The future health of Europe’s people and the planet lies on our plate: the way in which food is farmed, fished, processed, distributed, valued, prepared, consumed and wasted must change to ensure that the environmental, social and economic sustainability of food become core assets of the EU’s food systems, along...

Climate action is vital. And yet there is a risk that, taken alone, climate action could mean those with economic power keep it, all the while avoiding the bigger, systemic changes required to face our social and environmental challenges. We argue here for climate action that works within a local...

Zone très riche en biodiversité, l’Afrique de l’ouest est aussi une des régions les plus touchées par les changements globaux. La Revue Belge de Géographie, a publié un travail de recherche réalisée dans le cadre du consortium Patrimoines et Territoires de l’Eau (PATEO). Ce travail analyse la vulnérabilité et la résilience...

Una serie de estudios de caso sobre gobernanza del agua en seis países de Latinoamérica, enriquecido con instancias de diálogo y participación a nivel territorial, nacional y subregional. En Centroamérica, se analizó la microcuenca del río El Jute (cuenca del río Lempa) en El Salvador; la microcuenca del río Los...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), together with the Alliance of Bioversity International and The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) released today a new study identifying hundreds of diverse plant and animal species that Indigenous Peoples around the world depend on and care for to generate food...

The World Resources Institute (WRI) partnered with Resource Equity (RE) and organizations in five countries to identify and conduct case studies of five communities that have relatively gender-equitable land tenure systems. The case studies investigated the extent and strength of women’s tenure rights and drew out the main factors or...

Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalization, liberalization, and rapid urbanization. Farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve their livelihoods. Technical know-how is not enough. To be competitive and take advantage of the new...

In Sri Lanka over 60 percent of the total population are involved in farming and 38 percent of the total workforce are farm labours, steadily declining the agriculture contribution to GDP. Horticulture plays an important role in providing livelihood to a larger portion of poor people, increases the level of...

Fruit flies present a major challenge to international trade, because if they are detected in fruits, trade may be stopped. That is why a set of International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) on fruit flies has been developed and recently reorganized. When a country wants to export fruit, this set...

Los sistemas silvopastoriles (SSP) son alternativas sostenibles en el manejo de suelos dedicados a la actividad ganadera, que contribuyen a la recuperación de suelos degradados. (Objetivo): Conocer el potencial de captura de carbono (C) en biomasa de raíces finas por especie y su capacidad de exploración en el suelo dentro...

There is increasing awareness of the need for, and a growing movement to apply, the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) and develop sustainable linkages between climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk management (DRM). Fisheries learning exchanges (FLEs) can be useful for enhancing fisheries management that is guided by these...

This book is a historical review of international food and agriculture since the founding of the international organizations following the Second World War, including the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and into the 1970s, when CGIAR was...

The FAO gender team in Europe and Central Asia is pleased to share with you the first issue of its newsletter. This new publication explores and discusses women’s and  men’s experiences in agriculture and food security in the region. In each quarterly issue, you will meet our real heroes and read...

For the purpose to complement the humanitarian efforts carried out by the United Nations in Nineveh Governorate, and within the framework of supporting income generation for returning families and local communities, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has opened new small/medium-scale village milk centers for collection,...

‘Good governance’ is increasingly recognised as a factor contributing to improved protected area (PA) management and conservation outcomes. Yet how exactly governance at different levels supports or hinders successful PA management, and how this should be considered in conservation policy, planning and practice, remains insufficiently understood. This backgrounder considers how the...

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, already exposed to chronic shortage of water, will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, the NENA region...

The yak is a long-haired species of Bovidae living throughout high-altitude areas that began to be domesticated approximately 10,000 years ago. Even though the yak originates from the Tibetan Plateau, it has spread among the Greater Central Asia uplands. These animals not only are intrinsically interrelated with the territory that...

Durante dos días fueron presentadas experiencias de Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Uruguay, Paraguay y Nicaragua. Cerca de 2.400 personas participaron del seminario internacional virtual Agroecología, agricultura familiar y ODS: políticas públicas en América Latina, promovido los días 9 y 10 de marzo por el proyecto Sembrando Capacidades. Por medio de las plataformas Zoom y...

Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...

El preocupante aumento del sobrepeso y obesidad en la Región ha llevado a los países a desarrollar normativas y políticas públicas para superar esta problemática. Muchas de estas apuntan a transformar los entornos alimentarios para que sean más saludables, mejorando el acceso e influenciando la conducta de las personas, desincentivando...