The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been promoting the ‘Caisses de résilience’ approach, a resilience-building initiative implemented in Uganda since 2008 through the Agro-pastoral Field School methodology. 'Caisses de résilience’ (CdR) is an integrated community-centered [...]

  The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Office [...]

This good practice fact sheet documents the main lessons drawn from FAO's experience contributing to resilient livelihoods through beekeeping between 2013 and 2015 in Somalia. Somaliland has the world’s fourth-lowest gross domestic product per capita, according to the World Bank, [...]

Ce webinaire a été organisé avec le soutien de l'Union européenne. 18 octobre 2016 – 15.00-16.30 CEST Présentateur : Alexis Bonte, Représentant de la FAO a.i. en République démocratique du Congo; Paulin Kakule, Économiste et Expert en microfinance communautaire, bureau FAO en République centrafricaine Modératrice :  Sylvie Wabbes, Chargée [...]

The most vulnerable part of Central America is the “Corredo Seco” (Dry Corridor), an area running across of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, which is characterized by very variable and extreme weather conditions: regular abnormal dry spells and droughts, [...]