The Annual Meeting is an important mechanism for promoting more sustainable practices and functioning of GFRAS, regional networks, and national forums. The topic of the 12th GFRAS Annual Meeting is “Overcoming COVID-19: How Agroecology and Rural Advisory Services can Support Recovery and Stronger Value Chains”. 

n the framework of World Soil Day 2020, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS), and the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) launched a children's book contest on Soil Biodiversity with the motto "Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity". The book...

Investing in farmers – what is known as ‘agriculture human capital’ – is crucial to addressing challenges facing our global agri-food systems, from sustainably feeding the world’s growing population with food that is safe, healthy and nutritious to finding innovative solutions for more resilient and climate-smart agriculture. Investing in farmers...

The plateaux of Togo have been witnessing land and soil degradation due to inappropriate agricultural practices, the use of chemical fertilizers, climate change, and deforestation. Since 2004, Young Volunteers for the Environment (YVE), alongside the African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES) and the National Institute for Agricultural Training, has been...

Least developed countries (LDCs) are currently dealing with multiple shocks from both climate and COVID-19-related impacts. IIED and country partners have been undertaking in-depth research to explore policy responses to build forward better from COVID-19 from the LDCs’ perspective.  The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread disruption in least developed countries (LDCs),...

Welcome to the Burren in the West of Ireland, where Shane Casey’s family have been farming Blackhead mountain for some two hundred years. Here, the unique limestone landscape requires a unique way of farming. Traditions are passed down through many generations of Burren farmers to maintain the critical symbiotic relationship between...

The most recent numbers show that a considerable amount of the food being wasted is generated in households. In Turkey alone, around 19 million tonnes of food gets lost or wasted every year. This highlights consumer behaviour as one of the underlying drivers of food waste globally. To ensure improvement in this area, the Food...

La loque americana es una enfermedad bacteriana de las abejas que afecta a la cría. Es considerada la enfermedad de las abejas más extendida y destructiva y puede causar graves pérdidas económicas a la apicultura. El término "americana" no se refiere al hecho de que la enfermedad fue importada de...

Sahel has launched a regional agroecological project set to increase the resilience of Sahelian farmers. The project dubbed "FAIR Sahel" consists of integrating agroecological practices into intensive agriculture. The project is based on the vulnerability of Sahelian agriculture to the effects of climate change. The project is set to be...

Esta Guía Metodológica presenta un paso a paso sobre por qué y cómo utilizar los Cuadernos Agroecológicos. Estamos construyendo juntas/os caminos e instrumentos que nos permitan mostrar y conocer/sistematizar la contribución (económica, ecológica, social y cultural) de la mujer rural a la economía familiar, a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria, a la agroecología y a la vida....

El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.

For her Master’s thesis research, Annya Crane delved into the daily lives of local fishermen on Menorca for four months, in collaboration with our partner Marilles Foundation. Not only did her respect for these hard workers increase, she also discovered why the decline of family businesses is a major hurdle...

China and India are the major organic agriculture producers in Asia. But other Asian countries too are working well to increase their share in the global organic market. Some countries worth mentioning are Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, which are making systematic efforts to promote organic agriculture in their own ways....

The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) set the stage for actors across the globe to engage in conversations around sustainable food systems, explore the interconnections between food systems and today’s pressing challenges, and make their voices heard for an inclusive and resilient transformation towards sustainability. As part of...

Data on African biodiversity reveals both its richness and the threats to which it is exposed. Beyond the anthropogenic threat, African biodiversity is also under pressure from climate change. An overview of the realities of African biodiversity in 10 figures.

You can convert garden waste into a rich garden resource. This video explains how Nasira Habib does it in her home garden.  

Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main fieldwork. As an international consultant...

Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for various policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the...

Unsafe food is a major threat to human health and economies globally. A new project has been kicked off to strengthen official food safety control and risk communication systems in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Implemented under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture, funded by Turkey,...

The Fijian Government’s agenda and strategic priorities – as informed by their international and national commitments – end up the shaping Fijian food systems, and the diets of Fijians. This agenda influences policy decisions and can either support or deter Fijian food systems from providing affordable and healthy diets for...