Image UN Women Evaluation Handbook: How to manage gender-responsive evaluation (2022) Publication year: 2022 Gender-responsive evaluation is a priority area for UN Women and serves three key purposes: To demonstrate accountability to stakeholders; To provide credible and reliable evidence for decision-making; and To contribute important lessons learned about normative, operational, and coordination work. With the aim of...

In 2022, FAO and Biovision organised the Agroecology Dialogue Series, an initiative in support of the Agroecology Coalition. The discussions of each dialogue have subsequently been summarized in three briefs. This video gives a preview of brief 1, which explored how integrating agroecology and territorial approaches might support and accelerate a systemic transformation at scale...

The AGROMIX project aims to deliver participatory research to drive the transition to a resilient and efficient land use in Europe. It focuses on practical agroecological solutions for farm and land management and related value chains. AGROMIX Work-Package 2 on Systems design and synergies is at the heart of project....

Learn about how our work enables children to not only survive but thrive, by achieving a diverse nutritious diet through agroecological methods, which helps to mitigate climate change.

The Social Economy, the Future of Europe was a big conference held in Strasbourg, 5th and 6th May. The underlying theme was to gather input from various actors for the upcoming European Green Deal. A group of some ten members of RIPESS Europe were involved in organizing and participating in...

FAO and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have been providing support to the Western Balkans region to promote progress on gender equality, with a focus on measuring the proportion of countries where the legal framework guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control.

Ecological intensification (EI) could help return agriculture into a ‘safe operating space’ for humanity. Using a novel application of meta-analysis to data from 30 long-term experiments from Europe and Africa (comprising 25,565 yield records), we investigated how field-scale EI practices interact with each other, and with N fertilizer and tillage,...

Empowering women in fisheries value chains is key to ensuring thriving coastal communities and ecosystems and to achieving the SDGs.

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This practice shows some simple tips for harvesting and storage of different crops. The dependence of much food production on climatic fluctuations means that variability in food output can never be completely avoided. Adequate on-farm and household storage are therefore crucial, not only to enable storage of current and surplus food...

FAO’s latest forecasts point to somewhat easing of market conditions for basic foodstuffs. However, increased climate variability, conflicts and geopolitical tensions, bleak economic prospects, soaring agricultural input costs and export restrictions continue to pose challenges to global food commodity market stability.     Issued twice a year, the November issue of the Food...

With the 23rd edition, FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International proudly present a new edition of “The World of Organic Agriculture.” Data collection is a major and constant concern of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International. The comprehensive data provided over more than two...

Meet Lizelore Vos, who has just begun a plant rotation system to grow potatoes, carrots, chicory, alfalfa, and wheat, planting the crops on different plots each year, diversifying soil nutrients. She’s also planted rows of fruit and nut trees between the crops, to protect them from the wind, and generating...

We are pleased to announce that our first e-learning course on Community Supported Fisheries will take place from Monday 16 May through Friday 3 June!   This e-learning course is a part of the Erasmus+ funded project Deck to Dish: Advanced Training in Community Supported Fisheries. We are proud to be...

Setting the basis for developing an integrated whole-of-government National Food Security Strategy in North Macedonia will be the focus of a new FAO project. The project was launched today through an event in Skopje, organized by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy in partnership with the Rural...

  ARC2020 is supporting a research project on ‘Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture’, led by PhD Matteo Metta. The project aims to study, and to connect, farmers, advisors, policies, nature conservationists, and critical considerations around digitalisation from the perspective of a diversified, integrated, and multifunctional agriculture. Digitalisation is increasingly expanding in agriculture...

This first ever FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2021 report presents a summary of the main priorities, developments and results achieved by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Africa region in 2021. FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2021 is organized according to the four...

La agricultura familiar es una actividad esencial para el desarrollo del mundo rural y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe. Legislar sobre agricultura familiar permite sentar bases normativas permanentes para el desarrollo de políticas propicias que fomenten la agricultura familiar como parte...

FAO Agroecology Newsletter - April 2022 / Issue #5

The AGROMIX project aims to deliver participatory research to drive the transition to a resilient and efficient land use in Europe. It focuses on practical agroecological solutions for farm and land management and related value chains. Due to the unique social, environmental and economic conditions present across Europe, it is...