Forum global sur la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition (Forum FSN)

Developing country food systems have changed dramatically since the Green Revolution period. At the same time, malnutrition still represents a challenge and is now understood to encompass the three simultaneous dimensions of undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and over-nutrition manifest...

Les insectes comestibles ont toujours été au menu des hommes, mais dans quelques sociétés un certain degré de dédain et de dégoût s’oppose à leur consommation. La majorité des insectes consommés sont encore récoltés dans leurs habitats forestiers, mais il existe désormais des systèmes d’élevage dans...

Pakistan has great potential in agriculture. About 27 percent of the total 79.6 million hectares of the country is under cultivation. Agriculture contributes about 24 percent of the GDP and employs 47 percent of the labour force. Most subsectors of agriculture have either remained static or have...

Note from the United Nations System High Level Task Force on Global Food Security.

Large-scale international investments in developing country agriculture, especially acquisitions of agricultural land, continue to raise international concern. Certainly, complex and controversial issues – economic, political, institutional, legal and ethical – are raised in relation to food...

One of the key challenges of the 21st century is developing ways of producing sufficient amounts of food while protecting both environmental quality and the economic well-being of rural communities. Over the last half century, conventional approaches to crop production have relied heavily on...

With over 1,150 bat species worldwide – representing about twenty percent of the biodiversity of all mammalian species – they carry out important ecological and agricultural functions such pollination and dispersion of seeds. And while many tropical plant species depend entirely on bats for the...

Agricultural extension in Uganda has undergone a number of transformations from regulatory 1920-1956, advisory 1956-1963, advisory Education 1964-1971, dormancy 1972-1981, recovery 1982-1999, Educational 1992-1996, participatory education 1997-1998, Decentralized Education 1997-2001 and now...