Agriculture needs to adapt to climate change to ensure food security. Agroforestry systems could help make farms more resilient, but they only constitute a fraction of farming in Europe. Is it time for change?

The game is based on a modeling framework that gamifies the implementation of agroecological practices in an integrated crop-livestock farm and assesses their impacts on sustainability. To do so, SEGAE is based on an output-oriented approach that represents impacts of practices on various indicators. These impacts are included in a...

The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of this crucial aquatic food production sector in our region, as well as the information necessary to review advances and identify challenges in achieving the sustainability of fish and fisheries in the Mediterranean and the...

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. 

l Senado de Bolivia renueva la composición del Frente Parlamentario de Lucha contra el Hambre y reactiva esta instancia del Legislativo que es fundamental para que el país avance hacia el logro de la soberanía alimentaria y la mejora de nutrición y alimentación en Bolivia. Su trabajo suma al de otros...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. The articles in this issue are drawn from the presentations and discussions at the webinar organized by GAFS, Women Work in Fisheries, Too! held on 29 November 2021. The webinar...

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. Lila Watson It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State...

Drylands constitute almost 48 percent of the world’s surface – including presumed dryland areas – and are particularly vulnerable to climate change and climatic risks. Yet at the same time, population growth and global changes mean that an increasing number of people depend upon drylands for their livelihoods. These people...

The past months were exciting for the ALL-Ready project and we have been working hard to prepare the future network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. We are pleased to give you some insights on the project’s activities in this second edition of the ALL-Ready newsletter. Our recent activities...

Family farms’ support by legislative measures should be a crucial step for EU countries to ensure food security and a healthy environment in Europe. Therefore, the International conference - Increasing legislative support for family farms in the EU focuses on Family Farm Legislation and family farm policy at the EU member states’ level.

This is Simon, community animator and Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner. Simon shares how indigenous communities in Tharaka, Kenya, have been working to bring their beekeeping traditions back from the brink. “We are turning the tide on the history of loss in our own lands.” By working with the bees, attending to their needs, the...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of its popular fisheries publication – SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelihoods. SAMUDRA Report No. 88, dated December 2022, has a special focus on the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022),...

It was one of those days when Ylvi Çengaj was working intensively in the village of Rrenc in the southern part of Kosovo1 to establish forests with native seedlings in an abandoned area. Contracted as a casual worker along with dozens of others by a forestry programme of the Food and Agriculture...

En el marco de la primera reunión 2022 del capítulo nacional del Frente Parlamentario contra el Hambre, desarrollada este lunes en la Cámara de Diputados de Chile, la parlamentaria Carolina Marzán, presidenta de dicho Frente en el país, presentó un proyecto de ley marco para la Promoción de la Seguridad...

It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam)effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches a chance to...

This article is the first in a series of articles highlighting the work of our colleagues around the world to build agroecological practices, science and movements. Agroecology has emerged as a set of practices based on principles that guide how to produce food sustainably, as well as how to manage...

Two years have passed since the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) began. During these two years, two important observations have been made: the first is the enormous capacity of family farming to create alliances, and the second is the comprehensive and coherent response that the Decade can...

This case study was developed by Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) with support from the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development and the World Rural Forum. SEWA, a trade union was established in 1972 in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. It was an offshoot of the Association's Women's Wing of...

El manejo de plagas y enfermedades en los cultivos es una actividad fundamental para garantizar la sostenibilidad de la producción. Dos aspectos son claves para asegurar el éxito en el manejo fitosanitario. El primero es estar en capacidad de identificar en campo las especies de insectos plaga y los daños...

Over the last three decades, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have proven to be an effective discovery-learning-capacity building approach to help rural populations to innovate with more clarity and purpose while building the social skills needed for rural transformation and empowerment. The diverse forestry and agroforestry applications of the FFS demonstrate...