This brief identifies some of the areas that governments have intervened through emergency law to strengthen a resilient fisheries and aquaculture food supply chains and illustrates how these regulatory measures can be adopted by other countries thereby contribute to ensuring food security and economic development for all especially the indigenous...

In farmer-managed aquatic systems, poor people do not always have the resources to stock ponds with different fish species. Furthermore, in the dry season, water bodies dry out and access to food sources becomes limited. Self-recruiting species (SRS) are animals that do not require repeated stocking in farmer-managed systems and...

Blowfly infestation of traditionally processed fish is a serious problem that results in significant physical and economic losses. It also leads to the unregulated use of inappropriate and hazardous insecticides by fish processors in some developing countries. This manual provides guidance on the biology of blowfly infestation and its control....

Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrate poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. The following technology covers the advantages of using the steam-bending technique instead of the...

The background for conducting country studies on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in seven countries has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative and develop the initiative towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional and country levels. To provide support to...

Considerando el estado actual e importancia de América Latina, nuestra estrategia trabaja en la transformación de paisajes agropecuarios. Los sistemas agrícolas regenerativos buscan mejorar las condiciones de la naturaleza al tiempo que garantizan la demanda de agua y alimento para las personas, genera beneficios como una mayor resiliencia climática de los...

2018 was another record year for global organic agriculture. According to the latest FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide, organic farmland increased by 2.0 million hectares, and organic retail sales also continued to grow, reaching another all-time high, as shown by the data from 186 countries (data as of the...

Coming from a family with a long tradition in agriculture, Ljupco Angelovski, a young family farmer in the village of Egri, North Macedonia, wanted to modernise his farm when he took it over from his parents. His land, however, was fragmented into 15 tiny plots scattered in different locations. 

06/04/2020: Defining and implementing a regional observatory of agricultures within the Indian Ocean is one of the key projects of the PRéRAD-OI (Plateforme Régionale de Recherche en Agronomie pour le Développement dans l’Océan Indien – Regional platform of Agricultural Research for the Indian Ocean development). This project is supported by the Indian...

In a state of crisis, there is a tipping point which either breaks us or transforms us. It's the difference between surviving and thriving. There is perhaps no other time in our recent history where we have had a collective need to move towards resilience. Resilience is a skill we...

The Family Farming Initiative (FFI), developed under the UNDFF framework, builds on the premise that appropriate investment, policies and programmes are needed to support family farming as a concrete way to achieve national SDG targets and indicators. The FFI will help countries to: improve family farming policies, programmes and investments...

El Programa Integral de Nutrición Escolar (PINE-MINED) en conjunto con el programa en el marco de la Seguridad Alimentaria Nutricional Nacional (FAO/PESANN), Nicaragua, desde junio 2006, han validado la metodología de Huertos Escolares con enfoque educativo de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN), de los escolares y sus familias. Este material...

In Ghana, increased population pressure and the need to cultivate greater land area have resulted in reduced fallow periods. As a consequence, the restoration of soil fertility is insufficient to allow recovery of secondary forest and rejuvenation of exhausted soils. Fallows are of ecological, economic and social importance to rural...

Acute malnutrition rates among children under five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million cases in southern districts, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Malnutrition analysis released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Mobiliser les efforts de recherche pour accélérer la transition agroécologique répond à une forte demande des pouvoirs publics, des professionnels et de la société, en France comme en Europe. Pour faire face à ce défi majeur, repenser la manière dont la recherche doit être conduite et développer une stratégie commune...

Les agriculteurs biologiques accordent la priorité absolue à la prévention de l'introduction et de la multiplication des mauvaises herbes. Les pratiques de gestion visent à garder la population de mauvaises herbes à un niveau qui n'entraîne pas une perte économique de la culture et ne nuit pas à sa qualité....

This practice was introduced from the Moluccas islands in Indonesia by indigenous people. Sago palms require only negligible maintenance, which makes sago plantations among the most productive systems that can be operated at almost no maintenance cost. Small-scale sago cultivation without drainage results in a high sago self-propagation rate, short...

High-quality cassava flour (HQCF) is an attractive alternative to cassava starch that can form the starting point for a cassava based industry. HQCF production is less capital intensive and requires lower levels of inputs for success, compared to cassava starch. HQCF can be used as an alternative to starch and...

La Subdirección Nacional de Pueblos Originarios del Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, presenta esta serie de recetas representativas de las tradiciones culturales de los pueblos indígenas y del pueblo tribal afrochileno. La cultura gastronómica indígena y afrochilena, en cuanto a...

El presente marco de recursos integral tiene por objeto aprovechar el potencial de la alimentación escolar para mitigar la pobreza rural mediante el apoyo al desarrollo de la alimentación escolar con productos locales (AEPL). El marco de recursos es un producto de conocimiento que armoniza los conocimientos y las herramientas...