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Note/document d'orientation
Climate Change and its Impact on Agriculture
It was a difficult summer for Lynn Swanson, a farmer in Whidbey Island, Washington. It was hot and it hardly rained. Where fertile fields once stretched into the distance, a silent but ever-present crisis has been unfolding – climate change. Farmers, dating back generation after generation, are now fighting to...
United States of America
2023
Article de revue spécialisée
Overcoming agricultural sustainability challenges in water-limited environments through soil health and water conservation: insights from the Ogallala Aquifer Region, USA
A rapid decline in water availability for crop production has driven substantial changes in cropping systems in the arid and semi-arid regions, including transitions from irrigated to dryland cropping. Management decisions play a critical role in the sustainability of agricultural systems facing transitions. Specifically, adopting practices that increase crop water...
United States of America
2023 - African Sustainable Agriculture Research Institute
Article de blog
Transforming to a regenerative U.S. agriculture: the role of policy, process, and education
U.S. agriculture is both a major source of global food and a key contributor to multiple interconnected crises. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and severe impacts on soil and water quality are among the challenges caused by U.S. industrial agriculture. Regenerative methods of farming are necessary to confront all these challenges...
United States of America
2022 - Sustainability Science
Article de revue spécialisée
Diversified Farming Systems: Impacts and Adaptive Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States, Norway and China
The COVID-19 pandemic fully exposed the vulnerability of the global agri-food system to shocks and stresses, highlighting the need for transformation and action to make it more resilient and inclusive. This paper offers a unique insight into the global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining impacts and responses in...
China - Norway - United States of America
2022 - University of Bergen Norway
Apprentissage en ligne
Hybrid course: ''Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and social movements'', on January 2023
This program of the University of Vermont is designed to examine potential pathways towards the sustainable transformation of our current agrifood system by integrating economic, social, and ecological perspectives.
Rooted in ''Participatory Action Research'' (PAR), the program will guide the students to identify key questions and practice new methods for integrating data from...
United States of America
2022 - University of Vermont
Ouvrage
Review of existing legislation to protect pollinators from pesticides in selected countries
Honeybees (Apis mellifera), wild bees, and other pollinators can be adversely affected by pesticides as well as other stressors, with potentially large economic and ecological consequences. Legislation is one possible tool which can be used to support actions to protect pollinators from pesticides. Several documents have been published at the...
Australia - China - Dominica - Ireland - Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Samoa - Solomon Islands - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2022 - FAO
Rapport
Amplifying agroecology in Vermont: Principles and processes to foster food systems sustainability
Agroecology represents a model system that supports the environment by offering an approach to food production that enhances biodiversity, builds ecological resilience, improves soil diversity, reduces the use of natural resources, and provides a healthy environment for the planet. It is increasingly recognized as an effective system that generates a...
United States of America
2021 - Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative, University of Vermont 2 Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont 3 Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont 4 Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont 5 Environmental Program, University of Vermont 6 Center for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Vermont 7 UVM Extension, University of Vermont 8 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, CA 9 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
Ouvrage
Legal & Policy Strategies for Health Care & Food System Partners
Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered. Pre-existing health inequities and an increased risk of job loss or loss of income mean that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous...
United States of America
2021
Article du bulletin d’information
US: Why small-scale fisheries matter
A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...
United States of America
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
Minnesota Farmers Turned the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity to Strengthen Community
Iron Shoe Farm in Minnesota is finding new ways to connect farmers and consumers and keep their business afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. The farm’s founder, Carla Mertz, is hoping to do this by transforming food supply chains and building strong local communities.
United States of America
2021 - FoodTank
Étude de cas
Food Sovereignty in the USA: A Selection of Stories
Food sovereignty is a vision for democratic control over food and agricultural systems. The Narrative Collective of the United States Food Sovereignty Alliance compiled a series of stories that explore the concept of food sovereignty. These stories highlight food sovereignty in action, what the struggle looks like, and how it’s already taking shape.
With...
United States of America
2021 - US Food Sovereignty Alliance
Note/document d'orientation
“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots voices from North America on the importance of building agroecology, fighting for policy, and joining global struggles
For decades, rural peoples movements of peasant farmers, indigenous people, pastoralists, and fisherfolk (to name a few) have organized at the global level for a new food system based around the concepts of the human right to food, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Increasingly, grassroots movements and frontline communities from North America...
United States of America
2021 - Actionaid USA
Pratiques
Raising rabbits in the tropics
The importance of the domestic rabbit as a supplier of meat for human consumption is widely recognised throughout the world. The document 'Rabbit Technology for Warm Climates' is designed as a text for students, teachers, and practitioners on rabbit rearing.
United States of America
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Site web
Agenda de investigación para la prevención y contención de Fusarium en la región Andina
La marchitez por Fusarium causada por Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) Raza 4 Tropical es una amenaza para la producción de banano y plátano en América Latina y el Caribe, por esta razón es importante articular acciones entre los países que permitan contener, prevenir y controlar la dispersión del...
Colombia - Ecuador - United States of America
2020 - FONTAGRO
Rapport
Making the market work for nature
How biocredits can protect biodiversity and reduce poverty
Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to promote biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity credits or ‘biocredits’ are coherent units of measurement that track...
Costa Rica - Germany - Malaysia - Namibia - South Africa - United States of America
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Article de revue spécialisée
US / COVID-19: Relief Misdirected
Small-scale fisheries are important for the food security of the United States. Yet relief measures during the COVID-19 pandemic favour industrial operators, and are unsustainable. When the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020, no one knew for certain what it would mean for the seafood industry, let alone...
United States of America
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
As the food supply chain breaks down, farm-to-door Community Supported agriculture (CSA) take off
During the Coronavirus crisis, it has become clear how fragile and vulnerable agro-industrial supply chains can be. However, a movement known as "Community Supported Agriculture" (CSA) is at its peak, a model of local marketing providing healthy and nutritious products from the field to the kitchen. Members buy a share...
United States of America
2020
Article de blog
El rol de la mujer rural en el sistema agroalimentario latinoamericano
Esta publicación es parte de una serie de blogs en apoyo a la campaña de las #MujeresRurales, dentro del contexto de la iniciativa “Mujeres rurales, mujeres con derecho” coordinado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés). El siguiente...
United States of America
2020 - Research Programa on agriculture for nutrition and health - CGIAR
Article
Yes, U.S. Farmer Suicide is SignificantlyHigher Than the National Average
This work analyzes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 17-state survey and its subsequent errata on U.S. suicide rates. The CDC study, which had generated media interest on U.S. farmer suicide, was retracted following the emergence of a coding error. Although the CDC corrected and republished its survey,...
United States of America
2020
Article de revue spécialisée
The Native Farm Bill Coalition and the 2018 Farm Bill: building a strong, sustained voice on food and agriculture issues in Indian country
When the 2018 Farm Bill, the Agriculture Act of 2018 (Pub. L. No. 115-334), was signed into law on December 20, 2018, it cemented 63 new provisions across 11 of the 12 titles aimed specifically at supporting food, agriculture, infrastructure, research and education for Tribal governments and Tribal food producers....
United States of America
2020 - Cambridge University Press
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