Industrial food and farming systems are making people sick in a variety of ways, and are generating staggering human and economic costs. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the many interconnected ways in which food systems affect human health, why these negative impacts are systematically reproduced, and why certain problems are...

Droughts in the Horn of Africa have been increasing in severity and frequency, and aggravated by desertification, land degradation and climate change. With multiple consecutive years of poor rains, dry spells and drought, including the El Niño-induced drought in 2015/16, there has been little to no recovery among affected households...

Representatives from farmer organizations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, international partners, and civil society organizations gathered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 6-10 October 2017 for the Expanded 3rd MTCP2 Regional Steering Committee Meeting. The RSC opened with an interfaith prayer delivered by Self Employed Women’s Association...

This factsheet contributes to FAO Organizational Strategic Objective 1 "Eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition", Strategic Objective 2 "Increase and improve provision of goods and services from agriculture, forestry and fisheries in a sustainable manner", and Strategic Objective 3 "Reduce rural poverty". The purpose of this factsheet is to briefly...

The report examines the impacts of an unconditional cash transfer in Lesotho, the Child Grants Programme, aimed at enhancing children’s nutrition and schooling. Using an experimental impact evaluation design, the analysis looks specifically at gender-differentiated impacts in children’s school participation and time use among agricultural households two years after the...

This short video introduces Organic 3.0, the next phase of organic development. Organic 3.0 has the goal to enable a widespread uptake of truly sustainable farming systems and markets based on organic principles.

This course provides the necessary knowledge to build a sustainable national greenhouse gas inventory (NGHGI) and to assess emissions from the agriculture sector. The course contains a general overview on: the role and goals of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Órgãos da administração pública devem investir R$ 260 milhões na compra de alimentos da agricultura familiar em 2017. O valor corresponde ao crescimento de 430%, comparado ao valor investido em 2016, de R$ 61 milhões. As aquisições serão feitas por meio da modalidade Compra Institucional do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos...

In sub-Saharan Africa good progress was made in reducing hunger until 2010, after which time the decline in the prevalence of undernourishment came to a halt and then rose to 22.7 percent in 2016, while the number of undernourished rose to 224.3 million. In many countries, the worsening situation in...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced that it has successfully delivered emergency assistance to more than six thousand rural households across Rakhine State, a region of Myanmar where nearly half the population is engaged in the agriculture sector. In order to avoid food insecurity and improve self-sufficiency, following...

“Mountain regions, territories of innovation” was the title of an international conference held on January 11-13, 2017 in Grenoble, France. The conference was organised by Labex Item, the platform for mountain research and territorial action in the French Northern Alps; it regroups academic and public institutions and other local stakeholders...

This policy brief presents the main findings of a situational analysis and assessment of women’s and youth’s ability to access community land in Turkana County, Kenya, with a focus on their rights. The brief highlights the fact that even though policy and legal frameworks provide for equal rights and nondiscrimination...

This short film is part of the short films that have been received in the framework of the short film contest organized by ALiSEA and the Luang Prabang Film festival about Youth & Agroecology. The film is to document youth voice on why they choose to work or not to...

Part I of this year’s edition of the State of Food Insecurity in Europe and Central Asia is devoted to the theme of how the nature of food insecurity has evolved in the region over the past 23 years. The familiar four pillars of food security are used to demonstrate...

In his book, ‘Harmony, A New Way of Looking at Our World’, The Prince of Wales shares his insights about the timeless laws and principles which permeate everything around and within us, an understanding of which can enable us to make better sense of the world in which we find...

The third European Rural Parliament (18-21 October 2017 – Venhorst, The Netherlands) resulted in the Venhorst Declaration, calling on “citizens and policy-makers to support the vitality of rural areas and to ensure that general policies and programmes are rural proofed.” The Declaration – supported by over 250 representatives of rural communities...

At SIMRA’s first General Assembly, celebrated in Barcelona last May at the Mediterranean European Forest Institute (EFIMED), we got the chance to see first-hand how inhabitants of the Comarca of Bages are minimizing the impact of forest fires in their area. This location was a very fitting place to learn about...

Adriana Tambaco, una pequeña agricultora ecuatoriana, nos habla de cómo sus alimentos frescos aportan al desarrollo de su comunidad y de niñas y niños en la provincia de Imbabura.

Этот бюллетень предназначен для ежемесячного обновления политики торговли сельскохозяйственной продукцией в регионе и предоставления соответствующих новостей, касающихся торговли сельскохозяйственной продукцией.

"My Name Is Lee" is part of the short films that have been received in the framework of the short film contest organized by ALiSEA and the Luang Prabang Film festival about Youth & Agroecology. It is the story of a young man (Lee Ayu) who has returned to his...