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Europe and Central Asia: Regional food market situation and policy bulletin in response to the COVID-19 pandemic - #2
Based on the FAO’s latest forecast, world cereal production in 2020 is set at 2 790 million tonnes, which would surpass the record high reached in 2019 by as much as 3 percent (81.3 million tonnes) and which would be 5 percent above the five-year average from 2015–2019. The forecast...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
COVID-19 Containment and Food Security in the Global South
Population-level COVID-19 containment strategies have been particularly hard on the urban poor and vulnerable population groups such as female-headed households, children, youth, the homeless, informal sector employers and employees, casual workers, the unemployed, and migrants and refugees. As a direct result of the COVID-19 outbreak, a secondary pandemic of hunger...
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
Journal article
Brazil: A Many-sided Munificence
A seminar discussed how the SSF Guidelines can help improve the management of a fish species in the Amazon rainforest territory. The fisheries in Brazil’s state of Amazonas range from a multiplicity of fishing practices to a diversity of conflicts and realities. How indigenous fishers of varying ethnicities see their sector...
Brazil
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
FAO takes part at Cairo Water Week 2020
Water use has been growing globally at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century, and an increasing number of regions are reaching the limit at which water services can be sustainably delivered. By 2025, 1 800 million people are expected to be living in countries or...
Egypt
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Blog article
FAO launches “Hydroponics and Aquaponics” water-saving systems in Jordan
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) launched pioneering project to provide capacity building and technical support for the Integrated Agri-Aquaculture (IAA) farming systems in Jordan.In line with a technical cooperation agreement signed between the two parties in early January, FAO...
Jordan
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020
Intensifying water constraints threaten food security and nutrition. Thus, urgent action is needed to make water use in agriculture more sustainable and equitable. Irrigated agriculture remains by far the largest user of freshwater, but scarcity of freshwater is a growing problem owing to increasing demand and competition for freshwater resources....
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether this is a short-term reaction to the crisis or a prelude to more significant shortages as global trade grinds to a halt. Uncertainty about...
2020 - Sustainable Food Trust
Journal article
The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis upon the Consumer Buying Behavior of Fresh Vegetables Directly from Local Producers. Case Study: The Quarantined Area of Suceava County, Romania
The present paper intends to address the impact of COVID-19 crisis upon the consumer buying behavior of fresh vegetables directly from local producers as observed 30 days later, after enforcing the state of emergency in Romania within a well-defined area, namely, the quarantined area of Suceava. The study relies on...
Romania
2020 - Biotechnology Department, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
Website
Action Against Desertification
Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to restore drylands and degraded lands in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to tackle the detrimental social, economic and environmental impact of land degradation and desertification.
It is a key partner of the Great Green...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Bonnes pratiques de transformation du soja en fromage
Conçue au Bénin par le Programme de Promotion de l'Agriculture au Bénin (ProAgri) en partenariat avec le projet Competitive African Cotton Initiative - COMPACI, la technologie souligne les étapes nécessaires requises pour transformer le soja en fromage. L’illustration met en exergue deux étapes principales à savoir la production du lait...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Labor-saving practices and technologies: manual crop processing
The following provides information on grain milling, oil extraction, rice husk, cassava processing, and coffee processing capabilities. Advantages and disadvantages of practices are also provided, including labor savings, strengthening livelihood resilience, diversifying livelihoods, equipment, infrastructure, costs and risks.
This technology is also available in: English (ID 7317)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Case study
ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN ZAMBIA
Situated at the end of Zambia’s Great Rift Valley, the Luangwa Valley has ecological riches but pervasive poverty. Poaching and subsistence farming of maize and sorghum are the main livelihoods. Increasingly, families are also relying on cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco, rendering them less able to meet their...
Zambia
2020 - e Oakland Institute and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA
Event
Webinar - FAO Brussels Dialogue on Opportunities for Recovery: Creating jobs for young people in Africa
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic together with the socio-economic crisis, lack of employment and high food prices have already aggravated food and nutrition security in many parts of Africa. A green and inclusive recovery should ensure that no one is left behind. Governments, resource partners, the private sector and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Agroforestry for climate-resilient landscapes
Training manual
This training manual provides basic guidance for trainers to design and deliver training that will help individuals or organizations increase their knowledge, skills and experience in agroforestry development. In addition, the exercises contained in this manual are designed to help participants foster the understanding and basic skills necessary to support...
2020 - RECOFTC
Practices
Improving farmers' resilience and income diversification in flood and typhoon prone areas through backyard tilapia farming
Fisheries is of paramount importance in the Bicol region in the Philippines, with its 3 100 km of coast line of various fishing grounds. The region is, however, flood and typhoon-prone and, as in most areas in the Philippines, fishing in the Bicol region is characterized by declining fish catch....
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
If managed sustainably, Albania’s Vjosa Valley can spur green economy development
The Vjosa is the second largest river basin (approximately 6 808 km2) in Albania and one of the longest transboundary rivers in the Balkan area. The Vjosa catchment is shared among many cities, such as Erseke, Permet, Gjirokaster, Tepelene, Mallakaster, Fier, and Vlore. Because the waterway has not been subjected...
Albania
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Meet Syria’s Food Heroes who contribute to grow, nourish and sustain food production for people
We do not often express our gratitude for the food we eat to the people who actually produce it, and who make sure that it reaches us. Throughout the years of crisis from 2011, Syria lost its human capital, infrastructure and the resources that farmers relied upon. Despite this, many...
Syrian Arab Republic
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Conference paper
Entendiendo la agrobiodiversidad en la voz (y conceptualización) de agricultores familiares del Cinturón Hortícola de La Plata, Argentina
La participación de las comunidades rurales locales mejora la sostenibilidad de sus agroecosistemas. Para ello, es necesario implementar un diálogo de saberes. Los agricultores familiares tienen una visión de la agrobiodiversidad construida a través de una praxis, y mediada por condiciones culturales como la tradición familiar en la horticultura. El...
Argentina
2020
Website
The IFPRI COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal
The spread of COVID-19, and the range of policy responses to contain the pandemic, exert wide-ranging effects on agri-food systems and livelihoods. To analyze the direct and indirect impacts of these responses in a comparative way, the COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal systematically captures policy responses through multiple channels, including population restrictions,...
2020 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Blog article
Small farms, big solutions: The Ecological Land Cooperative helping new farmers
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused the mind, and in the context of the UK, raised pressing questions about food security and food resilience – questions now asked by everyday folk as we see an uptake of veg box schemes and backyard growing becoming more vigorous, while farmers of all types...
2020 - Sustainable Food Trust
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