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Report
Achieving Sustainable Food Systems in a Global Crisis
This report summarizes the evidence-based and costed country roadmaps for effective public interventions to transform agriculture and food systems in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in a way that ends hunger, makes diets healthier and more affordable, improves the productivity and incomes of small-scale producers and their households, and mitigates and...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Nigeria
2023 - International Institute for Sustainable Development
Blog article
A shared conference on agroecology in the Pacific region
The event, organized by FAO and SPC on March 8th, 2023, in Fiji as part of the Pacific Week of Agriculture and Forestry (PWAF), addressed agroecology and the transition to healthier and more sustainable food systems in the region through sharing of experiences
2023 - FAO and SPC
Video
Andy's story: why are we researching silvopasture design?
The Devon Silvopasture Network are undertaking a 12 year trial in which six farms and a research farm are being supported to design and implement the integration of trees into their livestock farms. The trial has a mixture of cluster planting, regular spacing and shelterbelts being planted. Little research has...
2023 - Innovative Farmers
Report
Community Based Participatory Watershed Development
This Guideline addresses important developmental activity and the contents give information on how to plan, design and implement community watershed development activities. It provides consolidated and normative information for field workers and wereda sector offices. The effort is particularly important at a time when the Ethiopian Government has put a strategy...
Ethiopia
2023 - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Ethiopia)
Policy brief/paper
The value of cooperation under climate change in Central Asia’s Syr Darya River
Using integrated water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus tools to inform policy
Cooperation in the water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus among countries sharing the Syr Darya River Basin can lead to increased water availability, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and higher GDP and added agricultural value, which could improve livelihoods.
Modelling tools like the ones used here that capture the connections between water, agriculture, energy and the...
2023 - Stockholm Environment Institute
Report
Economic transformation and diversification towards off-farm income in rural and urban areas
A global update with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa
This working paper is the update of an earlier cross-country study on household income sources using an expanded harmonized dataset. The analysis presented covers a total of 93 surveys representing 41 countries – nearly double that of the previous study – to depict rural and urban households’ livelihood strategies across...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Book
Becoming A Young Farmer
Focusses on youth who are aspiring to be farmers, instead of why youth leave the countryside
Uses a life-course approach to understand the experiences of young farmers
First systematic research collection focused on farmers in Asia, in 3 countries with the largest youth population
This book is open access, which means that you...
2023
Website
AGROECOLOGY SCHOOLS’ TOOLKIT: THURSDAY DIALOGUES IN 2023
SHARING KNOWLEDGE FOR STRONGER AGROECOLOGY MOVEMENT IN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA
AGROECOLOGY SCHOOLS’ TOOLKIT: THURSDAY DIALOGUES IN 2023. This knowledge-sharing series is a part of the project Sharing knowledge for a stronger agroecology movement in Europe and Central Asia (ECA), supported by Agroecology Fund. It is hosted for and by the ECA Community of Practice...
2023 - Fundacja Agro-Perma-Lab
Journal article
The water–energy–food–land–climate nexus: Policy coherence for sustainable resource management in Sweden
The concept of a ‘nexus’ across issues regarding the management of natural resources has gained increasing academic attention in recent years, but there is still relatively limited research on the application of the nexus approach for evaluating policies. This study analyses coherence among the main goals of five policy areas...
Sweden
2023 - Uppsala University Sweden
Report
Are Iraqi displaced farmers returning to agriculture?
In an effort to assist the Iraqi Government in addressing the challenges currently faced by the displaced farming population in their return to farming, the International Organization on Migration (IOM) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have agreed to collaborate on a joint study to...
Iraq
2023 - FAO; International Organization for Migration;
Blog article
Indigenous knowledge is key to sustainable food systems
This article establishes how Indigenous and local knowledge could contribute to the building of resilient, sustainable and nutritious food systems in a way that is equitable.
2023
Event
Seminario regional: “No hay buenos cultivos sin buenas semillas”
La Oficina de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) para América Latina y el Caribe, realizó el miércoles 26 de abril a las 11:30 hrs., en el seminario regional “No hay buenos cultivos, sin buenas semillas”.
En la instancia, se abordarán temas vinculados a...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
EU CAP Network Workshop 'Animal welfare and innovation'
The EU CAP Network workshop ‘Animal welfare and innovation’ will focus on exchanging innovative practices and practical knowledge on animal welfare, especially on:
Cage-free production systems
Animal welfare indicators and monitoring methods for practical use on the farm
Meeting societal demands: Animal welfare labelling and certification
The event will welcome farmers, advisors, projects and initiatives related...
2023
Practices
Including diverse leys in arable rotations (DiverIMPACTS Practice Abstract)
Results of various studies in the UK suggest that there are several advantages to more complex mixtures, including: 1) Greater resilience to variable conditions caused by extreme weather such as drought and flooding; 2) A reduction in overall weed biomass and suppression of both early and late weeds; 3) Opportunities...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2023 - ORC - Organic Research Centre
Report
Strengthen PSNP Institutions and Resilience Phase II (SPIR II) Resilience Food Security Activity in Ethiopia
Over the past two decades, social safety net programs have become a mainstream policy tool across sub-Saharan Africa to address food insecurity and extreme poverty (Beegle et al., 2018). Since the turn of the millennium, the number of social safety net programs has doubled (Hickey et al., 2018) and today, each country...
Ethiopia
2023 - IMPEL
Newsletter
Boletín Agroclimático Regional: mesa técnica agroclimática de Casanare junio 2023
Mayo fue un mes seco en el oriente del departamento, mientras que en la zona de piedemonte y cerca de la cordillera se acumularon precipitaciones en cantidad superior al promedio histórico Predominó en mayo el mismo patrón pluviométrico de los últimos meses, es decir, que se presentaron aguaceros o eventos...
Colombia
2023 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Article
Genealogy and potential of regulatory concepts of the common in public international law: A global south view
The purpose of this work is to introspect the regulatory concepts of the common in international law-such as common heritage of humanity, common interest of humanity and world heritage. In order to identify the background that led to the creation and limitation of these terms, a genealogical mapping is proposed....
2023 - Indian Journal of International Law 63(1-2)
Report
Ifaa Resilience Food Security Activity in Ethiopia
The Ifaa resilience food security activity (RFSA) is implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the region of Oromia in Ethiopia. Oromia is Ethiopia’s largest, most populous region and one of its poorest, with complex and interlinked causes of poverty and food insecurity. The goal of the Ifaa RFSA is...
Ethiopia
2023 - IMPEL
Newsletter
Boletín Agroclimático Regional: mesa técnica agroclimática de Casanare mayo 2023
Abril terminó siendo un mes con pocas precipitaciones (casi seco) y mayo está terminando con las mismas características, lo cual significa que se tienen acumulados mensuales de lluvia similares a los históricos, pero un menor número de días lluviosos. Es necesario evaluar para cada cultivo la respuesta a la presencia...
Colombia
2023 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Blog article
Closed Season: The woes of women and children in fishing communities
The din of brisk fishing activity greets anyone who ventures onto the landing beach at Jamestown the Greater Accra Region and in coastal regions all over Ghana.
The fishermen haul nets with fish from the boats, while the women take up the sale of fish from January to December.
But not so...
Ghana
2023
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