Urban agriculture is transforming cities across Brazil by strengthening public health, food security and environmental justice. Over an 18-month period starting in 2022, action research in six metropolitan areas uncovered the powerful role of agroecological networks in shaping healthier, more sustainable urban spaces and communities.

Achieving gender equality is essential to ending hunger and building sustainable food systems. A new FAO guide offers parliaments in Latin America and the Caribbean a roadmap to get there.

The current era is marked by escalating conflicts, increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and disasters, and profound economic shocks that drive migration as people seek to escape harsh conditions. Against this backdrop, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reaffirms its unwavering commitment, enshrined in...

La adecuación a la regulación europea sobre comercio libre de deforestación y degradación forestal (EUDR) es un requisito desafiante para los exportadores de la región. El informe resume el análisis técnico de buenas prácticas, brechas de capacidad y acciones prioritarias necesaria para el cumplimiento efectivo del reglamento en grupos de...

The Bank of practical and low-cost technological solutions is an initiative of the Thematic Working Group on Knowledge Management . Objective: Identify and make visible solutions already implemented in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries that contribute to the sustainability of agrifood systems, as well as strengthen PLACA's Solutions Bank with initiatives that contribute to the...

The article highlights the devastating impact of the Red Palm Weevil, a stealthy pest threatening palm trees across 49 countries, causing over $2 billion in annual crop losses and affecting 50 million farmers. Unlike visible pests, the weevil burrows silently into palm trunks, often killing trees before symptoms appear. The...

SPARC's new documentary shines a spotlight on one of the most critical, but marginalised livelihoods in Africa – and paints a rarely seen picture of the dynamism of people living in the drylands.

This is the first in a series of case studies on the innovative tactics used by forest and farm producer organisations or Indigenous Peoples and local community groups to improve the uptake of one of three main types of agroforestry system: shade grown cash crops (that mix trees and crops),...

In the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil, women are cultivating medicinal plants in community gardens, creating spaces that promote health, social connection and environmental care.

En el corazón del campo mexicano, millones de mujeres trabajan día y noche para alimentar al país. Sin embargo, su esfuerzo sigue siendo ignorado, subvalorado y, en muchos casos, explotado. A pesar de que realizan el 60% del trabajo agrícola , solo el 25% son dueñas de las tierras que cultivan , evidenciando una...

Esta publicación tiene como marco referencial las luchas y acciones que, desde diversos territorios de América Latina, impulsan las mujeres para garantizar el acceso y la gestión sostenible del agua como un derecho humano fundamental. Reúne estudios de caso que evidencian cómo las mujeres enfrentan la crisis hídrica en sus...

The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region faces a growing number of complex, overlapping and compounding hazards that are undermining livelihoods, deepening food insecurity and slowing economic development. Increasingly frequent and severe climate extremes – such as droughts, flash floods, heatwaves – are converging with transboundary plant and animal...

The Central American Dry Corridor, spanning six countries and home to 11.5 million people, is highly vulnerable to climate change, with droughts and land degradation threatening food and water security. The RECLIMA project in El Salvador restores ecosystems and strengthens climate resilience through native tree planting, agroforestry, and sustainable land...

Sustainable development aspires to “leave no one behind”1. Even so, limited attention has been paid to small-scale fisheries (SSF) and their importance in eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Through a collaborative and multidimensional data-driven approach, we have estimated that SSF provide at least 40% (37.3 million tonnes) of global fisheries...

Malaria, sleeping sickness, dengue fever and other insect-borne diseases continue to present grave health risks to humans and their livestock. This Biovision project is employing a new approach: Animals act as a kind of “natural decoy” to attract insects, which are killed using a newly developed, environmentally friendly insect repellent....

The story centers on Nino Tadiashvili, a former journalist who transitioned into farming, embracing it as a creative and empowering profession. With support from the FAO through the ENPARD programme (funded by the EU and Sweden), Nino became a lead farmer and host of a farmer field school in her...

What influences soil fertility in organic cotton farming in India? Andrin Schilliger, a student at the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL), investigated various soil fertility parameters and potential influencing factors as part of his bachelor's thesis at FiBL. For this, he spent six months in India in...

The EcoFoodSystems project supports agroecological transitions towards more sustainable, healthy and affordable diets in city regions. It does so by bridging rural-urban food systems and generating evidence to support climate and nutrition-sensitive decision-making.  Hanoi and Addis Ababa are used as examples to co-develop data systems and research outputs that connect national...

While restrictive seed laws threaten farmer-managed seed systems worldwide, several countries in the Agroecology Coalition are charting a different path – one that recognizes seeds as the foundation of resilient, agroecological food systems. From Tanzania’s groundbreaking National Ecological Organic Agriculture Strategy to Burkina Faso’s explicit inclusion of farmer seeds in national policy,...

Tanzania is building sustainable cassava-seed systems for high-quality seed through cassava seed entrepreneurs. However, women are often shut out of such business opportunities due to their lack of land, capital, and social norms that limit their mobility and literacy.