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How much water is in 1 kilo of beef?
Believe it or not, most of the water we use -actually the 92% of it- is used in food production.
This blog post has nothing to do with vegans or vegetarians. It’s all about realizing how much water is needed to produce just 1 kilo of meat and why we should be cutting off some meat from our diets for many reasons, water included. It is actually a matter of...
Greece
2020 - Food Security Center
Newsletter
Mercados mayoristas: Frente al COVID-19: Nº3
En esta tercera edición del boletín ponemos a disposición de sus lectores información actualizada sobre la situación de los mercados mayoristas en América Latina y el Caribe, entrevistas a actores clave y los principales resultados de una encuesta – que contó con la participación de 64 mercados de 15 países...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Website
Rural responses to the COVID-19 crisis
The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems. In rural areas, farmers, businesses and communities are particularly affected.
This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by...
European Union
2020 - ENRD
Newsletter article
Myanmar: Women’s empowerment through climate action
In Myanmar, FAO’s FishAdapt project is strengthening the adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries-and aquaculture-dependent livelihoods. Women’s empowerment and gender equality have been recognized as necessary conditions for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The SDG Goal 5 – ‘Achieve gender equality...
Myanmar
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Challenges for emerging small-scale livestock farmers in Nigeria
According to Food and Agriculture Organization, around 60 to 70% more food will have to be produced in the next 35 years, as a result both of population growth and rising incomes. The demand for cereals (both for food and animal feed) is projected to reach some 3 billion tons...
Greece
2020 - Food Security Center
Project
BIOSOCIAL_Small farm organic vegetable production as integrated model between production and local social impact
The proposed operative group (GO) intends to set up a new circular local economy model, which combines the profitability of farms with social productivity: the valorization of horticultural genetic resources will be based on minimum technological input and on production schedule according to the needs of the community expressed by...
Italy
2020
Practices
Strategies for improved soil and water conservation practices in hillside production systems
The use of live-barriers has been shown to both increase productivity and control soil erosion at an individual plot or field level. This is especially useful in the more intensive cropping systems of Andean Bolivia, where live barriers may encourage further intensification. Cover crops, such as Phalaris, can play a...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Preservation of strawberries
Strawberries have to be harvested when 75 percent of the fruit surface turns red and the berry is still firm. The strawberry fruit perishes easily and deteriorates within two to three days of harvesting at natural environmental conditions. The temperature is very important for the duration of berry life. Strawberries...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Event
Zoominar IX: Role of Farmer Organizations in Agri-Food Systems Innovation
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...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
BOND's Synthesis Report
Highlighting and harvesting collective action benefits: A synthesis reflection on BOND’s regional reports
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...
Poland
2020 - The BOND Project
Website
Boletines FAO-FLAMA - Mercados mayoristas: Acción frente al COVID-19
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...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Guidelines
Surviving Covid-19
The neglected remedy
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...
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Journal article
Sri Lanka: Path to a Policy Upgrade
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...
Sri Lanka
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Webinar Series: Land Strategies for Agroecology in Europe
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...
2020
Practices
Development an on-farm evaluation of agroforestry livestock feeding systems
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,...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Charka oven for silk reeling industry
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...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
In 2021, Celebrate the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables!
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...
2020 - IFOAM Organics
Video
DUHA Farmers Directory in Czech Republic
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...
Czechia
2020 - Local Food Initiatives Association
Article
Agroecology and natural agriculture could accelerate inclusive economic growth in India
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,...
India
2020 - PIB Delhi
Newsletter
Sistemas alimentarios y COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: Plan de contingencia ante una eventual crisis en el abastecimiento de alimentos
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...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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