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Summarizing Evidence for Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Processes

Research has shown that incorporating gender, equity, and justice into adaptation planning is essential for ensuring that climate change adaptation is effective and sustainable. This briefing note highlights key findings from the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which referenced gender, equity and justice more times than any previous IPCC report. This is essential evidence to inform National...
2024 - International Institute for Sustainable Development

Report
Global science–policy interfaces related to agrifood systems: a desktop review of structures and common patterns

This background paper to the guidance that FAO is developing on strengthening science–policy interfaces (SPIs) for agrifood systems at the national level sets provides information about the structures and patterns common to global SPIs. It aims to: 1) provide a broad overview and comparison of how international SPIs work, 2)...
2024 - FAO

Journal article
Demand-side and supply-side factors for accelerating varietal turnover in smallholder soybean farms

The rapid growth of soybean cultivation in the world augurs well for achieving SDG2 of promoting sustainable agriculture, ending hunger, achieving food security, and improving nutrition. India started promoting soybean cultivation in the 1970s to combat dietary protein deficiencies and augment smallholders' incomes. However, soybean yield remains low and plateaued...
2024 - Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition, Cornell University, USA

Guidelines
Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa region

The new Regional Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2024–2027 for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region aims to ensure its applicability across the diverse and complex contexts within the NENA region. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of the region, characterized by a spectrum of situations, the strategy incorporates...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
Financiamiento del sector agropecuario en Panamá

Un análisis de la demanda y la oferta de estos servicios enfocados en la agricultura familiar
Panamá ha alcanzado importantes avances en el reconocimiento de la relevancia de la agricultura familiar para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional y el desarrollo rural, así como en la definición y puesta en marcha de políticas públicas diferenciadas para potenciar el desarrollo de este sector productivo. No obstante, la agricultura...
Panama
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Article
Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences

Cet article “Agroécologie(s), femmes et travail : action, transformation et ré-existences” analyse la manière dont le travail des femmes dans l’agriculture familiale se reconfigure dans les transitions agroécologiques en Argentine et présente une réflexion détaillée sur les liens entre agroécologie, travail des femmes et féminisme, tout en proposant des perspectives...
Argentina
2024

Journal article
Perspectivas y Desafíos de la Agroecología como Camino hacia la Soberania Alimentaria y la Sostenibilidad Ambiental

Está claro que los supuestos económicos neoliberales acerca de cómo funciona el mundo están profundamente errados. Estos supuestos han conducido a estilos de desarrollo que han alterado el clima y la biosfera, despilfarrado enormes riquezas naturales y desestabilizado una miríada de sistemas de los que depende la humanidad. Es evidente...
2024

Book
Climate change risks to marine ecosystems and fisheries

Projections to 2100 from the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project
Climate change impacts on marine fisheries resources are changing the distribution and productivity of marine organisms around the globe. Knowledge and model projections to estimate fish biomass gains and losses are crucial for informing climate-resilient fisheries management and adaptation planning. This report was developed in collaboration with the Fisheries and...
2024 - FAO

Website
Agrovisiones: Webinar series on innovation for agrifood transformation.

Governments worldwide have set the ambitious goal of eradicating hunger by 2030. However, there is a question of whether this goal is sufficient to mobilize aspirational ideals that truly transform our agrifood systems. Agrovisiones is a webinar program organized by the FAO with the purpose of showcasing voices and awakening...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Magazine article
Grains of Life: How Chotanagpur's Adivasis Are Reviving Native Varieties of Rice

Farmers and local NGOs say the indigenous rice varieties that are fast becoming extinct have unique nutrition, climate-resilience to ensure food security in increasingly unpredictable weather.
Sundargarh (Odisha), Latehar (Jharkhand): Deep inside the lush sal forest in Odisha’s Sundargarh, Albisia Lakda, an Adivasi farmer living in Subdega block had divided the rice crop on her two-acre plot of farmland in two sections. With the monsoon fluctuating widely last year, parts of Odisha experienced long dry spells and crop failures. Now,...
India
2024 - The Wire

Case study
Diagnostic of gender and age norms in financial inclusion A pilot study in five districts of Malawi

This report presents an investigation into how social norms impact rural women’s and youth’s ability to access and use formal financial products and services in Malawi. It confirms the importance of considering social norms when designing interventions to improve women’s and youth’s economic empowerment. It also offers concrete recommendations for...
Malawi
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Guidelines
Adapting to climate change in the tropical fruit industry: a technical guide for pineapple producers and exporters

Climate change is impacting global food production systems, making the challenge of feeding the world’s growing population more difficult than ever before. The tropical fruit sector is particularly at risk from the negative impacts of climate change driven by rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and associated challenges such as water...
2024 - FAO

Video
Agrovisiones FAO Chapter 1: Pablo Zamora - Co-Founder of NotCo y President of Fundación Chile

"We have an almost unhealthy need to collaborate with the northern world, and I believe we lack greater South-South collaboration. That is, collaboration among countries in the region is vital." Pablo Zamora's vision, as the first interviewee in the Agrovisiones webinar series, involves knowledge mobility, state programs addressing transversal challenges, and...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Managing uphill cultivation under climate change

An assessment of adaptation decisions among tribal farmers in Nagaland state of India
Tribal farmers in the Himalayas are vulnerable to climatic changes, as their rain-fed cultivation systems, practiced on steep, sloping terrain, are susceptible to changes in rainfall while at the same time being the primary means of livelihood. Soil and water conservation practices (SWCP) can improve the resilience of these cultivation...
India
2024 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Fact sheet
Projet Fracture Numérique - Maraîchage : accès au marché et aux connaissances

Le projet Fracture Numérique a pour objectif de mieux connaître les fractures numériques en Afrique de l’Ouest, en caractérisant les usages et non-usages du numérique dans le secteur agricole et en identifiant certains verrous du développement du numérique et facteurs lefacilitant. Ce projet s’est déroulé de 2021 à 2023 sur...
Benin
2024 - CIRAD

Video
Agrovisiones FAO Chapter 2 : Teresita Di Marco - Principal from the Yield Lab LATAM

"...this path involves seeking to articulate a bottom-up and top-down strategy in the ecosystem so that we truly move towards new forms of production." The agrovision of Teresita DiMarco, the May interviewee, is based on strong collaboration and diverse alliances to promote innovation in the agro-industrial sector in Latin America and...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Book
Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets

Human, Animal and Planetary Health
  This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets. How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans, animals and the environment. In order to develop a sustainable food system,...
2024

Report
Global Land Outlook

Thematic Report on Rangelands and Pastoralists
In anticipation of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026, this report serves as a catalyst for global awareness and action. It analyses numerous case studies and good practices from around the world, drawing on the experience and lessons learned, and advocates for a new paradigm to...
2024 - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Guidelines
Toolbox for Rural Youth Employment Promotion

Rural Youth Employment (RYE) and sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation are among the core development challenges for the future – and they are closely interlinked. With the core area strategy “Transformation of agricultural and food systems” of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), there is a...
2024 - GIZ

Journal article
A intergeracionalidade impulsiona a transformação nos sistemas agroalimentares: reflexões do “World Food Forum”

O World Food Forum 2023, com o tema A transformação dos sistemas agroalimentares acelera a ação climática, reuniu 6 mil participantes presenciais e mais de 20 mil on-line. A presença de mais de 1.500 crianças ao longo da semana enriqueceu ainda mais o evento. Com mais de 400 eventos, incluindo atividades paralelas e...
Brazil
2024 - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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