Les pompes à eau solaires à la rescousse des agriculteurs au Yémen
10/06/2020 Yemen
Rashed est particulièrement heureux ce matin. Aujourd’hui, lui et ses confrères agriculteurs ont à leur tour accès au puits fonctionnant à l’énergie solaire pour irriguer leurs exploitations.
«Je suis un paysan, et l’agriculture, c’est toute ma vie. L’un de mes plus [...]
Linking energy, food security and health can help face COVID-19
26/05/2020
As the novel Coronavirus known as COVID-19 continues to spread in developed and developing countries alike, not all have the privilege of applying basic prevention measures, and energy and food play a key role in several of these.
Almost one billion [...]
International Tea Day 2020 | Addressing climate change challenges through tea
19/05/2020
Putting on the kettle for your afternoon tea? Sipping a cup of green tea to strengthen your immune system?
Have you ever thought that changes in the way your tea is produced could be beneficial to the changing climate?
A new FAO [...]
Vous voulez savoir quelque chose ?
28/04/2020
Vous voyez le monde en chiffres ? Vous étudiez les graphiques comme un amateur d'art étudie Renoir ? Vous aimez les statistiques sous toutes leurs formes ? Eh bien, la FAO aussi ! Lorsqu'il s'agit de données sur l'alimentation et [...]
Off-grid solar systems support the resilience of Syrian households
16/04/2020
The ongoing crisis in Syria has severely affected rural livelihoods prompting FAO to restore energy access to households for agricultural activities.
FAO aims to increase the resilience of hundreds of families by implementing egg incubators with inverter/chargers, batteries and solar photovoltaic panels [...]
What energy data do we need? Data collection and standardisation processes across organizations
06/04/2020
What is energy data used for? What types of energy data are needed? What indicators are currently used and which methodologies do organisations use? ...and where is data stored? These questions were at the heart of the webinar "Moving towards [...]
Global Bioenergy Partnership Indicators guide UNEP study on enhancing sustainable bioenergy use in Ethiopia and Kenya
27/03/2020
Using the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) Sustainability Indicators, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) project “Building capacity for enhancing bioenergy sustainability through the use of Global Bioenergy Partnership Indicators” assessed the environmental, social and economic impacts of bioenergy production in Ethiopia [...]
Locally-made stoves reduce the health and safety risks for women and girls
16/03/2020 Nigeria
In Maiduguri, Borno State, Bakassi is a sprawling camp for the internally displaced. Before the insurgency, it was planned as a ministerial village for government officials but today, hundreds of half-constructed red-roofed houses are home to thousands of internally displaced [...]
Togo and Ghana make moves to address forest landscape restoration and sustainable wood energy
28/02/2020
Sustainable bioenergy and forest landscape restoration (FLR) can be mutually beneficial.
FAO recently organized national dialogues in Togo and Ghana on sustainable wood energy, bioenergy alternatives and Forest Landscape Restoration, to guide policies and support the development of a joint agenda [...]
Les holothuries stimulent la bioéconomie à Zanzibar
21/01/2020 United Republic of Tanzania
Les algues marines sont un produit précieux pour les 25 000 agriculteurs de Zanzibar qui en dépendent, et dont 80 pour cent sont des femmes. Mais les changements climatiques provoquent une hausse des températures, avec de lourdes conséquences sur nos océans. La hausse [...]