A study illustrates the deep influences that guide the gilded ocean economy: just 100 companies generated 60 per cent of revenues from the largest ocean-based industries in 2018. The promise and potential of the ocean as an ‘economic frontier’ in the 21st century has attracted attention from governments, the private sector,...

The UN Food Systems Summit has revealed the 15 action areas with more than 50 solution clusters that will serve as a key element to underpin discussions at the Pre-Summit gathering in Rome, Italy from July 26-28. Each action area, developed by more than 500 members of the Summit’s five Action Tracks,...

Action Aid International gathered stakeholders on Tuesday to discuss ways to improve agro-ecology and eco-restoration on the Gambia's south, middle, and north banks, with the goal of ensuring community resilience to climate change, achieving food security, climate justice, and comprehensive disaster prevention. The Agroecology, Eco-Restoration, and Resilience Building Project, according...

The digital hub ConectAgroecology is a meeting space for the members of the CPLP Agroecology Network and a tool to support the training of farmers, fishermen, and other food producers, technicians from public entities, and all people interested in developing knowledge and practices in agroecology. It is intended to contribute to the development of...

Pastoralism is a form of livestock farming based on continuous or seasonal, local or regional herd mobility. This livestock rearing strategy is geared towards meeting the herd’s nutritional needs via intermittent grazing of fodder resources of often spatiotemporally varying availability and quality. In Sahelian-Saharan areas, pastoral livestock farming is family-based,...

CSA Starts Here is an educational video series for aspiring and beginning CSA farmers. These twelve videos will help you evaluate whether or not CSA farming is the right model for you while also explaining the skills you need to nurture in order to be successful at CSA farming. CSA...

In this study, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) teamed up to investigate how transformational change (transformational change) is understood in the scientific literature. The study, the first of its kind to review academic studies on transformational change,...

A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...

Drawing on the sectors of fisheries management, small-scale fisheries, seafood corporates, academia and civil society, an ongoing project attempts to define ‘destructive fishing’. The language of fisheries, conservation and sustainable development can be fraught with jargon. Of course, aquatic ecosystems are inherently dynamic and fluid; it’s easy to see why technical...

Concentrated plant liquid manure is easy to make and store. It supplies plants with nutrients which as well manage pest and diseases in crops. Plant liquid manure is made from plants rich in both micro and macro nutrients, such plants includes Russian confrey, Lantana camara, Pumpkin leaves, Calliadra, Pumpkin leaves, Tethonia, Wandering Jew and...

Seven young entrepreneurs belonging to four teams from Uganda participated in a hands-on learning course to familiarise themselves with the solar-powered smart projector kit that they had won through the Access Agriculture Young Entrepreneur Challenge Fund initiative. The smart projector contains the entire library of Access Agriculture farmer-training videos in...

This study aims to assist food producers and social movements in the complicated discussion around digitization. The goal of this working paper is to provide an analytical tool to food producers and advocates regarding dangerous trends that are currently occurring in this field, which are frequently supported by a general...

Training of Trainers: ''Introduction to Agroecology'' for the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) This Training of Trainers is part of the activities of the Training Centre for Sustainable Family Farming (CCAFS) of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). As part of a broader work program of knowledge and capacity building, the main...

Climate change threatens our ability to ensure global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming. Climate change has both direct and indirect effects on agricultural productivity...

The unique geography of Bangladesh makes it extremely vulnerable to climate change and warrants appropriate tools and strategies to combat and mitigate negative impacts. Bangladesh has been one of the countries most affected by climate change in the last 15 years. It is the seventh most vulnerable country on the Climate...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD) agreed to work together to develop a suite of innovative tools for bolstering the resilience of the UAE’s food system. Under a cooperative agreement signed by Dr. Tarifa Alzaabi, Acting Director General of ICBA, and Professor...

De acuerdo con los lineamientos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (fao, 2013), los bancos de germoplasma deben ser unidades de conservación de recursos genéticos localizados en instalaciones delimitadas que sirvan como repositorios de material biológico y faciliten la conservación de todo material...

El presente trabajo de relevamiento y diagnóstico fue llevado a cabo por la Asociación Civil “Instituto de Intervenciones Situadas” (IN SITU) como iniciativa propia anexada a las acciones implementadas en el marco de un convenio con la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), la Universidad...

To be sustainable, agriculture must meet the needs of present and future generations, while ensuring profitability, environmental health, and social and economic equity. Sustainable food and agriculture (SFA) contributes to all four pillars of food security – availability, access, utilization and stability – and the dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social...

Costos fijos: Asistencia técnica, arriendo, análisis de suelos, costos administrativos y financieros. Costos variables: cambian en proporción a la actividad o labor del sistema productivo. Costos indirectos: son todos los demás gastos que se requieren para los productos del cultivo, como pago de administración, entre otros. Si bien el costo...