Each year, the department of Barranquilla, Colombia, invests around 40 billion Colombian pesos (USD 12.2 million) in the School Feeding Programme (PAE) to feed 113 818 children and adolescents. This research estimated that including gastronomic techniques in just one menu of the PAE Barranquilla could prevent 99.7 tonnes of food...

Introducción. La zona sur del Lago de Maracaibo es la región con mayor área y volumen de producción de plátano (cv. Hartón) en Venezuela, aspecto que motiva al estudio de diversas propiedades del suelo de la localidad. Objetivo. Evaluar las características físicas, químicas y biológicas del suelo asociadas al vigor...

In the assessments that follow, an inclusive and true cost evaluation approach is applied to six initiatives drawn from the Global Alliance’s Beacons of Hope (BoH) initiative, which showcases the groundswell of people and organizations around the world who are addressing food systems challenges in creative and systemic ways. Providing...

It’s not just Brexit. The future of European food systems is being shaped by many different – sometimes contradictory – drivers. The large-scale agro-food processing and retailing industries are increasingly churning out processed foods and degrading the environment. At the same time, more people are concerned about the climate impacts of...

ObjectifDepuis presque 30 ans, Agrisud International soutient la mise en économie de populations en précarité par la création et le renforcement de Très Petites Entreprises (TPE) agricoles familiales. La démarche concourt à la durabilité des activités économiques soutenues :> au plan économique, elle s’appuie sur les ressorts de l’économie de...

The cape gooseberry, Physalis peruviana L., is a crop that is transitioning from a semi-wild rural food source to becoming an international export commodity fruit deserving of greater attention from the scientific community, producers, policy makers, and opinion makers. Despite its importance, the crop has serious technological development challenges, mainly...

In recent years, various factors have diverted the world off the path to eradicating hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition by 2030, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this trend. Latin America and the Caribbean is no exception. This edition of the Regional Overview of Food Security and...

Supermarkets in the USA bulge with everything from strawberries to steak, but this generous supply is threatened by a destructive agro-industry. In the book Perilous Bounty, Tom Philpott outlines looming disasters in California and the Midwest.

On World Tourism Day (27 September), pescatourism tours started in Turkey’s Gökova Bay as part of FAO’s Blue Hope Initiative in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a major step in adapting pescatourism in the country, which aims to reduce the fishing effort on stocks and create new income opportunity for the local...

This study provides a preliminary quantitative and qualitative analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on European agriculture and the agri-food supply chain in light of the responses deployed by the European Union and its Member States to mitigate its effects.

The number of people facing acute food insecurity and needing urgent life and livelihood-saving assistance has hit a five-year high in 2020 in countries beset by food crises, an annual report launched today by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - an international alliance of the UN, the EU, governmental and non-governmental agencies...

En Colombia, la producción de caña de azúcar es el segundo renglón más importante en la producción agrícola después del café, 55 % del total del área cultivada se dedica a la producción de panela (Azúcar no centrifugado-NCS, por sus siglas en inglés) labor que se realiza en 29 de...

The Global Alliance for the Future of Food has developed seven bold Calls to Action that we believe are critical pathways for creating a better future of food. How to Transform Food Systems | 7 Calls to Action presents this collection.  Elevated time and again by our members, partners, allies, and...

El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementarán.

The SIANI Expert Group Wild Foods, Biodiversity and Livelihood works to consolidate traditional ecological knowledge about wild foods in Asia and link it with policy arenas relevant to food security, poverty reduction, and sustainable forest management. On January 22,  2021, the group had a discussion synthesizing common threads across Asia regarding food systems and wild...

Esta sistematización pone a disposición de los gobiernos nacionales y territoriales, donantes, sector privado, sociedad civil, academia y de los propios equipos FAO una cartera de buenas prácticas FAO con el objeto de compartirlas y visibilizarlas, promover su escalamiento o replicabilidad y movilizar recursos para su financiamiento. Las fichas 1, 2,...

This case study from Chile applies state-of-the-art monitoring approaches to forest conservation, restoration and managment. It offers a glimpse into Chile's efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhancement on forest carbon stocks (REDD+).

This manual is a visual, practical document on good beekeeping practices for sustainable small-scale beekeepers in Africa. It has been designed to serve as a beekeeping training tool and is a concise, practical reference document. The manual opens with an illustrated story of the damaging effect of certain practices adopted...

El híbrido FHIA-03 es un banano de cocción enano tipo “Bluggoe”, que fue desarrollado en 1987. Tiene un alto potencial para varios países de África del Oeste y Este, donde existen muchas veces áreas marginales que no permiten un buen desarrollo del banano Cavendish. En la actualidad, se encuentra en...

In Kyrgyzstan, where most of the population lives in rural areas, small-scale agriculture and animal husbandry is the main source of food and income. To this end, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Kyrgyz Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Regional Development, and the...