Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered....
On Friday, 30 April 2021, at 09:00 AM (Guatemala), 10:00 AM (Panama), 11:00 AM (Chile) and 12:00 PM (Argentina) the webinar "Innovator Handbook" will be held where the ''Handbook for...
Food systems are intimately linked to people's lives – through the food they eat, the nutrition and health, the livelihoods, jobs and to the environment and natural resources of the planet....
The rural Sidama are mostly subsistence agropastoralists. Increasing climate change impacts have stimulated the farmers to adapt their farming practices to survive and thrive in this semi-arid environment.
One of the...
Bio Gardening Innovations, a holistic gardening project in Emuhaya, Western Kenya supports smallholder farmers to break away from monocultures and create thriving, overflowing “food forests” on their farmland using modern...
On 30 August 2021, Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajpaksa declared an economic emergency. The decision was taken to curb hoarding of essential items and to control inflation since the country...
Released in May 2020, under the European Union (EU) Green Deal, the Farm to Fork (F2F) and Biodiversity Strategies involve the EU’s vision to stimulate a transition toward sustainable food systems. In a...
With the development of food tech, more and more services in short food circuits are provided via computerized tools: production monitoring, plot management, product catalog management, online sales via e-commerce...
This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO....
While family farms produce more than 80 per cent of the world's food, they are often the ones most at risk of climate and economic shocks. Crop diversification and sustainable...
This video depicts the first session of the second day of the regional consultation on ‘’Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation during...
China's agroecological and organic farming sector is developing rapidly as increasing numbers of consumers have the economic means to consider their food's safety and health. The market potential is vast,...
Four farmer producer organizations launched La Cosecha del Día, Ecuador's first farmer-owned marketplace for agroecological food products. The online marketplace will help local farmers that are part of Heifer Ecuador's Future of Food program to...
Climate change affects crop yields, causing them to fluctuate significantly. Agriculture is both impacted by climate change and contributes to it through the release of greenhouse gases. German Operational Group...
The Shashe block of farms in the Maszinvgo province of central Zimbabwe is home to 500 farming families. Together with the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers Forum (ZIMSOFF) and Shashe Agroecology...
Védegylet and Greenpeace Hungary organize this conference to show the importance of learning and researching in agroecology by the world's leading agricultural universities. Agroecological agriculture is increasingly recognized as the fundamental solution to solving global...
Organic agriculture has the potential to substantially boost both crop yields and incomes of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) while contributing to sustainable development.
These groundbreaking findings are shown in...
The results of 12 years of comparative farming systems research in Kenya, Bolivia, and India provide scientific evidence on organic and conventional systems' economic and ecological sustainability. They illustrate how...
The Caatinga recovery program takes place in the Caatinga biome in the Brazilian semiarid region, within the Sertão do São Francisco Territory. Approximately 50% of this region is seriously affected...
