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How good governance protects forests
‘Good governance’ is increasingly recognised as a factor contributing to improved protected area (PA) management and conservation outcomes. Yet how exactly governance at different levels supports or hinders successful PA management, and how this should be considered in conservation policy, planning and practice, remains insufficiently understood. This backgrounder considers how the...
2021 - IIED
Sitio web
Water efficiency, productivity and sustainability in the NENA regions (WEPS-NENA)
The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, already exposed to chronic shortage of water, will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, the NENA region...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FOLLOWING THE THREAD OF YAK
A holistic study and technical report on the yak wool industry
The yak is a long-haired species of Bovidae living throughout high-altitude areas that began to be domesticated approximately 10,000 years ago. Even though the yak originates from the Tibetan Plateau, it has spread among the Greater Central Asia uplands. These animals not only are intrinsically interrelated with the territory that...
2021 - IFAD
Actas de conferencia
Países de América Latina intercambiaron experiencias sobre las políticas en agroecología
Durante dos días fueron presentadas experiencias de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay y Nicaragua.
Cerca de 2.400 personas participaron del seminario internacional virtual Agroecología, agricultura familiar y ODS: políticas públicas en América Latina, promovido los días 9 y 10 de marzo por el proyecto Sembrando Capacidades. Por medio de las plataformas Zoom y...
Argentina - Brazil - Colombia - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Uruguay
2021 - Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (ABC/MRE)
Estudio de caso
Ghana: Championing rights and fair compensation for forest communities
Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...
Ghana
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Impacto de la ley chilena de etiquetado en el sector productivo alimentario
El preocupante aumento del sobrepeso y obesidad en la Región ha llevado a los países a desarrollar normativas y políticas públicas para superar esta problemática. Muchas de estas apuntan a transformar los entornos alimentarios para que sean más saludables, mejorando el acceso e influenciando la conducta de las personas, desincentivando...
Chile
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Gobernanza del agua en territorios agrícolas - Estudio de caso en Perú
El Perú es un país con una marcada asimetría hídrica. Las características del territorio y las condiciones climáticas en las tres regiones naturales del Perú configuran tres grandes cuencas hidrográficas. La gran cuenca del Pacífico cuenta con sólo el 2% del recurso hídrico nacional disponible. En 2017, concentraba el 58%...
Peru
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
42nd FAO Conference endorses the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists proposal!!
he 42nd session of the FAO Conference held from 14th to 18th June endorsed the proposal of an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026 by the Mongolian government and adopted the Resolution.
The Conference recognized that a significant number of pastoralists in the world inhabit rangelands and that pastoralism is globally practiced in many different forms....
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Inde : une région du sud fait le pari d'une agriculture 100% vertueuse
Dans le sud de l'Inde, la région agricole autour d'Anantapur, l'une des plus grandes du pays, est en pleine conversion vers une agriculture 100% naturelle, à rebours du modèle agricole indien. La terre compte huit millions de paysans, dont Surendra Reddy. Le fermier a été l'un des premiers convertis. Depuis quatre...
India
2021 - franceinfo
Artículo de blog
Smallholder farmers would benefit from an online trading platform, FAO study finds
In the Republic of Moldova, creating a single online trading platform for small-scale agricultural producers could improve sales and market access, thus increase growth and economic competitiveness. Returning migrants could benefit, too, and become agents of change thanks to their digital skills, as well as inspire other farmers who are...
Republic of Moldova
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Sitio web
Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste
Food loss and waste reduction should be seen as a means toward achieving other objectives, including improving food security and nutrition, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering pressure on water and land resources and can increase productivity and economic growth.
The formulation of effective policies toward food loss and waste reduction requires comprehensive information...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Sri Lanka’s inorganic transition to organic farming
On August 30, 2021, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajpaksa declared economic emergency. The decision was taken to curb hoarding of essential items and to control inflation, since the country is faced with a shortage of food items and a steep rise in prices of essential commodities.
Sri Lanka is under a...
Sri Lanka
2021
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Nuclear techniques for climate-smart agriculture
The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/ International Atomic Energy Agency (FAO/IAEA) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture optimizes and strengthens the capacities of member countries in using nuclear and isotopic techniques to improve agricultural resilience and the adaptation to climate change. The impact of...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Agricultural transformation in Asia
Policy and institutional experiences
Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Carbon neutral tea production in China – Three pilot case studies
The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for about 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, but can also be an important part of the solution to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation efforts.
As part of its Strategy on Climate Change, FAO is developing the low...
China
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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COVID-19 precautionary measures for agricultural farmers
The brochure was designed to raise awareness regarding COVID-19 precautionary measures Pre-Harvesting Operations from planting till harvesting, for farmers in remote villages during the coronavirus pandemic.
Afghanistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO calls for renewed digital push in Small Island Developing States battered by COVID-19
High-Level Forum saw the launch of the SIDS Solutions Platform to foster innovation and digitalization
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Aprendizaje en línea
Climate-smart forestry
This course explores the role of forests and trees in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It takes into consideration the ecosystem services and goods that forests provide, and the importance of forests for the food security of forest-dependent people. It explores the complex relationship between climate change and forests, and how adaptation...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Estudio de caso
Los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes y el cambio climático en América Latina
Diez experiencias de colaboración intercultural escalables
Esta publicación presenta diez experiencias de colaboración intercultural escalables que demuestran la importancia, eficiencia y efectividad de trabajar de la mano de hombres, mujeres y jóvenes de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe en la búsqueda de soluciones prácticas desarrolladas a partir de la sinergia entre...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
¿Sigue afectando la pandemia del COVID-19 a nuestros campesinos?
Ya ha pasado un año desde que se reportó el primer caso de Covid-19 en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Desde entonces, la región ha sido una de las más gravemente afectadas del mundo, con más de 70 millones de casos reportados y más de 1,5 millones de decesos.
Además...
2021 - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)
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