Urbanization and ecosystems are profoundly intertwined. As urbanization takes over more land and has greater impacts on ecosystems, and as towns and cities of all sizes demand ecosystem services (food, fiber, water, energy, etc.), flows of people, goods, services, information, capital, etc. define and drive urban–rural linkages in complex and intricate...

The 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) of the United Nations took place from 15 to 26 March 2021. The theme of the session was: “Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender...

EU Pollinator Week is an event that focuses on the importance of pollinators for healthy ecosystems, our wellbeing, and culture. In 2021, it will be an online event held on 27-30 September with the theme "A New Deal for Pollinators".  The 2021 EU Pollinator Week is organised by Members of the...

Young people all over the world participate in both policy and action to avoid, minimize and reverse land and ecosystem degradation. The youth make their voice heard on multiple restoration policy platforms and by taking action on themes such as climate change and biodiversity. But their ability to act as...

El documento inicia con una caracterización tanto del agro peruano en términos de roles, estructura y desempeño, como de las prioridades de las políticas públicas implementadas en el período pre Covid-19. Prosigue examinando los escenarios agro-alimentarios en contexto de crisis Covid-19 tanto en términos de disponibilidad/abastecimiento de alimentos para el mercado. Finalmente,...

The European Network of Women in Fisheries and Aquaculture in Europe (AKTEA) urges the Office of the Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries to integrate gender into all aspects of European fishing policy. On 8 March International Women’s Day, AKTEA wrote a letter to Commissioner VirginijusSinkevi?ius, Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans...

Plant trade has come a long way in recent decades, but it still poses certain challenges and risks. Countries in Europe and Central Asia learned about a cutting-edge tool today, the ePhyto Solution – an electronic system for phytosanitary certification that makes trade between countries safer, faster, and cheaper. The ePhyto system...

While on average urban residents are less likely to go hungry than rural residents, a large proportion of the urban poor suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition. This is closely linked to low and irregular earnings, combined with inadequate housing and infrastructure, limited access to basic services and exposure to environmental...

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

During the implementation of the Nutrition in Mountain Agroecosystems (NMA) project in Ecuador, together with our partner Heifer Ecuador, we heard and collected several stories from the participants from the project’s Capacity Development Program. NMA seeks to connect the concepts of agroecology and market trends with the reality of farmers. Each participant has the...

La salida de la crisis sanitaria, económica y social causada por la pandemia de Covid-19 es una oportunidad para transformar el modelo de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe y construir sistemas agroalimentarios resilientes ante futuros riesgos.  Así lo sostiene la novena edición del informe Perspectivas de la Agricultura y del Desarrollo...

In a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly rising since 2014, and tonnes of edible food are lost and/or wasted every day, curbing food loss and waste is essential. Food loss and waste also put unnecessary pressure on the environment, resulting in natural resource...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

La agricultura urbana y periurbana ha mostrado resultados positivos en la mitigación de la inseguridad alimentaria en los espacios urbanos, no obstante, es un proceso que requiere apoyo económico y técnico con la finalidad de optimizar resultados, y que los mismos sean apropiados por la población. En Colombia actualmente no...

Maria Tekülve, the Deputy Head of Division and Focal Point for Rural Development and Agroecology at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) reflects on the role of agroecological approaches in international cooperation in an interview with Silvia Richter for the International Journal for Rural Development. The material reflects Maria Tekülve's personal opinion. ''A significantly...

There is a growing attention for agroecology in debates around urban food strategies and policies. Already for several years, this is considered a promising policy area, and agroecology was even already mentioned in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact signed in 2016 as one of the relevant approaches within policies for food...

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 implementaran.

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...

In collaboration with the Group of Friends on Action on Conflict and Hunger, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) convened a virtual high-level event on action in support of preventing and...

This report, elaborated in the frame of EU-funded LIFE project OREKA MENDIAN (2016-2022), focuses on how human activities can support sustainable management of mountain grasslands in Europe. Today, more than 75% of the grassland area in the EU-28 is considered to have an unfavourable conservation status. The widely negative picture of...