Bayer/Monsanto suffered another in a long string of setbacks in its battle to grow genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico when the country’s highest court on October 13 refused to overturn a precautionary injunction restricting the cultivation of GM corn. In its unanimous decision, the court agreed with the citizen...

Climate change is likely to exacerbate gendered vulnerabilities and compound intersecting forms of discrimination against women. International donors and policymakers are increasingly interested in strengthening social protection programmes to address such adverse impacts, but there is a lack of evidence about how this can be achieved. Addressing this gap, this paper...

The challenges food systems face are highly complex, context-specific and often unpredictable. Transformation to sustainable food systems is needed, in a coherent manner, as appropriate, and in accordance with and dependent on national context and capacities. There is no single approach for achieving food security and nutrition and all food...

Africa is not on track to meeting the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets to end hunger and ensure access by all people to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round and to end all forms of malnutrition. The number of hungry people on the continent has risen by...

In 1991, the European Union (EU) became the 161st Member of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), marking an institutional breakthrough: it was the first time that FAO welcomed a Member Organization. The EU–FAO partnership has since been sound and growing, as evidenced by the upward...

With the introduction of imported, hybrid crops, many farmers across Nepal have stopped growing indigenous crops altogether. Agriculturalist Kushal Poudel is hoping to change that by reintroducing native crops through age-old farming techniques.

La reunión atiende lo establecido en los estatutos de la Comisión respecto de la realización de sesiones ordinarias bienales. Sus objetivos son reportar las medidas adoptadas respecto de los acuerdos de la reunión anterior; reflexionar colectivamente sobre los temas que atañen a la sostenibilidad y contribución de la pesca y...

BIOEXPO Warsaw is the only event in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe dedicated only to the ecological industry. The fair is strictly business-related and is an excellent platform for dialogue between producers and buyers, owners of specialist stores, as well as food and multi-branch wholesalers.It is also an ideal...

Une meilleure intégration de la nutrition dans le secteur de l’élevage est un défi commun partagé par les décideurs et les gestionnaires de programmes au niveau régional, national et local du fait du manque d’outils méthodologiques éprouvés. Pour faire face à cet enjeu, l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et...

Social protection has a critical role to play in reducing poverty, improving food and nutrition security, and stimulating inclusive economic growth in rural areas. However, social protection alone cannot address all the risks and challenges faced by vulnerable rural populations. Integrated interventions have shown greater impacts than stand-alone social protection...

IFAD’s second Biodiversity Advantage report showcases five IFAD projects which highlight the integral importance of biodiversity in agriculture. These projects show how promoting biodiversity improves human and ecosystem health, and the roles of small-scale agricultural producers in preserving and restoring biodiversity and schemes that reward them for their stewardship of healthy natural environments.

Besides the severe health crisis, the COVID-19 epidemic also caused the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since the Second World War and led to a severe increase of poor and food insecure people as well as a sharp projected decrease of production of agricultural goods in...

As the coronavirus pandemic reached every corner of the world in 2020, countries responded rapidly with an array of policies to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease, and then with social and economic policies to protect food security, incomes, and livelihoods. This experience brought attention to weaknesses in...

El Balance Social de AGROSAVIA 2020 nos deja nuevas enseñanzas, no solo sobre cómo el conocimiento acumulado a lo largo del tiempo y las tecnologías son esenciales para reaccionar mejor ante eventualidades y ser resilientes, sino de la gran tenacidad del campo colombiano. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional...

This book is an output of a regional experts’ consultation meeting on “UN Decade of Family Farming: Formulating Strategies and Action Plan to Strengthen Smallholder Family Farmers in South Asia”, 5-6 November 2020 organized by SAARC Agriculture Center (SAC), Bangladesh in collaboration with Asian Farmers’ Association (AFA), Philippines, and the...

La región experimenta largos períodos de sequía y la mayoría de las precipitaciones ocurren en invierno, cuando el suelo está descubierto, haciendo que la erosión hídrica sea la causa más importante de degradación. La implementación de zanjas de infiltración permite cultivar los campos de la zona de forma más sostenible....

The use of fire and smoke to extract honey from hives or natural colonies offers some kind of protection from the beestings. However, this practice does not only harm the environment and the health of the colonies, it has also a negative impact on the honey quality. The use of...

La cooperativa está integrada por mujeres que buscan su empoderamiento económico, reconocimiento y visibilización en la actividad pesquera, defendiendo sus derechos, cultura e identidad con un compromiso ambiental. Como cooperativa de mujeres ellas tienen un espacio propio y realizan proyectos económicos sustentables a través de los cuales cuidan y rescatan los...

Mr. Ernest Aubee, Head of the ECOWAS Commission's Agriculture Division stated that half of the world's population is undernourished, with 3.4 billion people suffering from hunger, malnutrition, and obesity. Agroecology, according to Aubee, is one of the strategies to secure food security, as well as the health of people and...

Cet  article publié au mois de juillet 2021 dans le journal européen scientifique (European Scientific Journal, ESJ), traite de la dégradation des sols et de l’environnement dans les régions du nord-ouest du Togo. A travers des enquêtes socio-économiques auprès des producteurs, l’auteur évalue les perceptions sur la dégradation des sols et...