We introduce NPKGRIDS, a new geospatial dataset, providing for the first time data on application rates for all three main plant nutrients, nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P, in terms of phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5) and potassium (K, in terms of potassium oxide, K2O) across 173 crops as of 2020, with a geospatial...

Cet article “Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences” analyse la manière dont le travail des femmes dans l’agriculture familiale se reconfigure dans les transitions agroécologiques en Argentine et présente une réflexion détaillée sur les liens entre agroécologie, travail des femmes et féminisme, tout en proposant des perspectives...

Está claro que los supuestos económicos neoliberales acerca de cómo funciona el mundo están profundamente errados. Estos supuestos han conducido a estilos de desarrollo que han alterado el clima y la biosfera, despilfarrado enormes riquezas naturales y desestabilizado una miríada de sistemas de los que depende la humanidad. Es evidente...

Climate change impacts on marine fisheries resources are changing the distribution and productivity of marine organisms around the globe. Knowledge and model projections to estimate fish biomass gains and losses are crucial for informing climate-resilient fisheries management and adaptation planning. This report was developed in collaboration with the Fisheries and...

Governments worldwide have set the ambitious goal of eradicating hunger by 2030. However, there is a question of whether this goal is sufficient to mobilize aspirational ideals that truly transform our agrifood systems. Agrovisiones is a webinar program organized by the FAO with the purpose of showcasing voices and awakening...

The Reach, Benefit, Empower framework has been invaluable in guiding gender considerations in programming, ensuring that projects carefully consider their goals, and then move from ambition to implementation to evaluation. The framework makes it easier to see how projects claiming to “empower” women may only manage to “reach” them, such...

This map illustratessatellite-detected changes in cropland areas of the Gaza Strip resulting from the decline in the health and density of crops due to the ongoing conflict. UNOSAT conducted an analysis utilising satellite imagery collected by the Sentinel-2 satellite between September 2017 and 2024, performing a Normalized Difference Vegetation Index...

Sundargarh (Odisha), Latehar (Jharkhand): Deep inside the lush sal forest in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Albisia Lakda, an Adivasi farmer living in Subdega block had divided the rice crop on her two-acre plot of farmland in two sections. With the monsoon fluctuating widely last year, parts of Odisha experienced long dry spells and crop failures. Now,...

This report presents an investigation into how social norms impact rural women’s and youth’s ability to access and use formal financial products and services in Malawi. It confirms the importance of considering social norms when designing interventions to improve women’s and youth’s economic empowerment. It also offers concrete recommendations for...

Jolanda Krummenacher is an environmental and agricultural scientist at ETH and has worked at Agrofutura AG for 16 years. She advises farmers on how to promote biodiversity on their farms. Together with FiBL and Agridea, she launched the biodiversity consulting course - the first training course for biodiversity consulting specialists...

Climate change is impacting global food production systems, making the challenge of feeding the world’s growing population more difficult than ever before. The tropical fruit sector is particularly at risk from the negative impacts of climate change driven by rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and associated challenges such as water...

"We have an almost unhealthy need to collaborate with the northern world, and I believe we lack greater South-South collaboration. That is, collaboration among countries in the region is vital." Pablo Zamora's vision, as the first interviewee in the Agrovisiones webinar series, involves knowledge mobility, state programs addressing transversal challenges, and...

What is intersectionality and how is it relevant to FAO’ s work?Intersectionality: A pathway for more inclusive, youth-oriented and gender-responsive agrifood systems, serves as a guide for FAO employees and development practitioners who seek conceptual clarity and guidance on intersectionality. By moving beyond approaches that tend to prioritize one factor,...

The Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), adopted in 2022, is sparking critical actions to address the global biodiversity crisis. However, some of these actions are ignoring the interests of farmers and communities, and contributing to a damaging wave of global ‘green grabbing’ – what some fear will become the “biggest land...

Franz Steiner grew up on a farm. After his agricultural apprenticeship, he studied at the Technical Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Basel, had various jobs as a development aid worker and worked in Switzerland from the 1990s as an organic inspector and agricultural consultant, among other things. Even at the...

Simplemente agotado … how tired!! Sunburned, running low on water and my trousers caked with mud—that’s how my first day of field research in the Yeguare River valley, Honduras, ended back in 2002. From that day on, for two years, I imagined myself aboard Darwin’s Beagle or the Victoria, the carrack on which Magellan had...

Tribal farmers in the Himalayas are vulnerable to climatic changes, as their rain-fed cultivation systems, practiced on steep, sloping terrain, are susceptible to changes in rainfall while at the same time being the primary means of livelihood. Soil and water conservation practices (SWCP) can improve the resilience of these cultivation...

Le projet Fracture Numérique a pour objectif de mieux connaître les fractures numériques en Afrique de l’Ouest, en caractérisant les usages et non-usages du numérique dans le secteur agricole et en identifiant certains verrous du développement du numérique et facteurs lefacilitant. Ce projet s’est déroulé de 2021 à 2023 sur...

"...this path involves seeking to articulate a bottom-up and top-down strategy in the ecosystem so that we truly move towards new forms of production." The agrovision of Teresita DiMarco, the May interviewee, is based on strong collaboration and diverse alliances to promote innovation in the agro-industrial sector in Latin America and...

  This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system,...