Farmers in Haiti traditionally apply a number of actions before and after natural hazards hit in order to reduce the impacts particularly on high-market value products. For example, farmers can anticipate banana harvesting to mitigate the losses in case of natural hazards occurrence. The integrated package of practices to reduce...

La crisis climática, la pandemia del COVID-19, la pérdida de biodiversidad, la desigualdad estructural y la transición del sistema alimentario representan retos complejos e interconectados que requieren de una agenda consensuada de ciencia para la co-innovación. La Iniciativa Andina es una plataforma regional de innovación que aborda estos desafíos a...

Quarterly launched, the Right to Food newsletter updates timely on the progress and advancements of the right to food around the world, including news, events and resources produced by FAO and stakeholders. This issue highlights how the realization of the human right to adequate food is at even more risk since...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, FAO llama a mitigar el impacto de la pandemia en la nutrición escolar a través de este video. Más información en: http://www.fao.org/americas/noticias/ver/es/c/1266856/

This technology describes the introduction of improved cattle breeds in Uganda. The improved breeds are more productive and resistant to diseases and are managed by applying the zero grazing production system. This is a type of production system where the animals are kept in an enclosure to control input use...

Climate change is causing unprecedented damage to our ecosystem. Increasing temperatures, ocean warming and acidification, severe droughts, wildfires, altered precipitation patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea levels and amplification of extreme weather events have direct implications for our food systems. While the impacts of such environmental factors on food security are...

We all know that making good decisions requires good data. This is clear in our day-to-day lives. How can we choose what to wear in the morning without knowing whether it will rain or not? How would we find the way to work without a map? Why would we ever...

El próximo 22 de abril, a las 10:30hs de Asunción, Paraguay, el Instituto Social del MERCOSUR desarrollará el Foro Virtual “Geografía Humana del Gran Chaco Sudamericano” con una conferencia de Fabricio Vazquez, doctor en Geografía y Ordenamiento Territorial. La actividad inaugura el Diálogo de Asunción, proyecto del ISM que busca, a...

La injertación es una práctica hortícola indispensable en la citricultura, ya que factores como la capacidad de respuesta de la planta a las condiciones ambientales (favorables o adversas), el tipo de explotación o incluso el mercado al cual está dirigida la producción dependen en gran medida de una adecuada interacción...

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

In Bangladesh, rice, and variations in its yield, is the key staple crop. It is critical to the livelihoods of that part of the population depending on agriculture. Transplanted aman (t. aman) is the second rice crop grown in the wet kharif II season, between July and November. However it...

This method produces small, whole planting setts, each weighing 200 g to 800 g, from minisetts as small as 25 g. The small, whole tuber setts produced by minisett rapid multiplication are excellent planting material for farmers and researchers. Each sett has a head, which means that sprouting is early,...

Si la selva amazónica son los pulmones del planeta, entonces los Andes son su alma. Los ecosistemas andinos son excepcionalmente ricos en biodiversidad única, diversidad cultural y recursos naturales. Como punto de acceso mundial de la agrobiodiversidad, los Andes son el centro de origen de cultivos clave y alimentos altamente...

CEPAL y FILAC, consecuentes con el compromiso y el desafío de visibilizar la realidad de los pueblos indígenas, presentan conocimiento actualizado relativo a los derechos territoriales y la situación de los bosques, la demografía y el derecho al bienestar de estos pueblos. Se espera que ello contribuya al seguimiento de...

Properly spaced trees help provide many of the same benefits of a complete perennial cover. Fine soil particles contain most of the humus and nutrients in the soil, and if lost, soil fertility is reduced, while windbreaks help protect cropland by reducing wind velocities for a distance approximately 15 times...

La agrobiodiversidad de los Andes es excepcionalmente rica en especies y variedades de importancia global para la alimentación y la salud. Entre raíces, tuberosas, granos, legumbres, frutas y otros tipos de plantas comestibles, más de 50 especies fueron domesticadas en la región andina. Sin embargo, la mayoría permanecen marginadas de...

In the Shrubs for Change project, 300 ‘trainers of trainers’ learn how to get more milk from dairy cows by feeding them nutritious leaves from shrubs. These trainers will in turn train and support 120,000 dairy farmers in Kenya and Malawi to start growing shrubs in their own gardens. Research has...

Why does mountain agriculture deserve special attention in a Zero Hunger context? Firstly, because hunger remains common in many mountainous areas. While on a global scale, food insecurity has tended to go down, mountain dwellers have fared worse than people living in plains. Secondly, because mountains cover a large part...

In today’s context of rising hunger and ecological collapse, women and all those who seek to reimagine food, environment and economies, face ever-increasing attacks. This edition of the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch addresses key issues of power, and expose the structural violence that degrades both women and the...

Provisional AgendaThe Global Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)27-29 May, 2019FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy