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The combined impact of shallow groundwater and soil salinity on evapotranspiration using remote sensing in an agricultural alluvial setting
Waterlogging and shallow groundwater (GW) have caused many environmental problems in many places worldwide due to poor irrigation and nonfunctional drainage systems, particularly with flood irrigation (Ochoa et al., 2007, Zhang et al., 2021). The groundwater depth (GWD) is often considered an essential factor in controlling ET rates (Devitt et al., 2002). Consequently, higher ET rates...
Egypt
2023 - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
Article
Nourishing people and the planet
The path to human health and prosperity depends on the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.1 Yet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off-track, challenging the fulfilment of essential human needs and jeopardising the integrity of our ecosystems.2 Accessible, nutritious, and affordable food is one of the most fundamental...
2023 - The BMJ
Article
The Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub for evaluating multiple shock impacts on food security
Food crises are underpinned by a complex configuration of shocks stemming from climate change1, conflict and social unrest2, displacement and migration3, geopolitical pressures and economic conditions4. Building resilience against acute and protracted food crises5 requires an evidence-based strategy for programme design, policy formulation and optimizing investments. To meet this requirement, the...
2023
Manual
Analyse des trajectoires des politiques et du droit foncier agropastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest
Cette publication rend compte des trajectoires contrastées des politiques de sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il est courant de souligner qu’en Afrique de l’Ouest, la question du « foncier pastoral » est fréquemment au cœur de l’actualité notamment à travers la fréquence des conflits agro-pastoraux souvent meurtriers,...
2023 - Comité technique « Foncier & développement »
Technical paper
Assessing impact of agroecological interventions in Niger through remotely sensed changes in vegetation
Water scarcity is a major challenge in the Sahel region of West Africa. Water scarcity in combination with prevalent soil degradation has severely reduced the land productivity in the region. The decrease in resiliency of food security systems of marginalized population has huge societal implications which often leads to mass...
Niger
2023
Newsletter
IIED Biodiversity newsletter May 2023
IIED's biodiversity newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our work exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods. In this edition we're delighted to announce the upcoming launch of the REDAA grants programme, as well as share some new blogs and a short seminar...
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Video
A participatory guarantee system
The international organic certification system can be bureaucratic and expensive, and beyond the reach of smallholder ecological farmers who produce for the local market. In many countries, Participatory Guarantee Systems, or PGS, are emerging as an alternative accreditation system. While PGS systems are created locally and differ from one country...
2023 - Access Agriculture
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FAO Regional Initiative - Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth
This Regional Initiative uses a complex, multidisciplinary and area-based development approach, tailored to the Europe and Central Asia region. It takes into consideration the region’s heterogeneity and the special challenges it faces.
The overall goal is to address the key problems of rural people by empowering smallholders and family farms to...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Investing in Farmers Markets as Vehicles for Innovation
During the recent U.N. Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment, the World Farmers Markets Coalition highlighted the role farmers markets can play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
The World Farmers Markets Coalition was launched after the first U.N. Food Systems Summit in 2021. Today, its members, which span 70 countries, point...
2023 - Food Tank
Report
Proceedings of the Third regional consultation on geographical indications in Europe and Central Asia
On 20 December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and oriGIn hosted the online event, Third regional consultation on geographical indications in Europe and Central Asia. Some 111 representatives from 34 countries of geographical indications (GIs) groups, national intellectual property offices and the World Intellectual Property...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
National Land Policy Study Report on Senegal
National Land Policy Study Reports on Senegal, Mali, Togo, Ghana & Cameroon.
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies...
Senegal
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Blog article
Making farmers anonymous
Short food chains narrow the gap between producers and consumers, but when food is traded through wholesalers and when supermarkets sell their own brands, active efforts are undertaken to make farmers anonymous.
This never really occurred to me until Vera Kuijpers, from the organic farm and farm shop Het Eikelenhof in north-eastern Limburg,...
Belgium
2023 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Filling the Gap Between Seeds Research and Small-Scale Farmers
CARE’s Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) model focuses on improving small-scale farmers’ productivity, resilience and access to markets. FFBS is a hands-on, learning-by-doing approach through which groups of farmers meet regularly during the course of their value chain production cycle to learn about new agricultural techniques and to experiment...
Nepal
2023 - AgriLynks
Report
Illuminating Hidden Harvests
The contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Illuminating Hidden Harvests: the contributions of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development (hereinafter IHH) is a global study uncovering the contributions and impacts of small-scale fisheries through a multidisciplinary approach to data collection and analysis. The study provides information that quantifies and improves understanding of the crucial role of small-scale fisheries...
2023 - FAO; Duke University; WorldFish;
Policy brief/paper
We Can Be Friends: Harvesting the Benefits of Coexistence Farming
Transforming Philippine agriculture remains an urgent need, not just because it is intrinsically connected to food security but also for poverty reduction. The technologies brought by the Green Revolution in the 1960s sparked growth in the sector, but it has remained slow compared to some of its neighboring countries. Although...
Philippines
2023
Journal article
Building Medicinal Agroecology: Conceptual grounding for healing of rifts
In this chapter we argue that industrial food production, distribution and consumption play a central role in perpetuating the present intersecting crises of poor health, biodiversity loss, climate change and inequality. At the centre of our argument lies a contention that multiple rifts (e.g. between humans and nature, urban and...
2023 - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, UK
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Synergies and trade-offs between agricultural export promotion and food security: Evidence from African economies
Several countries across the developing world have designed and implemented agricultural export incentives. However, little is known about the effects of these policies on various aspects of domestic food security. This study utilizes economywide models linked top-down with microsimulation modules to analyze the impacts of increased agricultural export promotion on...
2023 - World Development
Article
Food trends Food Endangered foods: why our diet is narrower than ever – and the UK urgently needs to save these seven foods
This article explains how quickly we are losing our food diversity and the consequences. Despite the appearance of a wide variety of food options for consumers, global food diversity is rapidly decreasing. The majority of products in supermarkets are made from a small number of ingredients, such as wheat, maize,...
2023
Blog article
Nuevo reto a EEUU: México prohíbe maíz transgénico para alimento humano
El Gobierno Mexicano emitió y publicó un nuevo decreto presidencial para revocar y no dar más autorizaciones para el uso de maíz genéticamente modificado, específicamente en productos destinados a la alimentación humana, así como el uso del herbicida glifosato, con una transición gradual. Esto ante presiones sobre la primera disposición...
Mexico
2023 - Regeneration International
Blog article
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries ready to show the true potential of their fisheries and aquaculture sectors
Joint programme by FAO and its partners analyzes value chains in Côte d’Ivoire, Guyana, the Marshall Islands, Senegal and Tanzania
A key fisheries and aquaculture development programme implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has highlighted significant potential to boost these sectors in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Tanzania, Guyana and the Marshall Islands, making them more self-sufficient, creating jobs and preserving biological stock levels.The countries are...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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