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Article de blog
Maintaining biodiversity-friendly landscapes
Protecting our ecosystems requires more than the enlargement of protected areas. With the right incentives, farmed landscapes could be managed in a way that enhances the numerous benefits nature offers to society and that support the biodiversity conservation targets of protected areas.
The enlargement of protected areas and carbon price incentives...
2023
Article de revue spécialisée
High work satisfaction despite high workload among European organic mixed livestock farmers: a mixed-method approach
Organic mixed livestock farming offers a range of potential benefits for the environment. Due to the diversification of enterprises, this farming system can be associated with a high workload, which means that it could be socially unsustainable. The aim of this study was to understand and explain work satisfaction of farmers...
European Union
2023 - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Fiche d'information
Rescate de semillas de algodón de colores en la zona del Alto Isoso
Este folleto producido en el marco del proyecto +Algodón busca presentar brevemente algunos resultados de investigaciones sobre la diversidad y distribución geográfica actual de variedades de algodón de color y mejoradas en la región del Chaco y que son producidas por campesinos e indígenas, con el objetivo de identificar el...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de blog
More than Half of Earth’s Species Live Underground
New research indicates that soil, often overlooked as just 'dirt', is teeming with life, hosting around 59% of all known species, from tiny bacteria to giant redwood trees. This finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doubles previous estimates of soil biodiversity. Historically, quantifying the exact...
2023
Article de blog
NATURE RESTORATION LAW ADOPTION GIVES HOPE FOR FOOD & FARMING SYSTEMS
Organic farming delivers multiple benefits for the climate and biodiversity, including increased carbon sequestration in soils, lower energy input, 30% more on-farm biodiversity and increased resilience of the farming system. These are highlighted in a document on the benefits of organic farming published by IFOAM Organics Europe. Transforming how we...
2023 - IFOAM Organics Europe
Article
Promoting oil palm-based agroforestry systems: an asset for the sustainability of the sector
Until recently, the massive development of industrial and smallholder oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) plantations has generally been conducted according to the monocrop model. However, alternative cropping systems have emerged, based on more diversified systems that combine various crops within the oil palm plots. By giving this plant a status...
2023 - Cahiers Agriculture
Rapport
A learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming
To feed the world and do it sustainably, radical transformation of our food systems is urgently needed. This transformation requires the strengthening of thinking conceptually around different policy areas which relate to food security and nutrition. Interconnecting seemingly disparate topics and increasing the coordination between traditionally independent, sectoral policies, make...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rapport
GLOBEFISH Highlights – International markets for fisheries and aquaculture products
Second issue 2023, with January–December 2022 Statistics
The publication contains a detailed quarterly update on market trends for a variety of major commodities. Combining the price information collected for the European Price Report with other market survey data collected by FAO GLOBEFISH, the report provides a detailed update on market trends for a variety of major commodities....
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Note/document d'orientation
Local Food Councils
Local Food Councils are emerging in different contexts over the world, emanating from public policies, civil society networks, or diverse alliances, and under different names: food policy councils (mostly) in North America, food and nutritional security councils in Brazil, local food councils in France, among others.
Their aims and functions vary,...
2023 - INRAE
Article de revue spécialisée
Community forest governance and synergies among carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods
Forest landscape restoration has emerged as a key strategy to sequester atmospheric carbon and conserve biodiversity while providing livelihood co-benefits for indigenous peoples and local communities. Using a dataset of 314 forest commons in human-dominated landscapes in 15 tropical countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, we examine the relationships...
2023 - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Sweden
Article de blog
Exploring the benefits of organic agriculture in Africa
Ernest Aubee, the former Head of Agriculture Division at ECOWAS, recently spoke to Journalists Go Organic about the potential of Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA). According to Aubee, EOA is a sustainable production system that prioritizes the health of soils, ecosystems, and people. He noted that there are ample opportunities for...
2023
Apprentissage en ligne
Stimuler et pérenniser les investissements agricoles responsables au profit des jeunes
Ce cours est destiné à compléter la série de trois cours «Créer un environnement favorable à l'investissement responsable dans les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires — Fondamentaux — Analyse — Réforme». Il vise à fournir des conseils sur les problématiques spécifiques aux jeunes qui devraient être prises en considération lors de la...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Partie de rapport
Las Marías del Campo
La Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar en colaboración con Barefoot Guide Connection organizó una serie de “talleres de escritura”, para ayudar a los profesionales a escribir sus propias experiencias, generando conocimientos que destaquen las prácticas, cambios, innovaciones e impactos de lo que hacen en apoyo a la agricultura familiar.
Estos...
Brazil
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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Making school meals tasty
Making sure that school meals follow nutrition guidance and are enjoyed by all students is not always an easy task, but a very important one. After all, not only are healthy diets crucial for children's development and wellbeing, but the enjoyment of food is part of the right to food...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Note/document d'orientation
Social protection and rural transformation in Africa
This article develops a conceptual framework on pathways through which non-contributory social protection can contribute to a resilient and inclusive agricultural growth in rural Africa. It draws insights from a review of rigorous empirical evidence on the impacts of cash transfers and multifaceted cash plus programs on range of relevant...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Audio
Improving farmers’ access to smart learning with videos: Insights from a young Indian changemaker
Audio podcast of Access Agriculture Co-founder Phil Malone in conversation with Neeraj Kumar, Co-founder of Khetee, an NGO in Bihar, India, on his experience as Access Agriculture’s Entrepreneur for Rural Access (ERA). Listen here ...
India
2023 - Access Agriculture
Article de blog
Joining forces to improve food and water security
Water and food security are closely linked. WFP and UNEP agree to work together to improve food, water and environmental security in vulnerable communities.
Biodiversity and ecosystem loss, the climate crisis, and environmental degradation are having devastating impacts on the food and water security of millions of people around the world....
2023
Article de revue spécialisée
Stakeholder’s practices for the sustainability assessment of professional urban agriculture reveal numerous original criteria and indicators
With the rapid growth of professional intra-urban agriculture (PIUA) projects in the Global North, sponsors, projects leaders, and experts developing these projects are seeking to evaluate their sustainability. As existing assessment tools are not adapted to PIUA projects, they establish their own assessment practices. Our study examines these practices to...
2023 - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Ouvrage
Dimensões de desenvolvimento e construção de capacidades para a formação da Agenda para a Agricultura Familiar
No Brasil, o processo de desenvolvimento foi muito influenciado pela atuação direta do Estado na agricultura, como também, indiretamente, pela formação de capacidades estruturantes. Após várias décadas de diferentes modelos de intervenção, ficam evidentes as diferenças no desenvolvimento regional brasileiro, possibilitando a observância de traços característicos entre macrorregiões e biomas
Experiência...
Brazil
2023 - Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV)
Article de blog
NATURE RESTORATION, CRUCIAL FOR RESILIENT FOOD & FARMING SYSTEMS
Biodiversity protection and well-functioning ecosystems are essential for food production. But the Commission’s proposal on a nature restoration law has faced unjustified opposition when it comes to setting restoration targets for agricultural ecosystems. The organic movement calls on MEPs to support ambitious nature restoration on agriculture land as well preserved...
2023 - IFOAM Organics Europe
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