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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)

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

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

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 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

Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment

Chapter 5. Realizing a sustainable world for nature and people: transformative strategies, actions and roles for all
This document corresponds to Chapter 5 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.  
2025 - IPBES

Article
Boosting Africa’s food security: Unlocking the potential of cassava and underutilized legumes for a resilient future

The Food and Nutrition Science Laboratory (FNSL) unit of IITA–CGIAR commits to ensuring food and nutrition security on the continent by harnessing the potential of IITA mandate crops and underutilized legumes. This is coming at a critical time, as Africa’s wheat imports have been rising at an annual rate of 9%, with...
Kenya
2025 - CGIAR

Newsletter article
Bulletin de veille thématique n°493 : Fonds et financements climat en Afrique 1/2 : une injustice persistante

La COP29 qui s’est achevée fin novembre 2024 à Bakou a une fois de plus mis en lumière les inégalités criantes à travers le monde en termes de financement de l’adaptation au changement climatique et de l’atténuation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Les négociateurs africains sont arrivés...
2025 - INTER-RÉSEAUX

Guidelines
Food Plant Solutions Brief Guide to Food Plants in Ghana

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French AO. “Food Plant Solutions Brief Guide to Food Plants in Ghana” is a limited selection of food plants intended as a Draft Guide only to identify some local food plants...
2025 - Food Plant Solutions

Guidelines
Multistakeholder policy dialogue to promote innovation in agrifood systems

Many agrifood development projects and programmes aim to support evidence-based and inclusive policies by organizing policy dialogues. Yet, despite their widely recognized importance, there is little guidance available to date on how to organize effective policy dialogues that are inclusive of diverse stakeholders. This training guide has been developed to...
2025 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Book part
IPBES Transformative Change Assessment

Glossary
This document corresponds to the Glossary 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. Language influences how we perceive the world and how we think about and communicatetransformative change. It also influences the actions...
2025 - IPBES

Video
Women's Empowerment and Climate Justice: Three fish preservation, handling and processing interventions improving livelihoods in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region

Lake Victoria – the second largest lake in the world – supports around 200,000 fishers in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, with more than 50 million people depending on it directly or indirectly for their livelihoods. But with fish being a highly perishable product, fishing communities have little time to either...
Kenya
2025 - WorldFish

Newsletter article
Bulletin de veille thématique n°493 : Fonds et financements climat en Afrique 2/2 : initiatives et alternatives locales

L’Afrique, qui n’est responsable que de 4% des émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre, est une des zones les plus vulnérables aux effets du changement climatique. Cependant, le continent ne reçoit qu’une fraction des fonds climat, à peine 30 milliards $US en 2020 : c’est seulement 3 %...
2025 - INTER-RÉSEAUX

Website
Food Plant Solutions Cambodia

All the resources by Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group on Cambodia
Cambodia
2025 - Food Plant Solutions

Policy brief/paper
Co-development enables holistic digital traceability of sustainability

The case of Peruvian cocoa
This brief was produced in the framework of the TRANSITIONS-PSii project (https://alliancebioversityciat.org/pr...) activities in Peru thanks to the collaboration with the local project partners, the private sector company, cocoa cooperative and farmers. End-to-end traceability requires the cooperation of different stakeholders and a system that integrates their information needs and capabilities...
Peru
2025 - Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

Video
Changement climatique et alimentation

Fortes pluies, canicules et sécheresses occasionnent des pertes de récolte. Pour faire face à ces phénomènes extrêmes, certains pays misent sur des techniques culturales innovantes et des plantes résilientes. Aux Pays-Bas, les pommes de terre se cultivent sur sol salé tandis qu’en Italie, les oliviers s’adaptent au changement climatique.
2025 - INTER-RÉSEAUX

Video
Pour des systèmes alimentaires sensibles à la nutrition

Pour des systèmes alimentaires sensibles à la nutrition
2025 - Cirad
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