Burkina Faso, Haiti, Mali and the Sudan have been elevated to the highest alert level to join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen Acute food insecurity is set to potentially increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger “Hotspots” comprising a total of 22 countries, a new UN early warning report has...

Climate change-related events undermine children’s educational attainment, exposing them to child labour, hazardous work and forced migration. This nexus is particularly relevant for agriculture and its subsectors: indeed, they absorb about 26 percent of the economic impacts of climate change-related disasters and host 70 percent of all child labour. This...

Baraa Al Ali had already lived through a lot when the earthquake struck Syria and Türkiye on February 6. The 44-year-old mother of six from Al Ghab, a district in the governorate of Hama, had been forced to flee her home several times during the 12 years of the Syrian conflict...

Fishing communities have long served as the guardian of food security and the driving force behind local economic development. Despite their invaluable contributions, they continue to face significant challenges. Small-producers, in particular, are often located in remote areas, and regularly experience limited or disadvantaged access to markets, along with inadequate...

Investing in farmers – or agriculture human capital – is crucial to addressing challenges in our agrifood systems. A global study carried out by the FAO Investment Centre and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and...

In mid-December of 2022, more than 190 countries approved what was considered “a sweeping United Nations agreement” regarding the global protection of biodiversity. This took place at the COP15 UN Conference on Biological Diversity held in Montreal, Canada, and co-chaired by Canada and China. The agreement calls for the protection...

El cultivo de yuca en Colombia ha mostrado una alta relevancia social y económica en todo el territorio nacional. En los últimos años, el área del cultivo de yuca a nivel nacional ha sobrepasado las 200.000 ha, siendo la región Caribe el mayor productor de yuca en el país. A...

The Government of Nepal  launched a series of programmatic frameworks in the food and agriculture sectors that will help the country transform its agrifood systems, making them more resilient and sustainable for the benefit of all people in Nepal, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said...

This paper is the product of a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to explore the potential application of innovative technologies to improve data collection and risk estimation of child labour in the cocoa sector. In particular, it...

A series by the African Centre for Biodiversity In this series focusing on ultra-processed food (UPF) on the African continent, we explore the impacts of shifting dietary patterns, with increasing reliance on low-cost, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) globally, and in Africa in particular, in the context of an urgent call for a...

Boletín cienciométrico de la Coordinación de Divulgación Científica y Tecnológica que tiene por objetivo visibilizar las cifras del impacto científico de AGROSAVIA en las plataformas de mayor cobertura y visibilidad científica a nivel mundial. Además, muestra los resultados del CRIS AGROSAVIA, la Biblioteca Digital Agropecuaria de Colombia (BAC), perfiles científicos...

La especie Manihot esculenta Crantz pertenece al género Manihot y a la familia Euphorbiaceae. Tres subespecies han sido reconocidas: M. esculenta subsp. esculenta, la cual es domesticada e incluye a todos los cultivares conocidos como cultivo; la silvestre M. esculenta subsp. peruviana, encontrada en el oriente del Perú y occidente...

El proyecto de cooperación Sur-Sur trilateral +Algodón Colombia entregó oficialmente el 23 de marzo, en Espinal-Tolima, un dron para uso de técnicos especialistas del Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA). La herramienta de última generación tiene el objetivo de mejorar la competitividad y sostenibilidad ambiental, económica y social del sector algodonero colombiano.  El proyecto...

In the new EU CAP Network, innovation, knowledge exchange and EIP-AGRI play a crucial role in sharing good practices and connecting people across EU agriculture, forestry and rural areas. The new edition of the Agrinnovation magazine offers inspiring stories, interviews, Operational Group updates and other news from across Europe.

Las ferias libres pueden jugar un papel clave para aminorar el impacto del incremento de los precios de los alimentos en la coyuntura actual. Además, constituyen un espacio constante de acceso a alimentos saludables, que es de suma importancia para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de la población. El presente...

Khaled Mohamed and Mohamed Abd ElAziz are two best friends working as farmers in the Oasis of El Kharga, Egypt. They share several commonalities other than being illiterate and having hearing impairments, as both men are married and both have four children. The two were also born into families of farmers...

Lancé en juin 2022 au Cameroun, le Pôle de Connaissances de l’Agriculture Biologique en Afrique Centrale (PCAC) est le dernier des 5 hubs mis en place dans les 5 régions d'Afrique dans le cadre du projet Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture in Africa (KCOA). Le projet PCAC a été lancé...

L’Afrique subsaharienne est l’une des régions du monde où l’urbanisation est la plus rapide. Cette urbanisation entraîne une forte augmentation de la demande en produits maraîchers périssables. Elle offre ainsi de nouveaux marchés aux agriculteurs en périphérie des villes, tout en les contraignant d’un point de vue foncier du fait...

Approximately one-third of the world’s population depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forest-dependent people require social protection because they are often poor, geographically, politically and socially marginalized, and vulnerable to a variety of risks and shocks. Forestry and social protection programmes and policies share similar objectives of reducing vulnerability of...

This document begins with a description of how farmers’ seed systems and formal systems interact.Then we discuss some of the challenges facing farmers’ seed systems including climate change, the private ownership of seeds, the difficulty of registration and certification for farmers’ seeds, and the role of international treaties on national...