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Gender and climate change experts chart way forward for a gender-inclusive Africa
National gender and climate change focal points from Africa, working under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), as well as representatives from research entities and civil society organizations met in Nairobi on April 16-18, 2024, to exchange best practices and strategies for integrating gender considerations into climate...
2024 - CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform
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Women’s Land Rights in Colombia
Securing Women’s Resource Rights through Gender Transformative Approaches
This paper reviews land governance in Colombia to examine how legal, institutional, and cultural frameworks influence women’s land rights. It reviews existing statutory regulations and institutional structures defining land rights in Colombia and their relevance for women. It will examine tenure interventions in Colombia and the existing gaps and constraints...
Colombia
2024 - Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Ouvrage
Youth-led initiatives in the bioeconomy
Youth leading the way towards a sustainable future
This booklet introduces the bioeconomy topic and its growing relevance also for youth. Global political and economic development agendas are placing more focus on developing and growing the bioeconomy to support the transformation to sustainable bio-based industries. Based on real cases of youth entrepreneurs in the bioeconomy from four different...
Benin - Colombia - Costa Rica - Egypt - India - Kenya - Mexico - Morocco - Uganda
2024 - FAO
Article de blog
Why reviving old crops is key to saving Africa's degraded soils
The interview with Cary Fowler, US Special Envoy for Food Security, underscores the urgency of shifting agricultural practices in Africa from monocultures to diverse, traditional crops to address food security and soil fertility challenges. Highlighting Africa's pressing need due to soil degradation and population growth, Fowler emphasizes the significance of...
2024
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Mali: Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project
This project introduced a range of renewable energy technologies to enhance the lives of rural people. Biogas digesters were coupled with latrines and slurry storage was developed. Sustainable bio slurry will replace chemical fertilizers, allowing households to save money and consume healthier foods. Biogas digesters also alleviate burdens on women...
Mali
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article
In the Pacific coast of Colombia, guardians of the mangrove sow seeds of change
The 'shell women' of the Pacific coast of Nariño have promoted sustainable harvesting and use of a native mollusk called piangua for the many generations. They are also at the forefront of mitigating climate change and leading mangrove conservation.
Colombia
2024 - UNWOMEN
Pratiques
How to apply mycorrhizal fungi in fruit growing
Problem
Organic fruit growing often faces challenges like lack of water or nutrient availability, which in turn can have significant adverse effects on the health of the fruit tree and harvest.
Solution
Application of mycorrhizal fungi products to the soil during fruit growing can enable plants to absorb water and nutrients from the...
2024 - Organic Farm Knowledge
Note/document d'orientation
Cultivating change with agroecology and organic agriculture in the tropics
Bridging science and policy for sustainable production systems
Agroecology and organ agriculture present promising alternatives to the current food system, supported by a growing body of evidence. Despite the potential of AE/O, their full benefits cannot be realised in most countries due to political and institutional barriers and lock-ins, including incentives and funding that favour “business as usual”...
2024 - FiBL
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Investing in rural people in Zambia
Over the past 15 years, Zambia’s economic trajectory has fluctuated because of global and domestic factors. Despite its rich endowment in natural resources, Zambia has yet to fully leverage this potential for economic expansion. The agricultural sector, which engages over 70 per cent of the workforce, is recognized as a...
Zambia
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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The socio-economic performance of agroecology. A review
Agroecology is identified as an important solution to increase the sustainability of agricultural and food systems. Despite the increasing number of publications assessing the socio-economic outcomes of agroecology, very few studies have consolidated the scattered results obtained on various case studies. This paper provides new insights by consolidating evidence on...
2024
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Autonomisation économique des femmes en Afrique
Réduire l’écart entre les sexes sur le marché du travail, pour assurer l’émancipation économique des femmes. Bien qu’elles enregistrent l’un des taux de participation au marché du travail parmi les plus élevés, les femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne sont toujours confrontées à de nombreux obstacles qui limitent leur accès à un emploi...
2024 - Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Article de revue spécialisée
Why building participatory dashboards is key for sustainable food system transformation
In recent years, numerous examples of food system dashboards have been developed with the goal of offering users the opportunity to monitor or assess (their) national food systems. One of the many challenges faced by these initiatives has been to strike an acceptable balance between the complexity, local-specificity, and multi-sectoral...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia - Honduras
2024 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Article
Fields of contestation and contamination: Maize seeds, agroecology and the (de)coloniality of agriculture in Malawi and South Africa
Farmer-managed seed systems and the conservation of agrobiodiversity are increasingly recognized as important components of food and seed sovereignty. In contrast, hybrid, genetically modified (GM), and, increasingly, gene-edited crops continue to be promoted by Green Revolution proponents as a “climate smart” package that includes fertilizers, pesticides, purchased seeds, and links...
Malawi - South Africa
2024
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Les effets socio-économiques de l'Agroécologie
Les effets positifs de l’agroécologie dans le domaine agro-environnemental (santé des sols,biodiversité, lutte contre la crise climatique, non-contamination de l’environnement) sont souventmis en avant. Ils s’accompagnent d’effets positifs tout aussi importants dans le domainesocio-économique, comme en témoignent de nombreuses études réalisées dans divers pays duSud, dont plusieurs par des organisations...
2024 - Coordination SUD
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Good agricultural practices (GAP): Green gram
(Vigna radiata [L.] Wilczek)
Myanmar ranks as the world's third-largest pulse producer, following Canada and India, cultivating crops like black gram, pigeon pea, chickpea, and green gram. Green gram constitutes a third of total pulse exports. To enhance productivity, quality, market competitiveness, and exports, Myanmar can leverage improved crop production technologies and adopt good...
Myanmar
2024 - FAO
Comptes rendus de conférence
Strengthening Demand for Neglected and Underutilised Crops - GAIN Convening Paper Series 8
Overreliance on a few main crops, as well as poor soil health, reduce yields, hinder achievement of food security and nutrition objectives, and increase agricultural vulnerability to climate change. To address this, the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS), launched by the United States in partnership with FAO and...
2024 - GAIN
Ouvrage
The World of Organic Agriculture 2024
Statistics and Emerging Trends
Organic agriculture is practised in 188 countries, and more than 96 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by at least 4.5 million farmers. Global sales of organic food and drink reached almost 135 billion euros in 2022.
The 25th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture", published by the...
2024 - FiBL
Article
Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are...
Ghana
2024 - University of South Africa
Fiche d'information
Time to address global soil monitoring?
This ITPS soil letter emphasizes the urgent need for a comprehensive global soil monitoring system to address the challenges of increasing food demand due to population growth and soil degradation. With more than 800 million people suffering from malnutrition in 2021, and food production needing to increase significantly by 2050,...
2024 - FAO
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Diversity, preference, and conservation priority of woody plant species in coffee agroforestry system in southwest Ethiopia
The natural forest in southwest Ethiopia is progressively modified to coffee agroforest. To this effect forest composition and diversity is simplified to local preferred coffee shade trees. Woody plant species that are less managed require the conservation priority in coffee agroforest.
The study aims at assessing diversity of plant species, investigating...
Ethiopia
2024
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