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Report
State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023
Tackling the Nature Emergency: Evidence, gaps and priorities
State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023
Our fifth report in the State of the World’s series lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally, and is titled 'Tackling the Nature Emergency: Evidence, gaps and priorities'
It is the second report that is accompanied by a full volume of expert-reviewed scientific...
2023 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Practices
Recycling agricultural residues in organic farming by on-farm compost production
Farmers are frequently facing agricultural waste production problems (which incorrect disposal may determine a damaging environmental impact) and soil fertility depletion. Sustainable valorization of crop residues could allow recovering valuable components as substrates and nutrients in microbial/enzymatic controlled processes, such as composting.
2023 - CREA - Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment
Website
Parliamentary alliances
Evidence has shown that the improvement in food and nutrition security is principally due to policies, programs and frameworks that are anchored in legislation. Parliamentarians are fundamental custodians of political commitments on food security and nutrition; therefore critical partners in achieving food and nutrition security.
Foremost amongst the 17 Sustainable Development...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
LEISA India - Millet farming systems – March 2023 – Issue 25.1
Millets have finally arrived on the global scene. With 2023 being declared as the International Year of Millets, by the United Nations, the spotlight is on millets. While half a billion people across the globe consume millets as a traditional food, it has taken decades, for it to get its...
India
2023 - Leisa India is published quarterly by AME Foundation
Book
Social Development and Sustainable Fisheries: Kerala and Tamil Nadu
The study is a part of a series of original research on social development and sustainable fisheries undertaken by ICSF in eight countries. The study documented the status of social development and decent work programmes, schemes, policies, legislation and institutional support (including community-based initiatives) to demonstrate how they strengthen the...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Technical paper
Unidad Agroalimentaria Metropolitana. Estándares de organización operacional del comercio mayorista, Uruguay
Este documento forma parte de una serie de Notas Técnicas que sistematizan hitos de cooperación de FAO en la agenda regional sobre modernización de los actores del canal tradicional y su importancia en el abastecimiento urbano y la mejora de los sistemas agroalimentarios. En esta ocasión se abordan los procesos...
Uruguay
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Book
Mapping the development of agroecology in Europe - Volume 1
his first book volume collects country reports produced by the AE4EU Horizon 2020 project and the European Association Agroecology Europe which involved a large number of organisations, as well as more than 25 "mappers" who conducted the work in different European countries. Among them were many members of the Agroecology...
Albania - Austria - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Germany - Greece - Italy - Malta - Montenegro - North Macedonia - Romania
2023 - Isara Agro School for Life
Blog article
Las tortillas de maíz nativo, riqueza en biodiversidad y bioculturalidad
En el artículo, el Dr. Alejandro Espinosa de Cibiogem habla de la necesidad de preservar los maíces nativos mexicanos para cuidar la diversidad biológica y nuestras tortillas, alimento principal de México.
Mexico
2023 - Vía Orgánica
Report part
A taste for tradition: Reviving traditional diets using video
We were launching a rural tourism project just as the Covid-19 pandemic startled the world. How ironic, after waiting years for funding for our local organization Nawaya, we were incapable to do basic field work. We were excited, and decided not to delay important work. As we were unable to...
Egypt
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Culmina la XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana con acuerdos en medioambiente y seguridad alimentaria con fuerte enfoque en la consolidacion de la agricultura familiar
La XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno aprobó instrumentos clave para abordar desafíos comunes en el ámbito medioambiental, de seguridad alimentaria y derechos en entornos digitales, así como 16 comunicados especiales entre los que se destaca una propuesta para una financiación internacional más justa...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Smart barn makes for happy pigs
Innovative barn infrastructure and real-time monitoring to improve animal welfare and reduce ammonia emissions.
Consumers are calling for more affordable, sustainable pork which is produced in improved animal welfare systems. This was the context identified by the Dutch Operational Group ‘Data driven project’. The partners have developed a pilot barn concept in which the pigs are monitored in real time using ear-tag sensors so...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network, Eip Agri
Blog article
Two illustrated guides to promote forest rehabilitation by and for farmers in Central Africa
The PROFEAAC project (Promouvoir et Formaliser l’Exploitation Artisanale du bois d’œuvre en Afrique Centrale – Promoting and Formalizing Artisanal Timber Exploitation in Central Africa) has just published two guides in comic strip form to explain how to set up a nursery and plant trees, based on its experience in the...
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Case study
Captación y aprovechamiento de agua de lluvia en la República Dominicana
Agua potable para la comunidad de Mata Limón
Esta publicación recopila los principales resultados y las lecciones aprendidas de la implementación piloto de un sistema de captación y aprovechamiento de agua de lluvia en el Centro Educativo Mata Limón, en la provincia de Monte Plata (República Dominicana). Esta experiencia piloto contribuyó a validar el uso de esta tecnología...
Dominican Republic
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Transform our food systems for a sustainable world without hunger
Urgent action is needed to transform our food systems to deliver solutions to achieve the 2030 Agenda. New initiatives as means of implementation such as mobilizing finance, science, data, innovative solutions and a robust policy and governance mechanism are set in motion to support food systems transformation.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Access Agriculture praised for pioneering work in Egypt
The Executive Managing Director of CGIAR, a global agricultural research network, Dr Ismahane Elouafi, has praised the achievements of Access Agriculture in reaching farmers, including women and youth, in remote rural areas of Egypt. Access Agriculture worked with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and...
Egypt
2023 - Access Agriculture
Manual
Participatory video in agrifood systems and digital environments
A practitioner’s guide
Participatory video can be used as an interactive tool to promote more inclusive and sustainable forms of development, mirroring local realities and sharing people’s values, cultures and perceptions. By adopting a Communication for Development (ComDev) approach, farmer organizations, rural institutions and practitioners can use participatory video to drive development. Thanks...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Agrifood solutions to climate change
Amid a worsening climate crisis and slow progress in cutting greenhouse gases, sustainable agrifood systems practices can help countries and communities to adapt, build resilience and mitigate emissions, ensuring food security and nutrition for a growing global population. FAO is working with countries and partners from government to community level...
2023 - FAO
Book
Tropical forest ecosystem services in improving livelihoods for local communities
This edited book covers major importance of tropical forest diversity and its values to vegetation, wildlife, and the local community. It addresses the current issues and opportunities in the Southeast Asia’s tropical forests. This book lays the groundwork for a better understanding of tropical forest ecosystem services. Ecosystem services has...
2023
Guidelines
Manejo agroecológico para el cultivo del algodón y cultivos asociados
Recetas naturales para el control de insectos
Esta cartilla, producida de manera conjunta por la FAO y la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación en el ámbito del proyecto +Algodón, busca contribuir a fortalecer las capacidades de representantes de los gobiernos, de agricultores y agricultoras, organizaciones, estudiantes y equipos técnicos para que puedan enfrentar los desafíos de lograr una...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Enhancing the inclusiveness of Agrocommodity Procurement Zones in Ethiopia
Baseline territorial poverty profile and analysis
As part of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative, whose goal is to help reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that agricultural investments – namely those linked to a new series of integrated...
Ethiopia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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