MONGABAY's Charles Mpaka authored an excellent piece on Malawi's 3.3 million smallholder farming families, which comprise the country's economic backbone, yet many are underprivileged and facing food scarcity. Agroecology has proven to be a lifeline for some farmers, enabling them to increase yields and revenue while lowering the usage of...

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática (MTA) de Magdalena, Cesar, La Guajira y Atlántico, es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, regionales y nacionales, que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña. Se realizó reunión de carácter mixto (presencial/Virtual) donde se presentó la...

Legumes are a special group of plant species that includes crops such as peas, beans, and clovers. Legumes are unique because they require no synthetic nitrogen fertiliser to grow and once they are harvested, the nitrogen-rich crop residues can be left in the field as manure. This process further offsets...

A perte de vue, des acacias et des baobabs peuplent la savane poussiéreuse du bassin arachidier, cette large zone d’agriculture pluviale située au centre du Sénégal. Mais à l’approche du village de Tawafal, 120 km à l’est de Dakar, c’est un autre paysage qui attire l’œil du visiteur : six hectares de...

Este material es una invitación para conocer distintas experiencias de mujeres agricultoras agroecológicas del territorio de Sobral (estado brasileño de Ceará). Son historias que expresan el trabajo, la diversidad, la producción, el corage, las estrategias, la creatividad, la resistencia y la resiliencia de mujeres campesinas de la región de Semiarido...

Los altos volúmenes de importación de maíz que se reportan anualmente para Colombia lo ubican en el séptimo lugar a nivel mundial en este ejercicio comercial, ocasionando alta dependencia de mercados internacionales que pueden alterarse fácilmente ante eventos globales como el sucedido por la pandemia a causa del COVID 19...

La Mesa Técnica Agroclimática (de Huila, es un espacio de diálogo y análisis entre actores locales, regionales y nacionales que busca comprender el posible comportamiento del clima y el Fenómeno de la Niña. Se realizó esta reunión de carácter presencial donde se presentó la perspectiva climática para el trimestre noviembre...

As the conservation of marine resources becomes a growing global priority, the concept of marine protected areas (MPAs) is being widely propagated. Since most MPAs are located in coastal areas of great biodiversity, their development has direct relevance and concern to the livelihoods, culture and survival of small-scale and traditional...

Women play a key role in environmental protection and social and economic development in mountain areas. They are often the primary managers of mountain resources, guardians of biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge. Empowering rural women is crucial to eradicating hunger and poverty. Yet, due to discriminatory social norms, rural...

Against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable forestry, the 2022 edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) explores the potential of three forest pathways...

Romanian National Rural Development Network Newsletter - Topics include discussions on transition period call for projects; survey on LEADER impact on balanced development;19meeting of NRNs, EU and national news, and many many more

A report of the CSM Women’s Working Group, authored by Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys, 35 pages, English. This powerful statement opens the report: “We won’t go back to normality, because normality was the problem”. The report, authored by Jessica Duncan and Priscilla Claeys, truly imbibes this statement in its ethos,...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

El Centro de Conocimiento y Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular del FIDA para América Latina y el Caribe realizó el webinar Prácticas innovadoras de género para la transformación rural: lecciones de Brasil y Uruguay. El webinar presentó la publicación homónima (Descagar publicación), que recoge buenas prácticas de desarrollo rural lideradas por mujeres en el contexto...

The Low Carbon Dairy Farm consists of conducting an environmental and technico-economic diagnosis on each farm and identifying potential actions to improve its carbon footprint. The objective is to build a progression strategy in collaboration with the farmer, so that the action plan fits the realities of the farm and...

Women in the Andean highlands of Cocapata, Bolivia, play a leading role in re-establishing peasant ways of farming, while building innovative connections with urban people. In doing so, they are creating agricultural systems that not only nourish the community and its natural resources but that also support vulnerable populations in...

Mounting evidence points to the fact that climate change is already affecting agriculture and food security, which will therefore make the challenge of ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture even more difficult (FAO 2016). Through Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13, the 2030 Agenda calls for...

 A long-awaited solution for seed suppliers, European organic farmers, and national authorities arrived. The new router database will increase the availability of seed of organic varieties and help increase the transparency of the European organic seed market. EU member states need to establish a national database listing all offered organic seed...

Rhynchophorus palmarum es plaga relevante en palmeras (Aracaceae) en Brasil. Su respuesta comportamental (olfatometría) y electrofisiológica (electroantenografía, sola y acoplada a cromatografía) se estudió frente a compuestos orgánicos volátiles emitidos por hongos entomopatógenos nativos aislados en Coruripe (Alagoas, Brasil) mediante aireación durante 24 horas. El aislado CVAD01 no originó respuesta comportamental significativa,...

Consumers nearly everywhere in Europe tend to buy more and more healthy food – in particular food that is labelled organic. This development has received an additional push through the Corona pandemic, which made many people realise the importance – and vulnerability – of vitality and good health. But does...