In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO RNE is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development.  Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in increasing resilience and rethinking priorities of food security policies to keep food supply...

This document synthesises the principle outcomes of the four regional BOND reports Biodiversity & Locality (for Poland and the Czech Republic), Policies for Family Farming (for Portugal and Spain), Regenerative Food (for Hungary and Croatia) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (for Romania, the Republic of Moldova and France). These reports above...

La Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe y FLAMA establecerán una estrategia conjunta para monitorear y publicitar las actividades de los mercados mayoristas regionales y centros de suministro durante este período de crisis debido a la pandemia de COVID-19. El propósito de este boletín es...

Covid-19 is a wakeup call to us all. Let’s turn the tide away from over-processed foods that are often grown using chemicals and instead build a healthy norm, by eating a great variety of nutritious, locally produced natural foods, including indigenous crops and vegetables that we have often dropped from...

Incorporating the SSF Guidelines into the national fisheries policy requires several rounds of engagement with state and community stakeholders. The onset of the new millennium saw the process of fisheries development taking a new path globally. It’s one with a strong emphasis on offshore and deep-sea fishing, fish exports and the...

This webinar series presents several perspectives on strategies for preserving farmland and supporting peasant agroecology in Europe, from the local to the European level. It results from a pluriannual partnership, bringing together the European Coordination Via Campesina, Eco Ruralis, IFOAM EU, Urgenci, the Transnational Institute, as well as Terre de Liens...

In the coffee-based land use systems of the East African highlands, farming systems are extremely complex and intensive. Indigenous trees are commonly preserved on or near farms for a variety of purposes. For fodder, the farm usually plants Napier or similar grasses for feeding for dairy cattle and small ruminants,...

A charka is the simplest mechanism for silk reeling, in which both the cooking and reeling operations are carried out in the same basin. No electricity is required to run the charka. The following technology from FAO’s publication Asia Industrial and Institutional Stove Compendium describes how to use a charka...

The UN General Assembly designated 2021 as the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (IYFV). The IYFV 2021 is a unique opportunity to raise awareness on the important role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition, food security, and health and as well in achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals. Ifoam...

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a type of solidarity-based food system introduced to the Czech Republic by Jan Valeška, following the example of other European countries. This video presents key CSA principles, the most common forms that CSA takes in the Czech Republic, as well as the experiences of some...

On May 29, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayong), the premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of the Government of India, organized a convention with international experts with the aim of promoting agroecological agriculture in India. The experts united on the importance of producing food free of fertilizers, agrochemicals and pesticides,...

Si la crisis sanitaria y económica desencadenada por la pandemia en curso se extiende en el tiempo, es probable que, tarde o temprano, la región en su conjunto experimente una crisis inédita en materia de abastecimiento de alimentos. Semejante escenario obliga a tomar las previsiones del caso y preparar estrategias...

Some valuable lessons—a replicable model—on protection of aquatic resources and small-scale fisheries. The term co-management has been researched in Vietnam since the 1990s. A number of pilot projects have been conducted to find appropriate distribution and management sharing responsibilities between the government and the community. April 25, 2019, was a crucial...

El mundo está cambiando a un ritmo acelerado con el surgimiento de una serie de tecnologías. Las tecnologías digitales y otras formas de innovación ofrecen oportunidades únicas para mejorar los sistemas alimentarios y las sociedades rurales de América Latina y el Caribe, y para ayudar a alcanzar los Objetivos de...

Without a single doubt, sustainability holds the key to food security along with education, woman empowerment and gender equality. Sulemana Hibbatullah Wunpini is a gender activist fighting for women and girls’ rights while seeking for equality. She constantly seeks for opportunities to speak in public for everything she stands for...

Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced for a major global economic downturn, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors.     Food Outlook is published by the Trade and Markets Division...

Woven bamboo products are produced from thin strips of bamboo. There exist a wide variety of such products and they have been closely associated with the development of civilizations in bamboo growing regions of the world for many millennia. The products may be primarily intended for agricultural use, such as...

Different actors in agroecology including farmers, grassroots community organizations, communities organizations, non-governmental organizations, researchers and private companies have decided to come together in one framework to contribute to the reflections of the State of Senegal on the question of the agroecological transition referred to as "Dynamic for an AgroEcological Transition in Senegal"(DyTAES). DyTAES aims, in...

August 2020 FAO Markets and Trade Newsletter 

The ahotor oven represents an improvement on the widely used chorkor smoker, and is an energy- and time-efficient fish smoking technology. My recent tours in some coastal communities in the Central, Western and Volta Regions of Ghana exposed me to a daily reality of fishmongers in the region. As part of...