Agricultural practices need to change to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. How to achieve the SDGs is heavily contested. Here we propose a policy framework that triggers the required transition.  Organic agriculture, although not a silver bullet, is a useful component in such strategy.

En agosto 2019, la Embajada de Suecia en Colombia solicitó la Oficina de Evaluación de la FAO (OED) a realizar una evaluación final de dos proyectos en forma conjunta para proporcionar recomendaciones que pudieran apoyar tanto a la Embajada de Suecia y FAO Colombia a implementar un nuevo proyecto, “Transformación...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems. In rural areas, farmers, businesses and communities are particularly affected. This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by...

The plight of fishworkers on board vessels engaged in commercial fishing operations calls for regulating their conditions of work and providing protection benefits. Concern over the conditions of fishworkers on board commercial fishing vessels was thrown into high relief in the Philippines in 2018. This was during a series of consultations...

Today, the region of Latin America and the Caribbean is in a very difficult situation. It faces the challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, including eradicating hunger and extreme poverty, transforming food systems, containing the increase in malnutrition, generating new opportunities for economic development in rural areas, and making...

Today, more than 821 million people regularly go to bed hungry, of whom 100-plus million suffer from acute hunger, largely due to man-made conflicts, climate change and economic downturns. These are the people who will experience the unthinkable due to the economic or logistical consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover,...

La vigente crisis sanitaria conlleva a repensar los sistemas de producción local, así como sus beneficios o daños al ecosistema y sus sociedades. En los últimos años, por ejemplo, ha surgido fuertemente el concepto de agricultura familiar para denominar al 70% de aquellos proveedores de alimentos a nivel mundial. Las...

This blog post has nothing to do with vegans or vegetarians. It’s all about realizing how much water is needed to produce just 1 kilo of meat and why we should be cutting off some meat from our diets for many reasons, water included. It is actually a matter of...

En esta tercera edición del boletín ponemos a disposición de sus lectores información actualizada sobre la situación de los mercados mayoristas en América Latina y el Caribe, entrevistas a actores clave y los principales resultados de una encuesta – que contó con la participación de 64 mercados de 15 países...

The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems. In rural areas, farmers, businesses and communities are particularly affected. This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by...

In Myanmar, FAO’s FishAdapt project is strengthening the adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries-and aquaculture-dependent livelihoods. Women’s empowerment and gender equality have been recognized as necessary conditions for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The SDG Goal 5 – ‘Achieve gender equality...

According to Food and Agriculture Organization, around 60 to 70% more food will have to be produced in the next 35 years, as a result both of population growth and rising incomes. The demand for cereals (both for food and animal feed) is projected to reach some 3 billion tons...

The proposed operative group (GO) intends to set up a new circular local economy model, which combines the profitability of farms with social productivity: the valorization of horticultural genetic resources will be based on minimum technological input and on production schedule according to the needs of the community expressed by...

The use of live-barriers has been shown to both increase productivity and control soil erosion at an individual plot or field level. This is especially useful in the more intensive cropping systems of Andean Bolivia, where live barriers may encourage further intensification. Cover crops, such as Phalaris, can play a...

Strawberries have to be harvested when 75 percent of the fruit surface turns red and the berry is still firm. The strawberry fruit perishes easily and deteriorates within two to three days of harvesting at natural environmental conditions. The temperature is very important for the duration of berry life. Strawberries...

In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO RNE is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development.  Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in increasing resilience and rethinking priorities of food security policies to keep food supply...

This document synthesises the principle outcomes of the four regional BOND reports Biodiversity & Locality (for Poland and the Czech Republic), Policies for Family Farming (for Portugal and Spain), Regenerative Food (for Hungary and Croatia) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (for Romania, the Republic of Moldova and France). These reports above...

La Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe y FLAMA establecerán una estrategia conjunta para monitorear y publicitar las actividades de los mercados mayoristas regionales y centros de suministro durante este período de crisis debido a la pandemia de COVID-19. El propósito de este boletín es...

Covid-19 is a wakeup call to us all. Let’s turn the tide away from over-processed foods that are often grown using chemicals and instead build a healthy norm, by eating a great variety of nutritious, locally produced natural foods, including indigenous crops and vegetables that we have often dropped from...

Incorporating the SSF Guidelines into the national fisheries policy requires several rounds of engagement with state and community stakeholders. The onset of the new millennium saw the process of fisheries development taking a new path globally. It’s one with a strong emphasis on offshore and deep-sea fishing, fish exports and the...