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...

El objetivo de esta publicación es presentar un conjunto de estrategias que fomenten una mayor inversión de las remesas familiares en El Salvador a través de una mejor inclusión financiera, a partir del estudio de caso de la cadena de valor de tomate y chile verde. A partir de un...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (“Cooperation Framework”) is an agreement between the UN and the host government and determines a country’s development priorities as well as the UN development system’s contributions to them. As AMR hinders progress in many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), coordinated action across...

In the higher valleys of the Rioja region in Spain, farmland abandonment is an increasing problem. An Operational Group is identifying the main reasons behind this issue and carrying out activities to bring new farmers to the area and regenerate fruit production. At the same time, these actions contribute to...

A video translation workshop was organised recently in Lusaka, Zambia, by Access Agriculture to facilitate and build capacity of 12 local media practitioners and NGO representatives in translating video scripts, recording voice-overs and audio editing.

El manejo de plagas y enfermedades se hace posible a través de muchas acciones que se complementan entre sí. La mayoría de las prácticas de gestión son de largo plazo y están destinadas a prevenir el ataque de los cultivos por plagas y enfermedades. Las prácticas de gestión (manejo) se...

The author, Raj Patel, wrote an op-ed in Scientific America on why agroecology is the answer to global hunger. He eloquently demonstrated that agroecology is allowing millions of farmers to produce and share food in ways that improve nutrition, biodiversity, and quality of life.

FAO’s Regional Office for Africa is committed to working hand-in-hand with our partners through supporting transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life for all, leaving no one behind. Each quarter, we aim to bring you stories...

Debates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very ‘change process’ itself.This book is an endeavor to explicate relationships to change in agroecological transitions,...

This course introduces you to the maritime traffic rules that small-scale fishers in coastal and inland waters should know about. This “Rules of the road at sea” course provides guidance on actions to take in day-to-day traffic situations at sea, during daylight and at night.   Working in the fisheries sector is...

Although the once booming tea industries in Azerbaijan and Georgia have long been in decline, interest in revitalizing the sector is gaining steam in both countries. Tea has a long tradition in Azerbaijan and Georgia, where tea has been produced since the 19th century. The two countries became the main tea...

This report is the outcome of the Digital Excellence in Agriculture: FAO-ITU regional contest on good practices advancing digital agriculture in Europe and Central Asia, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Office for Europe and Central Asia and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Offices...

As the Food Systems Summit drew to a close, it is time to make real the agreements and outcomes that resulted from this meeting and put in motion its menu of proposals. Ensuring that people are at the centre means human rights must permeate all the agri-food conversations in the...

El Sistema de Integración Centroamericano (SICA), por medio del Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano (CAC),  con participación de organizaciones de la sociedad civil particularmente el Programa de Diálogo Regional Rural (PDRR), y el acompañamiento de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Fondo Internacional...

Lors de la COP26 à Glasgow, le FVC (Fonds Vert pour le Climat) et le FIDA (Fonds International de Développement Agricole) ont promis de financer la Grande Muraille Verte de Dakar à Djibouti, ce rideau de verdure, à hauteur de 143,2 millions de dollars d’ici 2025. Mais concrètement, comment réussir...

Tipos de semilla de plátano para el establecimiento del cultivo de plátano se pueden utilizar los anteriores tipos de semilla. Fisiológica Capacidad de desarrollar funciones intrínsecas de la planta: brotación de yemas, vigor, emisión de hojas, fotosíntesis e intercambio gaseoso. Física Semilla sin daños mecánicos, con peso o tamaño adecuado,...

On November 23, 2021, the Food Policy Forum for Change co-organized a roundtable in collaboration with the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO), the National Council for Organic Agriculture (CNABio) of Burkina Faso, and the Centre Ecologique Albert Schweitzer Switzerland (CEAS). The aim was to bring together political decision-makers, other actors involved...

Si la Déclaration des Nations unies sur les droits des paysans et des autres personnes travaillant dans les zones rurales (DDP) reprend et rassemble de nombreux droits déjà reconnus par divers instruments internationaux, le droit aux semences paysannes constitue l’une des avancées majeures de ce texte. C’est l’idée force du...

The need for, and the urgency of, a transition of our food system to face the triple challenges of conserving biodiversity, improving adaptation to climate change while reducing GHG emissions, and improving diets, is no longer questioned. Over the last 5 years, Iddri and AScA have explored the contribution of...

This year’s State of the Right to Food and Nutrition Report places the spotlight on the right to food and nutrition in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks at the measures that governments have taken to contain the spread of the virus, and the impacts these have had...