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FY 23 Guidance - Participant Financial Analysis for Resilience Food Security Activities
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...
2023 - USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance
Event
Intercambio de experiencias transformadoras en adaptación y mitigación en el sector agropecuario y el uso de la tierra
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...
Colombia - Costa Rica - Thailand
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Technical paper
Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition
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...
2023 - FAO; IFAD; WFP;
Report
Report on National Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Inland Fisheries), December 22-24, 2022, Seva Kendra, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Climate-adaptive capacities and livelihood strategies under a prolonged drought
Baseline findings and policy implications for community-based support in Isiolo, Kenya
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...
Kenya
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
33ª Reunión de la Comisión Forestal para América Latina y el Caribe (COFLAC)
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...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
How Maasai beekeepers are restoring lands and livelihoods
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...
2023 - AccessAgric
Blog article
Youth employment in rural areas: Thematic Group concludes
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...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Report
Fiscal reform in Costa Rica
Price elasticities of major food categories to inform decision-making
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...
Costa Rica
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Working paper
Coastal area rehabilitation for climate change mitigation: The role of mangroves and subnational emissions reductions
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...
Indonesia
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Report
Report on Latin American and Caribbean Workshop – IYAFA 2022: Celebrating Sustainable and Equitable Small-scale Fisheries, 2-5 November 2022, Brazil
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...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Lessons learned from the introduction of land consolidation in North Macedonia during 2014–2023
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...
North Macedonia
2023 - FAO
Journal article
Film Festival: A Fish-eye View
Against a backdrop of social struggles, the 15th edition of the Pecheurs du Monde International Film Festival was successfully held in Lorient, France. The 15th Pecheurs du Monde film festival took place from March 19 to 26, 2023, with many spectators and exhibition visitors participating across seven municipalities in France. The...
France
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Website
Making school meals tasty
Celebrating the work of school foodservice staff
Making sure that school meals follow nutrition guidance and are enjoyed by all students is not always an easy task, but a very important one. After all, not only are healthy diets crucial for children's development and wellbeing, but the enjoyment of food is...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
XVI Reunión de la Comisión de Desarrollo Ganadero para América Latina y el Caribe (CODEGALAC)
La XVI Reunión de la Comisión de Desarrollo Ganadero para América Latina y el Caribe (CODEGALAC) se celebrará en modalidad virtual, del 11 al 13 de julio de 2023, y el anfitrión será el Gobierno de Ecuador. La ceremonia de inauguración se llevará a cabo a las 10:00 horas de Quito, el...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
Nutrient supply from marine small-scale fisheries
Over 2 billion people are unable to access safe, nutritious and sufficient food year-round. While global fisheries are considered key in providing essential nutrients to hundreds of millions of people around the globe, the specific contribution of small-scale fisheries to the nutrient supply given other available food supplies is unknown....
2023 - Scientific Reports
Book
The Agricultural Sky
A Concept to Revolutionize Farming
"The agricultural sky" is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems. The sky—and all its components—above and near agricultural areas is an important aspect of an agricultural enterprise—as important as soils, water, and crop species. The blue...
2023
Blog article
Online certification system rolled out to simplify fish and seafood trade
All necessary licences and product inspection certificates for fish and seafood imports and exports will now be available online.
It is expected that the initiative will make the import-export process of fish and fishery products in Bangladesh even more convenient and increase their acceptability in the global market, according to service...
Bangladesh
2023 - The Business Standard
E-learning
Social analysis for inclusive agrifood investments – Field experts
This is the third in a series of courses designed to provide a diverse audience with the approaches, methods and tools necessary to integrate social dimensions into the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of agrifood investments. This course aims to assist social analysts/field practitioners in generating primary data, using qualitative...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Practices
Inspirational ideas: Chickens are going mobile - Increasing the utilisation of mobile housing for laying hens in organic farming
Mobile housing for laying hens can contribute to improving animal welfare and the quality of the eggs while reducing impact on the environment. However, their uptake remains limited as they also present a number of risks, such as vulnerability to predators. A German Operational Group based in Rhineland-Palatinate designed, tested...
European Union
2023 - EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Network
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