Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

With Turkey hosting more than 3.6 million Syrians, that makes it home to the world’s largest refugee population. Many of those refugees, who have been granted “temporary protection” in Turkey, work in the agri-food and livestock sectors, which offer the most opportunities in the areas where they reside. However, these opportunities...

La propagación asexual mediante injertos se emplea para mantener la identidad genética de los materiales en las plantaciones nuevas de cacao. Dos de las técnicas de injertación más utilizadas por los viveristas en el proceso de multiplicación de plantas de cacao son la de parche y la de púa terminal....

Experience FAO’s work with pastoralist communities in the Greater Karamoja Cluster in East Africa. In this immersive 360° experience, use your mouse to scroll inside the video and explore our work through the eyes of the beneficiaries: from Pokot and Karamojong shepherds, and a young girl’s passion for farming, to...

This is an inspiring story from Nigeria. In 1984 a Nigerian, Father Godfrey Nzamujo created a sustainable Zero-Waste farm, 'Songhai ' in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin, designed to mimic natural ecosystem. He said he got the idea after the devastating drought and famine in Ethiopia and decided to create a...

Somos una red nacional de cooperativas vinculadas a la cadena agroalimentaria. Buscamos construir cadenas de valor cooperativas, donde la producción, la industrialización, la comercialización y el consumo queden en nuestras manos.  Promovemos la agroecología como modo de producción, el agregado de valor basado en la industrialización de nuestros cultivos, minimizando la...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

957 billion. That has just been confirmed by the UN as the average amount that low- and lower-middle-income countries invest annually in agriculture. So, if agriculture accounts for more than 25% of GDP in some developing countries, employs 63% of the world’s poor people and has the potential to improve...

Fin 2019, avant le déclenchement de la pandémie de la Covid-19, la FAO estimait que 20 % d’Africains, soit 250 millions de personnes, étaient sous-alimentés. Cette prévalence était deux fois et demie supérieure a la moyenne mondiale. Se combinaient alors plusieurs facteurs : sécheresse, inondations, épidémies acridiennes, instabilité des marchés...

The Federal Republic of Germany, through the German Development Bank (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau - KfW) has contributed EUR 17,950,000 to support work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to rehabilitate key irrigation and agricultural infrastructure in Yemen and communities training. The three-year resilience programme (2021–2023) in...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in close cooperation with Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, provided seeds of white bean, mung bean, maize, carrot, and cucumber to flood-affected farmers in the south-western part of the country. This critical livelihood support aims at safeguarding the incomes of vulnerable rural...

The Tripartite of the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the World Health Organization recently announced this year’s theme for the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance is the new theme with Antimicrobials: Handle with Care still the overarching slogan. The global event is celebrated...

En la tarde de este viernes 23 de abril, se llevó a cabo de manera virtual una reunión extraordinaria del Consejo Directivo Central (CDC) junto a la Comisión de Ganadería de FAA, convocada luego de haberse conocido las nuevas medidas sobre regulación para el sector. En la tarde del jueves se...

Ghana signed a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union in 2009, as part of the EU’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan to address illegal logging.     In this context, the FAO-EU FLEGT Programme partnered with Kumasi Wood Cluster (KWC) through two consecutive projects to assist Small...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

En la siguiente tecnología se propone una forma de recuperar la cera de abejas que queda en los opérculos de los marcos fundidos. Los marcos que ya no se utilizarán en los cajones pues están negros, en malas condiciones (deformados), contaminados (crías muertas, hongos, polen fermentado, etc.) deben ser fundidos...

The University of Groningen is presenting a summer school ''Designing sustainable landscapes within regional food systems'' that will hold between 30 August - 3 September 2021. The objective of the school is for participants to develop capacities and skills for the analysis and design of multifunctional agroecological landscapes within sustainable regional food systems,...

Why link social protection to climate-risk management? How can social protection contribute to inclusive climate risk management strategies? What are the main challenges and opportunities for integrating social protection and climate risk management?    Using an illustrative scenario, the course will guide you through the different ways in which social protection...

From a media bed unit start-up in Bangkok to a fully developed 120 households deep water culture (DWC) unit in Ethiopia, aquaponics is showcasing its true potential to produce sustainable food anytime, anywhere. A marriage between aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, snails or prawns in tanks) and hydroponics...

Tracing wood back to the forest it came from is essential to eliminating illegal logging. The National Timber Office of Benin (ONAB), with assistance from the FAO-EU Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Programme, established an innovative traceability system for its teak plantations that helps prevent illegal logging, transport...