In Bangladesh, both in flood years and in dry years, rice crop is under growing risks of yield losses due to disasters. The three-tier weather forecasting scheme provides information on the coming weather and allows to plan agricultural activities accordingly, following the ordinary cropping pattern in case of early or...

AKTEA is the European network of women in fisheries and its main objective is to lobby at European Union level for women rights in fisheries. It was established in 2006 by fisherwomen organisations from different European countries who collectively volunteered to take this movement forward. For several years AKTEA was...

A agricultura familiar é uma forma de produção e trabalho bastante presente no campo brasileiro, embora tenha sido historicamente marginalizada. Mesmo assim, desde o final do século XX aconteceram muitos avanços em termos do reconhecimento institucional da importância econômica e social dessa categoria de produtores, tendo como marco a criação do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento...

Widespread deforestation, natural disasters and human-wildlife conflict are among factors that have diminished Kenya’s forests. The country’s ‘Greening Kenya’ initiative, launched last year, aims to achieve more than 10% forest cover by 2022. The past has seen Kenya put in spirited efforts to protect its forest lands from further degradation. Nonetheless, the...

This is a film produced by ICENECDEV(International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development) to promote sustainable Food System in the Mount Cameroon Forest Region through Tradition/Indigenous Knowledge, Agroecology and Natural Farming Practices in providing healthy Food to Healthy People. This film is produced to promote cultural and traditional practices...

The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites  which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme  and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries. 

Diversas têm sido as estratégias de comercialização e abastecimento alimentar adotadas por organizações da agricultura familiar. Algumas delas em diálogo com órgãos de saúde dos estados e municípios. O objetivo é garantir circuitos curtos de comercialização, cuidando da saúde de todas e todos nós e, também, mantendo a renda de...

Food Systems of the Future: A Synthesis of Reports on Food Systems Transformation was commissioned from Meridian Institute by the Global Alliance for the Future of Food in order to explore the current thinking around the visions, strategies, and pathways to facilitate food system transformation. Food systems should provide healthy food...

Growing mango is full of challenges and farmers should know about them to succeed in the mango production. The more farmers know, the better they will succeed. This short film (and its description) deals with a disease called Anthracnose. It is a very wide spread disease in humid environments, like...

This entry gives an overview of the concept, the fundamental principles and the benefits of conservation agriculture (CA). CA is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity as well as increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. CA is...

Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Viet Nam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote...

The Practical Guide for Gender Analysis in Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture is aimed at providing guidance to SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Departments and ASEAN Member States in the implementation of the SEAFDEC gender strategy as well as human rights-based and gender-equitable approaches in the whole value chain of...

Uncle Wiz is a shining example of a thriving smallscale farming and food distribution business that not only farms without chemicals but also focuses on and promotes indigenous food crops. Owners Wisdom and Mpumi Edward live in south Johannesburg and farm on land in Vanderbijlpark. Not only do they grow...

A partir da II Guerra Mundial, teve início a organização dos Sistemas Agroalimentares atualmente hegemônicos. Estes sistemas deram origem a grandes corporações transnacionais que progressivamente passaram a controlar as cadeias de valor vinculadas à alimentação. Além disso, este modelo de organização do setor alimentar provocou profundos impactos ambientais, econômicos, sociais...

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. Many food system activities must be reconstructed to transition towards sustainability, and myriad actors worldwide are starting to act locally. While some changes are more comfortable than others, knowing how to navigate them...

Actualmente, el 56% de la población mundial se concentra en las ciudadesi y se estima que 7 de cada 10 personas vivirá en ciudades hasta el año 2050. Este escenario conlleva a una urbanización acelerada que genera diversos desafíos, principalmente relacionados al empleo, el acceso a servicios básicos y la...

Diego Machuca, ingeniero agrónomo y encargado de la Unidad Productiva Agroecológica de centro Ceres, nos entrega una serie de recomendaciones para desarrollar en nuestras casas una almaciguera ¡Míralo y celebra con nosotros la curiosidad! #FECI2020#CienciaPública#ExploraValpo

A new virtual platform for knowledge sharing and engagement that collates experiences and stories from small-scale fishery actors around the world. Small-scale fisheries are vulnerable to persistent threats from climate change, overfishing and lack of representation in policy discussions and decision making processes. As we have seen over the last year,...

On the final day of the 32nd Session of the Regional Conference for Europe, FAO Members from Europe and Central Asia reinforced their commitment to transform agri-food systems through innovation, digital technologies and sustainable practices, as well as create inclusive growth in rural areas, taking into account the impacts of the...

If managed sensibly, inland water bodies can go a long way to provide India with a sustainable future and food security for its population. Fish production in India registered a remarkable 16-fold increase during the last six decades to reach 12.59 mn tonnes (MT) in 2017-18, propelling the country to the...