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Asia/Africa: Shrinking spaces
Women in small-scale fishing communities bear the worst impacts as coastal space in the Indian Ocean region is increasingly encroached upon by state and private activities.
This article is based on a cross-regional study that focused on how ruptures in the form of environmental stress and political economic pressures impacted small-scale...
India - Kenya - Sri Lanka
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Libro
Feasibility of anticipatory action in the Pacific Islands region
This report seeks to expand the understanding of anticipatory action in Small Island Developing States, with a focus on the geographic and socio-institutional aspects of independent Pacific Island Countries in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. This report provides a summary of regional and selected national contexts and approaches to the building...
Fiji - Palau - Solomon Islands
2024 - FAO
Artículo de boletín informativo
India: The Tiger Widows of the Sunderbans
In the forests of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, limited livelihood options often drive male fishers literally into the jaws of death, with their widows left struggling for survival.
The expression ‘Byaghro Bidhoba’, which literally translates to ‘Tiger Widows’, is a term used to refer to women who have lost...
India
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Libro
Investment case for anticipatory action and adaptive and shock responsive social protection in the Philippines
The Philippines has made significant strides in reducing poverty, but the persistent threat of natural disasters, compounded by the country's vulnerability and exposure, continues to jeopardize these gains. Many households in disaster-prone areas hover precariously close to the poverty line, and the devastating impact of disasters on their assets, income,...
Philippines
2024 - FAO
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The Nexus of Opportunity: Unlocking the potential of social forestry in climate change mitigation in ASEAN through mapping priority investment areas
From the fertile fields of Cambodia to the dense rainforests of Indonesia and Lao PDR, Southeast Asia's agricultural lands and forest resources are of social and ecological significance to the region.
Home to over 300 million rural inhabitants, as many as 140 million people rely on forests for their livelihoods, nutrition,...
Cambodia - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic
2024 - UNEP
Artículo de revista especializada
Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health
Global food production faces challenges in balancing the need for increased yields with environmental sustainability. This study presents a six-year field experiment in the North China Plain, demonstrating the benefits of diversifying traditional cereal monoculture (wheat–maize) with cash crops (sweet potato) and legumes (peanut and soybean). The diversified rotations increase...
China
2024 - China Agricultural University, China
Libro
Sakhis: Women for Action, Change, Growth
For the last 25 years, SSP has nurtured cadres of grassroots women leaders called Sakhis, who have won numerous honours and accolades for their own transformation, and for various sustainable solutions and projects they have initiated. Many of these Sakhis are feted as decision makers in their own communities, and...
India
2024 - Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP)
Artículo de revista
Grains of Life: How Chotanagpur's Adivasis Are Reviving Native Varieties of Rice
Farmers and local NGOs say the indigenous rice varieties that are fast becoming extinct have unique nutrition, climate-resilience to ensure food security in increasingly unpredictable weather.
Sundargarh (Odisha), Latehar (Jharkhand): Deep inside the lush sal forest in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Albisia Lakda, an Adivasi farmer living in Subdega block had divided the rice crop on her two-acre plot of farmland in two sections. With the monsoon fluctuating widely last year, parts of Odisha experienced long dry spells and crop failures.
Now,...
India
2024 - The Wire
Artículo de revista especializada
Managing uphill cultivation under climate change
An assessment of adaptation decisions among tribal farmers in Nagaland state of India
Tribal farmers in the Himalayas are vulnerable to climatic changes, as their rain-fed cultivation systems, practiced on steep, sloping terrain, are susceptible to changes in rainfall while at the same time being the primary means of livelihood. Soil and water conservation practices (SWCP) can improve the resilience of these cultivation...
India
2024 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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Women master climate resilient farming for bigger and better yields in Nepal
Farmer Field Schools help to turn around perspectives and degraded lands
In the Churia region of Nepal, a watershed area with severe land degradation exacerbated by the effects of climate change, Gita Adikhari and her fellow community members are learning more effective and environmentally friendly agricultural techniques through an FAO Farmer Field School, financed by the Green Climate Fund
Nepal
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Strengthening women’s voices through collective organizations in India
This first video of the series, "Women’s Organizations – Cultivating Collaboration”, witness the transformative impact of women-led initiatives on local communities in India which are of great importance when promoting agroecological practices. Through farming projects, cooperatives, and agroecological training programs, women are fostering resilience and solidarity, strengthening the fabric of...
India
2024
Artículo
The need for ground-up transitions: exploring the knowledge politics of agroecology in Gujarat, India
Despite a plethora of emerging alternatives under the broad rubric of agroecology, sustainable transitions in Indian agriculture are caught between institutional inertia and lock-ins of its vast agricultural establishment on the one hand and a pro-active state promoting a natural farming. This push for Zero-Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF), while welcome...
India
2024
Vídeo
Strengthening women’s voices through collective organizations in India
This first video of the series, "Women’s Organizations – Cultivating Collaboration”, witness the transformative impact of women-led initiatives on local communities in India which are of great importance when promoting agroecological practices. Through farming projects, cooperatives, and agroecological training programs, women are fostering resilience and solidarity, strengthening the fabric of...
India
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Heat and gender: Enhancing her resilience to rising temperatures
Extreme heat is a deadly natural hazard that disproportionately affects women in South Asia, who are at greater risk for heat-related illnesses and mortality due to physiological differences, limited access to resources, and societal roles as caregivers. This vulnerability extends to maternal and neonatal health, as extreme heat is linked...
2024 - World Bank Group
Artículo de revista especializada
To what extent can agriculture be reshaped to address healthy and sustainable diets by boosting pulse production locally?
The consumption of unhealthy and environmentally unsustainable diets is a major societal challenge because of its impacts on human health and the environment. The adoption of micronutrient-rich diets with relatively low pressure on natural resources is an important development target at the intersection between sustainability and public health goals. Pulses are known for being...
Nigeria - Pakistan
2024 - Politecnico di Milano Italy
Artículo de revista especializada
“It doesn’t matter at all—we are family”: Titling and joint property rights in Myanmar
Many policy makers and academics striving for more gender equality consider joint property rights as preferable over sole rights, since the latter often discriminate against women. Several governments in low-, middle- and high-income countries have therefore imposed joint rights through modifications of statutory law or mandatory joint property registration. We...
Myanmar
2024 - International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI
Artículo de revista especializada
Centering context when characterizing food environments: the potential of participatory mapping to inform food environment research
Food environments are a critical place within the food system to implement interventions aimed at enabling sustainable diets. In this perspective article, we argue for the need for food environment research to more comprehensively examine the different types of food environments that people access within their communities to ensure that...
Cambodia
2024 - Rutgers School of Public Health
Artículo de revista especializada
The future of the sugarcane industry in Fiji: climatic, non-climatic stressors, and opportunities for transformation
This study explores the complex dynamics of Fiji’s sugarcane industry, shedding light on the challenges it faces and the implications for agricultural system resilience and sustainability. The primary aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between climatic and non-climatic stressors and farmers’ decisions to abandon sugarcane farming. A...
Fiji
2024 - Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
Documento técnico
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
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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
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