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Smart IoT device for in field Black Sigatoka Disease recognition and mapping
Recently banana plantations have been affected by the Black Sigatoka Disease (BSD), producing streaks, lesions and yellow and brown spots on the leaves until the appearance of entire dead parts. The disease causes reductions in yield making it essential to assess infection by monitoring plants status and implementing agronomical measures....
2025
Video
Las mujeres rurales transforman la alta gastronomía en la República Dominicana
Con el apoyo de FAO, el programa de protección social Supérate y el chef Saverio Stassi, un grupo de mujeres rurales dominicanas participan en la elaboración de cenas de siete tiempos, llevando el sabor del campo dominicano a la alta gastronomía y fortalecen su empoderamiento. La Organización de las Naciones...
Dominican Republic
2025 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Global Trends in Conservation Agriculture and Climate Change Research: A Bibliometric Analysis
This study provides a bibliometric analysis of global scientific production on Conservation Agriculture (CA) and its relationship with climate change mitigation. Using data from the Scopus and Web of Science databases, the research encompassed 650 articles published between 1995 and 2022. The analysis revealed significant growth in the number of...
2025
Event
Global Call for Stories: Family farmers at the heart of climate-resilient and sustainable agrifood systems
Family farmers feed the world and farming families are uniquely positioned to lead the transformation of food production towards resilience and sustainability. Family farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, foresters, and food producers have valuable insights rooted in traditional knowledge and innovation that are of great value to those beyond their fields and...
2025 - FAO
Policy brief/paper
Climate Change and Care Work
Integrated Solutions for Intersecting Crises
There is a fundamental link between the act of caring for people and caring for the planet. Both are essential for human survival. Both are exploited in the pursuit of short-term economic and material profit.1 The devastating impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are outcomes of these exploits, as...
2025 - The Asia Foundation
Book
Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2024
En el Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe de la CEPAL se presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a un período particular. Las versiones impresa y web del Anuario incluyen una selección de cuadros y gráficos...
2025 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Blog article
Italian Senate's Agriculture Committee Holds Parliamentary Hearing with FAO Representatives
On 4 February 2025, the Italian Senate's Agriculture Committee held a parliamentary hearing with representatives from FAO, part of an ongoing investigation by the Italian Government into the effects of climate change on agriculture and the measures needed to adapt to these changing realities.
Italy
2025 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Hacia un desarrollo productivo sostenible en América Latina: métodos y estrategias para priorizar sectores clave
En el debate actual se ha reconocido la necesidad de revitalizar las políticas de desarrollo productivo. La implementación efectiva de este tipo de políticas en América Latina demanda un enfoque estratégico que considere tanto el contexto actual de la economía como las potencialidades de diversificación futura, lo que requiere un proceso...
2025 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Study the Participation of Rural Women in Agriculture Activities
The role of rural women in agriculture is both foundational and transformative, yet often underrepresented in mainstream narratives. This study explores the extent, nature, and significance of rural women's participation in agricultural activities across various regions. Women in rural areas are actively engaged in nearly all facets of agriculture, including...
2025
Working paper
Towards successful policy coherence for biodiversity and climate. Learning from case studies
Policy coherence is key to effectively address the interdependent crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. This paper presents tangible case studies of coherent policy action for biodiversity and climate. It showcases entry points and lessons learned for enhancing coherence across different levels of governance, as well as success factors...
2025 - Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
Report
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment: Summary for Policymakers
Summary for Policymakers of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change and Options for Achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
The IPBES Transformative Change Assessment was initiated following a decision from...
2025 - IPBES
Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
Chapter 1. Transformative change and a sustainable world
This document corresponds to Chapter 1 of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiverty.
Chapter 1 describes how biodiversity loss and nature’s decline are occurring through multipleinteracting crises and emphasizes that transformative change is...
2025 - IPBES
Article
Grasslands Are Some of Earth’s Most Underrated Ecosystems
Earth is home to a spectacular array of ecosystems, each with their own unique characteristics and benefits. Yet not all of them receive equal attention: Grasslands, for one, are often overlooked — despite their importance.
The world's grasslands are arguably the single most extensive land cover on Earth's ice-free land surface. Grasslands or...
2025 - World Resources Institute
Fact sheet
Around the table. Where hunger meets hope and opportunities grow
Food is the great connector. It is survival and nourishment. It is family and tradition. It is hope and resilience. It is love. Sharing food around the table is an experience that binds us all. This document presents five distinct agricultural livelihoods in five countries facing food crises: wheat farming...
Ethiopia - Mozambique - South Sudan - Sudan
2025 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
Chapter 2. Visions of a sustainable world - for nature and people
This document corresponds to Chapter 2 of the of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiverty.
Chapter 2 explores visions and vision development processes for transformative changes insociety. Visions are desirable future states of...
2025 - IPBES
Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
Chapter 3. How transformative change occurs
This document corresponds to Chapter 3 of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiverty.
Chapter 3 assesses the literature and a set of cases on how transformative change occurs.Based on this assessment, it identifies...
2025 - IPBES
Report
Measuring Carbon Footprints of Agri-Food Products
Eight Building Blocks
In pursuit of their net zero objectives, countries are using, or plan to use, a widely varied set of approaches. This richness of policy experiences provides valuable insights on the effects of different tools, which can be adapted to unique national circumstances, but international cooperation will be needed to ensure...
2025 - OECD
Blog article
Beijing+30 Youth Blog: One woman’s journey to champion climate action and zero-waste living in China
Bayang (she/her) is an environmentalist from Qinghai Province, China. In 2021, she joined the "Sanjiangyuan Women Environmentalists Network" with support from UN Women China. In 2023, UN Women China and the Qinghai Rural Revitalization Bureau launched the "Women-Led Renewable Energy Transformation and Governance in Rural Communities" project, aiming to enhance...
China
2025 - UN Women
Book
Transparent monitoring in practice: A guide to effective monitoring in the land sector
Book I – Background for understanding transparent monitoring approaches
Land management plays a crucial role in addressing climate change, which makes transparent monitoring essential. Countries have considerable flexibility in setting targets, defining the scope of the land sector, and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from it. They are, however, required to do this in a manner that...
Côte d'Ivoire - Ethiopia - Papua New Guinea - Peru
2025 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment
Chapter 4. Overcoming the challenges of achieving transformative change towards a sustainable world
This document corresponds to Chapter 4 of the IPBES thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.
Despite growing awareness of the human causes of biodiversity loss and environmentaldegradation, and their impact on human well-being, anthropogenic pressures...
2025 - IPBES
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