El Boletín de indicadores de ciencia, tecnología e innovación del sector agropecuario colombiano hace parte de los instrumentos con los que cuentan los actores del Sistema Nacional de Innovación Agropecuaria (SNIA) para conocer el entorno de la investigación, el desarrollo tecnológico y la innovación a través de información relacionada con:...

This issue is a collection of nine experiences of Andean farmers, carried out in a participatory and objective approach, addressing issues related to topics of strategic importance on the road to sustainable and agroecological agriculture. The articles also combine the results of research supported by the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program...

A two-day virtual regional consultation titled “Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to Support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia” was held by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for...

Today we are publishing the first stories of our journey to Uganda. It’s actually become one long story about Uganda’s small family farms. More than 70% of people in Uganda work in agriculture. The country has more than three and a half million family farms, and many of its smallholders are...

Promoted by the National Coordination Group for the Bioeconomy (CNBBSV) of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers[1] and Re Soil Foundation in collaboration with CREA and ISPRA, the General States for soil health were held for the first time on 10th November 2022 at Ecomondo, the international fair on...

What is the story behind the food you eat? What if people actually valued all the underpaid and unpaid labor that goes into food? What if women were not doing most of the work? And if women and girls weren’t the last ones to eat? What if it weren't mostly...

This guideline outlines the step-by-step implementation of direct purchases from family farming for school feeding, considering the pilot implementation of the sustainable schools model in Belize within the framework of Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO programme. The document presents the benefits and challenges of the connection between school feeding and family...

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 and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, has launched an Innovation Fund to stimulate investments in Cocoa, Vanilla and Fisheries businesses as well as to promote development of local companies and entrepreneurs in the Greater Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea. The Fund...

Latin America and the Caribbean is committed to confronting and overcoming the most complex humanitarian, economic and social crisis in recent decades, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. No other region has been hit so hard. The agri-food sector is key to move beyond the crisis. From farms all the way to...

Para establecer sistemas silvopastoriles, ¿Por qué lo espacial es tan especial? Una ganadería puede considerarse como un Agroecosistema Los componentes y sus características se ubican en un lugar y un momento. Conocer su ubicación y extensión en un sistema ganadero, sirve para identificar dónde y cómo establecer un modelo de sistema...

For over four decades the Organic Research Centre has been discovering and developing nature-friendly farming practices based on organic principles of health, ecology, fairness and care, with research findings not only benefitting the organic community, but also delivering value across the whole of the agricultural industry. Over the last three months...

Today we are publishing the first stories of our journey to Uganda. It’s actually become one long story about Uganda’s small family farms. More than 70% of people in Uganda work in agriculture. The country has more than three and a half million family farms, and many of its smallholders are...

Soil is a key resource because the services provided by its ecosystem are essential to ensure life on Earth. However, 60-70% of all European soils are unhealthy because of current management practices, pollution, urbanisation and the effects of climate change. In fact there are 2.8 million potentially contaminated sites in...

This training module was developed for staff of agricultural departments and non-governmental organizations who work on agricultural extension in low-income countries. Its intention is to enable the staff to strengthen the communication and facilitation skills of people who promote good agricultural practices, such as extension workers and volunteers. The training...

In the Republic of Moldova, far more women living in rural areas are at risk of poverty compared with men and with urban populations. The recently released National Gender Profile on Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods in the Republic of Moldova presents a snapshot of gender inequalities that affect various aspects of agricultural...

As part of a series of briefings by the African Centre for Biodiversity in the lead up to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to be held in December in Montreal 2022, this briefing examines the contradictory nature of the sustainability discourse over the years,...

The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is one of the major pests in maize crops, causing important production losses. The pest has rapidly spread worldwide, generating an urgent need to develop efficient and sustainable strategies for its control. In this work, the potential of integrating nucleopolyhedrovirus- (NPV) and the fungus Metarhizium...

[Pratiques innovantes en agroécologie] Depuis 2010, le Groupement familial Global Key System cherche à développer une agriculture saine et durable, en limitant les intrants chimiques dans la production du riz dans le Delta du Fleuve Sénégal. Un processus de recherche action est mené en partenariat avec des opérateurs techniques et...

The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology (Agroecology TPP) is delighted to launch its very first Community of Practice (CoP) Activation Workshop, which will take place on 13 September at 3pm CEST.  The 90-minute session is open to all agroecology enthusiasts, including those who are present members of the CoP. The workshop will help...