The problem of water scarcity has cast a shadow over the wellbeing of humans. According to estimates, in 2016, nearly 4 billion people – equivalent to two-thirds of the global population – experience severe water scarcity for a prolonged period of time. If the situation doesn’t improve, 700 million people...

Conserve the varieties you do have, by planting them and eating them at home. To recover seed of native crops, establish associations with farmers who are interested in conserving them. An NGO can help you get organised. Making an inventory and an illustrated catalogue helps to exchange seed and promote...

Las cooperativas son un modelo vigente y de futuro. En América Latina y El Caribe hay más de 108 mil y cerca de 28 mil son agropecuarias y/o rurales con más de 6 millones de cooperados. Son claves en la inclusión de la agricultura familiar a las cadenas de valor y...

An Operational Group in Bulgaria is developing a national web-based platform to pool resources and knowledge and create a place for different stakeholders from the sheep breeding sector to exchange experiences. Simeon Karakolev from the project “The ‘All for the sheep’ platform features everything you would need to know about...

The YALTA Initiative has released an agroecology story map to highlight youth-led agroecological best practises produced by young entrepreneurs taught via its programme. The story map takes visitors on a documented journey through a series of case studies, highlighting some of the young entrepreneurs' success stories, lessons learned, and ongoing...

The COVID-19 pandemic not only imposed severe health risks but also raised major challenges to the economy, due to widespread and severe measures to control the spread of the disease. Food value chains were disrupted by restrictions of the movement of people and commodities, which had significant impacts on the...

Richard van der Hoff from Federal University of Minas Gerais revisits Brazil's journey in financing forest conservation efforts.

En esta conferencia de prensa se dieron a conocer los pormenores de la la nueva NOM-187, que busca regular la tortilla y otros productos de maíz. De igual manera se hará un llamado a la sociedad civil a participar en la consulta pública de la misma.

Ensuring better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life – the “four betters” – in Europe and Central Asia is the end goal as discussions continue on the second day of the Regional Conference for Europe in Lodz, Poland. Today, FAO Members in the region have the possibility...

Peasant agroecology supports life-enriching systems and opposes life-alienating systems. It offers solutions to the major environmental, social, economic and political challenges we are facing today. It is a living practice, as well as a science and a socio-political movement, built and fostered by people over thousands of years. For aeons...

This visual guide has been designed for use by a facilitator to lead a discussion with a group of participants on how to prevent and reduce exposure of children and young workers to occupational safety and health hazards in agriculture. The aim of this tool is to raise awareness and...

It is only recently, at age 36, that Saoudé Garba has felt in charge of her own life. Born in the village of Danje in southern Niger, she was married early to one of the three chiefs of the village. She had her first child at the age of 15,...

Este folleto es producido en el marco del proyecto +Algodón y presenta un breve resumen de esta iniciativa de cooperación sur-sur trilateral llevada a cabo desde el 2013 en conjunto por la FAO, Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ABC/MRE ) y 7 países socios: Argentina, Bolivia,...

The Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies as part of the European Green Deal objectives set up important targets to improve the sustainability of farming and food systems, among which reducing the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50% and the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50%...

The global eradication of rinderpest, proclaimed in 2011, was a major milestone that parallels the extermination of smallpox worldwide in 1980. Both diseases, although caused by distinctly different viruses, inflicted untold misery and death for centuries and both diseases were finally overcome through the use of vaccines. This book, a...

Mayra Martínez, del equipo de Vía Orgánica en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, nos da algunos tips para prevenir incendios forestales.

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ‘’ Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’’ identified, with a high level of confidence, that agroecological principles and practices are feasible adaptation options for the future and stresses the importance of matching agroecological options to context. The Working Group II...

This policy brief discusses how feebate policies could upscale organic agriculture and food self-sufficiency in Bhutan, specifically looking at rice production. The simulations show that a feebate (fee and rebate) policy coupled with promotion and training in agroecological farming methods could incentivize widespread adoption of agroecology, achieving both 100 percent organic production and greater self-sufficiency for rice in Bhutan.

La Educación Alimentaria y Nutricional en las Escuelas (EAN-E) se define como “una serie de secuencias coherentes y progresivas de actividades educativas, con apoyos ambientales, que ayudan a los escolares, junto con el personal de las escuelas y los padres, a lograr mejoras duraderas en su alimentación y otras prácticas...

As the fisheries and aquaculture sector discusses major policy changes – forced labour at sea, illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU), COVID-19 – women’s work is often overlooked, too easily wiped out of public view, receiving very little attention or support. When women’s labour is examined, this attention is rather...