Good Practices on Resilience
FAO defines resilience as "the ability to prevent disasters and crises as well as to anticipate, absorb, accommodate or recover from them in a timely, efficient and sustainable manner. This includes protecting, restoring and improving livelihoods systems in the face of threats that impact agriculture, nutrition, food security and food safety."
In order to contribute to building the resilience of agriculture-based livelihoods, FAO’s Strategic Programme on Resilience has adopted the good practices methodology. Resilience good practices have been documented as factsheets or booklets, and are being shared through the KORE - Knowledge Sharing Platform on Resilience. Here are some examples for adoption in your countries:
Conflict and protracted crisis
- Poultry Farmer Field School in Lebanon
- Alternative fodder production for vulnerable herders in the West Bank
- Implementing aquaponics in the Gaza Strip
- Fuel-efficient mud stoves in Darfur
- The Green Negotiated Territorial Development (GreeNTD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Social protection
- Remote sensing: Monitoring the Cash for Work programme in Somalia
- Conditional cash assistance to build resilience against water scarcity in the West Bank
- Caisses de résilience
- Les caisses de résilience en République centrafricaine (in French)
- Les transferts productifs (CASH+) au Niger et au Burkina Faso (in French)
Food chain crisis
- SMS Gateway: Improving animal health through Information and Communication Technologies
- Emergency vaccination against transboundary animal disease in Lebanon
- Recovery and rehabilitation of the dairy sector in Lebanon
- eLocust3: An innovative tool for crop pest control
Natural hazards
- Beekeeping to buffer against economic shocks caused by natural hazards in Somaliland
- Community Contingency Funds, an agricultural risk insurance for vulnerable households
- Kuxur rum agroforestry system against natural hazards in Guatemala
Gender
Multiple themes (booklet of 11 good practices)