Through the Swedish-funded Supporting Resilient Smallholder Farming systems in Somalia project, FAO is working to enhance food and nutrition security and smallholder income, therefore improving the resilience of communities to threats and crises in Hirshabelle and Southwest states. Within the rainfed and riverine areas, the project is supporting 24 farming...

John Wilson's recent article for the AFSA blog in honor of World Water Day 2023 offers valuable insights into the importance of restoring water cycles. Wilson emphasizes the need to restore ecosystems, especially farming systems, so that rainwater can infiltrate the ground and replenish the water table, rather than causing...

As the countries of Eastern and Southern Africa level up their forest monitoring practices in line with global and regional environmental commitments such as the Paris Agreement on climate change and AFR100 on restoration, questions have arisen about what to do with the rich and comprehensive data sets being generated. The East and Southern Africa Forest...

La demi-lune est une technique de récupération des terres encroûtées et qui a pour but de réhabiliter les sols dégradés, de conserver les eaux et de fertiliser les sols en culture pluviale.

Le bassin de collecte d’eau de ruissellement est un ouvrage qui a pour but de stocker les eaux de ruissellement à des fins utiles pour le producteur pendant les poches de sécheresse.

Le jardinage hors sol est fait sur des sacs vides de céréales, remplis de terre mélangée à du compost avec au milieu du gravillon ou quartz et qui assure le développement d’une plante en dehors de la pleine terre.

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...

Cakin blooming, pumpkin, purslane, moringa, bitter cucumberUse, key nutrients, common name, scientific name   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...

Finger millet, maize, taro, Chinese taro, Sweet potato, country potato Scientific name, common name, use, key nutrients   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...

Humans depend on a thin planetary ‘skin’ made up of life in all its diversity: biodiversity. Agriculture now covers the largest portion (46%) of the global land surface area; its ecological health and resilience in the face of changing climate is therefore critical to human survival. The biodiversity found within...

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.

YAHI is a youth-led organization committed to eradicating hunger and achieving food security for all, by promoting sustainable and equitable food systems through education, advocacy, and community engagement.

The PROFEAAC project (Promouvoir et Formaliser l’Exploitation Artisanale du bois d’œuvre en Afrique Centrale – Promoting and Formalizing Artisanal Timber Exploitation in Central Africa) has just published two guides in comic strip form to explain how to set up a nursery and plant trees, based on its experience in the...

As part of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative, whose goal is to help reach Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that agricultural investments – namely those linked to a new series of integrated...

A la Une – Retour sur la journée d’études IRAM : Enjeux et défis de la cohésion sociale et du développement économique en République centrafricaine Le 8 février 2023, l’Iram a organisé en partenariat avec l’ONG Echelle – Appui au développement et l’Université de Bangui une journée d’études consacrée aux enjeux...

In early May of 2023, the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) conducted an in-field training on its Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology for Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) monitoring in Makueni County, Kenya. The four-days training formed part of a broader project to promote NbS for...

“Fish farming is my mother’s business,” says Nurudeen Quadri, a 38-year-old fish farmer from Ijebu-Ode in southwest Nigeria as he enters Eriwe farm village. “I have been coming here since I was very small. When I graduated from university, I started my own farm.” Located at two hours’ drive east of...

Fifteen participants from four development agencies in the Philippines took part recently in a two-week training course to learn the essential skills required to develop high-quality farmer-to-farmer training videos that adhere to Access Agriculture’s strict standards for quality, content and format.

Le second numéro du bulletin réalisé dans le cadre du Programme Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest (PAE) mis en œuvre par AVSF, l’Iram et Inades Formation est disponible. Il contient notamment desarticles sur les acquis et enseignements du projet, ainsi que les der-nières publications réalisées.

Land ownership in The Gambia is a complicated issue. It lives at the intersection of traditional customs, legal processes, competing needs, and momentum from the public sector and local NGOs towards more equitable governance.  Many women face significant disadvantages in owning land due to long-standing customs that govern land distribution within...