Fishing communities in Mexico grapple with the challenge of maintaining sustainable practices during the pandemic. COVID-19’s impacts have exacerbated challenges in the three dimensions of sustainability: social, economic, and environmental. As social and economic issues have been prioritized worldwide through the emphasis on the access to health, food production, basic services...

This Newsletter provides highlights about 2019 accomplishments of  Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions

This report sets out how the BOND project’s activities in Portugal and Spain helped participants to develop new solutions to challenges and effective collective action in Family Farming in these regions. The role of Family Farming is recognised as a determining factor to ensure people’s food security and sovereignty, and...

This policy brief focuses on the topic of global emergence of infectious diseases and its links with consumption of wild meat, ecosystem disruption, habitat degradation and biodiversity loss. Emerging infectious diseases are a significant and growing threat to global health, economies and security. There is evidence that landscape changes and...

The Alliance Bioversity International and CIAT’s offices in Cali, Colombia and Hanoi, Vietnam carried out projects that aimed at implementing a systems approach to address food systems challenges. While the initiatives took place in two entirely different regions of the world - with their unique socio-economic profiles, cultural backgrounds and...

Management strategies for new or lightly exploited fisheries allow for an improved enhancement of food security or long-term employment security, or export income in developing countries. These management practices are detailed through the methodologies used. Acknowledgement comments and the fact that the technology is an output from the Renewable Natural...

Bamboo wood is relatively soft, not particularly dense, and is ideal for the production of toothpicks. INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo. The following technology describes how to establish a toothpick manufacturing unit.

Misinformation about the impact the coronavirus is having on the safety of food in the Asia-Pacific region has led to confusion and concern among consumers, and it’s time to set the record straight, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced today. The spread of COVID-19 has affected...

The BOND Project (Bringing Organisations & Network Development to higher levels in the Farming sector in Europe) developed a blueprint for creating playful working environments to be used to develop engaging interfaces between farmers and policy makers throughout the project's activities. Research has shown that playful initiaives such as Gamification, Serious...

La arracacha (Arracacia xanthorrhiza Bancr.) es una raíz tuberosa originaria de los Andes, con mayor área de cultivo en Brasil, seguido de Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela. Esta especie es la única umbelífera domesticada de las Américas y se considera que Colombia, Ecuador y Perú son los centros de diversidad primaria...

The fifth webinar of the FAO-COVID-19 and Food Systems Series, co-organized with the strategic collaboration of the CARICOM Secretariat, focused on “Enabling agricultural investment in the Caribbean for an effective response and post-COVID-19 recovery”. The webinar took place on Thursday, 7 May 2020 - 12:00 PM Barbados time (UTC -4),...

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis which is already affecting the food and agriculture sector. Countries with existing humanitarian crises are particularly exposed to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Support to ensure sustainable agriculture production and maintaining the critical supply chain linkages are extremely important during this crisis...

Livestock are key drivers for sustainable development in agriculture. They contribute to food security, nutrition, poverty alleviation, and economic growth. Through the adoption of best practices, the sector can reduce its environmental impacts and become more efficient in the use of resources FAO provides comprehensive analysis of the sector from a...

Inland fisheries based on lakes and rivers are difficult to assess and data on catch and effort, often from subsistence fisheries, is lacking. Predictive models based on simple and multiple linear regressions enable estimates of fish yield that can be used in planning for management and development in the absence...

Moisture conserving tillage and weeding practices for a maize-based cropping system were tested in semi-arid Zimbabwe. This is an area characterised by shortage of labour and Draught Animal Power (DAP), frequent drought, and at times excessive weed growth. Using a ripper tine attached to the existing plough for planting, and...

The background for conducting country studies on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in seven countries has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative and develop the initiative towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and country levels. To provide support to...

Conscientes de la trayectoria histórica contra hegemónica, de resistencia y lucha, de construcción y propuesta, de acción y transformación, que se entrelaza y emerge en nuestros territorios, la Agroecología, iidentidad Latinoamérica, teje el territorio y las transformaciones urgentes para la vida. Organizado por la Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA) y...

Conventional agriculture contributes to global warming while organic enables carbon sequestration in soil. It's a powerful way to become more resilient to climate change.” Meet Ibrahima working with over 157,000 people to promote organic agriculture in Senegal

The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography invites you to join the 2020 Vega Symposium, on the topic of Soil and Civilization. Soil is a defining characteristic of physical geography. It’s presence, absence, and character helps shape landscapes around the world. And though soil is the foundation for both ecology and human civilizations,...

7 May 2020: During the current coronavirus crisis, many African governments have enforced lockdowns: halting public life, disrupting supply chains and closing markets. The governments want to flatten the curve of infection with the virus so as to prevent the public healthcare systems from being completely overwhelmed by huge flows of...