Carbon farming refers to sequestering and storing carbon and/or reducing greenhouse gas emissions at farm level. It offers significant but uncertain mitigation potential in the EU, can deliver co-benefits to farmers and society, but also carries risks that need to be managed. The report identifies opportunities and constraints for carbon...

Kat Sharp from Achpopuli Farm shares her experience as a participant in a farmer-led project focussing on anthelmintic use reduction. Find out more about worm control without anthelmintics : https://www.soilassociation.org/farme... Part of our work with RELACS EU, looking at reducing contentious inputs in organic farming. Music: "Little idea" from Bensound.com...

Los inoculantes microbianos constituyen una alternativa para contrarrestar los impactos ambientales adversos que ejercen los agroquímicos sintéticos, facilitan el crecimiento vegetal y el rendimiento de los cultivos de manera ecológica. Por tanto, es indispensable producir inoculantes de buena calidad y de bajo costo, con fuentes nutricionales amigables con el medio...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)  launched in the Europe and Central Asia region the Global Action on Green Development of Special Agricultural Products: One Country One Priority Product. This global initiative aims to make agrifood systems more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable. Introduced by FAO’s Director-General in September...

FAO and IFAD have been called to support the implementation of the UNDFF and established a joint FAO-IFAD Secretariat to facilitate this process under the guidance of an International Steering Committee composed by Member States and Family Farmers Organizations. Since its launch in 2019, the UNDFF has been promoting integrated...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

It was another hot and humid day, another power cut, the generator groaning in the background. Fans were spinning and pumping hot air around as the A/C didn’t work with the generator. I looked around the office, everyone seemed bored, scrolling through Facebook, chatting occasionally. I felt sad that there...

Dans un ouvrage à succès paru en 2013, un journaliste britannique spécialiste de l’Asie analyse comment la Chine, le Japon, la Corée du Sud et Taïwan ont réussi à s’extraire de l’extrême pauvreté. Une leçon pour l’Afrique ?

Se evaluó el crecimiento y desarrollo de cuatro especies arbóreas nativas en su etapa inicial de desarrollo establecidas en un arreglo silvopastoril para ramoneo de ovinos y caprinos en territorio de una comunidad indígena Wayuu ubicada en la zona de amortiguamiento del Parque Nacional Natural de Macuira en la Guajira-Colombia....

This article is about informing the debate. The information in it has long been needed. It is, however, still superficial and no more than a snapshot. It has also required the author to resort to available ‘standard’ farm management data to make predictions. The information it contains is, therefore, only...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) enfrenta importantes amenazas y desafíos en materia medioambiental, tales como la escasez de agua y la sequía, la degradación de los suelos, la pérdida de la biodiversidad, la deforestación, y los fenómenos y desastres naturales, con impactos en los sistemas agroalimentarios de la región...

Vice-présidente du groupe de travail 1, membre du bureau du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC), la chercheuse marocaine Fatima Driouech revient dans cet article sur les impacts du changement climatique sur le continent africain, et les enjeux en termes d’adaptation et d’atténuation pour le secteur “agriculture, agroforesterie...

Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri...

Constituting only 6 percent of the world population, Indigenous Peoples are nevertheless vital stewards of the environment. 28 percent of the world’s land surface, including some of the most ecologically intact and biodiverse forest areas, are primarily managed by Indigenous Peoples, families, smallholders and local communities. These forests are crucial...

The climate emergency affects us all deeply, in so many ways. But for farmers it has more drastic implications. It undermines all aspects of the food systems that they depend on. Extreme weather devastates their crops and livestock, and destabilises the very water cycle that they are intimately a part...

Part two of four from Stuart Meikle on Ireland, food security and feed(ing) the world delves into the relationship Britain and Ireland have with each other  -the two main islands of the archipelago referred to in the article’s title. Part one (see below) focused on Ireland, food security and nitrogen...

Climate change has a detrimental effect on Macedonian agriculture contributing to water scarcity, temperature variations, intense drought, severe fires, and flooding. At the same time, declining biodiversity causes (or triggers) reduced yields and damage to agricultural production, all of which affect the food security and livelihoods of the agriculture-dependent rural...

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...

The Europe and Central Asia region is rich in biodiversity, hosting a great variety of wild relatives of cultivated plants and domesticated breeds. Biodiversity provides ecosystem services – such as pollination, healthy soils and clean air – that are essential to all forms of life and are key to improving food...