Food loss and waste reduction should be seen as a means toward achieving other objectives, including improving food security and nutrition, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, lowering pressure on water and land resources and can increase productivity and economic growth.  The formulation of effective policies toward food loss and waste reduction requires comprehensive information...

On August 30, 2021, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajpaksa declared economic emergency. The decision was taken to curb hoarding of essential items and to control inflation, since the country is faced with a shortage of food items and a steep rise in prices of essential commodities. Sri Lanka is under a...

The Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/ International Atomic Energy Agency (FAO/IAEA) Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture optimizes and strengthens the capacities of member countries in using nuclear and isotopic techniques to improve agricultural resilience and the adaptation to climate change. The impact of...

Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of...

The Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for about 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, but can also be an important part of the solution to climate change, through adaptation and mitigation efforts.  As part of its Strategy on Climate Change, FAO is developing the low...

The brochure was designed to raise awareness regarding COVID-19 precautionary measures Pre-Harvesting Operations from planting till harvesting, for farmers in remote villages during the coronavirus pandemic.

High-Level Forum saw the launch of the SIDS Solutions Platform to foster innovation and digitalization

This course explores the role of forests and trees in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It takes into consideration the ecosystem services and goods that forests provide, and the importance of forests for the food security of forest-dependent people. It explores the complex relationship between climate change and forests, and how adaptation...

Esta publicación presenta diez experiencias de colaboración intercultural escalables que demuestran la importancia, eficiencia y efectividad de trabajar de la mano de hombres, mujeres y jóvenes de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes de América Latina y el Caribe en la búsqueda de soluciones prácticas desarrolladas a partir de la sinergia entre...

Ya ha pasado un año desde que se reportó el primer caso de Covid-19 en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Desde entonces, la región ha sido una de las más gravemente afectadas del mundo, con más de 70 millones de casos reportados y más de 1,5 millones de decesos. Además...

Introducción. Los procesos de degradación del suelo están asociados principalmente a malas prácticas y cambios en su uso. Generar indicadores que permitan conocer el estado del suelo es necesario para buscar alternativas que permitan mejorar la calidad del suelo. Objetivo. Evaluar algunos indicadores edáficos en diferentes sistemas de ganadería bovina...

Un modelo de negocio permite diseñar estrategias logísticas, de orden estructural, así como analizar procesos y alcances de un determinado producto. De igual modo, orienta una hoja de ruta definida que pretende promover la eficiencia y maximizar los beneficios. En el caso del proyecto °AHoRa, se busca desarrollar un aplicativo...

The Initiative focuses on improving the urban environment, strengthening urban-rural linkages and the resilience of urban systems, services and populations to external shocks. Ensuring access to a healthy environment and healthy diets from sustainable agri-food systems, increasing availability of green spaces through urban and peri-urban forestry, it will also contribute...

Before the world could lift itself out of the devastating impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, further waves of the virus are storming through different countries leaving a trail of death and devastation. Across the world, while the worst brunt of the health and economic impact of...

Climate change affects crop yields, causing them to fluctuate significantly. Agriculture is both impacted by climate change and contributes to it through the release of greenhouse gases. German Operational Group HUMUVATION decided to tackle these two challenges by focusing on agriculture’s potential to fix carbon. It will combine existing cultivation systems and...

The scope of the training ''Agroecology in the 2021-2027 Multi-annual Financial Framework of the European Commission's Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)'' that was held on 3 and 4 November 2021 was to raise awareness on the meaning, role of and country experiences in agroecology and to provide concrete clues...

This recommendation paper presents general recommendations for food systems transformation to achieve net-zero emissions from food production by 2030 and net negative emissions from food systems by 2050. According to the document the following actions are needed to transform food systems: 1. A global shift to nature-positive production: Nature-positive food production systems protect nature,...

Strong linkages exist between the emergence of infectious diseases and changes in land use. More than 60% of new infectious diseases of humans are transmitted by animals, and most originated in wildlife. The risk of transmission of viruses from animals to humans is higher than ever as people clear forests...

This report was initiated following the EEA's 2018 assessment of the status of and pressures on European waters, to highlight the role of agriculture in achieving an improved status of surface water and groundwater in future river basin management plans (EEA, 2018b; EC, 2019c). The EEA's 5-yearly state of the...

Since the late 1990’s, advances in molecular technologies allowed the DNA sequencing of microbial communities. This enabled the identification of the genetic background of all the microbes – bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses – that live associated within a plant (endophyte) or attached to seed, leaf or roots of a...