This manual on safety at sea for small-scale fishers aims to contribute to a culture of safety awareness among fisherfolk, reduce the number of accidents and increase the chances of survival if accidents occur. The manual provides guidance on safety matters related to the work on a small-scale fishing vessel...

The best compost for sack mounds is the one made using poultry manure and plant remains. If you use such compost, the sack mound will yield a lot of vegetables for a long time.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the leading initiatives for addressing the critical, complex and often inter-related issues of our world. SDG 14 — Life below water — focuses on our oceans, estuaries, rivers and watersheds, and the human systems that intersect with them. Unfortunately, it has struggled...

Natural calamities and disasters of various of varying magnitudes impact our lives. From April 26 to May 5, the cyclone Fani hit eastern Indian states, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, with winds as high as 215 km/h (three minutes sustained) and 250 km/h (one minute sustained). This caused severe distress to farmers in affected areas of...

El aumento de la población mundial generó un incremento global de alimentos y un mayor acceso a bienes de consumo que sumado a nuevas tecnologías y formas de gerenciamiento terminan provocando una mayor presión sobre el ambiente. Este nuevo escenario desencadenó un desbalance entre las tasas de degradación por usos...

A recent sub-regional symposia - Symposium on sustainable food systems and nutrition governance for healthy diets in Central Asia and Caucasus – was held from 24-26 April 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan. During the event, several countries acknowledged the need to shift to more sustainable production patterns, including a shift away...

El presente documento tiene por objeto fundamentar las posiciones del MSC hacia el futuro proceso de políticas del CSA sobre agroecología y otras innovaciones. Una versión más breve de esta perspectiva figura también en la nueva edición, de 2019, del Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación y a la Nutrición...

En colaboración con la Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA), la Fundación CIPAV (Centro para la investigación en sistemas sostenibles de producción agropecuaria) y el Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecológicas (CELIA), el profesor emérito de la Universidad de California – Berkeley, Ph.D Miguel Altieri, dictará una nueva versión del curso...

Molina de Aragón is located at the heart of the biggest European demographic desert. Re-named as ‘Serranía Celtibérica’, this desert unites rural territories from different Spanish provinces, such as Saragossa, Teruel, Cuenca, Soria or Guadalajara. Having an area double that of Belgium, this desert hosts only 487,417 inhabitants at a...

La serie de documentales “Hacemos Agua”, realizados por nuestro contribuidor permanente Universidad Nacional del Rosario (UNR), a través de UNICANAL, el cual aborda la problemática del agua: un requisito básico para la vida de las personas y un derecho humano. Investigadores y expertos analizan distintos aspectos del elemento esencial y...

For decades food insecurity has been a challenge in Cameroon's Far North region, mainly due to extreme weather and weak land legislation. Now the problem is escalating. The current humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in over 87,000 refugees and 340,000 internally displaced people in the region....

Unlike intensive agriculture, sustainable farming has a great potential for benefiting the environment and preserving natural resources. There are more methods that overlap in many principles that are sustainable in the long-run and may be 100 percent organic or at least from the biggest part. The following ten sustainable farming...

Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives. These examples help to deconstruct the myth that large-scale, industrial agriculture is "feeding the world", and that it is compatible with other...

10 training courses on sustainable management of natural resources in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Ukraine to provide aid in achieving neutral level of land degradation The problem of land degradation is crucial for Ukraine, as it affects 20 percent of the country’s arable land, or 6.5 million ha in...

What is the state of play for rural Europe? Are rural places still lagging behind – forgotten, disadvantaged and in need of extra supports? Or is there a rural renaissance of sorts occurring, from smart villages to innovation hubs? Life is becoming increasingly unaffordable and, in many ways, unbearable in cities...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks. Representatives from China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as delegates from FAO, the World Organisation for...

A one-week training course will be organised in the framework of the H2020 EU-funded project Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) (www.simra-h2020.eu) at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM) on 18-22 November 2019 to address the importance of social innovation in less-favoured rural areas. Social innovation has been...

Este compendio se compone de diferentes partes: – Una introducción general. – Una primera parte, relativa a los principios metodológicos generales, a saber: • los principios y desafíos de la evaluación,  • las diferentes situaciones de uso y los distintos objetivos de la evaluación, • los efectos y los criterios de evaluación propuestos en el...

The SEMA II project on multifunctional agriculture gathers case studies and training material on how farmers can divserify their activities. It is accessible to everyone and the information is posted as video clips to make it more engaging.

The Government of Myanmar and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today signed a multi-year framework agreement that will create an enabling environment to improve nutrition and food security in Myanmar, while safeguarding and sustainably managing the use of natural resources. The Country Programming Framework (CPF) was signed by U...