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Mexico’s Highest Court Rejects Appeal of GM Corn Ban
Bayer/Monsanto suffered another in a long string of setbacks in its battle to grow genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico when the country’s highest court on October 13 refused to overturn a precautionary injunction restricting the cultivation of GM corn. In its unanimous decision, the court agreed with the citizen...
Mexico
2021 - Food Tank
Case study
Gender-sensitive social protection in the face of climate risk
Climate change is likely to exacerbate gendered vulnerabilities and compound intersecting forms of discrimination against women. International donors and policymakers are increasingly interested in strengthening social protection programmes to address such adverse impacts, but there is a lack of evidence about how this can be achieved.
Addressing this gap, this paper...
India
2021 - IIED
Policy brief/paper
Policy recommendations on agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition
The challenges food systems face are highly complex, context-specific and often unpredictable. Transformation to sustainable food systems is needed, in a coherent manner, as appropriate, and in accordance with and dependent on national context and capacities. There is no single approach for achieving food security and nutrition and all food...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Africa regional overview of food security and nutrition 2020
Africa is not on track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets to end hunger and ensure access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round and to end all forms of malnutrition. The number of hungry people on the continent has risen by...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
FAO + European Union
Investing in a sustainable and food secure future
In 1991, the European Union (EU) became the 161st Member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), marking an institutional breakthrough: it was the first time that FAO welcomed a Member Organization. The EU–FAO partnership has since been sound and growing, as evidenced by the upward...
European Union
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Indigenous agriculture
With the introduction of imported, hybrid crops, many farmers across Nepal have stopped growing indigenous crops altogether. Agriculturalist Kushal Poudel is hoping to change that by reintroducing native crops through age-old farming techniques.
2021 - The Record Nepal
Event
XVII Reunión de la Comisión de Pesca en Pequeña Escala, Artesanal y Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe (COPPESAALC)
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...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
BIOEXPO Warsaw III edition 2021
BIOEXPO Warsaw is the only event in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe dedicated only to the ecological industry. The fair is strictly business-related and is an excellent platform for dialogue between producers and buyers, owners of specialist stores, as well as food and multi-branch wholesalers.It is also an ideal...
Poland
2021 - ExpoBio
Technical paper
Intégration de la nutrition dans le secteur de l’élevage en Afrique subsaharienne: de la théorie à la pratique
Une meilleure intégration de la nutrition dans le secteur de l’élevage est un défi commun partagé par les décideurs et les gestionnaires de programmes au niveau régional, national et local du fait du manque d’outils méthodologiques éprouvés. Pour faire face à cet enjeu, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Integrating social protection and agriculture to improve diets in Kyrgyzstan
Social protection has a critical role to play in reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and stimulating inclusive economic growth in rural areas. However, social protection alone cannot address all the risks and challenges faced by vulnerable rural populations. Integrated interventions have shown greater impacts than stand-alone social protection...
Kyrgyzstan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The Biodiversity Advantage: Thriving with nature - biodiversity for sustainable livelihoods and food systems
IFAD’s second Biodiversity Advantage report showcases five IFAD projects which highlight the integral importance of biodiversity in agriculture.
These projects show how promoting biodiversity improves human and ecosystem health, and the roles of small-scale agricultural producers in preserving and restoring biodiversity and schemes that reward them for their stewardship of healthy natural environments.
2021 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Report
COVID-19 building back greener and more resilient
Contributions of agroecology to a “new normal” in Asia and the Pacific
Besides the severe health crisis, the COVID-19 epidemic also caused the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since the Second World War and led to a severe increase of poor and food insecure people as well as a sharp projected decrease of production of agricultural goods in...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Middle East and North Africa - Regional developments
As the coronavirus pandemic reached every corner of the world in 2020, countries responded rapidly with an array of policies to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease, and then with social and economic policies to protect food security, incomes, and livelihoods. This experience brought attention to weaknesses in...
2021 - IFPRI
Report
Balance Social 2020
El Balance Social de AGROSAVIA 2020 nos deja nuevas enseñanzas, no solo sobre cómo el conocimiento acumulado a lo largo del tiempo y las tecnologías son esenciales para reaccionar mejor ante eventualidades y ser resilientes, sino de la gran tenacidad del campo colombiano.
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Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Book
United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028, Regional Action Plan to Implement the UNDFF and Achieve the SDGs in South Asia
This book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation meeting on “UN Decade of Family Farming: Formulating Strategies and Action Plan to Strengthen Smallholder Family Farmers in South Asia”, 5-6 November 2020 organized by SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), Bangladesh in collaboration with Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), Philippines, and the...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Zanjas de infiltración
La región experimenta largos períodos de sequía y la mayoría de las precipitaciones ocurren en invierno, cuando el suelo está descubierto, haciendo que la erosión hídrica sea la causa más importante de degradación. La implementación de zanjas de infiltración permite cultivar los campos de la zona de forma más sostenible....
Chile
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
How to light and use a smoker for beekeeping
The use of fire and smoke to extract honey from hives or natural colonies offers some kind of protection from the beestings. However, this practice does not only harm the environment and the health of the colonies, it has also a negative impact on the honey quality. The use of...
Congo
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Website
Cooperativa mujeres pescadoras del Manglar
La cooperativa está integrada por mujeres que buscan su empoderamiento económico, reconocimiento y visibilización en la actividad pesquera, defendiendo sus derechos, cultura e identidad con un compromiso ambiental.
Como cooperativa de mujeres ellas tienen un espacio propio y realizan proyectos económicos sustentables a través de los cuales cuidan y rescatan los...
Mexico
2021 - México
Blog article
Adopt ecological organic agriculture to curb global hunger, malnutrition, says ECOWAS expert
Mr. Ernest Aubee, Head of the ECOWAS Commission's Agriculture Division stated that half of the world's population is undernourished, with 3.4 billion people suffering from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity. Agroecology, according to Aubee, is one of the strategies to secure food security, as well as the health of people and...
2021
Article
Dégradation De La Fertilité Des Sols Et De L’environnement Dans La Région Des Savanes Au Nord-Togo : Analyse Des Perceptions Et Stratégies D’adaptation Indigènes
Cet article publié au mois de juillet 2021 dans le journal européen scientifique (European Scientific Journal, ESJ), traite de la dégradation des sols et de l’environnement dans les régions du nord-ouest du Togo. A travers des enquêtes socio-économiques auprès des producteurs, l’auteur évalue les perceptions sur la dégradation des sols et...
Togo
2021
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