Fin 2019, avant le déclenchement de la pandémie de la Covid-19, la FAO estimait que 20 % d’Africains, soit 250 millions de personnes, étaient sous-alimentés. Cette prévalence était deux fois et demie supérieure a la moyenne mondiale. Se combinaient alors plusieurs facteurs : sécheresse, inondations, épidémies acridiennes, instabilité des marchés...

Ghana signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union in 2009, as part of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan to address illegal logging.     In this context, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme partnered with Kumasi Wood Cluster (KWC) through two consecutive projects to assist Small...

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...

Tracing wood back to the forest it came from is essential to eliminating illegal logging. The National Timber Office of Benin (ONAB), with assistance from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, established an innovative traceability system for its teak plantations that helps prevent illegal logging, transport...

Action Aid's work in Rwanda to promote opportunities for women empowerment and rights project best practices in Agroecology. 

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...

In this paper, efforts were made to the impact of full and seasonal stall feeding technology on households’ economic, ecological, and social welfare outcome indicators in rural Northern Ethiopia using data obtained from the survey of 518 rural farmers. In order to address our primary objective, an endogenous switching regression...

Alors que s’ouvre la Conférence de l’ONU sur les changements climatiques (COP26) à Glasgow, le Fonds international de développement agricole (Fida) plaide pour augmenter significativement les investissements destinés à financer l’adaptation au changement climatique dans les pays en développement. L’organisation tire la sonnette d’alarme, notamment sur la situation des petits exploitants agricoles. Bien qu’ils produisent...

This publication is not a technical book. Instead, it aims to help people move towards this mindset shift. The first chapter on soil is the bedrock of the whole book. It presents the kind of understanding of soil needed if we are to have any chance of successfully regenerating soils....

“If we don't support retailers, wholesalers, logistics in the organic value chain: we compromise organic produce being available to more people on the African continent.” Sylvia Kuria gives her call to action for policymakers on #IGrowYourFood 🇰🇪

Zone très riche en biodiversité, l’Afrique de l’ouest est aussi une des régions les plus touchées par les changements globaux. La Revue Belge de Géographie, a publié un travail de recherche réalisée dans le cadre du consortium Patrimoines et Territoires de l’Eau (PATEO). Ce travail analyse la vulnérabilité et la résilience...

Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...

Listen to testimonies from peasant farmers in the Southern and Eastern African regions, who rely on peasant agroecological methods to revive their soil and fight back against the climate crises. They also speak about the centrality of peasants and small-scale food producers in proposing pragmatic ways to rebuild the lost...

Linda came to Alaska in 1982 after her first year of college with a love of wilderness and vague ideas of earning money for college by working on commercial fishing boats. She landed her first job when a deckhand failed to show up after a night of drinking, and the...

The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes it an attractive proposition. Composting offers several benefits such as enhanced soil fertility and soil health, thereby increased agricultural productivity, improved soil biodiversity, reduced ecological risks and creating a better environment. While traditional composting procedures take...

Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA) is an initiative with the goal to support young agripreneurs to apply agroecological principles and to co-create networks in order to contribute to increased sustainability of food systems and youth employment in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. This report provides an in-depth...

The potential of composting to turn on-farm waste materials into a farm resource makes it an attractive proposition. Composting offers several benefits such as enhanced soil fertility and soil health, thereby increased agricultural productivity, improved soil biodiversity, reduced ecological risks and creating a better environment. While traditional composting procedures take...

La récupération des eaux de pluie est le captage et la concentration de l’eau de ruissellement à la surface du sol avant qu’elle ne s’écoule dans un ruisseau ou une rivière. L’eau de pluie ainsi collectée sert pour des travaux agricoles, des besoins ménagers ou autres. Cette technologie décrit des...

In Zimbabwe and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, farmers use grain stores constructed from grass, stalks of cereal crops and wooden poles. Some of these constituent parts are increasingly scarce. Mud plastered stores, supported on concrete-filled plastic pipes, offer the benefits of improved resistance to termites, insect grain pests and...

West Africa has all the ingredients to become the epicenter of the global agroecology movement, and one of the frontrunners in transition to sustainable and equitable food systems. Through a three-year participatory research process, IPES-Food identified eight key obstacles to agroecology in West Africa, but also four leverage points where sustained action could...