The University of Vermont (USA) launches a new Institute for Agroecology (IFA) that works with and for farmers, Indigenous people, social movements, and communities who are driving change in Vermont and around the world. Through research, learning, and action, IFA mobilizes knowledge to nurture agroecology research, practice, and movements.

With a coastline of more than 90,000 km – the second longest after Canada – it is in Indonesia’s interests to protect its coastal areas from climate change impacts. The continued existence and preservation of extensive coastal vegetation like mangroves and seagrasses is a nature-based solution for successful adaptation to...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust organized a National Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Marine Fisheries), India at Asha Nivas Social Service Centre, Chennai, India, on October 13-15, 2022. There were sixtyseven participants from the coastal states of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra...

One of the final events marking the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA), 2022 was the hybrid launch of the report Illuminating Hidden Harvests: the contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development (the IHH report) on March 16, 2023. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Women constitute a substantial proportion of the agricultural workforce; yet they quite often face significant barriers to accessing information, resources and technology that could improve their farming practices and enhance productivity and farm income. This good practice note examine the challenges that women farmers face, as well as how innovative...

Consumers are one of the key stakeholders in the food system, yet their potential and contribution to transitioning current unsustainable food systems to a more agroecological one is rarely recognized. This consumer guide on agroecology presents ten key issues and areas through which agroecology can enhance the protection of consumer rights....

En un contexto global complejo, con condiciones humanitarias adversas, América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta notables desafíos para erradicar el hambre y la malnutrición en todas sus formas.    Según recientes datos del Panorama de la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional 2022, durante el 2021 el 29,3% de la población mundial se vio afectada por la...

The 4th webinar in the series on experience capitalization dealt with the second part of implementation of the experience capitalization process, more specifically the steps relating to documentation and sharing. The main objective of a capitalization process is to share the lessons learned and the knowledge generated. These lessons can be...

This technical guidance aims to help implementing partners (IPs) conduct Participant Financial Analysis of on-farm and off-farm livelihood interventions as part of Resilience Food Security Activities (RFSAs). The purpose of this guidance is to be a reference manual for activity designers in understanding the Participant Financial Analysis requirements as part...

Objetivos del evento Intercambiar experiencias transformadoras e inclusivas en la agricultura y el uso de la tierra en la implementación de acciones y/o prácticas de adaptación al cambio climático con co-beneficios para mitigación. Aproximación Metodológica  El evento se impartirá utilizando un método explicativo para facilitar el flujo de información y conocimientos, las perspectivas...

The 'JP GTA - 2022 In Review' offers a snapshot of the milestones, achievements and activities of the Joint Programme over the course of the past year, with links to articles, publications and event recordings. The report is structured along the four pillars of the JP GTA, with sections focusing...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust organized a National Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Inland Fisheries), India at Seva Kendra, Kolkata, India on December 22-24, 2022. There were forty-eight participants from the states of Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Rajasthan...

The “Building back better and greener: Integrated approaches for an inclusive and green COVID-19 recovery in rural spaces” project aims to: (a) build the capacity of key stakeholders in the provision of advisory and extension services; (b) integrate social protection interventions with complementary services on climate-adaptive agriculture and sustainable livestock...

Con base en las prioridades nacionales y regionales de los países, de las iniciativas regionales de la FAO, y de los acuerdos y diálogos internacionales en materia forestal, el mandato de la COFLAC es asesorar a la FAO sobre el programa forestal a ser desarrollado en la Región. Esto incluye...

Climate change has made droughts ever more frequent and severe in many parts of the world. For many small-scale forest and farm producers, this has made it harder to find enough pasture for their animals to graze on. In northern Tanzania, Maasai families have struggled as their main source of...

Our Thematic Group on Rural Youth Employment: the Voice of Rural Youth met online at the end of last month for their second and final main gathering. Members of the Thematic Group (TG) had also been busy before the meeting sharing their perspectives on problems to solve and related good practices through a...

In the context of fiscal reform in Costa Rica (value added tax revision), the definition of a new basic tax basket – canasta básica tributaria (CBT), incorporating nutritional criteria is underway in the country. In this study, price elasticities of major food categories were analysed using a Quadratic Almost Ideal...

Coastal area rehabilitation/restoration involving mangrove ecosystems for climate change mitigation is a long and risk-laden journey. It requires strong and comprehensive governance, and policies that involve stakeholders from the national to subnational levels. Institutional complexities can become a bureaucratic hurdle and obstruct information and funding flows. These pose new challenges for...

International collective in support of fishwokers (ICSF) in partnership with Comissão Nacional de Fortalecimento das Reservas Extrativistas (CONFREM), Instituto Linha D’Água and Associação de Moradores Itacuruçá Pereirinha (AMOIP) organized an International Workshop titled “IYAFA 2022-Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries: Latin American and Caribbean” from 2 to 5 November 2022...

Since 2014, North Macedonia has developed into the flagship country for FAO support to land consolidation in Europe and Central Asia. The first small technical assistance project began in 2014. During 2017–2022, support to the national land consolidation programme was scaled up with European Union IPA funding through the FAO-implemented...