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Report
The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality and Food Security in the Arab region with a focus on the Sudan and Iraq

This rapid gender analysis (RGA) explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality and food security in the Arab region, focusing on Iraq and the Sudan as case studies. This RGA is a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food...
2022 - FAO and WFP

Website
Farmers' Organizations for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (FO4ACP)

The FO4ACP in the Caribbean Region will be co-implemented by FAO’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, PROCASUR and Agricord with the support of IFAD, the European Union and the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States Pacific (ACP). Recognizing the catalytic role that Farmers Organizations plays in improving...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Business models along the poultry value chain in Uganda

This report presents the business canvas, the business process modelling and the enterprise bugdet of entrpreneurs operating at the different nodes of the poultry value chain in urban and peri-urban Uganda
Uganda
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Tunisie : un projet de loi pour promouvoir les semences paysannes

L’Association Tunisienne de Permaculture (ATP) soumettra, prochainement, au ministère de l’Agriculture, un projet de loi visant la promotion des systèmes semenciers paysans et la protection des petits agriculteurs qui utilisent ces systèmes. S’inspirant du cadre juridique proposé par l’Alliance pour la Souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique (AFSA), ce projet a pour...
Tunisia
2022

Manual
Manejo integral del cerdo

Planificación y organización para producción de porcinos
Este manual busca entregar información relevante a los productores de cerdo, orientando los procesos de planificación y organización para un establecimiento productor de porcinos. 
Argentina
2022 - Subsecretaria de Asuntos Agrarios. Ministerio de la Producción Gobierno de La Pampa.

Blog article
Food security in Ukraine: FAO distributes seed potatoes to vulnerable rural families

Some 46 000 people are assisted during the spring potato sowing campaign
Working to safeguard the food security and livelihoods of vulnerable rural families in Ukraine, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has distributed seed potato kits to 17 740 households from across ten of the country’s oblasts so they can plant food in time for the next...
Ukraine
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law

The book deals with global food value chains and different technological challenges and new economic realities connected to it. It delves into the issue of the consolidation of the food supply chain and the challenges it presents for competition law and policy. The issue of power in the food value...
2022

Article
Boost to natural farming in Andhra Pradesh

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy formally inaugurated the Indo German Global Academy for Agroecology, Research and Learning (IGGAARL) in Pulivendula constituency of Kadapa district on Thursday. The academy is a fallout of the joint effort between the Federal Government of Germany and the Government of India to strengthen the...
India
2022

Project
Inspirational idea: Controlling wireworms in potato production

Austrian Operational Group looking for alternative, environmentally friendly control methods. Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, cause major losses in potato production across Europe. The situation in recent years seems to be worsening due to climate change as Johannes Mayer, Austrian potato farmer explains: “Wireworm damage is more significant in drier...
Austria
2022 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation

Case study
“My cooking philosophy begins with the sowing and organic cultivation of vegetables and crops as well as the respectful keeping of our farm animals.”

Switzerland  Rebecca Clopath is a well-known Swiss chef renowned for her nature-focused approach to preparing food. Despite her impressive formation as a chef, Rebecca’s focus has never been to chase culinary fame and accolades, but rather to work with nature to produce fresh, seasonal dishes with organic and locally-sourced ingredients in...
Switzerland
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Actualización del Plan Estratégico de Ciencia, Tecnología, e Innovación del sector Agropecuario PECTIA 2017 - 2027: departamento de Putumayo 2022

Actualización del Plan Estratégico de Ciencia, Tecnología, e Innovación del sector Agropecuario PECTIA 2017 - 2027 : departamento de Putumayo 2022. 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)

Report
Sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the climate agenda: Opportunities to transform agrifood systems

The bioeconomy offers opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the agrifood system by replacing fossil-based resources and processes with biological ones, from microbiome innovations, biofertilizers and biopesticides, to alternative proteins, bio-based plastics and textiles, and biological waste management, to name just a few. A sustainable and circular bioeconomy...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Thinking about the future of food safety

A foresight report
Agrifood systems are undergoing a transformation with the aim to provide safer, more affordable, and healthier diets for all, produced in a sustainable manner while delivering just and equitable livelihoods: a key to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, this transformation needs to be executed in the...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
Apiculture et changements climatiques: construire une filière résiliente

Ce manuel technique se base sur les résultats et expériences de l’initiative CasaMiel, mise en œuvre par la Société de coopération pour le développement international (SOCODEVI). Cette initiative se déroule dans le cadre du projet «Sécurité alimentaire: une agriculture adaptée» (SAGA) mis en œuvre par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour...
Senegal
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Convocatoria: Jornadas de Intercambio de Experiencias y Conocimientos de la Agricultura Familiar

La Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) invita a todas las organizaciones de agricultores/as familiares, instituciones académicas, de gobierno y del sector privado, a participar de Plataforma Técnica Regional de la Agricultura Familiar. Para...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Fact sheet
Propagación y material genético: patrones y copas

Aporta el sistema radical, responsable de la absorción y transporte de nutrientes. 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
Autorisation des OGM au Sénégal : menace sur l’agriculture ouest-africaine

A travers les textes (positions/actes politiques), le Sénégal est cité en exemple pour son engagement dans la transition agroécologique. Mais depuis le vote de la loi N°2022-20 du 14 juin 2022autorisant les organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM) par son assemblée nationale, sa démarche parait très ambivalente aux yeux de la société...
Senegal
2022

Report
Tackling antimicrobial use and resistance in food-producing animals

Lessons learned in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
his publication describes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’s multisectoral voluntary approach to antibiotic stewardship in food-producing animals, developed as a collaboration between industry and government. It is a tribute to all those involved for their tremendous efforts, commitment, and continuous work to improve responsible use of...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2022 - FAO; Veterinary Medicines Directorate

Book part
Metodología para la evaluación de disponibilidad de forraje y composición botánica

El objetivo de esta metodología es determinar disponibilidad de forraje, composición botánica y otras variables agronómicas como altura, cobertura, ataque de plagas y enfermedades, para obtener información sobre cómo hacer un buen manejo de praderas.   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)

Blog article
Europe and Central Asia commits to ensuring food-secure, sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems

Issued by the Secretariat of the Regional Conference for Europe
Countries of Europe and Central Asia are united in protecting food production, supplies and trade, even during times of war. For days at the Thirty-third Session of the Regional Conference for Europe in Łódź, Poland, 50-plus FAO Members discussed possible paths and approaches for realizing this goal and for improving nutrition and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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