Free online farm conference in English “Launching Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Ukraine” will be organized on February 27th by the NGO “Permaculture in Ukraine” in collaboration with the “Visegrad and Beyond Permaculture Partnership”, The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V., The Department of Agriculture, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences, and German CSA network SOLAWI. We invite CSA...

The Rapid Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Supply Chains in the Philippines Report is a publication prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with technical support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Department of Agriculture (DA). The study...

Since the beginning of the outbreak in December 2019, the on-going Covid-19 crisis has had multiple impacts on how our food systems work and operate, from the closing of covered food market halls and open-air markets to the prolonged school shut-downs (up to 10 weeks in many European countries). The...

P-IRIS was based on the demand from Managing Authorities (MAs) to better support rural innovation in these regions. The initiative to address the issue through a project was taken during Euromontana’s General Assembly in November 2015. P-IRIS includes several members of our network: the County of Vestland (Norway), the Province of...

The aim of this fact sheet is to highlight the realities and challenges of urban women’s entrepreneurial work in the agriculture sector, or agripreneurship, in the Gaza Strip. It is an initiative by the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) & Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), committed to enhancing...

The Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) regularly calls for proposals to support global and regional apex forest and farm producers’ organizations. In 2019, FFF focused on ways organizations can improve service delivery to their members. Three organizations, the Network of Farmers Organizations and Agricultural Producers of West Africa (ROPPA), the...

The aim of this report is to present evidence for how information and communication technologies for small-scale fisheries (ICT4SSF) might enable and support the implementation of the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines)....

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the European Union (EU) are teaming up to help improve food security and nutrition in Yemen through a new project. The new 30-month, multifaceted project will aim to strengthen...

FAO provides Iranian farmers with learning opportunities on handling low water productivity challenges, monitoring local water resources, and adopting an optimal cropping pattern, to increase farm-household income and reduce water withdrawal. In partnership with the local agricultural extension authorities in Qazvin Province, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

The Federal Republic of Germany, through the German Development Bank (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau - KfW) has contributed EUR 17,950,000 to support work by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to rehabilitate key irrigation and agricultural infrastructure in Yemen and communities training. The three-year resilience programme (2021–2023) in...

FAO Agroecology Newsletter - February 2021 issue, with a lot of news from the Agroecology world

The Government of Japan boosts the Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO) emergency interventions in Yemen by contributing USD 2 090 909 allocated as part of its ongoing response in Yemen.The “Emergency Agricultural Livelihood Assistance to Conflict and COVID-19 Affected Populations” project enables FAO to provide emergency...

The economic impact of COVID-19 on the world’s most populous region is threatening to further undermine efforts to improve diets and nutrition of nearly two billion people in Asia and the Pacific who were already unable to afford healthy diets prior to the pandemic, says a new report published today...

The main aim of the research was to attempt to better understand agripreneurship and agripreneurs’ characteristics in small-scale farming in Iraq. This involved researching the small-scale farm as an enterprise as well as focusing on a common farm enterprise: agricultural mechanization hire service enterprises. The nature of the research taken...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelohoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 84, dated December 2020, features a range of articles from countries around the world like Peru, Kiribati, Belize, France,...

Ell proyecto de cooperación sur-sur trilateral Sembrando Capacidades llevó a cabo el segundo taller virtual de intercambio de conocimientos entre Brasil y Colombia para la construcción de directrices de investigación en agroecología.  La iniciativa Sembrando Capacidades, ejecutada en Colombia, integra las acciones del proyecto regional América Latina y el Caribe sin Hambre 2025, del...

El proyecto de Extensión Universitaria “Con las manos en la tierra: sembrando cultura y biodiversidad” comenzó en febrero de 2020, luego de ser aprobado en la 12° convocatoria “La Universidad y su compromiso con la sociedad”. Atravesados por la situación actual de aislamiento y distanciamiento social, fueron muchos los obstáculos...

MARIKINA CITY, PHILIPPINES – The lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for farmers groups/cooperatives in the Philippines to sell their produce directly to consumers. On 3 May 2020, with the help of PAKISAMA, one of AFOSP-APFP partner organizations in the Philippines, their member organization Kababaihang Dumagat ng Sierrra Madre...

La actual crisis de COVID-19 ya ha desencadenado restricciones y prohibiciones a las exportaciones de alimentos por parte de algunos gobiernos nacionales. Según Laborde et. al. (2020)1 se estima que hasta ahora estas restricciones afectan a alrededor del 5% de las calorías comercializadas a nivel mundial, todavía lejos del 19%...

El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) responde a los desafíos del desarrollo agrícola del siglo XXI organizando su trabajo en tres programas: Biodiversidad para el futuro y sistemas agroalimentarios de papa y camote. Objetivo Estratégico del Programa El camote permitirá que por lo menos 15 millones de hogares de escasos recursos en Africa and Asia mejoren...