From a media bed unit start-up in Bangkok to a fully developed 120 households deep water culture (DWC) unit in Ethiopia, aquaponics is showcasing its true potential to produce sustainable food anytime, anywhere. A marriage between aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, snails or prawns in tanks) and hydroponics...

Tracing wood back to the forest it came from is essential to eliminating illegal logging. The National Timber Office of Benin (ONAB), with assistance from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, established an innovative traceability system for its teak plantations that helps prevent illegal logging, transport...

Action Aid's work in Rwanda to promote opportunities for women empowerment and rights project best practices in Agroecology. 

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...

Armenia, which is highly vulnerable to climate change, has signed up to increase its forest cover and carbon removal from forests by reducing fuelwood demand and by introducing sustainable and climate-adaptive forest management techniques. This is envisaged through a forestry project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022). FAO is the lead agency for celebrating the year in collaboration with other relevant organizations and bodies of the United Nations system. The global food system faces many complex challenges, including hunger, malnutrition...

In March of 2021, a Montenegrin cow became the first known exemplar of the species – indeed, the first farm asset of any kind – to be bought with a virtual currency in the western Balkans. Comically but appropriately enough, she was named Bitkoinka. The animal went for 0.013 bitcoin, the...

La región del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA) está expuesta a múltiples amenazas entre las que destacan los peligros naturales de origen hidro-meteorológico. Con un sector agrícola y un medio rural vulnerables, las proyecciones referentes al cambio climático anticipan que esta región será una de las que sufrirá el...

ately, there has been increasing discussion over one part of the jigsaw known as the ‘agrifood system’: food loss and waste. Without addressing it, we cannot ensure inclusiveness, food security and sustainability in how our food is produced, processed, traded, and consumed. A webinar organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

The virtual workshop on ''Agroecology and safe food system transitions for green, inclusive and resilient COVID-19 recovery in the Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN)'', was organized through the project ''Agroecology and Safe Food System Transition'' (ASSET) by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), FAO, the French Agricultural Research Centre for...

Este documento es una recapitulación de las visiones y acciones de ocho países de la región iberoamericana. En su primer capítulo, se desarrolla una compilación de metodologías de conceptualización y medición de las cocinas como patrimonio cultural y economía  creativa; en el capítulo dos, está presente un análisis de la compilación...

FAO in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has implemented 17 projects worth a total of USD 24 million since 2007 in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MOALR). These projects have provided enormous support to the General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS)...

Este estudio presenta el análisis de la iniciativa de escuelas sostenibles como una metodología de gestión para el desarrollo de los PAE, en tres países de Mesoámerica, El Salvador, Guatemala y Honduras. Para lo cual se enfatiza que esta metodologia denominada Escuelas Sostenibles se enmarca en el aporte de la...

El cultivo hidropónico es el método más común de cultivo de plantas agrícolas sin tierra, que incluye el cultivo de plantas sobre un sustrato o en un medio acuoso con raíces desnudas. Los métodos hidropónicos no circulantes, sobre todo, no requieren electricidad ni una bomba. Con el método presentado en...

This report is the outcome of a consensus-building project to agree on best practices for environmental and nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) methodology, and identify future research needs. The project involved 30 nutritional and environmental LCA researchers from 18 countries. It focused on the assessment of food items (as opposed...

El presente documento, es una propuesta de Mapeo de políticas públicas de la cadena de valor agroalimentaria, para sentar las bases y fortalecer la investigación a través de la recapitulación de las visiones y acciones de ocho países de la región iberoamericana. En su primer capítulo, se desarrolla una compilación de...

The European Green Deal is at the centre of the Commission’s policy agenda. Its prime objective is a sustainable, climate-neutral Europe by 2050, acting as a vehicle for investment and growth . The Green Deal emphasizes that it is ‘key’ to manage the transition towards a more sustainable food system,...

La propagación de material vegetal en el cultivo de arracacha se realiza comúnmente de forma vegetativa a través de semilla asexual, esta actividad ha permitido su multiplicación y conservación en el tiempo. El material vegetal disponible es de baja calidad, afectando el desarrollo y rendimiento potencial del cultivo y por...

Las intervenciones en cadenas de valor que alcanzan buenos resultados en relación con objetivos de reducción de la pobreza pueden traer también beneficios desde el punto de vista de la adaptación al cambio climático, puesto que permiten incrementar los activos de los agricultores y forjar vínculos institucionales. Sin embargo, para los...

The Blue Transformation of the region’s aquatic food systems is crucial to ensuring food and nutrition security in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, FAO Assistant Director-General and NENA Regional Representative Abdulhakim Elwaer said today during a webinar organized by FAO on World Oceans Day. “The Blue Transformation initiative...