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Traditional Rice-Based Farming Systems for Climate Change Adaptation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Historically, before the introduction of high-yielding rice varieties (HYV), the traditional rice varieties (TRV) were predominant in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam (MDV). The TRV-based farming system is environment-friendly and has been existing for hundreds of years—now, it has been proven to be sustainable under increasing climate change conditions. It is...
Viet Nam
2023 - SEARCA
Estudio de caso
7 success factors to empowering rural women through ICTs
Using technology to transform lives
The digital revolution has changed the way we work, access information and connect with each other. It offers opportunities to those who can use the new technologies, but also presents new challenges for those who are left behind.
Often referred to collectively as Information and Communications Technologies or ICTs, these technologies...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Boletín informativo
Organic Research Centre Newsletter June 2023
The Organic Research Centre is a leading, independent, research charity working for better farming, food and health, promoting environmental sustainability, quality food and health and wellbeing for all. We work in the UK and internationally to: research and develop practical, sustainable land management and food production systems based on organic...
European Union
2023 - Organic Research Centre
Artículo de blog
Climate-resilient women: Seaweed farmers in the Philippines feed families and futures
Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college.
The Cherish Fisherfolk Cooperative of 120 seaweed farmers in the Palawan village of Balintang is named after...
Philippines
2023
Artículo
Sécurité alimentaire en Afrique : cultiver des légumineuses pour utiliser moins d’engrais minéraux ?
Éliminer la faim d’ici à 2030 fait partie des objectifs de développement durable fixés par l’ONU. Un défi de taille en Afrique subsaharienne, où un tiers des ménages se trouve toujours en situation d’insécurité alimentaire. Pour répondre à la demande de la population africaine en pleine expansion, la nécessité d’une augmentation importante...
2023 - CIRAD
Artículo de blog
DFO outlines implementation of Indigenous fisheries
One of the most lucrative fisheries in Atlantic Canada – the elver [baby eel] fishery, which garners up to $5,000 per kilogram – was closed this past spring due to concerns about conservation and safety caused by poaching.
In a fisheries management order prohibiting the fishing of elvers issued on April...
Canada
2023
Artículo de revista especializada
Explaining shifts in adaptive water management using a gendered multi-level perspective (MLP): a case study from the Nile Delta of Egypt
Understanding the logic behind farmers' choice of adaptive water management practice is important to appreciate the opportunities and challenges they face and to scale targeted solutions effectively. This paper aims to understand the main drivers of change that induce adaptation in water management. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework that juxtaposed...
Egypt
2023 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
Sitio web
Thematic Group (TG) on Strengthening the Position of Farmers in the Organic Supply Chain
There is broad consensus on the key role of organic production and consumption in the transition to a sustainable food system, with the Farm to Fork Strategy including the objective of ‘at least 25% of the EU’s agricultural land under organic farming by 2030 and a significant increase in organic aquaculture'. To achieve this target and to help...
European Union
2023 - ENRD
Informe
Action plan on nutrition Seventh progress report April 2021 – March 2022
With the new programming cycle for 2021-2027 now under implementation, the seventh progress report provides an opportunity for closure with respect to the EU’s ambitious 2013 pledge to allocate EUR 3.5 billion to nutrition between 2014 and 2020. The annual resource tracking exercise presented here confirms that by 2020 the...
2023 - Directorate-General for International Partnerships (European Commission)
Artículo de blog
Un agricultor ‘regenerativo’ aragonés que cuida los suelos
La agricultura siempre ha mirado más a las plantas que a sus raíces, más al verde que a los suelos. Pero la agricultura regenerativa se ha fijado precisamente en las tierras donde cultivamos, con el objetivo de mejorar la salud del suelo, aumentar la biodiversidad y mejorar la disponibilidad y...
Spain
2023 - Regeneration International
Acto
Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures in Europe – experiences from ALL-Ready & AE4EU
ALL-Ready and AE4EU jointly host their final project conference at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 27 September 2023.
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The one-day conference will shed light on how the two projects paved the way for a European Network of Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. Both projects will feature...
European Union
2023 - ALL-Ready and AE4EU
Artículo de blog
Public hearing: The importance of fisheries and aquaculture for rural areas
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023, the Committee on Fisheries held a public hearing entitled "The importance of fisheries and aquaculture for rural areas". The objective of this hearing is to listen to various stakeholders on what is important to them when it comes to fisheries and aquaculture in rural areas.
Fisheries...
2023 - European Parliament
Artículo
Fossil-fuel-dependent scenarios could lead to a significant decline of global plant-beneficial bacteria abundance in soils by 2100
Exploiting the potential benefits of plant-associated microbes represents a sustainable approach to enhancing crop productivity. Plant-beneficial bacteria (PBB) provide multiple benefits to plants. However, the biogeography and community structure remain largely unknown. Here we constructed a PBB database to couple microbial taxonomy with their plant-beneficial traits and analysed the global...
2023
Informe
The role of forest ecosystem services to support the green recovery
Evidence from the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database
Forests are an important component of natural capital and deliver a broad range of ecosystem services that underpin human well-being. The extent and condition of forests in many parts of the world, however, have declined dramatically during the preceding decades due to unsustainable harvesting of timber, forest fires, urbanization, and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Boletín informativo
Shedding New Light
The 2023 Illuminating Hidden Harvests Report is arguably the most concerted and comprehensive research effort so far to focus exclusively on small-scale fisheries but it is not enough.
Jointly produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Duke University and WorldFish, the 2023 Illuminating Hidden Harvests (IHH)...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
10 Policy Solutions for Better Food & Better Health
Our food production model drives unhealthy choices leading to poor diets. This becomes clear when walking down any supermarket aisle: the shelves are filled with over-packaged food imported from all over the world and look the same whatever the season. Even when people would prefer to eat well, many barriers...
2023 - Slow Food
Artículo de blog
Learning through Farmer Field Schools: How Ugandan Communities Found Self-Sustainability
Uganda’s environment is under massive strain. With few resources available, many farmers are draining wetlands for agricultural use, and with deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and water pollution impacts planting and harvesting. In recent years, climate shocks have exacerbated this deterioration. More than 70% of Uganda’s population works in the agriculture...
Uganda
2023 - Action Against Hunger
Boletín informativo
Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest October 2023
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.
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2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Conference spotlights regional food system sustainability
Unique new range of in-depth national food systems assessments for BSEC countries
The first set of systematic and in-depth National Food Systems Assessments in Central Asia show that consumer food preferences are changing. Agrifood systems are becoming industrialized and globalized. Increasing numbers of people live in cities and personal income levels are rising. These developments bring not only immense opportunities but also...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Hoja informativa
La FAO en la promoción de la agroecología en Cuba
"La FAO en la promoción de la agroecología en Cuba" resume los prinicipales resultados del trabajo de la FAO en Cuba en la promoción de la agroecología.
Cuba
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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