Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Guayapi was founded by Claudie Ravel in 1990 after three years of feasibility studies in the Amazon rainforest with the Sateré Mawé tribe on how to build credible and fair value chains in marketing their products, starting with Waraná (original name of Guarana in Sateré Mawé language). Claudie Ravel and Obadias Batista Garcia, the...

The global youth population has reached the unprecedented figure of 1.2 billion. This exceptional number has enormous potential: with farming populations ageing across the world, the agricultural sector needs to attract youth to ensure generational turnover and foster competitiveness. With their energy, ability to learn and innovative attitudes, youth can...

The Food Plant Solutions project was designed to address malnutrition through the use of readily available and local food sources. We create educational publications that help people understand the connection between plant selection and nutrition, and empower them to grow a range of highly nutritious plants with differing seasonal requirements...

La producción ovina en los últimos años en Colombia, se considera como una actividad con miras a exportación de carne, por lo cual, es necesario conocer el desempeño productivo de las diferentes razas dedicadas a este propósito en las regiones, con un número considerable de animales respecto al inventario nacional;...

Food losses are a major concern and occur in most fish distribution chains worldwide. Not only do losses constitute lost income to fishers, processors, and traders, but they also contribute to food insecurity. Progress has been made in identifying the direct causes of fish losses and quantifying the magnitude of...

An effort to improve animal health in Central Asia that started in March 2019 concluded with 2021. Despite the COVID-19 and related limitations, FAO managed to redesign the project and, whenever possible, move to a virtual format to achieve goals set up at the start. The most prominent achievement has been...

A scenario in which women collectors and fisherwomen from the mangroves of Latin America and the Greater Caribbean have undertaken the challenge of writing and photographing chapters of their lives, gaining self-recognition, and recognizing themselves in others. The idea is to transform their strengths into a rhizome of life.

Esta publicación explora el acceso de las mujeres a los Servicios de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural (ATER), a través de una herramienta desarrollada por la FAO para el Análisis de Género en los Servicios de Asesoramiento Rural (GRAST), con el propósito de evaluar el grado de incorporación del enfoque...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ecosystems) are closely linked and inter-dependent. (OHHLEP One Health definition, 2021) The global impact and...

We are Magdalene and Gillian, trainers working for Kulika Uganda. We are passionate about seeing that people engaged in agriculture adopt sustainable farming practices which are easy to implement and have benefits for the people and the planet.  Kulika is a non-government organization working with rural communities to empower people to build...

Long lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic offered us a reminder of the restorative power of nature for the body and mind. Yet, reconnecting people with nature, particularly in cities, has been the focus of several European research projects since well before the outbreak of COVID-19 almost three years ago.These projects...

EU-STREIT PNG addresses gender-based violence and its subsequent negative impact on inclusive participation and transformational change in seven remote villages in Sandaun Province. Vanimo, Papua New Guinea – A 5-day intensive training workshop on establishing and organising agri-business groups, with a focus on Group Leadership and Business Management skills, was recently organised...

The need for innovative approaches to agriculture that make crop production efficient and resilient to shocks and disruptions came under the spotlight today at the opening of the first Global Conference on Sustainable Plant Production organized by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Under the theme Innovation,...

Libro de resúmenes, dividido en tres ejes: Eje temático 1: formación en extensión rural Este eje reúne los aportes que apuntan a la implementación de espacios de formación formales y no formales para diferentes actores de la extensión rural (estudiantes, profesionales del medio, miembros de instituciones y organizaciones sociales, redes de promotores,...

On 31 August and 1 September 2022, IFOAM Organics Europe, FiBL and Bio Suisse hosted the 1st edition of the Organics Europe Youth Event (OEYE). The event aimed to create a platform for young agents interested and active in the organic sector to network, discuss and develop knowledge and awareness on organic amongst youth. The participants listen eagerly...

Food waste (FW) is a key challenge on the sustainable development agenda of countries worldwide. The lack of FW data and insights from its analysis about quantities, causes, and characteristics is a significant obstacle in implementing adequate reduction and prevention interventions for different sectors. The primary purpose of the case...

We cannot end hunger and poverty without empowering both men and women farmers.  Today, agriculture and food systems face an unprecedented array of challenges. We must feed a growing global population in a context of persisting and emerging economic, environmental and social concerns. These include price volatility, market insecurity, conflicts, protracted...

Family farming policies and programmes, including Rural communication services (RCS), are vital in strengthening the participatory communication capacities among farmer organizations and rural institutions and giving family farmers the capacity needed for sustainability. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in collaboration with YenKasa Africa held a regional forum on...