago, na reunião da Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos (CELAC), que congrega 33 nações, um plano de segurança alimentar que estabelece como meta a erradicação da fome até 2030. O Plano CELAC de Segurança Alimentar, Nutrição e Erradicação da...
Brazil
2024 - Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos (CELAC)

Journal article
The future of the sugarcane industry in Fiji: climatic, non-climatic stressors, and opportunities for transformation

This study explores the complex dynamics of Fiji’s sugarcane industry, shedding light on the challenges it faces and the implications for agricultural system resilience and sustainability. The primary aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between climatic and non-climatic stressors and farmers’ decisions to abandon sugarcane farming. A...
Fiji
2024 - Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research

Book
Applying MEV-CAM tools: Participatory video

The Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) toolkit provides process documentation facilitators with instruments for documenting change through participatory video to generate knowledge, monitor impact, and share practices. This toolkit sheds light on how to develop a participatory video process in all its stages: beginning with stakeholder identification,...
2024 - FAO

Fact sheet
Integrated services for innovation and agrifood systems

Rural producers operate in a very complex reality. They are faced with serious and interconnected challenges such as globalized and unstable markets, volatile prices, a degrading natural resource base and the effects of climate change. In addition, especially in developing countries, access to markets represent a serious problem due to,...
2024 - FAO

Technical paper
Farmers’ adoption on potato zero-tillage and straw mulching in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh

Key messages • Potato zero-tillage and rice straw mulching (PZTM) was introduced in the fallow season as a strategy for climate adaptation in Khulna where potato is a new crop to grow.• 56% (239 HHs) of the intervention households adopted PZTM in the following cropping season without any subsidies or...
Bangladesh
2024 - International Potato Center

Report
Key lessons and priority research and investments for Community Fish Refuge-Rice Field Fisheries

Rice field ecosystems make up the majority of the agricultural land in the Lower Mekong region (Ingalls et al. 2018). In Cambodia, WorldFish research found that one hectare of a rice field ecosystem can provide enough wild fish and other aquatic animals to feed 2.6 people for a year (Freed...
Cambodia
2024 - World Fish

Blog article
12 proposals selected in the 5th edition of the challenge fund for national committees of family farming

In response to the call launched in May 2024, the jury of the Challenge Fund for National Committees of Family Farming (NCFF), composed of representatives from AFA, COPROFAM, PAFO, FAO, IFAD, and WRF, has announced the selection of 12 proposals out of the 32 received. These proposals come from the NCFFs of the...
2024 - World Rural Forum (WRF)

Blog article
Opportunities and challenges for coffee production in Papua New Guinea’s highlands

Coffee is one of the most important smallholder cash crops in Papua New Guinea. It accounted for $156 million of export earnings, 13% of agricultural export revenues, and 1.4% of total export revenues in PNG in 2021. According to the PNG Rural Household Survey 2023, approximately 55% of sampled households in the...
Papua New Guinea
2024 - IFPRI

Blog article
Who’s afraid of high fertilizer prices?

During 2021 and 2022, global food and fertilizer prices spiked due to several overlapping factors. Demand rose as the world economy emerged from the COVID-19 recession; global supply chains suffered major disruptions associated with the uneven recovery; and the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine—both key food and fertilizer...
2024 - IFPRI

Blog article
Know Why Custodian Farmers are Important in Agrobiodiversity Conservation

Agricultural biodiversity, also known as agrobiodiversity, is crucial for ensuring food and livelihood security. It encompasses the variety and diversity of plants, animals, and microorganisms used directly or indirectly for food, including crops, livestock, forestry, and fisheries. This rich biodiversity results from the co-evolution of natural processes and human activities,...
India
2024 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia

Video
¿Una clave de la productividad en el agro? Habilidades para el trabajo

¿Te imaginas un mundo en el que lo que estudias te prepara para trabajar? Nosotros sí. Con este programa de formación técnico-profesional buscamos equipar a los jóvenes con habilidades para las nuevas tecnologías que el sector agropecuario argentino demanda. Descubre más iniciativas del BID para impulsar habilidades para la productividad...
Argentina
2024 - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

E-learning
II Ciclo de Intercambios Técnicos para la Agricultura Familiar: Compras Públicas de la Agricultura Familiar

En el marco de la Plataforma Técnica Regional de Agricultura Familiar, tenemos el agrado de invitarles a participar II Edición del Ciclos de Intercambios Técnicos para la Agricultura Familiar, que trabajará el tema de Compras Públicas de la Agricultura Familiar La Plataforma Técnica Regional de Agricultura Familiar es una iniciativa global...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Fact sheet
Investing in rural people in Türkiye

Türkiye is IFAD’s largest recipient of financial assistance in the Europe and Central Asia sub-region. IFAD investments contribute to reducing rural poverty in the upland areas of the country. Their strategy focuses on improving access to markets, strengthening climate resilience and consolidating agricultural value chains.
Türkiye
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Book
Youth-led initiatives in the bioeconomy

Youth leading the way towards a sustainable future
This booklet introduces the bioeconomy topic and its growing relevance also for youth. Global political and economic development agendas are placing more focus on developing and growing the bioeconomy to support the transformation to sustainable bio-based industries. Based on real cases of youth entrepreneurs in the bioeconomy from four different...
Benin - Colombia - Costa Rica - Egypt - India - Kenya - Mexico - Morocco - Uganda
2024 - FAO

Fact sheet
Investing in rural people in Zambia

Over the past 15 years, Zambia’s economic trajectory has fluctuated because of global and domestic factors. Despite its rich endowment in natural resources, Zambia has yet to fully leverage this potential for economic expansion. The agricultural sector, which engages over 70 per cent of the workforce, is recognized as a...
Zambia
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Journal article
Krishi Updates: Digital Agriculture Model

Adequate, timely and region specific information is an important input for sustainable and profitable agriculture. Krishi Updates is providing digital extension services to the farmers, facilitating communication and outreach activities and organising need-based trainings. Information sources are very vast, and farmers are unable to segregate the information that is most...
India
2024 - Krishi Updates

Article
Tarping and mulching effects on crop yields, profitability, and soil nutrients in a continuous no-till organic vegetable production system

Small-scale organic vegetable farms need strategies to overcome yield, labor, and economic challenges in transitioning to reduced and no-till practices. However, the production tradeoffs associated with different scale-appropriate management practices are not well documented for these operations. We evaluated crop yields, labor, profitability, and soil nutrients over four continuous years...
2024
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