Different agri-environmental schemes (AES), such as ecological focus areas and organic farming, have been suggested to reduce the impact of intensive agriculture on the environment and to conserve or even restore farmland biodiversity. However, the effectiveness of such schemes, their ability to actually support biodiversity and associated trade-offs with agricultural...

Farmer participation in the co-production of knowledge has been claimed to have many benefits, including its capacity to address the knowledge intensiveness and ecological specificity that underpins agroecology. The complexity of agroecological knowledge systems have until now presented considerable challenges to researchers looking to develop research practices adaptable to and...

Agriculture in Africa is arguably the most important sector, given its contribution to food security, as well as its being the continent’s principal source of income and livelihoods as well as the main source of employment for more than half of Africa’s population – the majority of them being women. It...

Summary: This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design...

Change can be difficult. Sometimes a big general idea is well supported - like a just transition - but when it comes to the details, the specifics, there is uncertainty. And often this uncertainty is sown by the sheer weight and style of the lobbying machine. It has always been...

Vous avez certainement bu un café ce matin, peut-être croqué dans une barre de chocolat ou dégusté une banane au dessert? Café, cacao, banane : ces trois produits de grande consommation sont incontournables de notre quotidien. Dans cette émission, nous faisons le tour d’horizon de ces filières clés pour l’agriculture mondiale. Après...

Cet article a pour objectif d’évaluer l’efficacité de l’accès collectif à la terre pour améliorer les droits fonciers des femmes dans un contexte d’agriculture irriguée dans le delta du fleuve Sénégal. L’expérience des périmètres irrigués villageois aménagés pour les femmes des groupements de l’Union des femmes productrices de Ross Béthio,...

AsiaDHRRA participated in the 7th Southeast Asia Multi-Stakeholder Forum “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and Eradicating Poverty in Times of Multiple Crises,” organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) on 6-8 November 2023, via hybrid modality, Bangkok, Thailand. Ms. Marlene Ramirez, AsiaDHRRA Secretary-General, presented...

El equipo de la Evaluación de Recursos Forestales Mundiales de la División Forestal de la Sede de FAO en Roma, realiza en la ciudad de Panamá el taller del Programa para la Evaluación de los Recursos Forestales Mundiales 2025 en América Latina, con el cual los países de la región...

The Annual Report is a tool for information sharing, transparency and accountability that Slow Food uses to report on its varous actions and projects around the world.  Three key areas of intervention: Biodiversity: defending cultural and biological diversity Education: educating, inspiring and mobilizing citizens Advocacy: influencing policies in the public and private sectors Chapters: Our mission,...

A new European project, coordinated by CIRAD and involving 27 organizations in 14 countries, launched recently. Named IntercropValuES, it aims to use the advantages of intercrops to build productive, diverse, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems that are acceptable to farmers and agrifood chain stakeholders. Food production is resource-intensive, and currently...

Healthy soils are essential for food production but are under threat: over 60% of soils in Europe are unhealthy, thus not able to deliver vital ecosystem services, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. With the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, the European Commission is pioneering a novel instrument...

Emmanuel Eku used his skills in agroecology to make the soil in his village in the southwestern part of Cameroon more productive. His five-year project, which was helped by an NGO, shows how hard it is for farmers to stop using synthetic fertilisers and other standard inputs. Now, Eku shares...

Regeneration International impulsó la Cumbre Alimentaria de los Pueblos 2023 en diversos continentes. Aquí presentamos la versión de América Latina y el Caribe. En este evento se presentan una serie de experiencias y proyectos que buscan recuperar la agrobiodiversidad, los ecosistemas, reducir el impacto del climática en los sistemas alimentarios, la...

Kazakhstan will be the first country to host a national dialogue supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The consultation will be convened by the UNCCD Focal Point for the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Committee...

Debido al éxito obtenido, este 2023 repetimos nuestro diplomado de agaves y mezquites para regenerar zonas semiáridas.

Mobile Peoples – including many Indigenous, traditional, nomadic and tribal peoples – are confronted with unprecedented challenges, including increasingly frequent floods and droughts associated with climate change; desertification, deforestation and other forms of land degradation; and loss of biodiversity, all of which threaten their food sovereignty, security and access to...

Regeneration International impulsó la Cumbre Alimentaria de los Pueblos 2023 en diversos continentes. Aquí presentamos la versión de América Latina y el Caribe. En este evento, se presentan experiencias y proyectos que buscan recuperar la agrobiodiversidad, los ecosistemas, reducir el impacto del cambio climático en los sistemas alimentarios, la escasez hídrica,...

This paper examines how information and communications (ICT) technologies can contribute to decent employment of youth and women in the agrifood sector. In other regions, the widespread adoption and integration of ICTs has reduced information and transaction costs, improved service delivery, created new jobs, generated new revenue streams and saved...

This Legal Brief aims to highlight the importance of the human right to the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean, and its relationship with food, agriculture and other areas relevant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) mandate.