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The Resources section holds archived publications and multimedia materials related to family farming general issues.

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VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our Planet

Since its establishment, the World Rural Forum has held 8 Global Conferences on Family Farming, attended by hundreds of the highest-level representatives from governments, international organizations, research centers, family farmers’ organizations, cooperatives and NGDOs from 5 continents. The generated debates have served to set and highlight action priorities in favor...
2024 - World Rural Forum

Fact sheet
Liste positive jardinage 2024

Engrais, substrats et terreaux, produits phytosanitaires et auxiliaires pour le jardinage biologique Description La liste positive contient des engrais, substrats et terreaux, produits phytosanitaires et auxiliaires pour la gestion biologique des jardins familiaux.
2024 - FiBL

Blog article
Champions of change: Meet the winners of the 2024 IFAD Gender Awards

Since 2013, IFAD has recognized projects from every corner of the world that go the extra mile for gender equality. Acknowledging that sustainable development is impossible without rural women. Their empowerment is crucial to transforming food systems, building thriving rural communities and creating lasting prosperity for all. Let’s visit the five inspiring...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development

Blog article
Alvaro Lario: “Without family farming, we would not have eaten today”

An interview with the President of IFAD
During the interview, Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), shed light on the pressing challenges facing family farming, particularly in the context of climate change. Lario underscored the essential role of small-scale farmers in global food security, highlighting their contributions to feeding billions of people...
2024 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)

E-learning
Gender and inclusion in Forest Landscape Restoration

In this self-paced online course, you will learn the fundamentals of gender and social inclusion in forest landscapes restoration (FLR). The course focuses on gender inequalities, gender-differentiated impacts and opportunities to address inequalities for more equitable and sustainable FLR, to build the abilities and understanding of diverse stakeholders on the...
2024 - CGIAR Research program on Forest, Trees, and Agroforestry

Case study
Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry

Country case studies
Forests harbour a large proportion of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, which continues to be lost at an alarming rate. Deforestation is the single most important driver of forest biodiversity loss with 10 million ha of forest converted every year to other land uses, primarily for agriculture. Up to 30 percent...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Finland - Japan - Malaysia - Mexico - Peru - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2024 - FAO

Manual
Climate Change and Biodiversity Guide for Journalists

In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) we find ourselves in a paradox. On the one hand, the region boasts 40% of the worlds biodiversity, half of the worlds tropical forests, the largest reserve of freshwater, 12% of the worlds mangroves and six of the most megadiverse countries. On the...
2024 - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Journal article
Nature's laws of declining soil productivity and Conservation Agriculture

Soils are critical for agriculture and natural ecosystems and need protection, and adherence to nature's principles. The objective of this work is to understand how nature manages resources and describe management of the 'living soil’ and its soil productivity and use nature's laws as guidelines for the management. These guidelines provide the...
2024 - University of Reading, UK

Conference/Meeting
The future of family farming at the balance

What is the future for family farming? This was the question posed in a technical discussion bringing together family farmers, representatives of governments, researchers, and experts from FAO and IFAD held at FAO headquarters in January. The “Future of Family Farming” meeting was held within the framework of the UN Decade...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Social Inclusion in Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation

The impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises on people’s livelihoods and opportunities differ greatly based on their gender and other intersecting identity factors. Populations that face systemic marginalization and discrimination are often disproportionately affected.  International actors and scientific bodies, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental...
2024 - International Institute for Sustainable Development

Report
Environmental stewardship by small-scale fisheries

Small-scale fisheries (SSF), including fishers and fishworkers together with their communities and organizations, are among the world’s most effective contributors to safeguarding aquatic resources and environments. Living near to, and relying on, freshwater and marine aquatic species and environments, small-scale fisheries are at the heart of environmental conservation and stewardship...
2024 - FAO

Manual
Pacific oyster farming

A practical manual
The purpose of this manual is to give the reader a foundation of practical knowledge regarding all aspects of Pacific oyster cultivation. It is targeted at new entrants to the market wishing to establish a farm, and existing operators who wish to develop their farms and explore new cultivation techniques....
2024 - FAO

Journal article
Who and what gets recognized in digital agriculture: agriculture 4.0 at the intersectionality of (Dis)Ableism, labor, and recognition justice

This paper builds on prior critical scholarship on Agriculture 4.0—an umbrella term to reference the utilization of robot-ics and automation, AI, remote sensing, big data, and the like in agriculture—especially the literature focusing on issues relating to equity and social sustainability. Critical agrifood scholarship has spent considerable energy interrogating who gets what, how...
United States of America
2024 - Food Systems Institute, Colorado State University

Blog article
Los países de América Latina y el Caribe establecieron nuevas prioridades de la FAO en la región para transformar los sistemas agroalimentarios y garantizar seguridad alimentaria

Representantes de los treinta y tres Estados miembros asistieron a la 38ª Conferencia Regional de la FAO celebrada en Guyana para debatir cómo reducir el hambre y la desigualdad en la mayor región exportadora de productos agroalimentarios del mundo. La 38 Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Technical report on Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry (G.R.O.W)

This technical report on Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry (GROW) will benefit for taking up restoration projects for achieving national commitments of Land Degradation Neutrality and restoring 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, as well as creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion...
India
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF

Report
The Restoration Initiative: 2022 Year in Review

2022 marks The Restoration Initiative’s (TRI) fourth full year of implementation. While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic still lingers across the world, including for TRI partners, the year was full of successes for programmatic objectives. As travel restrictions were lifted and further collaboration was made possible, TRI partners were...
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Fisherfolk in Peru preserve mangroves and ocean resources through co-management

Communities in Peru work with local authorities to manage the unique marine ecosystems on which their environment and livelihoods depend. The Global Environment Facility-funded, FAO Coastal Fisheries Initiative has built the capacity of the community to ensure that they can oversee their ecosystems in a sustainable and productive way.
Peru
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Practices
Organic Hemp - Harvest products products and opportunities

Enthusiastic fans see hemp as a crop that can meet current challenges such as climate change and resource scarcity. But can hemp really fulfill this expectation and what potential does the plant offer organic farms in Switzerland? A new fact sheet provides essential information on organic hemp cultivation for interested...
Germany
2023 - FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture

Case study
Youth in Mauritania uncover the potential that their lands have to offer

An FAO project develops young people’s skills and sets minds towards agriculture
Aly Oumar Mohamed Sy used to almost dread the idea of making a living from farming. But “now that I’ve learned how to take care of the soil and cultivate it, I consider farming as my life's work,” says the 24-year-old from Mauritania’s Trarza region. What’s made the difference is...
Mauritania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Guidelines
Guidelines on forest biodiversity monitoring methodologies for Central Asian countries

For effective forest biodiversity monitoring in FAO Sub-regional Office for Central Asia (SEC) countries (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Türkiye), it is important to develop cost-effective and efficient monitoring methods. The main purpose of the guidelines on forest biodiversity monitoring methodologies is to support FAOSEC countries in their...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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