As the Food Systems Summit drew to a close, it is time to make real the agreements and outcomes that resulted from this meeting and put in motion its menu of proposals. Ensuring that people are at the centre means human rights must permeate all the agri-food conversations in the...

El Sistema de Integración Centroamericano (SICA), por medio del Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano (CAC),  con participación de organizaciones de la sociedad civil particularmente el Programa de Diálogo Regional Rural (PDRR), y el acompañamiento de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Fondo Internacional...

Lors de la COP26 à Glasgow, le FVC (Fonds Vert pour le Climat) et le FIDA (Fonds International de Développement Agricole) ont promis de financer la Grande Muraille Verte de Dakar à Djibouti, ce rideau de verdure, à hauteur de 143,2 millions de dollars d’ici 2025. Mais concrètement, comment réussir...

Tipos de semilla de plátano para el establecimiento del cultivo de plátano se pueden utilizar los anteriores tipos de semilla. Fisiológica Capacidad de desarrollar funciones intrínsecas de la planta: brotación de yemas, vigor, emisión de hojas, fotosíntesis e intercambio gaseoso. Física Semilla sin daños mecánicos, con peso o tamaño adecuado,...

On November 23, 2021, the Food Policy Forum for Change co-organized a roundtable in collaboration with the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO), the National Council for Organic Agriculture (CNABio) of Burkina Faso, and the Centre Ecologique Albert Schweitzer Switzerland (CEAS). The aim was to bring together political decision-makers, other actors involved...

Si la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales (DDP) reprend et rassemble de nombreux droits déjà reconnus par divers instruments internationaux, le droit aux semences paysannes constitue l’une des avancées majeures de ce texte. C’est l’idée force du...

The need for, and the urgency of, a transition of our food system to face the triple challenges of conserving biodiversity, improving adaptation to climate change while reducing GHG emissions, and improving diets, is no longer questioned. Over the last 5 years, Iddri and AScA have explored the contribution of...

This year’s State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report places the spotlight on the right to food and nutrition in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks at the measures that governments have taken to contain the spread of the virus, and the impacts these have had...

The aim of this report is to present evidence for how information and communication technologies for small-scale fisheries (ICT4SSF) might enable and support the implementation of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines)....

This paper explores patterns of exit from agriculture in rural Bangladesh by utilizing nationally represen-tative repeat cross-section and pseudo-panel survey data. Our analysis focuses at the rural householdlevel where we focus on three types of households: (a) ‘‘pure” agriculture households in which all work-ers are employed only in agriculture; (b)...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union (EU) are teaming up to help improve food security and nutrition in Yemen through a new project. The new 30-month, multifaceted project will aim to strengthen...

This report presents the main results derived from the analysis of the food data collected in the 2012/13 HIES to inform current patterns on food and nutrient consumption in Solomon Islands. Based on this analysis around one person out of 10 was undernourished in Solomon Islands. That is, their habitual...

This technical note aims to provide United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region with a common understanding of sustainable food systems. This technical note is an additional resource for UNCTs and complements existing guidance for United Nations Common Country Analyses (CCAs) and United Nations...

Se presenta con mayor frecuencia en suelos muy ácidos y húmedos, ricos en materia orgánica. Se asocia a suelos con bajo contenido de fosfatos. El manejo de la plantación también es un factor determinante para el desarrollo de la enfermedad. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS...

Over the last 5 years, SSP has developed a robust model to transform marginalized rural women working as mere labourers working in their family-owned farms to changemakers in agriculture. These women are bringing in food security, improved livelihoods, and means to conserve water for their families and the community at...

The State of the World’s Trees, published in September 2021, shares the results of the Global Tree Assessment (GTA) - the first conservation assessment of all of the world’s trees. The results tell us that 30% of all tree species - more than 17,500 species - are threatened with extinction....

Agribusiness TV is a web TV which aims at using videos as a promotion tool to (re)valorise agriculture and make the sector more attractive to youth by showcasing success stories of young agricultural entrepreneurs and their innovations in Africa. With a population of over a billion, of which 70% are aged...

Vingt-deux (22) études de cas et exemples. Voilà ce qui est exposé dans le livre de la FAO intituilé  « Innovations et leçons en matière de financement des chaînes de valeur agricoles ». Ces expériences correspondent à une diversité de méthodes, d’outils, de contextes et de groupes cibles du financement qui permettent de...

Las arvenses o mal llamadas “malezas” son plantas que en un momento dado pueden interferir en el desarrollo del cultivo. Método Manual Se emplea el machete, pero el plateo se debe realizar con la mano a 1 m de distancia desde el pseudotallo. Se recomienda en época seca, en arvenses...

Este trabajo está dirigido a tomadores de decisión no tradicionales del área de la política pública climática como es el caso de los ministerios de finanzas y planificación de América Latina y el Caribe. El objetivo consiste en ilustrar cómo se puede lograr una política climática eficaz y, al mismo...