Réduire l’écart entre les sexes sur le marché du travail, pour assurer l’émancipation économique des femmes. Bien qu’elles enregistrent l’un des taux de participation au marché du travail parmi les plus élevés, les femmes d’Afrique subsaharienne sont toujours confrontées à de nombreux obstacles qui limitent leur accès à un emploi...

In recent years, numerous examples of food system dashboards have been developed with the goal of offering users the opportunity to monitor or assess (their) national food systems. One of the many challenges faced by these initiatives has been to strike an acceptable balance between the complexity, local-specificity, and multi-sectoral...

Farmer-managed seed systems and the conservation of agrobiodiversity are increasingly recognized as important components of food and seed sovereignty. In contrast, hybrid, genetically modified (GM), and, increasingly, gene-edited crops continue to be promoted by Green Revolution proponents as a “climate smart” package that includes fertilizers, pesticides, purchased seeds, and links...

Les effets positifs de l’agroécologie dans le domaine agro-environnemental (santé des sols,biodiversité, lutte contre la crise climatique, non-contamination de l’environnement) sont souventmis en avant. Ils s’accompagnent d’effets positifs tout aussi importants dans le domainesocio-économique, comme en témoignent de nombreuses études réalisées dans divers pays duSud, dont plusieurs par des organisations...

In this detailed video, you will fidn essential tips and tricks—from setting up your fish farm, optimizing feeding methods, to ensuring the perfect water conditions for Magur fish. Whether you're a seasoned aquaculturist or a beginner exploring fish farming, this guide is tailored for you. Learn profitable techniques, avoid common...

Adequate, timely and region specific information is an important input for sustainable and profitable agriculture. Krishi Updates is providing digital extension services to the farmers, facilitating communication and outreach activities and organising need-based trainings. Information sources are very vast, and farmers are unable to segregate the information that is most...

Myanmar ranks as the world's third-largest pulse producer, following Canada and India, cultivating crops like black gram, pigeon pea, chickpea, and green gram. Green gram constitutes a third of total pulse exports. To enhance productivity, quality, market competitiveness, and exports, Myanmar can leverage improved crop production technologies and adopt good...

América Latina y el Caribe se encuentra atravesando un complejo momento en sus tendencias de pobreza rural y hambre, debido a consecutivas crisis de salud, económicas, políticas y ambientales, todo lo cual plantea importantes desafíos en materias de ruralidad y sistemas agroalimentarios. En esta publicación se resumen 18 iniciativas inspiradoras...

In this video, we will show you how to get rid of all diseases in coconut farming. If you follow the same method, you can get more yield in every coconut tree. You can get around 350 coconuts per year in a single tree.

Overreliance on a few main crops, as well as poor soil health, reduce yields, hinder achievement of food security and nutrition objectives, and increase agricultural vulnerability to climate change. To address this, the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS), launched by the United States in partnership with FAO and...

Esta sección contiene más de 300 experiencias sistematizadas de la agricultura familiar andina en Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú, con datos claves de su implementación. En ella, puedes buscar las experiencias de su interés a través de tres formas de categorización: área temática problemas acceso georgráfico Recuerda que puede AportAR a este repositorio con sus...

Organic agriculture is practised in 188 countries, and more than 96 million hectares of agricultural land are managed organically by at least 4.5 million farmers. Global sales of organic food and drink reached almost 135 billion euros in 2022. The 25th edition of "The World of Organic Agriculture", published by the...

Young people are “hustling”. They are working multiple jobs and side hustles to make ends meet. Creating opportunities for young people in agricultural and rural development can reverse the perceptions that farming is more financially precarious and less rewarding than other occupations.

Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods of drought, pest and disease infestations, and fluctuating cocoa yields attributed to climate variability and change. Although many interventions are...

This ITPS soil letter emphasizes the urgent need for a comprehensive global soil monitoring system to address the challenges of increasing food demand due to population growth and soil degradation. With more than 800 million people suffering from malnutrition in 2021, and food production needing to increase significantly by 2050,...

Esta publicación es el fruto de un trabajo exhaustivo en el Territorio Cordillera Pehuenche, realizado para los Sistemas importantes del patrimonio agrícola mundial por el Instituto Forestal. Dicho trabajo contempló la búsqueda de información y experiencias que advierten de la importancia de proteger el patrimonio agrícola y forestal ancestral que...

It highlights Kenya's strides in integrating gender considerations into its climate policies and actions. The country has made significant progress in addressing gender inequalities in climate resilience and adaptation, particularly through the development of the Climate Change Act and the National Adaptation Plan. Kenya's efforts focus on ensuring that women,...

The natural forest in southwest Ethiopia is progressively modified to coffee agroforest. To this effect forest composition and diversity is simplified to local preferred coffee shade trees. Woody plant species that are less managed require the conservation priority in coffee agroforest. The study aims at assessing diversity of plant species, investigating...

Developing policies to foster inclusive rural transformation processes requires better evidence on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods and economic behaviours of vulnerable rural people, including women, youths and people living in poverty. In particular, there is little comparative, multi-country and multi-region evidence to understand how exposure to weather...

The Women’s Empowerment Livestock Index (WELI) is tailored for areas where livestock farming is prominent, aiming to assess the impact of livestock interventions on women's empowerment. By identifying effective interventions, the index seeks to improve empowerment opportunities for women in the sector, thereby enhancing household livelihoods, nutrition, and gender equity....