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Article de revue spécialisée
Comment/Editorial: Flawed Floors
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the global inadequacy of social-protection floors in safeguarding marginalized communities, in the process exacerbating poverty and vulnerability. The social-development case studies in this issue of SAMUDRA Report (pp 63-93) clearly demonstrate how the small-scale fishing communities in Asia, the Caribbean and Central America took a major...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vidéos
Sistema hidráulico de agricultura anfibia Zenú
La cultura Zenú, en Colombia, ha desarrollado y mantenido vivo por más de 2000 años, el ‘Sistema hidráulico de agricultura anfibia Zenú’, el cual establece canales en forma perpendicular a los ríos y caños, con el propósito de generar productividad, garantizar la protección de las viviendas y regular el flujo...
Colombia
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
The political economy of agroecology
This paper examines agroecology within Europe, its dynamics, its position within a broader politico-economic framework and its political significance. It argues that agroecology is contesting and, at least in some places, effectively changing the main social relations of production in today’s agriculture. In this respect, it has a strategically important...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2021 - The Journal of Peasant Studies
Rapport
Ecosystem restoration for people, nature and climate
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration provides a unique opportunity to transform food, fiber, and feed production systems to the needs of the 21st century, and to eradicate poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.
This report presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort. Drawing on the...
2021 - United Nations Environment Programme
Article de blog
Forests - new EU strategy
As announced in its Communication on the European Green Deal, the Commission is developing a new (post 2021) EU forest strategy. The strategy will build on the EU’s 2030 biodiversity strategy, cover the whole forest cycle and promote the many services that forests provide. The strategy will also be aimed...
2021 - European Commission
Article de blog
Rural people in Uzbekistan received 34 greenhouses from FAO
FAO donated altogether 34 greenhouses to rural families living in Uzbekistan’s southeastern regions (Bukhara and Kamashi districts) as part of the socio-economic response to the global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The greenhouses will improve the nutrition and livelihood of vulnerable families.
“Low-income families were selected for FAO support on...
Uzbekistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fiche d'information
The African Great Green Wall project
The pan-African Great Green Wall (GGW) is an initiative that was initially meant to involve the planting of a 15 km wide transcontinental forest belt running from Dakar to Djibouti. This major project is designed to combat desertification. The band of vegetation is to be as continuous as possible, but...
2021 - The French Scientific Committee on Desertification (CSFD)
Article de blog
Multilateralism and Transformation of Corporate Food Systems: Different Visions, Different Pathways
An open exchange on the Food Systems Summit took place on Friday 30 April between the UN Deputy Secretary General, Amina Mohammed, and the FSS Liaison Group of the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism. The meeting was facilitated by the CFS Chair, Thanawat Tiensin, in response to a CSM...
2021 - Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security
Partie d’un ouvrage
Los biofertilizantes y su relación con la sostenibilidad agrícola
Los suelos saludables y productivos son fundamentales para lograr el desarrollo de una agricultura sostenible, por lo que permiten sustentar nuestros sistemas alimentarios, filtrar y regular el flujo de agua dulce, almacenar vastas cantidades de carbono y sostener a millones de organismos. Sin embargo, lamentablemente, los suelos del mundo están...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Ouvrage
Food systems and nutrition
Handbook for parliamentarians N°32
Parliamentarians are agents of change, and their role is critical to ensure a world where all people are eating healthy diets from sustainable, inclusive, and resilient agri-food systems. Members of the Parliament hold a strategic position as they can shape policies and actions for improving food availability, accessibility, and affordability...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
Sistema tradicional de las Chagras Amazónicas del medio Caquetá
En el ‘Sistema tradicional de la Chagras Amazónicas del medio Caquetá’ confluye una gran diversidad biológica, con variedad de grupos étnicos, quienes a través de la implementación de Chagras Amazónicas emulan los procesos de sucesión en los bosques, integrando los conocimientos sobre las plantas cultivadas, las tecnologías adaptadas a las...
Colombia
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Document de travail
Micronutrient supply from global marine fisheries under climate change and overfishing
Fish offer billions of people with an easily available supply of essential micronutrients such as iron, zinc, and vitamin A, emphasizing the potential for fisheries to contribute to malnutrition alleviation. Climate change and overfishing, according to the research that looked at over 800 fish species from 157 nations, may lead...
Mozambique - Sierra Leone
2021 - https://www.cell.com/
Manuel
Recarbonizing global soils: A technical manual of recommended sustainable soil management
Cropland, grassland, integrated systems and farming approaches - Practices overview
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....
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
Social capital: the crucial role of women's groups in scaling up agroecology
The leader of the Community Managed Natural Farming (CMNF) programme Vijay Kumar explains the Social Capital side of the story, and how women’s groups were a central part of the success of CMNF, now recognised worldwide as a model of agricultural transformation. The CMNF initiative has mobilised over a million...
India - South Africa
2021 - AFSA, Andhra Pradesh Community managed Natural Farming
Rapport
Agricultura familiar y ODS. Avances y desafíos regionales
Este documento fue elaborado a partir del trabajo de dos plataformas regionales que impulsa la International Land Coalition en América Latina y el Caribe: Agricultura Familiar y Tierra y ODS. El mismo es resultado de una revisión de 5 informes nacionales sobre Agricultura Familiar en la región de América Latina, y de 10 informes...
Argentina - Ecuador - Honduras - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Peru
2021 - Plataforma Regional Agricultura Familiar
Article de revue spécialisée
United Nations: Seeds that Can’t Be Buried
A counter-mobilization event in July 2021 united social movements, indigenous peoples and civil society organizations opposed to the UN Food Systems Summit. From 2019 until 2020, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2021 report, the number of those suffering from hunger increased by 161 mn...
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Article de blog
Global Environment Facility approves FAO-led projects in Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed approval from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for five FAO-led projects in eight countries, totaling more than $46.6 million in funding. The decision was made during the 60th GEF Council Meeting and the 30th Least Developed Countries Fund Council...
Cambodia - Thailand - Viet Nam
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Ouvrage
Soberania alimentar: Biodiversidade, cultura e relações de gênero
Muitas experiências de promoção da agroecologia no Brasil e no conjunto da América Latina estão baseadas em conhecimentos tradicionais sobre a produção agrícola em harmonia com a natureza, assim como no consumo de alimentos saudáveis que se apresentam de várias formas: nas refeições cotidianas, em festas e rituais, em determinadas...
Brazil
2021 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Pratiques
Biochar fertilizer
The biochar fertilizer provides not only nutrients to crops, but also microclimate favourable conditions for plants growth, mostly during the dry season. Materials used to make this biochar fertilizer is locally sourced from crop residues form beans, maize, ground nuts, coffee husks, residues of fodder, assorted plants rich in NPK...
Uganda
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Myanmar: A race to avoid increasing food insecurity
Millions of people in Myanmar are expected to become hungry over the coming six months as food insecurity is predicted to rise sharply and plunge the country into a food crisis. In the wake of political and financial instability, an increasing number of people are facing uncertainty as job losses...
Myanmar
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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