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Policy brief/paper
Mainstreaming agroecology in agricultural education
Regional brief 2
Agroecology is a promising approach that is transforming agrifood systems across the Asia-Pacific Region. Indeed, there is increasing evidence of positive results with the transition to agroecology, and these include stable yields, crop resilience, higher incomes for farmers, fishers and producers, improved nutrition and food security and enhanced biodiversity (Global...
2024 - FAO
Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.67, August 2023
Yemaya No. 67, dated August 2023, a special issue on GAF8 features articles on the recently held 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries-Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for sustainable aquaculture and Fisheries. Held over three days, from 21-23 November 2022 in the city of Kochi in the...
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Sustainable finance and forest biodiversity criteria
From Science to Policy 16
This science-policy study sets out how forest-related biodiversity could be included in the EU Taxonomy, to help encourage sustainable investments in forests.
The EU Taxonomy Regulation creates a common set of indicators and criteria to classify sustainable commercial activities and investments. While forest-related activities have been included in the EU Taxonomy...
2024 - European Forest Institute
Journal article
Restoring deforested drylands for a wetter future – harnessing trees for credits, climate and water
Drylands covered two-fifths of the Earth's land surface in 2015 (Bastin et al., 2017), with trees growing in one-third of these areas (FAO, 2019). This area of drylands has expanded by almost 1% per year since 2015 because of large-scale drying and land degradation at low and middle latitudes (Prăvălie...
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Policy brief/paper
Understanding informal agrifood trade between India and Bangladeshs benefit from the proportion of tropical forest regardless of its edge length
An analytical framework
Informal trade
Informal cross-border trade plays a major role in the BIMSTEC region, given the shared borders between member countries such as India with Bangladesh and Nepal.
Informal trade is defined through the exchange process and consists of unrecorded trade flows that escape official statistics. “Informality” refers to the nature of the...
Bangladesh - India
2024 - IFPRI
Working paper
Preliminary assessment of the knowledge gaps to prevent soil erosion
SOLO project aims to deliver actionable transdisciplinary roadmaps for future soil-related research and innovation activities in the EU, contributing to achieving the objectives of the EU Soil Mission. To achieve this overarching goal, the project employs a transdisciplinary task force known as Think Tanks (TTs). Comprising 10 Think Tanks, SOLO...
2024 - Soils for Europe
Fact sheet
Fruits and Nuts of Nepal
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Nepal
2024 - Food Plant Solutions
Fact sheet
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Grain Crops in Nepal
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Nepal
2024 - Food Plant Solutions
Fact sheet
Leafy Greens and Vegetables of Nepal
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Nepal
2024 - Food Plant Solutions
Book
Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics – Yearbook 2021
The FAO Yearbook of Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics, prepared by the Statistics Team of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Division, offers a synthesis of the major trends in the fisheries and aquaculture sector. Statistics are presented in eight main thematic chapters, covering statistics of production (total, aquaculture, capture fisheries), employment,...
2024 - FAO
Fact sheet
Brief Guide to Food Plants in the Magdalena Milpas Altas Region
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Guatemala
2024 - Food Plant Solutions
Journal article
Anthropogenic and atmospheric variability intensifies flash drought episodes in South Asia
Flash droughts are abrupt and rapid intensification of droughts that affect agriculture, water, and ecosystems and are commonplace in South Asia. Despite their potential impact, flash drought evolution characteristics and underlying mechanisms in South Asia remain underexplored. We use a multivariate approach to analyze the onset speed, frequency, severity, duration,...
Afghanistan - India - Pakistan
2024 - Hohai University, China
Newsletter article
Indonesia: A Top-Down Mirage
The Indonesian government’s increasing focus on the Blue Economy should not be at the cost of the knowledge gained from long years of customary or traditional management, says Susan Gui of the conservation NGO KIARA
On KIARA’s current work KIARA still does advocacy. The Indonesian government is focusing on the Blue Economy, with emphasis on massive expansion of production from marine resources, affecting the community. We have also been working on the climate crisis, especially as it relates to the sinking and drowning villages in...
Indonesia
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Case study
A Qualitative Study Exploring Women’s Empowerment in Coffee Cooperatives in Chiapas, Mexico
This study presents findings from a qualitative research study conducted in Chiapas, Mexico that is one component of a larger activity funded by the Walmart Foundation and implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), titled Applying New Evidence for Women’s Empowerment (ANEW). ANEW seeks to generate evidence from...
Mexico
2024 - e International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Newsletter article
Vietnam: Adapt and Reap Rewards
By promoting gender equality in shrimp farming, some provinces of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta are finding innovations for adapting to climate change
Vietnam’s largest deltaic region, the Mekong Delta offers great potential for rice production and aquaculture. With an area of 747,000 hectares in 2022, it is the country’s largest shrimp-producing area. The shrimp-rice area covers nearly 190,000 hectares, accounting for 26.8 per cent of the total shrimp farming area in the...
Viet Nam
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
Kenya: Twine to the Rescue
Kenya has a problem of ‘ghost nets’ or abandoned polyethylene fishing lines that pollute the aquatic ecology. An alternative design project finds a solution in biodegradable twine
Fishing gear is a major contributor to marine litter. ‘Ghost nets’ is the informal term for what is formally called Abandoned, Lost or Otherwise Discarded Fishing Gear (ALDFG). These continue to catch both target and non-target species. They pose risk to boat operations; damage coral reefs and the seabed; and...
Kenya
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Día Internacional de los Bosques: Hablemos de innovación en el sector forestal
El tema del Día Internacional de los Bosques de este año: “Bosques e innovación: Nuevas soluciones para un mundo mejor”, es quizá deliberadamente provocador: el sector forestal no está considerado como uno de los más innovadores del mundo. De hecho, muchos lo consideran más bien conservador y opaco.
Pero ya es hora...
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Policy brief/paper
Seven reasons to invest in agroforestry for post-war reconstruction and reform efforts in Ukraine
Policy brief by Agroforestry Network
Agroforestry is a multifunctional land-use system that integrates woody vegetation with crops and animal production, which can improve the resilience of yields and livelihoods and contribute significantly to environmental sustainability. This policy brief has been compiled by Agroforestry Network and its partner organizations in solidarity with Ukraine.
The policy brief highlights seven reasons...
Ukraine
2024 - Siani
Conference/Meeting
Fourth Global Conference of the World Banana Forum
The Secretariat of the World Banana Forum (WBF), a multi-stakeholder network coordinated by the Markets and Trade Division (EST) of FAO, is delighted to extend an invitation to Members to the Fourth Global Conference of the World Banana Forum, to be held at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy on Tuesday, 12...
2024 - FAO
Blog article
Learning to cope with the spread of non-native species in the Mediterranean
More than 900 non-indigenous species have already been identified in the Mediterranean Sea. And the number is only expected to increase.
Climate change is helping non-native species move further north in the Mediterranean as water temperatures rise.
As they spread, so does concern about their effect on marine ecosystems and the local fishing...
Italy - Tunisia
2024 - FAO
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