On 23 September 2021, the Food Systems Summit convened by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, was held. Latin America and the Caribbean played an essential role in this event. The official proposals and recommendations presented at the Summit are part of the official reports of the national...

La presente publicación pone en valor los resultados del proyecto precursor "Introducción del azafrán a la Araucanía, como una alternativa productiva en comunidades mapuches para el desarrollo de una agricultura sustentable y colaborativa”. La finalidad de esta iniciativa fue contribuir a la diversificación productiva de la actividad agrícola de las...

Team Leader of Climate Change, Energy and Low-carbon Development Pham Thu Thuy highlights the importance of sustainable financing for climate and how to improve it.

This systematization presents the outcomes of the use of the "Women in Development" approach (WID) by FAO-Haiti. This women-only approach recognizes the productive role of women, in addition to their reproductive role, and seeks to improve women's living conditions through the implementation of Income Generating Projects. Given the fragility of...

La seguridad alimentaria y el hambre, vinculadas a la pobreza rural, en México son de los mayores desafíos al comprender amplios sectores de la población, que se agudizan por la pandemia de la COVID-19. El objetivo del presente ensayo es analizar la seguridad alimentaria de la agricultura familiar y la...

There are an estimated 116 million equines (donkeys, horses and mules) globally, with 36 million in the 38 lowest-income countries. But accurate population data is lacking for many countries. This gap means that governments and organisations can’t spot worrying trends and threats to equine populations, such as illegal trades and...

El síndrome de retención foliar y del tallo verde de la soya (RFTV) es comúnmente conocido como soya loca en Brasil y puede causar pérdidas en el rendimiento de la leguminosa de alrededor del 60 %. Hasta el presente, al síndrome RFTV se le atribuyen tres posibles causas; la primera,...

En Colombia la panela es un alimento ancestral obtenido por concentración a partir de extracción de jugos de la caña azucarera. Los Hongos Formadores de Micorrizas Arbusculares (HFMA) ayudan al intercambio y movilidad de nutrientes al asociarse con plantas, mejorando la calidad y rendimiento en diferentes sistemas productivos.

Small-scale fishers and fish workers face increasingly high levels of social-ecological risk, particularly in the global South, and yet they tend to lack access to effective social protection. This infographic is part of work by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) to focus global attention on the importance of...

After much anticipation, the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) published draft Regulations to implement the Plant Improvement Act (2018) (PIA) – also known as South Africa’s Seed Law – and the Plant Breeders Rights Act (2018) (PBRA), for public comment. The closing date for comments on the...

The preservation of forests, sustainable forest management (SFM), forest landscape restoration (FLR) and the need to make the most of precious forest resources are priority issues in the policy and sustainable development agenda of the Asia-Pacific region. Innovation will be key in the coming decades to meet the increasing demand...

The effects of the crisis generated by the coronavirus pandemic continue to evolve and hit our societies hard. In the case of LAC, land tenure is at the heart of its development; this issue like no other has caused wars, displacement, social conflicts, corruption, hunger and poverty. In particular, extreme...

Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) has been organizing landless families to occupy, settle, and farm throughout the country since the dictatorship ended in 1985. Agroecology–a highly sustainable form of agriculture–has become increasingly central to their platform of land reform, and it is taught in 2,000 schools that have been established in...

Las hortalizas son alimentos de consumo básico y fuente importante de nutrientes para la salud. En Colombia los problemas fitosanitarios limitan el rendimiento y competitividad en mercados internacionales. Con el objetivo evaluar la diversidad de la entomofauna asociada en cinco cultivos colindantes como ahuyama, berenjena y dos especies de frijol...

La inseguridad alimentaria y nutricional, la escasa oferta de semilla de calidad y el cambio climático son algunos de los retos más importantes que afectan notoriamente a las pequeñas comunidades agrícolas. Los Bancos Locales de Semilla (BLS) surgen como valiosos instrumentos para mitigar algunos de los efectos que causan dichos...

Smallholder farmers in India face considerable challenges in terms of market access. The Indian government supports farmer producer companies (FPCs) as a legal-institutional innovation to achieve market benefits for small-scale farmers. FPCs have key agency-enhancing features that distinguish them from India’s traditional cooperative legal structure, but they also demonstrate weaknesses...

When Edy Prasetyo began farming catfish in 2001, he couldn’t have imagined how popular it would become for Indonesian street food culture. Today, grilled-catfish vendors line the streets of Jakarta and other urban centres on the archipelago, catering to city dwellers whose appetite for pecel lele often outruns the supply. But...

Bonn Hub Leader and Managing Director of CIFOR Germany, Christopher Martius, explores why the world should fight climate change from two sides: protecting carbon-rich ecosystems and growing biomass.

Organic farming seeks to protect the genetic integrity of living organisms, and this is why no GMOs are used in the organic production process. It ensures the availability of enough GMO-free and organically compatible resources. The organic sector commits to meeting consumers’ highest expectations about the genetic resources it is...

Ante los interrogantes que tienen los productores ganaderos de lechería especializada de trópico alto del departamento de Nariño sobre cuáles son los volúmenes de agua requeridos para la producción de biomasa como pasturas o praderas, y en función de las condiciones agroclimáticas de la región cuál es el nivel o...