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Planning seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration
This course explores how to plan seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration (FLR). This includes the importance of considering seed and seedling origin and genetic quality, the reproductive and supply chain bottlenecks that reduce genetic diversity or adaptive capacity, and approaches, tools and institutional frameworks that can...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Newsletter article
GAF8: Shaping the future
Packed with meaningful discussions and exciting events, the 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries (GAF8) was a clarion call for gender justice for sustainable aquaculture and fisheries
In November, 2022, the city of Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala, marked a milestone in the history of gender and fisheries when it played host to the 8th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries- Shaping the Future: Gender Justice for Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries (GAF8)....
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Working paper
Transformar los sistemas alimentarios para alcanzar los ODS
2030 – Alimentación, agricultura y desarrollo rural en América Latina y el Caribe - Documento No 12
El documento presenta una descripción de la estructura del ámbito rural, la demografía, la oferta de bienes y servicios, las principales desigualdades, niveles de pobreza, importancia y rol de la agricultura familiar y de otras actividades económicas (diversificación), principales características de la sociedad rural y la presencia del sector privado....
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
E-learning
Nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo rural en los territorios
La representación de FAO en Chile, en articulación con la Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Regional y Administrativo (SUBDERE), del Ministerio del Interior y Seguridad Pública de Chile, le invitan a participar del Trayecto de Capacitación ofrecido a través del Núcleo de Capacitación en Políticas Públicas (FAO para América Latina y el...
Chile
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Investing in climate resilient communities for a food secure future in Somalia
Through the Swedish-funded Supporting Resilient Smallholder Farming systems in Somalia project, FAO is working to enhance food and nutrition security and smallholder income, therefore improving the resilience of communities to threats and crises in Hirshabelle and Southwest states. Within the rainfed and riverine areas, the project is supporting 24 farming...
Somalia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena caña de azúcar
En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de caña de azúcar enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación.
Colombia
2023 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Newsletter article
Milestones: Closing the gender gap, how close are we?
The 17th edition of the Global Gender Gap Report 2023, published by the World Economic Forum, states that gender parity, globally, has recovered to pre-COVID 19 levels, with regional and national differences. Iceland remains the most gender-equal country; the European region surpassed North America in terms of highest gender parity,...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
The Inga Tree Model
Inga alley-cropping is a simple, sustainable, and revolutionary solution to address food insecurity, combat global warming, stop slash-and-burn agriculture, and save the world’s tropical rainforests.
This 7-minute film on Inga Alley-Cropping was selected as a winner by Agora and shown at their booth at COP28.
Honduras
2023 - Inga Foundation
Blog article
Restoring The Water Cycle: Understanding The Basics And Taking Action
John Wilson's recent article for the AFSA blog in honor of World Water Day 2023 offers valuable insights into the importance of restoring water cycles. Wilson emphasizes the need to restore ecosystems, especially farming systems, so that rainwater can infiltrate the ground and replenish the water table, rather than causing...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Report
The Global Report on Food Crises
This seventh edition of the Global Report on Food Crises is a stinging indictment of humanity’s failure to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger, and achieve food security and improved nutrition for all. In fact, we are moving in the wrong direction. Conflicts and mass displacement...
2023 - FSIN and Global Network Against Food Crises
Blog article
Micro-chefs
In this era when many societies have embraced fast food and convenient, ready-made meals, it was refreshing to watch a documentary on the Korean Air flight back home recently, showing how citizens, chefs and scientists across the globe are increasingly waking up to the importance of nurturing and promoting local...
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2023 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter article
What’s New, Webby?
Coast 2 Coast
From November 2021 to January 2023, throughout the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022), Coast 2 Coast (C2C), a Peruvian community-based nonprofit, collaborated with rural educators and young learners from public schools, nonprofits, and social welfare centers located in inland and coastal small-scale fishing villages in Peru,...
India - Madagascar - Nigeria - Peru
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Conferencia regional de la FAO: América Latina y el Caribe traza el camino hacia una pesca y acuicultura sostenible para la seguridad alimentaria
Transformación Azul propone una producción sostenible en la acuicultura, una gestión eficaz de las pesquerías y una mejora en las cadenas de valor. Dominica, Jamaica, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, y Trinidad y Tobago participaron en la mesa que abordó esta iniciativa.
Con 85 millones de personas dependiendo de los alimentos acuáticos para...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Rural inspiration awards 2022
Projects brochure
Since 2019, the Rural Inspiration Awards (RIA) have been celebrating projects that use funding from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) to help rural areas meet the wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st century. The RIA competition aims to increase the visibility of...
European Union
2023 - Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (European Commission)
Report
Food Outlook – Biannual report on global food markets 2023
FAO’s latest forecasts point to increases in production and higher stocks across several basic foodstuffs. However, global food production systems remain vulnerable to shocks, stemming from weather conditions, geopolitical tensions and policies, potentially tipping the delicate demand-supply balances, with implications for global food security.
Issued twice a year, the November issue...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Building a governance framework for forest data in Eastern and Southern Africa
As the countries of Eastern and Southern Africa level up their forest monitoring practices in line with global and regional environmental commitments such as the Paris Agreement on climate change and AFR100 on restoration, questions have arisen about what to do with the rich and comprehensive data sets being generated.
The East and Southern Africa Forest...
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Fact sheet
Sustainable Land Management
FAO develops and promotes methods and tools for the assessment, documentation and dissemination of sustainable land management (SLM) practices and approaches. SLM is the use and management of land resources – soil, water, animals and plants – for the production of goods to meet changing human needs, while ensuring the...
2023 - FAO - Land and Water Division (NRL)
Newsletter article
Profile: Meet Purnima Meher Growing up in a fishing community
Purnima Meher today is a leading figure in the struggle for women fishworkers' rights
Purnima Meher is a staunch advocate of women fishworkers in the coastal state of Maharashtra in India. Purnima, who was born into a fishing community, is a postgraduate in Sociology from the prestigious SNDT University, Pune, and has worked as a social activist in her home state of Maharashtra for...
India
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Pesticides and Climate Change with Agroecology
A recent report by Pesticide Action Network (North America) highlights the vicious cycle of pesticide use contributing significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, while climate change is expected to increase their application. Pesticides impact climate change throughout their lifecycle, including manufacturing, transportation, and disposal, and also lead to the production of...
2023 - Pesticide Action Network (North America)
Fact sheet
Irrigation Management
Irrigation management aims at increasing food production, contributing to economic development and reducing poverty through improvements in performance, productivity and sustainability of irrigated agriculture and irrigation systems.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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