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Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
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...
Ghana
2024 - University of South Africa
Article
Diversity, preference, and conservation priority of woody plant species in coffee agroforestry system in southwest Ethiopia
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...
Ethiopia
2024
Report
The unjust climate
Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women and youth
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...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Towards gender equality: A novel index to measure the empowerment of women in livestock keeping households
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....
2024 - International Livestock Research Institute
Technical paper
Asociatividad y acceso a mercados en la agricultura familiar dominicana
El programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO ha concentrado importantes esfuerzos en apoyar al Gobierno dominicano en el desarrollo y la validación de herramientas metodológicas e instrumentos de planificación y coordinación que contribuyan al fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales para atender las necesidades de la agricultura familiar y la formulación e...
Dominican Republic
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Estimation des surfaces irriguées ripariennes à l’aide de Earth Engine. Une étude de cas dans le sous-bassin versant de la Haute-Comoé, Burkina Faso
La mise au point d’une méthode automatique d’estimation des surfaces irriguées par les petits exploitants agricoles en Afrique aux abords des cours d’eau, à partir d’outils libres et de données satellitaires gratuites, reste un défi majeur à cause de la diversité des cultures qui y sont pratiquées, de l’étroitesse des...
Burkina Faso
2024
Project
Promotion de l’agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest : aller vers la consommation massive de produits locaux
En Afrique de l’Ouest, face à la croissance rapide des villes et à une demande accrue de la part des consommateurs urbains et ruraux, les systèmes alimentaires fondés sur l’agriculture familiale renforcent déjà dans nombre d’endroits la capacité d’un pays ou d’une région à nourrir ses populations par la production...
2024 - Fondation de France
Article
The role of agroforestry in farmers’ strategies and its contribution to the well-being of rural people in Timor-Leste
Many countries have integrated agroforestry into their sustain-able development policies, particularly in Southeast Asia. In Timor-Leste, the national strategy to promote agroforestry has adopted a modern, technique-oriented approach focused on crop rotation, intercropping and agro-silvo-pasture. In so doing, it has largely overlooked the pre-existence, diversity and perfor-mance of traditional agroforestry...
Timor-Leste
2024
Article
Can organic rice certification curb the pressure of the agrarian transition in Cambodia? A farming system approach
Over the past two decades, the Mekong region has experienced significant transformation of its agricultural sector from subsistence farming to export crops driven by the expansion of agricultural land and of irrigation, plus intensification thanks to mechanization and the use of chemical inputs. In the context of agrarian transition, maintaining...
Cambodia
2024 - European Commission
E-learning
Good practices to cope with soil salinization in the Asia-Pacific Region
Topic outlineThe course explores effective practices for coping with soil salinity in the Asia-Pacific Region. Some practical examples and case studies of successful salinity management practices are introduced and analysed, to identify implementation features, benefits, challenges and applicability to similar contexts.
You will learn about
Irrigation and drainage practices for soil salinity...
2024 - FAO
Report
Promoting water tenure for food security, climate resilience and equity
Workshop report
The workshop “Promoting Water Tenure for Food Security, Climate Resilience, and Equity” was implemented by FAO and adelphi on 18 and 29 June in Berlin, Germany, with the support of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), and the German Corporation...
Germany - Rwanda - Senegal - Sri Lanka
2024 - FAO
Technical paper
Innovation and family farming
Family farmers innovate by developing assemblages of old and new food system practices and organizational processes, using both traditional and diverse forms of knowledge and connecting these with newly available information and technologies. These innovations have a holistic approach and can take many forms: technological, social, policy, financial, marketing, legislative...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Family farming and climate-resilient agrifood systems
Food and agricultural production practices applied by family farmers – including agroecological and integrated systems; recycling of nutrients, energy and waste; natural pest control; crop diversification; and efficient management of natural resources and soil health – present promising opportunities to address climate change, given that they allow high-level adaptation capacity...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
Repositorio de Documentos: Conferencia Regional para América Latina y el Caribe (LARC)
En esta web encontrará todos los documentos de la 38ª Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe.
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Statement
Final Declaration of the VIII Global Conference of the WRF
Final Declaration of the VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our planet, organized by the WRF "Sowing sustainability: Scaling up the vital contribution of Family Farming"
2024 - World Rural Forum (WRF)
Blog article
La 38 Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe se inicia con una importante participación de Presidentes y Ministros de la Región
Representantes de todos los países de la Región participaron in situ en la ceremonia de apertura en Guyana.
La 38 Conferencia Regional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) comenzó hoy en Georgetown, Guyana, con la presencia de Ministros y Viceministros de todos los...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
Good Practices for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas
Euromontana kicks off the year with the publication of its annual booklet of good practices for sustainable mountain development. This publication showcases 10 inspiring initiatives from across Europe (EU and non-EU) collected by Euromontana throughout 2023 to promote initiatives that drive sustainable change in mountain areas.
The booklet covers key issues for...
Austria - France - Germany - Italy - Norway - Poland - Romania - Spain - Switzerland
2024 - Euromontana - European Association of Mountain Areas
Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe N° 92. Marzo 2024
Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...
Argentina
2024 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Report
Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital
Agrobiodiversity is the subset of biodiversity found within agricultural ecosystems. It feeds us with nutrients vital to our health. It fuels and furnishes our homes. It underpins cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.
Just three crops account for half...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Website
Material de comunicación de la Alianza Mundial de los Suelos
Este repositorio cuenta con una serie materiales comunicacionales elaborados por la Alianza Mundial por el Suelo de la FAO, en varios idiomas para difundir información relevante y que la comunidad en general, pueda aprender más sobre este tema.
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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