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Women’s leadership in climate-resilient agrifood systems: defining a future research agenda
Women's leadership is increasingly considered critical for achieving climate-resilient agrifood systems. Numerous initiatives and policies highlight the business case for women's leadership to deliver a range of positive social, economic and environmental outcomes. In this Perspective, we examine the business case, finding uneven evidence linking women's leadership to increased resilience to...
2024 - Environmental Research Climate
Book
Applying MEV-CAM tools: Participatory video
The Making Every Voice Count for Adaptive Management (MEV-CAM) toolkit provides process documentation facilitators with instruments for documenting change through participatory video to generate knowledge, monitor impact, and share practices. This toolkit sheds light on how to develop a participatory video process in all its stages: beginning with stakeholder identification,...
2024 - FAO
Fact sheet
Integrated services for innovation and agrifood systems
Rural producers operate in a very complex reality. They are faced with serious and interconnected challenges such as globalized and unstable markets, volatile prices, a degrading natural resource base and the effects of climate change. In addition, especially in developing countries, access to markets represent a serious problem due to,...
2024 - FAO
Technical paper
Farmers’ adoption on potato zero-tillage and straw mulching in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh
Key messages • Potato zero-tillage and rice straw mulching (PZTM) was introduced in the fallow season as a strategy for climate adaptation in Khulna where potato is a new crop to grow.• 56% (239 HHs) of the intervention households adopted PZTM in the following cropping season without any subsidies or...
Bangladesh
2024 - International Potato Center
Blog article
Le néoféminisme libéral dans les entreprises et les exploitations agricoles
Les mondes de l’entreprise ont vu apparaître au cours de ces dernières années une demande sociale de plus en plus importante en vue de lutter contre les inégalités et les discriminations touchant les femmes (Collectif, 2023). Cette revendication peut emprunter un certain nombre de codes et de logiques d’actions ainsi...
2024
Blog article
Adapt, assess, progress: Integrating measures of women’s empowerment into rural development projects
A new tool based on IFPRI’s Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI)—developed by IFPRI and the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) Research and Impact Assessment Division (RIA)—provides a streamlined way to track and evaluate impacts on women’s empowerment in development projects. The tool was applied in an impact evaluation...
2024 - IFPRI
E-learning
Migrant workers in agrifood systems
Topic outline
This course focuses on the essential role that migrants play in our food systems, and how we can reduce the many vulnerabilities they face. It considers the key aspects of safe and regular migration channels for migrant workers in agrifood systems, and practical actions that can be taken by...
2024 - FAO
Report
Key lessons and priority research and investments for Community Fish Refuge-Rice Field Fisheries
Rice field ecosystems make up the majority of the agricultural land in the Lower Mekong region (Ingalls et al. 2018). In Cambodia, WorldFish research found that one hectare of a rice field ecosystem can provide enough wild fish and other aquatic animals to feed 2.6 people for a year (Freed...
Cambodia
2024 - World Fish
Blog article
Entre la place que l’on prend et celle qu’on nous laisse : partage genré des tâches en ostréiculture
En mars 2017, je réalise un stage d’un mois comme ouvrière agricole au sein d’une entreprise ostréicole sur le Bassin d’Arcachon, avec un jeune chef d’exploitation. Je ne vois aucune autre femme sur le port à part les serveuses du restaurant voisin. Un des ostréiculteurs du port, qui prend chaque...
France
2024
Article
The socio-economic issues of agroecology: a scoping review
In recent years, agroecology has gained prominence as one of the innovative approaches to agriculture that could positively contribute to achieving sustainable food systems. As a transdisciplinary science, agroecology could benefit from the contribution of socio-economic sciences. This study aims to give an overview of how scholars have approached socio-economic...
2024
Article
How can Tanzania build capacity to accelerate women’s economic empowerment?
Achieving gender equality in Tanzania requires equal legal rights for all. The World Bank's Women, Business, and the Law team recently reviewed Tanzania's progress and future needs. Tanzania has enacted laws against sexual harassment and gender discrimination and provided maternity and paternity benefits. However, gaps remain, such as restrictive nationality...
United Republic of Tanzania
2024 - World Bank Group
Journal article
Multifunctionality and provision of ecosystem services by livestock species and breeds at global level
Beyond providing food, livestock species are linked to a wide range of uses and ecosystem services (ESs). Based on information reported by 41 countries on 3 361 national breed populations to the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, we investigated how factors...
2024 - FAO
Article
On International Women’s Day, Voices from the Slow Food Movement Show that Agroecology Is Key to Promoting Inclusion
“Inspire Inclusion”: That’s the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, a particularly current and meaningful topic given the current sociopolitical and environmental crises through which we are living.
“Food concerns us all. Yet the role of those who bring food to our tables, and especially the role of women within food...
2024 - Slow Food
Article
Cultivating inclusive change for women in agriculture
How SCALA is strengthening gender-responsive climate action from local practices to national frameworks
The report underscores the pivotal role of women in agrifood systems globally, often serving as the backbone of employment and livelihoods, particularly in developing nations. Despite increasing recognition in climate plans, women still encounter marginalization and vulnerability in agriculture, facing low-skilled and informal work. Addressing this necessitates integrating gender considerations...
Cambodia - Colombia - Uganda
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
In Brief to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024
The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policy makers and a more general public.
2024 - FAO
Journal
Tropical Forest Issues - Agroforestry at work
"Why do many farmers still resist adopting and scaling agroforestry? Are the economic benefits not enough, or not perceived to be enough? Or are there other reasons? These are the questions that were asked when work began on Tropical Forest Issues 62.
This issue contextualizes agroforestry in four introductory articles in...
2024 - Tropenbos International
Blog article
Could Agroecology Clubs present a promising approach to addressing food and nutrition insecurity in academic institutions?
ESAFF Uganda is making significant strides in integrating agroecology into school curriculums through the establishment of Agroecology Clubs. These clubs, launched in 2019 during the first National Organic Week, aim to bridge the agroecology knowledge gap in agricultural education. Partnering with organizations like the Agroecology Fund and Humundi, ESAFF Uganda...
Uganda
2024 - ESAFF Uganda
Blog article
La CEDEAO lance un Centre régional pour les engrais et la santé des sols pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest et le Sahel
L’Afrique, bien que jouissant du potentiel de devenir le grenier alimentaire du monde, éprouve encore du mal à se nourrir convenablement ; ceci, du fait, entre autres, de l’utilisation inefficace des engrais et de la mauvaise gestion de la santé des sols. S’appuyant sur le chemin parcouru depuis la Déclaration...
2024 - Agence Régionale pour l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation (ARAA)
Blog article
Quel avenir pour les semences paysannes ? Entre partage informel, changement des lois et utilisation du numérique
Moins de 3 % des graines traditionnellement cultivées par l’homme sont aujourd’hui utilisées pour la production alimentaire mondiale. Et pour cause, celles-ci sont, dans de nombreux pays, tenues hors des circuits commerciaux. Si les semences dites « de ferme » continuent ainsi d’occuper une place importante dans les agricultures vivrières des pays du...
2024
Blog article
Knowledge sharing to improve the sustainability of food systems in West Africa: Lessons learned from the Food Systems Caravan
Knowledge sharing and co-creation for application offer pathways for the multidimensional challenges of food systems in West Africa which are to date still largely underexplored. They have the potential for the emergence of effective communities of practice to tackle some of the serious threats West African food systems face today,...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Ghana - Mali - Nigeria
2024
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