Food systems exert major pressures on the environment. This paper reviews what is known and not known about environmental impacts along food supply chains, looking at the contribution of different stages of the supply chain, the impact of different products, heterogeneity among producers, and the role of international trade. This...

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática ( de Bolívar, es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, regionales y nacionales, que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña. Se realizó reunión de carácter virtual donde se presentó la perspectiva climática para el trimestre diciembre...

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are agroecosystems inhabited by communities that live in an intricate relationship with their territory. These evolving sites are resilient systems characterized by remarkable agrobiodiversity, traditional knowledge, invaluable cultures and landscapes, sustainably managed by farmers, herders, fisherfolk, and forest people in ways that contribute to...

On 25 June 2021, the European Union (EU) finalised its negotiations for the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that is set to come into power on  1 January 2023 and run until 2027. While this CAP is being championed by its creators as a radical new framework for tackling agricultural and...

La publication du présent numéro de Grain de Sel coïncide avec la tenue de deux événements majeurs de la gouvernance internationale de l’environnement, la COP27 concernant le climat et la COP 15 concernant la biodiversité. La COP27 qui s’est déroulée en novembre 2022 en Égypte a consacré la victoire des...

FAO Liaison Office in New York Newsletter Issue 45 - July 2022

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática MTA de Caldas es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, nacionales y regionales, que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña a partir de información científica y conocimiento empírico, y generar recomendaciones para disminuir los riesgos asociados...

The Rotterdam Convention Secretariat (NSPRD) and the Gender team in ESP developed this publication with the objective of highlighting the gender-related implication of pesticide use and management, focusing on the role of women in handling hazardous pesticides in agriculture, the reasons why they are at higher risk and the health-related...

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the U.S. State Department announced a new partnership to support small-scale farmers in developing countries to better adapt to climate change and further reduce highly polluting methane emissions. As part of the Global Methane Pledge partnership, the U.S. and IFAD will work...

Sustainable fisheries management starts with scientific research – and an enormous amount of it is taking place across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, supported by the GFCM. Small-scale fishers have a central role to play in the monitoring and data collection activities that inform the work of fisheries scientists,...

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática MTA de Cauca es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, nacionales y regionales, que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña a partir de información científica y conocimiento empírico, y generar recomendaciones para disminuir los riesgos asociados...

The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2022 (SOCO 2022) discusses how trade policies, based on both multilateral and regional approaches, can address today’s challenges for sustainable development. Trade policies in food and agriculture should aim to safeguard global food security, address the trade-offs between economic and environmental objectives, and strengthen...

El copoazú (Theobroma grandiflorum) es un fruto amazónico con gran potencial económico, debido a su alto valor nutricional, siendo una fuente importante de ácido ascórbico y compuestos fénolicos. Su pulpa de alta viscosidad y acidez dificulta su procesamiento industrial. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo evaluar el efecto de la...

Conflict, climate extremes, and economic shocks are pushing people into hunger. The war in Ukraine has added further pressure on our already fragile agrifood systems and supply chains. Energy, fertilizer and food prices have increased. Today, the magnitude and severity of acute food insecurity is daunting. We need to work...

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática (MTA) de Magdalena, Cesar, La Guajira y Atlántico, es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, regionales y nacionales, que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña. Se realizó reunión de carácter mixto (presencial/Virtual) donde se presentó la...

Con el objetivo de identificar y priorizar áreas de acción para la implementación del Plan de la Región SICA para el Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura Familiar 2019-2028 (DNUAF), la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo...

FAO experts have been visiting farms across Montenegro this week, to collect up-to-date information and data to be fed into the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) system. Established by the European Union in 1965, the Farm Accountancy Data Network allows farm managers to keep track on their transactions at farm level...

Millions of people rely on nature-rich farming systems for their subsistence and income. The contributions of nature to these systems are varied and key to their sustainability in the long term. Yet, agricultural stakeholders are often unaware or undervalue the relevance of those contributions, which can affect decisions concerning land...

En este trabajo se analizan las preferencias de los consumidores por la carne bovina en las principales ciudades de la Región Caribe de Colombia. La información se obtuvo mediante una encuesta estructurada aplicada, a partir de una muestra aleatoria seleccionada por el método de muestreo aleatorio simple a 337 personas...

A highly concentrated global food system delinked from local smallholder farms has proved unable to solve our accelerating food crises.  Agroecology is central to building the healthy and resilient local food systems we urgently need in the face of increasing global uncertainty. The COVID-19 pandemic that paralyzed most of the world in...