This report seeks to expand the understanding of anticipatory action in Small Island Developing States, with a focus on the geographic and socio-institutional aspects of independent Pacific Island Countries in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. This report provides a summary of regional and selected national contexts and approaches to the building...

Les systèmes de cultures maraichers agroécologiques basés sur la diversité des espèces cultivées et le recours aux intrants biologiques permettent d’améliorer les revenus des producteurs tout en préservant leur santé et celle de leur environnement. La complexité des systèmes agroécologiques par rapport au système conventionnel nécessite un dialogue entre chercheurs...

En el marco de la I Cumbre Parlamentaria Mundial contra el Hambre y la Malnutrición celebrada en las Cortes Generales de España en 2018, parlamentarios y parlamentarias de Iberoamérica y el Caribe acordaron crear la “Alianza Parlamentaria Iberoamericana y Caribeña por la Seguridad Alimentaria para Todas y Todos”, con el...

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. The 2024 Global Food Policy Report draws on recent evidence to...

Que faire face à des ressources naturelles qui se dégradent de plus en plus, dans un contexte marqué par les effets des changements climatiques qui frappent de plein fouet plusieurs pays africains ? Face au renchérissement des coûts et à la raréfaction des engrais et des pesticides chimiques ? C’est...

In the forests of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, limited livelihood options often drive male fishers literally into the jaws of death, with their widows left struggling for survival. The expression ‘Byaghro Bidhoba’, which literally translates to ‘Tiger Widows’, is a term used to refer to women who have lost...

Les semences sont une première étape critique de l’action pour le climat. Elles confortent les moyens d’existence des populations locales ; améliorent la sécurité alimentaire et préservent la diversité bioculturelle. Le tout récent projet RTRP-Seed (Right Tree, Right Place: Seed Project – soit « projet de semences pour le bon...

El comercio mundial ha experimentado una serie de grandes sacudidas en los últimos 15 años. En el caso de los alimentos, el comercio se ha visto afectado por factores como la crisis financiera internacional de 2008-2009, las tensiones comerciales entre las principales economías del mundo, los efectos del cambio climático,...

The impacts of our diets extend well beyond mealtime to affect our health and well-being. Unhealthy diets underpin many public health challenges, including all forms of malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Many countries are facing a double burden of malnutrition—meaning that undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight and...

Development of the modern, highly specialised and economically efficient, forestry in the 1700s has substantially changed the structural characteristics and dynamics of European woodlands. In particular, the ban on forest grazing that had been almost universally adopted throughout all Central Europe, unleashed the processes of development of shade−tolerant undergrowth, leading...

The Philippines has made significant strides in reducing poverty, but the persistent threat of natural disasters, compounded by the country's vulnerability and exposure, continues to jeopardize these gains. Many households in disaster-prone areas hover precariously close to the poverty line, and the devastating impact of disasters on their assets, income,...

Ce court reportage présente les difficultés d’accès au foncier des femmes au Bénin. Pas de terre lors du partage de l’héritage, pas de possibilité d’acheter un terrain et stéréotype de genre très forts, bien que les femmes soient protégées par la loi au Bénin, les défis du foncier auxquelles elles...

Reducir la pérdida y el desperdicio de alimentos se considera una acción relevante para reducir los costos de producción y aumentar la eficiencia de los sistemas agroalimentarios, mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición y contribuir a la sostenibilidad ambiental. Teniendo en cuenta sus impactos económicos, sociales y ambientales, reducir...

Women and men play different roles in the environment, bringing a wealth of knowledge, unique skills, and experiences around ecosystems and conservation that often differ from each other. Women are gatherers and managers of natural resources, playing a key role in sustainable development. Data and information showcase the ways in...

Protein transition and circular food system transition are two proposed strategies for supporting food system sustainability. Here we model animal-sourced protein to plant-sourced protein ratios within a European circular food system, finding that maintaining the current animal–plant protein share while redesigning the system with circular principles resulted in the largest...

Women who dominate the shellfish harvest sector in Galicia struggle for due representation and policy inclusion. On the North-Western region of Galicia in Spain, shore-based shellfish harvesting is carried out mainly by women. With traditional and very simple tools that have remained virtually unchanged over time, women gather in beaches to...

La participación activa del poder legislativo tiene una relevancia significativa en el ámbito de la cooperación internacional para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria. Antes del establecimiento de la Red de Frentes Parlamentarios contra el Hambre en América Latina y el Caribe (FPH-ALC), los esfuerzos en este ámbito se centraban principalmente en...

From the fertile fields of Cambodia to the dense rainforests of Indonesia and Lao PDR, Southeast Asia's agricultural lands and forest resources are of social and ecological significance to the region. Home to over 300 million rural inhabitants, as many as 140 million people rely on forests for their livelihoods, nutrition,...

Human Development Report 2023-24: Breaking the gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world. The Human Development Index, or HDI, is probably the second most-used measure of a country’s development, after GDP. It uses a variety of indicators and gauges progress in terms of societal outcomes, including a healthy life (life expectancy...

Construyendo un mejor futuro cuenta las historias de Mauro Pop y Héctor Salguero, quienes realizaron acciones de restauración de tierras para mejorar las condiciones del suelo y el agua, así como de Petrona Chub y Yasmira Chen, dos mujeres líderes en sus comunidades que trabajan transformando el cacao en chocolate...