Members of the Slow Food Indigenous Peoples’ network will be present at the Forum, including six delegates from Taiwan, representing the Amis, Taroko and Paiwan indigenous peoples’ communities. They are there to showcase the incredible biodiversity of Taiwan, and how Indigenous communities have protected it. “We would like the world to be...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to human and animal health. It endangers modern human and veterinary medicine and undermines the safety of our food and environment. AMR occurs when micro-organisms including bacteria, parasites, and viruses develop resistance to antimicrobials such as antibiotics, antifungal, antiparasitic and antiviral drugs. It threatens...

Dear readers, The Organic Farm Knowledge platform (organic-farmknowledge.org) provides access to a wide range of tools and resources about organic farming that can help improve production. We are pleased to share this month’s newsletter with you. We look forward to sharing more news with you in November.

This paper addresses women’s empowerment in agriculture and discusses innovationsin measuring it and emerging evidence on its relationship to development outcomes.Women’s empowerment and gender equality are at the core of gender-transformativechange in agriculture and a more holistic and inclusive approach to how we addressgender in agriculture. We discuss the evolution...

Esta publicación explora los desafíos y estrategias para la gestión del agua en los sistemas agrícolas de Chile. Enfatiza la necesidad de una mejor coordinación entre los actores involucrados, soluciones de financiamiento mixtas y la implementación de las recientes reformas al código de aguas. La prueba piloto de Consejos de...

La Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Gobierno de Guatemala firmaron el acuerdo del proyecto Medios de vida resilientes de pequeños agricultores vulnerables en los paisajes mayas y el corredor seco de Guatemala (RELIVE), iniciativa que proveerá de condiciones para mejorar la seguridad...

With the SDGs, countries agreed that Peace, Planet, Partnership, Prosperity and People are connected. To maximise synergies and minimize trade-offs, their interactions need to be better understood. While 'SDG interlinkages' are increasingly studied, SDG 16 is rarely covered. This new publication builds on the first, ground-breaking study ‘Connections that Matter:...

Calls to rethink responses to food crises have arisen from recent overlapping shocks to food systems — including the COVID-19 pandemic, increased food prices, conflicts, and natural disasters — and from concerns that crises are becoming more frequent, complex, and protracted. Now is an opportune moment to develop more permanent...

FOODRUS is working to tackle the food waste and losses by creating resilient food systems across nine European regions. To achieve this, the project will test 23 circular solutions through diverse forms of collaborative innovation, including: technological (blockchain solutions to manage food losses and waste), social (educational materials and citizen science...

The CAP Implementation Contact Point’s Thematic Group (TG) focussed on youth employment in rural Europe is continuing to network and share experiences and new ideas to help young people live and work in the countryside. The CAP Implementation Contact Point’s Thematic Group (TG) on rural youth employment is continuing to network...

GFRAS, the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services, will soon begin implementation of an Agroecology project in close collaboration with IFAD, the International Fund for Agriculture Development. The project, entitled “Global Programme for Small-Scale Agroecology Producers and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation”, GP-SAEP in short, is part of a larger funding...

On 30 November and 1 December 2022, the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission (DG AGRI) and the Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI held the one-and-a-half-day EU CAP Network workshop ‘Young entrepreneurs – Engines of innovation in rural areas. With a total of...

Las condiciones climáticas de extrema sequía que experimentó la zona núcleo fueron acentuadas por el efecto acumulativo de tres campañas consecutivas con caídas de lluvia muy inferiores a los valores promedio. Estos sucesos perfilan a la campaña 2022/23 como una de las peores de las que se tenga registro y...

AFSA hosted the first African Youth Summit on Food Systems in Kenya on May 27-29, 2023, to offer a vibrant space for African youth to exchange perspectives on sustainable practices, delve into food system challenges, and deliberate on sound solutions. Youth representatives from 24 countries attended the Summit, which concluded...

 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has welcomed the approval by UN member states of a landmark legally binding agreement, under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in international waters, covering nearly two-thirds...

Agroforestry - a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland - has varied benefits, including increased biodiversity and reduced erosion. The combination of agriculture and forestry in the Mediterranean is deeply rooted in a culture of tradition and niche production...

Rural women in low- and middle-income countries face multiple constraints in accessingand benefiting from essential complementary resources, technologies and services foragriculture production and participation in the food system. This paper highlights newthinking since the 2011 SOFA around these constraints and how to overcome them.Specifically, we consider complementary factors that allow...

Este libro desarrolla una estrategia de valor para las mieles chilenas basado en el conocimiento científico y tecnológico, en parámetros de innovación y atributos de diferenciación que permitirá visibilizarlas y posicionarlas en el mercado nacional e internacional. Se analiza la producción de varias mieles chilenas formadas a partir de recursos...

El comercio agroalimentario se considera una fuente potencial para aumentar la eficiencia y el crecimiento, pero también tiene un papel clave en el logro de la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, en especial en los países en desarrollo. Puede equilibrar los déficit y excedentes de alimentos a nivel nacional, contribuir...

La reunión atiende lo establecido en los estatutos de la Comisión respecto de la realización de sesiones ordinarias bienales. Sus objetivos son reportar las medidas adoptadas respecto de los acuerdos de la reunión anterior; reflexionar colectivamente sobre los temas que atañen a la sostenibilidad y contribución de la pesca y...