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Journal article
Periodic Table of Food Initiative for generating biomolecular knowledge of edible biodiversity

The Periodic Table of Food Initiative addresses food biomolecular composition information gaps through a standardized, accessible and enabling platform based on analytical tools, data and capacity building. Data from 1,650 foods serve as starting point for demonstrating the capacity of this initiative to contribute to nutrition, health and food systems...
2024 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Fact sheet
Ficha de proyecto: Medios de vida resilientes de pequeños agricultores vulnerables en los paisajes mayas y el Corredor Seco de Guatemala

El proyecto Medios de vida resilientes de pequeños agricultores vulnerables en los paisajes mayas y el Corredor Seco de Guatemala (RELIVE) busca apoyar a familias que dependen de actividades agrícolas y agroforestales en condiciones de vulnerabilidad en los territorios de Guatemala para que adaptarse a los impactos del cambio climático....
Guatemala
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Book
Water stress plugin for Water Evaluation and Planning system (WEAP)

Using the water evaluation and planning tool for the calculation of Sustainable Development Goal indicator 6.4.2
This report presents the instruction manual of the new water stress plugin developed by FAO in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute's U.S. Center (SEI) for the calculation of the SDG indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources” by river basin.Since the...
2024 - FAO

Newsletter article
Brazil: Caught in the Deluge

The extreme flooding in South Brazil highlighted the vulnerability of small-scale fishers to climate-induced disasters. Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil suffered extreme flooding in the months of May and June of 2024. It has severely disrupted the livelihood of small-scale fishers who depend on the region’s aquatic ecosystems (see Table...
Brazil
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
France/Film: Festival Living Off the Sea

The 16th edition of the Pêcheurs du Monde film festival, held in Lorient, France, focused on how fishing is vital for both ocean biodiversity and livelihoods.  The Pecheurs du Monde film festival in Lorient, France, took some 3,000 people on a journey around the oceans of the world on 15-24 March...
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Newsletter article
Barbados: Advocating for justice

Barbados’ fisherfolk build capacity to advocate for climate, blue and social justice. Fisherfolk in Barbados today experience growing marginalization. Fisherfolk in Barbados today experience growing marginalization. They are increasingly frustrated by the injustices they face from every quarter: their peers, the management authorities at fish landing sites and markets, national government...
Barbados
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Technical paper
Opportunities and challenges for agrifood trade between Central American Integration System and Caribbean Community countries

This study responds to the proposal made by the Secretariat of the Central American Agricultural Council (SECAC) and the Secretariat for Central American Economic Integration (SIECA) on the need to promote spaces for integration in the area of agrifood trade between Central America and the Caribbean. It is a joint...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Photo gallery
The Classroom of Life: Indigenous women in Thailand set up their forest as a space for knowledge transmission

In the Indigenous Karen village of Huay Ee Khang, in the mountainous north of Thailand, all life starts in the forest: When a baby is born, its umbilical cord is placed in a bamboo container and hung on a healthy fruit tree.“This way, the souls of the baby and the...
Thailand
2024 - Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact

Newsletter article
Asia/Africa: Shrinking spaces

Women in small-scale fishing communities bear the worst impacts as coastal space in the Indian Ocean region is increasingly encroached upon by state and private activities. This article is based on a cross-regional study that focused on how ruptures in the form of environmental stress and political economic pressures impacted small-scale...
India - Kenya - Sri Lanka
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Book
Feasibility of anticipatory action in the Pacific Islands region

This report seeks to expand the understanding of anticipatory action in Small Island Developing States, with a focus on the geographic and socio-institutional aspects of independent Pacific Island Countries in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. This report provides a summary of regional and selected national contexts and approaches to the building...
Fiji - Palau - Solomon Islands
2024 - FAO

Video
Côte d’Ivoire : le maraîchage en transition agroécologique (épisode 2)

Les systèmes de cultures maraichers agroécologiques basés sur la diversité des espèces cultivées et le recours aux intrants biologiques permettent d’améliorer les revenus des producteurs tout en préservant leur santé et celle de leur environnement. La complexité des systèmes agroécologiques par rapport au système conventionnel nécessite un dialogue entre chercheurs...
Côte d'Ivoire
2024 - CIRAD

Event
Presentación de la Alianza Iberoamericana Parlamentaria Iberoamericana y Caribeña por la Seguridad Alimentaria para Todos y Todas

En el marco de la I Cumbre Parlamentaria Mundial contra el Hambre y la Malnutrición celebrada en las Cortes Generales de España en 2018, parlamentarios y parlamentarias de Iberoamérica y el Caribe acordaron crear la “Alianza Parlamentaria Iberoamericana y Caribeña por la Seguridad Alimentaria para Todas y Todos”, con el...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition

Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. The 2024 Global Food Policy Report draws on recent evidence to...
2024 - IFPRI

Journal
L’agroécologie dans la formation

Que faire face à des ressources naturelles qui se dégradent de plus en plus, dans un contexte marqué par les effets des changements climatiques qui frappent de plein fouet plusieurs pays africains ? Face au renchérissement des coûts et à la raréfaction des engrais et des pesticides chimiques ? C’est...
2024 - Réseau international Formation Agricole et Rurale (FAR)

Newsletter article
India: The Tiger Widows of the Sunderbans

In the forests of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, limited livelihood options often drive male fishers literally into the jaws of death, with their widows left struggling for survival. The expression ‘Byaghro Bidhoba’, which literally translates to ‘Tiger Widows’, is a term used to refer to women who have lost...
India
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Video
Hepyerinden Digital Platform for women-led cooperatives

Hepyerinden.coop is an innovative e-commerce platform that significantly impacts family farmers' lives by providing technological, social, financial, and commercial advancements. Technologically, it allows farmers to sell their products online, reaching broader markets. Socially, it empowers women-led cooperatives, fostering community solidarity. Financially, it increases income for farmers by reducing intermediaries. Commercially,...
Türkiye
2024 - Hepyerinden

E-learning
Gestión de los riesgos climáticos a través de la protección social

¿Por qué vincular la protección social con la gestión de los riesgos climáticos? ¿Cómo puede contribuir la protección social a las estrategias inclusivas de gestión de los riesgos climáticos? ¿Cuáles son los principales desafíos y oportunidades para integrar la protección social y la gestión de los riesgos climáticos?    Empleando un...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Exploiter la qualité des arbres indigènes d’Afrique

Les semences sont une première étape critique de l’action pour le climat. Elles confortent les moyens d’existence des populations locales ; améliorent la sécurité alimentaire et préservent la diversité bioculturelle. Le tout récent projet RTRP-Seed (Right Tree, Right Place: Seed Project – soit « projet de semences pour le bon...
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF

Book
Oportunidades para promover el comercio agroalimentario intrarregional en América Latina y el Caribe

El comercio mundial ha experimentado una serie de grandes sacudidas en los últimos 15 años. En el caso de los alimentos, el comercio se ha visto afectado por factores como la crisis financiera internacional de 2008-2009, las tensiones comerciales entre las principales economías del mundo, los efectos del cambio climático,...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
Transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: A global imperative

The impacts of our diets extend well beyond mealtime to affect our health and well-being. Unhealthy diets underpin many public health challenges, including all forms of malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Many countries are facing a double burden of malnutrition—meaning that undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight and...
2024 - IFPRI
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