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Food sovereignty in a time of pandemic
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, few imagined the scale of the devastation that the disease would wreak across the world, or for how long it would last. As COVID-19 swung from country to country on its...
2021 - Nyeleni
Case study
The challenge of BEE-ing in a pandemic
Women are the new face of beekeeping in rural Georgia, helping keep a steady family income during COVID-19
With the COVID-19 crisis heavily affecting the economy in Georgia, decimating the tourism industry and sales of wine – a traditional product of Kakheti – many people of the region, who were more active in these sectors, have found themselves out of income. Families struggled to meet ends, and very...
Georgia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: Films - Vital ocean voices
An online anthology produced by Greenpeace consisting of writing, films, animation and poems that document efforts of ocean protection. Be it the seven year-old Kylian who helped stop the spread of an oil spill in Mauritius, or Madame Kokoly, an artisanal fisher who relies on the ocean for survival or Aurelie,...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Statement/IPC: Fishing Communities
World Fisheries Day is a time to reiterate the rights of small-scale fisherfolk and Indigenous Peoples to secure food sovereignty. We, in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), represent small-scale fisher people including Indigenous Peoples from the four global movements, the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book part
Producción de biofertilizantes
Es ampliamente conocida la importancia del nitrógeno en el crecimiento y desarrollo de las especies vegetales, pues lo necesitan en cantidades relativamente grandes (75-150 kg de N ha˗1); sin embargo, su disponibilidad en el suelo es baja debido a las condiciones de este y al clima, por lo cual, en...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Article
Cotton in West and Central Africa: from the agricultural revolution to the agro-ecological transition
Since the 1970s, cotton has been a driving force in the transformation of agricultural production systems and a key element in local economies in the savannah areas of West and Central Africa (WCA). However, the sustainability of cotton-based production systems is often debated because of their effects on soils and...
2021 - CIRAD
Practices
How to make a protective suit for beekeeping
This text describes how to make a protective suit for beekeeping and the materials needed. The protective suit is composed of an overall covering the whole body and a removable veil. It provides excellent protection when working with bees that are moderately or very aggressive.
Nicaragua
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Event
Symposium on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and Family Farming
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, through the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, will organise the International Symposium on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and Family Farming from 18th to 20th of October 2021.
The Symposium will focus on how the main features of GIAHS sites and the UN Decade of Family Farming action...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama Newsletter no 7 - February 2021
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
2021 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Fighting hidden hunger in Zimbabwe
Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children globally and an important contributor to the burden of night blindness in pregnant women and severe illness and death in children under the age of five. Southern Africa is not spared.
In Zimbabwe, nearly one in five children under...
Zimbabwe
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Moving together towards improving the health and wellbeing of the citizens: The third Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting (APUFM)
Thethird ‘’Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting (APUFM)’’ kicked off virtually and will last until 29 October 2021. The event is organized by FAO with the support of UNEP, UN-Habitat, IUCN, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Over 450 technical experts, scientists, practitioners, policy makers, NGOs, international organizations and other stakeholders have registered...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Youth-to-youth mentorship approach in agripreneurship development
Peer-to-peer learning can be very effective in sharing knowledge and experience, and encouraging the adoption of new practices and technologies among farmers including youth. FAO training approaches, like the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS), encourage youth facilitators to share their knowledge in the respective communities, mobilizing and sensitizing...
Uganda
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
WASAG – The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture
The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change (in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, WASAG) has been designed to bring together key players across the globe and from different sectors to tackle the collective challenge of using water better in...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Cultivos de cobertura y manejo de residuos en agricultura de conservación
Las prácticas de Agricultura de Conservación (AC) requieren un nivel crítico de cultivos de cobertura y manejo de los residuos de cultivos para mantener o mejorar las propiedades químicas, físicas y biológicas del suelo y prevenir la degradación del mismo. En muchas partes del mundo, la producción de cultivos y...
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Fabricación artesanal de puros
La actividad de fabricar puros tiene más de 50 años, y es principalmente desarrollada en las comunidades de la parte alta de Zacapa. Surgió como alternativa para el aprovechamiento de los excedentes del cultivo de tabaco generados en la parte baja de Zacapa.
Guatemala
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Guidelines
Training Guide: Agroecology as a Substitute for Pesticides
Reducing the use and risks of pesticides and veterinary products using viable alternative practices
This training guide was written by the members of AVSF (employees and volunteers)who are deeply concerned about the growing use of pesticides and veterinary products in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which are no longer authorized in developed countries due to their high toxicity. This situation has...
2021 - AVSF
Report
Experiencias de transición agroecológica en Colombia
El Proyecto Sembrando Capacidades es una iniciativa de cooperación Sur-Sur trila-teral celebrada entre el Ministerio de Agri-cultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia (MADR), el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Abaste-cimiento de Brasil (MAPA), la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC) y la Organización de Na-ciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la...
Colombia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Website
FAO’s Strategic Framework
Since 2010 all of FAO’s work is guided by a Strategic Framework prepared for a period of ten to fifteen years, reviewed every four years.
The Strategic Framework 2022-2031 was developed in the context of major global and regional challenges in the areas of FAO's mandate, including the COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Climate change triggers mounting food insecurity, poverty and displacement in Africa
According to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and more extreme weather contributed to rising food insecurity, poverty, and displacement in Africa in 2020, compounding the socioeconomic and health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The State of the Climate...
2021 - World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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