Territorialised food systems are an emerging alternative to the harmful globalized corporate food system which contributes to environmental degradation, poverty, hunger and social injustice. Territorial food systems aim at improving public health and food justice. In territorial food systems multiple actors (private, public and civil society) partner up to create shorter food value...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major health threat to humans, animals, plants and the environment. One of the key drivers of AMR is the misuse and overuse of antimicrobials in animal production, including in aquaculture. Therefore, monitoring the use of antimicrobials in farm animals is essential to mitigate AMR. The World...

Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimize interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment, while taking into account the social aspects that need to be addressed for a...

Acknowledging the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production, ministers from the five Central Asian countries discuss today potential solutions for addressing regional and global food and climate change challenges. The meeting was fostered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Global and regional...

This agrobiodiversity case study (No.2) from Ghana is the second of six case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). It describes the actions of the Abrono Organic Farmers Association (ABOFA) – formerly the Abrono Organic Farming Project – based in Forikrom...

This course focuses on gender issues and the policy and legal framework for agricultural investment and supply chains. It provides concrete guidance on actions required to create a policy and legal framework that increases the likelihood of women and men benefiting equally from agricultural investment and supply chains. This course is...

IGGAARL, also referred as Academy, is a collaborative institution set up by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India with support from the Government of Germany on the 7th of July 2022. Now, after a year, it has geared up and launched a four-year Farmer Scientist Course (FSC) in Natural Farming....

La contrainte majeure évoquée par les exploitations agricoles des zones cotonnières est la baisse progressive de la capacité des sols cultivables à produire à cause de la mauvaise gestion de la fertilité. L'intégration agriculture-élevage en est une solution à travers l'amendement de la matière organique dont elle offre. L'objectif de...

Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, includes regular calls to set up EU-wide advisory networks. COREnet was the first such network, launched in 2022. Over the next two years, there are five more of these advisory network calls on different topics. Applying to this type...

This paper explores areas of contestation related todigital agriculture globally and highlights concernsrelated to the application of digital agriculture inthe smallholder farming sector in Africa. Theseconcerns include inequitable benefits and influenceaccrued from its deployment; ownership of data andhow it is used; and its exclusion and marginalisationof the people-environment relationshipsand knowledge...

In a graphic illustration of consolidation in the seed industry through 2018, and how corporations control our seeds, Phil Howard tells the story of how farmers have been losing control of their seeds for quite some time (Howard 2020). From a narrowing of the genetic foundation of agriculture to the...

Fossil fuels are entrenched across the food supply - and Big Oil is moving to lock in its influence from farm-to-table in the coming decades, a new report warns. Some 15 per cent of fossil fuels used each year around the world are related to food production, transport, and storage...

The 2023 edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean presents an update of the data and trends in food security and nutrition in recent years. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and the conflict in Ukraine, as well...

Public policies for family farming – when done appropriately – provide a perfect match between different policy areas related to productive, economic, social, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainable food systems. The Learning framework for inclusive, integrated and innovative public policy cycles for family farming was developed under the framework...

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,...

À Arusha, en Tanzanie, un consortium d’ONG, dont Îles de Paix, accompagne les agriculteurs dans le déploiement de cultures biologiques, alors que la région est confrontée à un réel problème de qualité des aliments, avec des impacts significatifs sur la santé des habitants.

Even before the EU Farm to Fork Strategy launched in 2020, the EU took action to make food systems more resilient to shocks. But did the EU’s ambitions bear fruit? Cecilia D'Alessandro and Paulina Bizzotto Molina break down lessons learned from their evaluation of the EU’s support to food systems abroad,...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...

En el contexto del Ciclo de Webinarios: 10 años de la #DemandaColectivaMaíz en perspectiva, se desarrolló el Webinario I: Una década de acción colectiva: logros históricos y resistencia, el día miércoles 2 de agosto de 2023, 5:00 pm En el webinario participaron: Mercedes López Martínez | Representante Colectividad, Demanda Colectiva Maíz Cati...

Recent scholarship has shed light on how data-driven food systems may entrench productivist and neo-productivist visions of ‘feeding the world.’ In this paper, we examine the narratives and institution-building practices of global development actors, asking: What stories do they tell about how data will transform food systems? Whose ‘data’ are...