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MEDIA ADVISORY: Forty-Six FAO Member Nations in Asia and the Pacific to chart a course for securing food systems and mitigating the effects of COVID-19 and climate change on agricultural sectors
Supply chains have been disrupted, demand has dropped for certain foods, resulting in damage to nutrition, health and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people in this, the world’s most populous region.
In response, 46 Member Nations, along with private sector and civil society organizations, will discuss a way forward...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Газетная статья
COVID-19 and Food Security in Bangladesh
A Chance to Look Back at What Is Done and What Can Be Done
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a global health crisis, and the long-term impact of the pandemic is predicted to reach far beyond today. In a lower-middle-income country with upward economic growth, such as Bangladesh, it is essential first to understand the present situation in order to create a proper recovery...
Bangladesh
2020 - Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD)
Тематическое исследование
STRENGTHENING HARVESTS Soil and water conservation practices strengthen harvests in Tanzania highlands
High rainfalls in mountainous agricultural regions trigger a need for intervention to help farmers confront food insecurity and restore and protect their soil.
Makete, in the south-west of Tanzania, is a district crossed by both the Livingstone Mountains and the Kipengere Range. Much of the landscape is hilly and at high...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture
This is the report of the Seventh Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC) Regional Consultative Forum Meeting (RCFM) on Sustainable Development for Resilient Blue Growth of Fisheries and Aquaculture. The meeting was convened in Cebu, Philippines from 7 May to 9 May 2018 at the Bai Hotel and was attended by 80...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Информационный сборник
SALSA Policy Brief Lessons from Africa
The main challenge for African food systems in the future will be to provide food for a rapidly growing population with changing diets and food preferences. Whilst the population of Europe is decreasing, with consumers demanding food that is produced in an environmentally and socially responsible way, Africa’s population will...
2020 - SALSA
Тематическое исследование
A pathway to food security
Tackling the Issue of Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda
Amplifying the voices of women farmers is proving an effective way to help tackle gender inequality and promote agroecology, helping small-scale farmers take back power over their land.
Uganda
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Практики
Sustainable agriculture in forest margins
Declining soil fertility, increasing weed infestations and a lack of income-generating opportunities are serious constraints to the establishment of sustainable cropping systems and livelihoods in the forest margins of Bolivia. Systems which allow farmers to progress: from unsustainable, migratory (shifting) slash, and burn agriculture to more sustainable and stable farming...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Практики
Producing solar-dried fruit and vegetables for micro and small-scale rural enterprise development: business profitability
The preservation of fruit and vegetables by simply sun drying is practised widely throughout arid and semi-arid regions, for example in Uganda. The use of low-cost solar drying technologies can significantly improve product quality. This provides practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprise, particularly in rural areas, and creates employment for...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Видеоматериал
Agroecology for Sustainable Food Systems
The Sustainable Development Goals lay out an ambitious path for building a sustainable world and transforming the way we produce, distribute, transport and consume our food, safeguard the environment and promote social protection. Agroecology plays a key role to achieve these goals. Agroecology applies ecological principles and concepts to the...
2020 - FAO
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Civil society has its voice heard at FAO forum
FAO provided the framework for its civil society partners to gather virtually and discuss striking questions of food and agriculture in Europe and Central Asia. The Civil Society Consultation precedes the European Regional Conference and its main conclusions will enrich the Conference’s sessions.
At the consultation, civil society representatives stressed the need to...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Тематическое исследование
A PATHWAY TO FOOD SECURITY Tackling the Issue of Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda
Amplifying the voices of women farmers is proving an effective way to help tackle gender inequality and promote agroecology, helping small-scale farmers take back power over their land.
In the Adjumani and Amuria districts of Uganda, women are responsible for 75% of agricultural labour. Only 30% have rights over the land...
Uganda
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
Практики
How to control Striga and stemborer in maize
Maize is the most important staple food in Eastern Africa. But yields on smallholder farms are often very low, typically just one quarter of what could be achieved. In a good year, using improved varieties with good management, recommended amounts of fertilizer and effective control of pests and diseases could...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Практики
Improved method of preserving hides and skins
Hides and skins are of very little economic and commercial value if they are not well preserved. Particularly in Uganda, Lango Farming System, most hides and skins which are produced, go to waste due to poor preservation practices. Improved methods and advice on how to preserve hides and skins of...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Posición de la II Reunión de Ministros(as) y Secretarios(as) de agricultura, ganadería, pesca, alimentación y desarrollo rural de las Americas, con respecto a la activación agrícola post-pandemia
Los Ministros y Secretarios de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca, Alimentación y Desarrollo Rural de las Américas reafirmaron que tomarán medidas nacionales, regionales y hemisféricas para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en el hemisferio, la cual está en riesgo por la pandemia de COVID-19 y la crisis económica que la sucederá.
Las...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Работа конференции
Rencontre Stratégique de l’Alliance pour l’Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest (3AO)
This document is the conference proceedings of the meeting led by the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO) on 27-29 January. Farmers and peasant organizations from across West Africa joined forces with international development agencies and research centres gathered to give impetus to a growing agroecological movement in the...
Senegal
2020 - 3AO
Доклад
Impact Story -- ASEAN
ASEAN is one of the most productive agricultural baskets in the world. In 2012, the region produced 129 million tons of rice, 40 million tons of corn, 171 million tons of sugarcane, 1.44 million tons of soybean, and 70.34 million tons of cassava. ASEAN is likely to increase exports to...
2020 - ASEAN Farmers’ Organisations Support Programme (AFOSP)
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Samoa weather advisory to help local farmers
he Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE), University of South Pacific (USP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) are partnering to develop weather advisories aimed at helping farmers better plan their crop production. A meeting to discuss moving...
Samoa
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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No word for legume
I remember a story from grad school about a people in the Amazon Basin who had no word for “parrot”, because they knew the names of all the individual species of parrots.
I was reminded of that this week in Peru, where I was teaching a course on how to write...
Peru
2020 - Access Agriculture
Статья в блоге
SALSA policy briefs to guide policy interventions in support of small farms
SALSA - Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security, is an EU-funded research project of the Horizon2020 program which run from April 2016 to March 2020 with the aim to provide a better understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in meeting the sustainable food and nutrition...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Статья в блоге
No alternative to sustainable agriculture: how community-supported farms show the way to food security in an uncertain world
The Covid-19 crisis is the biggest test in decades of our preparedness for a planetary disaster. As it turns out, it only took a few weeks to expose the vulnerability and deep-seated fragility of our economic and political systems. One of the areas in which we are least prepared for...
2020 - Open Democracy
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