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The spread of Covid-19, and the measures taken by authorities to contain it, meant an abrupt end to our ways of working. We shifted to internet and mobile phone connectedness, strengthened responsibilities of our partner organisations, and increased South-South communications directly between our partners, including cross-country exchange of experiences. In this [...]

This documentary features field experiences from Welthungerhilfe beneficiaries in Arua, Uganda, under the RIAS Project following integration of nutrition component into the Farmer Field Schools (FFSs).

Le changement climatique est une réalité au Mali, où la population et l’économie sont majoritairement dépendantes de l’agriculture, de l’élevage et de la pêche. Dans le cadre du changement climatique, le Mali sera confronté à une nette augmentation de la température moyenne de 2 o C en 2050 et 4 [...]

El presente material fue elaborado en el marco del proceso de gestión del conocimiento y creación de capacidades para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, promovidas por MAP, a través de las ECA. Está dirigido a familias rurales presentes en los territorios clave del proyecto: NicaCentral en Nicaragua y [...]

Eastern and Central Africa continue to face acute and chronic food and nutrition insecurity1 . Combined with a high incidence of HIV, food security continues to affect the nutrition and health status of poor households. There is growing recognition of the vital importance of expanding agricultural development capacity to include nutrition [...]

FAO’s Junior and adult Farmer Field and Life Schools (J/FFLS) are addressing the root causes of gender-based violence and helping to prevent and mitigate the effects of HIV in northern Uganda through the provision of key life skills and knowledge in agricultural production and nutrition.

The paper focuses on the impact of farmer field schools (FFS) on social wellbeing of farming community. For this purpose, six districts from the central region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Peshawar, Charsadda, Nowshera, Mardan, Swabi and Kohat were selected. Data were collected on various aspects of social wellbeing of farming [...]