Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, mountain communities face unprecedented challenges due to the lockdown and isolation. The situation brings social difficulties for people, even more those living in remote areas, and financial ones for rural businesses affected by the closure. This item of news aims at sharing experiences and inspiring...

Special edition: Asia and the Pacific;  This month a special edition of the SSF Update. Come with us to Asia and the Pacific and learn about work in the region to implement the SSF Guidelines!

The Soil Doctors programme is developed under the umbrella of the Global Soil Partnership and promotes the establishment of a farmer-to-farmer training system. The Soil Doctors Global Programme aims to build the capacity of smallholder farmers on the practice of sustainable soil management and, by doing so, support governmental agencies...

Trees and shrubs play important roles on the farm and in the environment. Unfortunately too many trees are lost because of overgrazing, excessive fuel wood collection and deforestation. Agroforestry supports the efforts of people in rural areas to plant more trees and to use them to greater advantage, also because...

Fruit flies are a major constraint to the production and export of fruit and vegetables in South Asia. Two techniques were developed. Bait Application Technique (BAT), in which food baits are mixed with a small amount of insecticide to attract and kill adults. Male Annihilation Technique (MAT) is where synthetic...

Debra Williby-Walker has a great story to tell, and it’s living under her roof in Mercer County, West Virginia. With her is eight-year-old Brady, her charismatic grandson, who has given away more than 6,000 packets of vegetable seeds to families around the world.

Cooking in refugee camps is complex. To feed their families, women and girls must often collect firewood outside the camps, exposing them to the risk of gender-based violence (GBV). Interventions that seek to reduce this risk, such as cleaner cooking solutions, can also create opportunities for participation in other activities,...

For many years, Yemaya has been carrying articles related to the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), a mass based association of small-scale fisher people from across the world, founded in 1997 by a number of mass based organisations from the Global South. WFFP was established in response to the...

Sunday, 1st March 2 - 4pm Irish Seed Savers, Capparoe, Scariff, Co. Clare, Ireland. Bring your extra seeds to share on the day, and take home some seeds to plan your garden for the year.    

Small-scale fisheries are important for the food security of the United States. Yet relief measures during the COVID-19 pandemic favour industrial operators, and are unsustainable. When the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020, no one knew for certain what it would mean for the seafood industry, let alone...

Cairo and Rome, 24 November 2020 –The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have joined forces to foster inclusive and sustainable family farming as the central cornerstone for a vibrant, productive and profitable agriculture across the Near East and North...

Policy-makers from Guinea, Mali and Mauritania speak about three topics crucial to enhance responsible investment in agriculture: the investment approval process, inclusive and effective consultations, and investment for young agri-entrepreneurs. Likewise, young agri-entrepreneurs from Guinea and Senegal highlight challenges and opportunities to engage youth in responsible agricultural investment. These interviews...

Fruit flies are a common pest damaging fruits and vegetables. The video in this practice explains how to build a safe, simple and cost effective fruit fly trap with a plastic bottle, a pheromone and an insecticide. This practice describes step by step how to build a trap to control...

This practice provides basic information on how to set up a small-scale fish farm for subsistence purposes with regards to daily protein needs. Since fish farming practices are so diverse, this manual focuses on land-based freshwater fish farming. In the tropics, pond fish farming is the most common form of...

Esta nueva edición de OCDE-FAO Perspectivas Agrícolas proporciona un nivel de referencia integral a mediano plazo de los productos básicos agrícolas en los ámbitos nacional, regional y mundial, junto con un escenario inicial en el que se explora el impacto del COVID-19. Este análisis preliminar sugiere que un crecimiento económico...

Sunday 17th  May from 2 – 4pm Irish Seed Savers, Capparoe, Scariff, Co. Clare.   Bring your surplus seeds, plants, seedlings and shrubs to share. Meet our team of experts to learn how your support helps protect Ireland’s collection of rare and heritage food seeds and fruit trees.

Apart from exposing vulnerable indigenous communities to infection, COVID-19 threatens a programme that provides livelihood to the vulnerable and helps conserve freshwater fish species. Indigenous people and rural communities in Brazil’s Amazon region have been dramatically hit by COVID-19. A note issued on 10 June by the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations...

La mora es un fruto originario de las zonas altas de América, empleada con fines alimenticios, industriales y cosméticos. Las moras son altamente apetecidas por su sabor, contenido de carbohidratos, fibra y minerales como el potasio, altos niveles de antocianinas y otros compuestos fenólicos, principalmente flavonoides y elagitaninos. Dicho contenido...

This digital report contains the main findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020). FRA 2020 examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990–2020. The information provided by FRA presents a comprehensive view of the world’s forests and...

This knowledge product is a compilation of good practices identified from the ex-post analysis of eleven FAO–GEF partnership projects. The projects were implemented across the world from 2011 to 2019 and are representative of the first generation of FAO-GEF projects. The broad objective of the FAO-GEF partnership is to help...