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Reconciling conservation agriculture and agroforestry for sustainability
Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.
In this section, Killeen focuses on land management that seeks to reconcile the technologies of modern agriculture with the worn-out practices of organic farming.
It also...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Ecuador - Peru
2024 - Mongabay: News & Inspiration from Nature´s Frontline
Article
Nourrir sans détruire avec des systèmes alimentaires territorialisés durables : le cas de l’espace Afrique-Europe
Après quatre transitions technologiques et organisationnelles en 400 000 ans, l’humanité est en quête d’une sécurité alimentaire durable et partagée. En effet, les lourdes externalités négatives du système agro-industriel devenu hégémonique en 150 ans incitent à reconstruire les systèmes alimentaires dans une perspective socio-écologique. Sur la base d’une synthèse de diverses prospectives, les...
2024
Blog article
Innovating tradition to protect ancient forests in Papua New Guinea
Supporting an Indigenous Peoples’ community to monitor forests with satellites and tablet
Besta Pulum cannot contain his excitement about the tablet computer he is holding in his hands. “When I was young, I never saw that kind of computer. Now I’m seeing it; I didn’t sleep [from excitement],” says the community chief, who reckons his age at around 60.
Like his father before...
Papua New Guinea
2024 - FAO
Blog article
Realizing gender equality: A greater challenge with climate change
SDG 5 calls for achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. Women spend far more time on unpaid and domestic work than men, on average an additional 2.4 hours a day. One in five girls get married before the age of 18. Climate change threatens to worsen these...
2024 - World Bank Group
Article
Valorisation des sous-produits du palmier-dattier pour contribuer à la durabilité des oasis du Maroc
L’objectif de l’étude est de réduire les risques de dissémination du Fusarium oxysporum fs albedenis (bayoud) et d’incendies de palmeraies, causés par l’accumulation des sous-produits du palmier dattier. Pour cela, nous avons réalisé des entretiens avec les phœniciculteurs des oasis et de leurs extensions sur l’entretien du palmier dattier, la...
Morocco
2024
Conference/Meeting
VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our Planet
Since its establishment, the World Rural Forum has held 8 Global Conferences on Family Farming, attended by hundreds of the highest-level representatives from governments, international organizations, research centers, family farmers’ organizations, cooperatives and NGDOs from 5 continents. The generated debates have served to set and highlight action priorities in favor...
2024 - World Rural Forum
Report
World Vegetable Center Annual Report 2023
Priorities for Research and Action – what we do and whyInvesting in vegetable production and consumption to improve nutrition, livelihoods and resilienceEvery country in the world is affected by malnutrition, and three billion people – more than a third of humanity – suffer from poor quality diets. A quarter of all children under five are affected....
2024 - World Vegetable Center
Fact sheet
Liste positive jardinage 2024
Engrais, substrats et terreaux, produits phytosanitaires et auxiliaires pour le jardinage biologique
Description
La liste positive contient des engrais, substrats et terreaux, produits phytosanitaires et auxiliaires pour la gestion biologique des jardins familiaux.
2024 - FiBL
Blog article
Champions of change: Meet the winners of the 2024 IFAD Gender Awards
Since 2013, IFAD has recognized projects from every corner of the world that go the extra mile for gender equality. Acknowledging that sustainable development is impossible without rural women. Their empowerment is crucial to transforming food systems, building thriving rural communities and creating lasting prosperity for all.
Let’s visit the five inspiring...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development
Journal article
What makes agroforestry work?
This review summarizes findings from 22 case studies published together in Tropical Forest Issues 61 (Torquebiau 2024). The case studies present clear and tangible benefits from the adoption of agroforestry, based on a wide range of practices from Africa, Latin America and Asia. In this review practices and conditions for...
2024
Blog article
Alvaro Lario: “Without family farming, we would not have eaten today”
An interview with the President of IFAD
During the interview, Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), shed light on the pressing challenges facing family farming, particularly in the context of climate change. Lario underscored the essential role of small-scale farmers in global food security, highlighting their contributions to feeding billions of people...
2024 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Audio
Farms. Food. Future. Regenerative agriculture, from soil to sustainability
58 episode of Farms. Food. Future – a podcast proposed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Despite being a major contributor to global emissions, farming might just hold the key to solving the climate crisis. When agriculture is regenerative, it becomes a win-win for people and planet, increasing food security...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Report
National agricultural innovation system assessment in Pakistan
Consolidated report
An assessment of seven innovation case studies in Pakistan in 2022 found that agriculture innovation systems show limited collaboration and networking, and a supply-driven rather than market driven approach to innovation. This limits the potential for scaling innovations such as the ‘Super Seeder’, a machine that sows wheat directly in...
Pakistan
2024 - FAO
Journal article
Designing agroforestry systems for greater economic viability and resilience
Agroforestry is recognised for its capacity to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation, but adoption rates remain lower than expected, necessitating an exploration into the economic viability of agroforestry practices. Key economic variables influencing the viability of agroforestry include benefits, costs, labour and farmers' risk profiles. Benefits of agroforestry include...
2024
Journal article
Transforming agroforestry through gender practice: challenges and opportunities
Around the world, the agricultural sector relies heavily on women, especially in developing countries, but women’s restricted access to essential resources, hinders their agricultural productivity, resulting in increased poverty. A promising solution to this is agroforestry, a climate-smart agricultural practice which increases land productivity, providing socioeconomic and ecological benefits. Women’s...
2024
Report
Financiamiento para la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición en América Latina y el Caribe
El hambre y la malnutrición persisten como desafíos en América Latina y el Caribe. Existen diferentes propuestas acerca de las políticas e intervenciones para hacer frente a esos problemas conjuntamente como región y para cada país. Sin embargo, las propuestas de políticas e intervenciones no incluyen propuestas sobre cómo financiar...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
The agroforestry-biodiversity-climate change nexus
Amongst human activity, industrial agriculture is a primary cause of biodiversity loss and climate change, reducing the land’s suitability for agriculture. This reduces global food security, increasing the pressure for food production which further exacerbates forest and land degradation. Agroforestry emerges as a promising solution by leveraging nature-based approaches to...
2024
Journal
Transforming Water Security Through Women's Leadership:Effective adaptation and stewardship amidst climate change and conflict
Effective adaptation and stewardship amidst climate change and conflict
This issue brief explores the women-led interventions to transform water security, stewardship, and management underway around the world to better understand the link between water security and gender equality and identify fruitful pathways to achieving both goals. Our analysis demonstrates the costs associated with undervaluing women’s expertise in water management,...
2024 - FP Analytics
E-learning
Gender and inclusion in Forest Landscape Restoration
In this self-paced online course, you will learn the fundamentals of gender and social inclusion in forest landscapes restoration (FLR). The course focuses on gender inequalities, gender-differentiated impacts and opportunities to address inequalities for more equitable and sustainable FLR, to build the abilities and understanding of diverse stakeholders on the...
2024 - CGIAR Research program on Forest, Trees, and Agroforestry
Journal article
Farmer managed natural regeneration to reconstitute agroforestry parklands in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso faces accelerated degradation of its natural resources as a result of the combined effects of natural and human-caused factors (inappropriate farming practices, bush fires, wood cutting, extension of agricultural areas, etc.). The province of Passoré, in the Nord Region of thecountry, is in an arid zone and regularly...
Burkina Faso
2024
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