The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will co-lead the implementation of 12 projects worth $264 million aimed to boost local and global health security as part of The Pandemic Fund’s first round of financing. As one of the Implementing Entities, FAO will be at the forefront of driving...

In historic Samarkand, Uzbekistan, leading thinkers from around the globe convened for an international conference on food security to discuss a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future for the world's agrifood systems. The event was organized by the Government of Uzbekistan, with technical support of the Food and Agriculture Organization...

The third meeting of the PSMA Open-ended Technical Working Group on Information Exchange (TWG-IE) was held in Rome, Italy, from 13 to 14 December 2022. The TWG-IE commended the advances made in the development of the Global Information Exchange System (GIES), provided recommendations for the refinement of the system and...

Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services are crucial for food security and for the livelihoods of people involved in food and agricultural production systems around the world. Women and men use and manage biodiversity resources in different ways, and face specific constraints and opportunities. Their unique knowledge and responsibilities in the...

73 projects have been funded under the Horizon 2020 Green Deal Call including 17 projects on climate change and biodiversity and 15 on food and health. The Green Deal Projects Support Office facilitates collaboration between the projects and supports the sharing of best practices, events and other results. Find out more

The most vulnerable economic communities on Earth live alongside carnivores and pay the highest price for human-wildlife conflict. A new paper calls for mechanisms to be developed for rich countries to make payments to the communities at risk. Poorer, rural communities pay the highest price for living with large, carnivorous wild...

Cropping system models are deployed as valuable tools for informing agronomic decisions and advancing research. To meet this demand, early career scientists are increasingly tasked with building crop models to fit into these system modelling frameworks. Most, however, receive little to no guidance as to how to do this well....

En la última década aumentó el reconocimiento de que es necesario y urgente avanzar en la igualdad de género para alcanzar una transición climática justa y un desarrollo sostenible. El Acuerdo de París, así como los fondos multilaterales bajo el Marco de las Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático (UNFCCC,...

As the world population grows, so will demand for food. To try to feed the rising population, agricultural production has increased globally by almost 300 percent over the past 50 years. At the same time, according to the latest data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Following the Kyrgyz tradition, Manzura Orolbaeva welcomes guests with homemade bread and a saucer of melted butter. The bread is made from grain grown on their farm and the butter from the livestock they keep. Agriculture is the main source of income and food for a large part of the local...

Depuis le milieu de l’année 2020, les prix des matières premières agricoles et de certains intrants utilisés en agriculture sont en hausse sur les marchés mondiaux. Ces chocs de prix accentuent la pression sur les producteurs agricoles, qui développent des stratégies d’adaptation et de résilience.

In Europe and Central Asia, Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) talked about improving the management of land and water resources at the Forty-third Session of the European Commission on Agriculture, held in Budapest from 27 to 28 September. The meeting marked a significant step...

In the Global South, rich natural resources, once the bedrock of numerous communities, are under threat from the climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and other challenges. The latest IPCC report reveals that in Africa, 65% of productive land is degraded, with 45% desertified due to poor land practices and climate change...

Projects and collective dynamics around territorial agri-food transitions are multiplying, boosted by public policies around the Territorial Food Projects in France, but going far beyond them. This booklet proposes and illustrates through concrete examples some principles aimed at encouraging a better taking in account of the plurality of visions of ecologisation...

Marine fisheries in India is a caste-based occupation, with a social and political hierarchy in place. For those belonging to the subordinate fishing castes, excluded from decision-making processes at home, migration is an important strategy for gaining economic resources, social power and recognition as skilled and successful marine fishermen. In...

Le Guide pour l’évaluation de l’agroécologie propose une démarche et des outils méthodologiques pour apprécier, d’une part, les effets des pratiques et des systèmes agroécologiques sur les performances agro-environnementales et socio-économiques de l’agriculture et, d’autre part, les conditions de développement de l’agroécologie. Il vise à aider les acteurs du développement...

The Livelihoods Mt Elgon project aims at improving the livelihoods of 30,000 small-holder farmers by empowering farmers with sustainable agricultural practices including agroforestry, and establishing connections to markets through 15 cooperatives. The project is a partnership between Livelihoods Fund, Vi Agroforestry and Brookside Dairy. The project will lead to: -...

This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that...

Fruit trees are often grafted onto rootstocks which provide the adaptation to the soil which makes them the long-term foundation for the tree and the orchard. This way the choice of rootstocks and varieties is so important and can thus be selected in a way that can meet the challenges...

A agricultura familiar compõe um segmento socioprodutivo diverso e disperso por todo o território brasileiro, cujas atividades assumem valores multidimensionais para uma estratégia de desenvolvimento sustentável e inclusivo. Ademais, é responsável pela manutenção de um amplo contingente de ocupações no meio rural, bem como pela produção de alimentos para o...