Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...

El preocupante aumento del sobrepeso y obesidad en la Región ha llevado a los países a desarrollar normativas y políticas públicas para superar esta problemática. Muchas de estas apuntan a transformar los entornos alimentarios para que sean más saludables, mejorando el acceso e influenciando la conducta de las personas, desincentivando...

El Perú es un país con una marcada asimetría hídrica. Las características del territorio y las condiciones climáticas en las tres regiones naturales del Perú configuran tres grandes cuencas hidrográficas. La gran cuenca del Pacífico cuenta con sólo el 2% del recurso hídrico nacional disponible. En 2017, concentraba el 58%...

he 42nd session of the FAO Conference held from 14th to 18th June endorsed the proposal of an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026 by the Mongolian government and adopted the Resolution. The Conference recognized that a significant number of pastoralists in the world inhabit rangelands and that pastoralism is globally practiced in many different forms....

Dans le sud de l'Inde, la région agricole autour d'Anantapur, l'une des plus grandes du pays, est en pleine conversion vers une agriculture 100% naturelle, à rebours du modèle agricole indien. La terre compte huit millions de paysans, dont Surendra Reddy. Le fermier a été l'un des premiers convertis. Depuis quatre...

In the Republic of Moldova, creating a single online trading platform for small-scale agricultural producers could improve sales and market access, thus increase growth and economic competitiveness. Returning migrants could benefit, too, and become agents of change thanks to their digital skills, as well as inspire other farmers who are...

Food loss and waste reduction should be seen as a means toward achieving other objectives, including improving food security and nutrition, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering pressure on water and land resources and can increase productivity and economic growth.  The formulation of effective policies toward food loss and waste reduction requires comprehensive information...

On August 30, 2021, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajpaksa declared economic emergency. The decision was taken to curb hoarding of essential items and to control inflation, since the country is faced with a shortage of food items and a steep rise in prices of essential commodities. Sri Lanka is under a...

The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/ International Atomic Energy Agency (FAO/IAEA) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture optimizes and strengthens the capacities of member countries in using nuclear and isotopic techniques to improve agricultural resilience and the adaptation to climate change. The impact of...

Agroecology Newsletter of March 2021.

Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of...

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for about 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, but can also be an important part of the solution to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation efforts.  As part of its Strategy on Climate Change, FAO is developing the low...

The brochure was designed to raise awareness regarding COVID-19 precautionary measures Pre-Harvesting Operations from planting till harvesting, for farmers in remote villages during the coronavirus pandemic.

High-Level Forum saw the launch of the SIDS Solutions Platform to foster innovation and digitalization

This course explores the role of forests and trees in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It takes into consideration the ecosystem services and goods that forests provide, and the importance of forests for the food security of forest-dependent people. It explores the complex relationship between climate change and forests, and how adaptation...

Esta publicación presenta diez experiencias de colaboración intercultural escalables que demuestran la importancia, eficiencia y efectividad de trabajar de la mano de hombres, mujeres y jóvenes de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe en la búsqueda de soluciones prácticas desarrolladas a partir de la sinergia entre...

Ya ha pasado un año desde que se reportó el primer caso de Covid-19 en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Desde entonces, la región ha sido una de las más gravemente afectadas del mundo, con más de 70 millones de casos reportados y más de 1,5 millones de decesos. Además...

Introducción. Los procesos de degradación del suelo están asociados principalmente a malas prácticas y cambios en su uso. Generar indicadores que permitan conocer el estado del suelo es necesario para buscar alternativas que permitan mejorar la calidad del suelo. Objetivo. Evaluar algunos indicadores edáficos en diferentes sistemas de ganadería bovina...

Un modelo de negocio permite diseñar estrategias logísticas, de orden estructural, así como analizar procesos y alcances de un determinado producto. De igual modo, orienta una hoja de ruta definida que pretende promover la eficiencia y maximizar los beneficios. En el caso del proyecto °AHoRa, se busca desarrollar un aplicativo...

The Initiative focuses on improving the urban environment, strengthening urban-rural linkages and the resilience of urban systems, services and populations to external shocks. Ensuring access to a healthy environment and healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems, increasing availability of green spaces through urban and peri-urban forestry, it will also contribute...