Vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children globally and an important contributor to the burden of night blindness in pregnant women and severe illness and death in children under the age of five. Southern Africa is not spared.  In Zimbabwe, nearly one in five children under...

Thethird ‘’Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting (APUFM)’’ kicked off virtually and will last until 29 October 2021. The event is organized by FAO with the support of UNEP, UN-Habitat, IUCN, and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Over 450 technical experts, scientists, practitioners, policy makers, NGOs, international organizations and other stakeholders have registered...

Peer-to-peer learning can be very effective in sharing knowledge and experience, and encouraging the adoption of new practices and technologies among farmers including youth. FAO training approaches, like the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS), encourage youth facilitators to share their knowledge in the respective communities, mobilizing and sensitizing...

The Global Framework for Action to Cope with Water Scarcity in Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change (in short, the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture, WASAG) has been designed to bring together key players across the globe and from different sectors to tackle the collective challenge of using water better in...

Las prácticas de Agricultura de Conservación (AC) requieren un nivel crítico de cultivos de cobertura y manejo de los residuos de cultivos para mantener o mejorar las propiedades químicas, físicas y biológicas del suelo y prevenir la degradación del mismo. En muchas partes del mundo, la producción de cultivos y...

La actividad de fabricar puros tiene más de 50 años, y es principalmente desarrollada en las comunidades de la parte alta de Zacapa. Surgió como alternativa para el aprovechamiento de los excedentes del cultivo de tabaco generados en la parte baja de Zacapa.

This training guide was written by the members of AVSF (employees and volunteers)who are deeply concerned about the growing use of pesticides and veterinary products in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which are no longer authorized in developed countries due to their high toxicity. This situation has...

El Proyecto Sembrando Capacidades es una iniciativa de cooperación Sur-Sur trila-teral celebrada entre el Ministerio de Agri-cultura y Desarrollo Rural de Colombia (MADR), el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Abaste-cimiento de Brasil (MAPA), la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación (ABC) y la Organización de Na-ciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la...

Since 2010 all of FAO’s work is guided by a Strategic Framework prepared for a period of ten to fifteen years, reviewed every four years.  The Strategic Framework 2022-2031 was developed in the context of major global and regional challenges in the areas of FAO's mandate, including the COVID-19 pandemic. It was developed...

According to a new multi-agency report coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), changing precipitation patterns, rising temperatures, and more extreme weather contributed to rising food insecurity, poverty, and displacement in Africa in 2020, compounding the socioeconomic and health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The State of the Climate...

A Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Rede PENSSAN), realizou em 2021 o Inquérito Nacional sobre Insegurança Alimentar no Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19 no Brasil, cujos resultados estão sendo agora divulgados. Os resultados do inquérito mostram que nos três meses anteriores à coleta de dados, menos...

The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites  which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme  and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries. 

Retrouvez notre conférence organisée le 11 mars 2021 avec Pierre-Marie Aubert, chercheur, coordinateur de l’initiative Agriculture européenne à l’Iddri (Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales) : L'agroécologie pour nourrir l'Europe d'ici 2050, le scénario TYFA "Ten Years For Agroecology"

Fue adaptada por la FHIA y es aplicable en los lugares donde se siembra plátano. Tradicionalmente el productor de plátano realiza la siembra de áreas nuevas con cormos obtenidos de las plantaciones destinadas a la obtención de fruta; esta práctica debilita las plantas y reduce los rendimientos. La multiplicación rápida...

El proceso de deshidratación del limón utilizado en Guatemala consiste en secarlo de forma directa y completamente al sol, sin el uso de ningún tipo de elemento artificial ni agregados químicos pero cumpliendo las más estrictas normas de calidad: buenas prácticas agrícolas, adecuado manejo de producto en campo, higiénicos sistemas...

There are growing calls to transform the current food system in response to hunger, malnutrition, climate change, and biodiversity loss. Financial institutions and donors and other actors have tended to focus on increasing productivity and developing global value chains, which has caused great harm to the environment while failing to...

Known for their smaller size and brown colour, Busha cattle have withstood the harsh climate and living conditions in mountainous parts of the Balkan Peninsula for centuries. In Serbia, the Busha breed is not only an important element of animal genetic diversity, but also a source of food and income...

Agricultural technology was fairly stable for centuries, but slowly began to change in medieval times, which brings us back to the windmill.

Women smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe have appealed for government assistance, claiming that they are often ignored when authorities and other organizations visit their regions to provide agricultural assistance. Despite their significant contribution to the country's food security, female smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe who practice agroecology (AE) and grow 'women seeds,'...

The assessment of water productivity in livestock supply chains has a critical role to play in developing productive and sustainable food production systems worldwide. In particular, the evaluation of water productivity improvement options is key to addressing growing food demand and the projected impacts of climate change under conditions where...