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FAO pledges to provide support for the implementation of the Pacific Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Fisheries Statistics (P-SPAFS)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pacific Community (SPC) have pledged to collaborate on a ten-year plan, the Pacific Strategic Plan for Agriculture and Fisheries Statistics (P-SPAFS) which aims at strengthening the collection and dissemination of statistics related to food security, agriculture, fisheries, and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
A historic moment as the UN General Assembly adopts the first resolution on the social and solidarity economy
Following the events organised in July and December 2022 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the United Nations has adopted the first Resolution on promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development during the General Assembly held today 18th April 2023. As an observer of the UN Task Force on the Social and...
2023 - UN General Assembly
Blog article
Gender transformative trainings in Asian small-scale fisheries: insights from the Philippines and Indonesia
Over the last few weeks, South-east Asia has been the focus of FAO’s work targeting the achievement of gender equality in small-scale fisheries. As part of the project “Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines for gender equitable and climate resilient food systems and livelihoods”, the Philippines and Indonesia had the opportunity to hold two different...
Philippines
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration – Mango production in Malawi as a test case
Starting from the observation that value chain research has informed much of agricultural development interventions in recent decades, this paper identifies five key challenges to current agricultural development policies in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): access to finance, infrastructure, land tenure, local linkages and knowledge transfer. Based on this review,...
Malawi
2023
Journal article
Key research challenges to supporting farm transitions to agroecology in advanced economies. A review
In response to the sustainability issues that agriculture faces in advanced economies, agroecology has gained increasing relevance in scientific, political, and social debates. This has promoted discussion about transitions to agroecology, which represents a significant advancement. Accordingly, it has become a growing field of research. We reviewed the literature on...
2023
Policy brief/paper
ARC 2020 Weekly Briefing on Agri-Food
✔Rural Realities | Testing Grounds for Wellbeing
✔Are We Ready to Amend the CAP SP to Fit For 55?
✔The Michael Dower Award for European Rural Resilience
And much, much more in our Weekly Briefing
European Union
2023 - ARC2020
Practices
Tomato: seed extraction and conservation
Harvest and clean the fruits, and slice them longitudinally. Crush the fruit sections into a mixture of pulp, seeds, and juice. Subsequently pour the mixture into a large container where it ferments for a period usually lasting three days. For acid extraction, apply an equal volume solution of hydrochloric acid...
Italy
2023 - Bresov Project
Blog article
SVC4SIDS and Kiribati working together to empower local fisheries: national inception, upgrading strategy, and lobster value chain mapping workshops
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development of the Republic of Kiribati, will hold an inception and upgrading strategy workshop on 4-5 July in Tarawa. Although the project started in 2020, this official national launch event was hampered...
Kiribati
2023
Fact sheet
Initiatives locales: des exemples de filiéres agroécologiques qui se developpent
Le CFSI, la Fondation de France et le Roppa, qui portent ensemble le programme de Promotion de l'agriculture familiale en Afrique de l'Ouest (Pafao), présentent un travail collectif intitulé Solutions ouest-africaines pour des systèmes alimentaires durables. La troisième et dernière partie présente des filières agroécologique qui se développent en Afrique de l'Ouest.
L’agroécologie ne consiste pas uniquement...
Burkina Faso
2023 - Alimenterre
Article
Spatial changes to climatic suitability and availability of agropastoral farming systems across Kenya (1980–2020)
Productive global agriculture is under a convergence of pressures, and particularly climate change and population growth. The impact is especially stark in East Africa where crop production is mostly rain-fed and population growth rates are among the highest in the world. Our objective for this study was to understand how...
Kenya
2023
Practices
How to reproduce Brassica oleracea crops in purity
B. oleracea plants are usually self-incompatible and they need to cross with other genotypes for generating progenies. The self-incompatible genotypes require specific management for controlled pollination achieved by spatial isolation in the field or by the use of pollination chambers isolated by net for avoiding pollen contamination by pronubes. Self-incompatibility...
Italy
2023 - Bresov Project
Article
Introducing an ecologically-based pest management approach in Cambodia through adaptive learning networks
How can we reach farmers with ecologically-based Integrated Pest Management (IPM) while creating a supportive context for adoption by farmers and relevant stakeholders? We assessed a new method – Adaptive Learning Networks – from reflections of varied stakeholders, farmer diaries and survey data procured in 2016 and 2019. This method...
Cambodia
2023
Article
Niyat Project: An attempt of boosting food security in Northern Argentina through Agroecology
Indigenous communities continue to face marginalization and exclusion from vital resources and opportunities, leading to alarming rates of poverty and malnutrition, particularly among women and young people. In some part of the world, they often live in conditions of high vulnerability, high food insecurity and lack of access to human...
Argentina
2023 - Slow Food
Journal article
Understanding food sustainability from a consumer perspective: A cross cultural exploration
To successfully transition to more sustainable diets, it is necessary to understand consumers' demands and expectations. The present exploratory research shows a cross-cultural study (Spain, Slovakia, Denmark) in which different aspects were included in an online survey: (i) food choice motivations, (ii) the importance that consumers give to different attributes of...
2023
Practices
Bean Seed Treatment: a simple approach without specific laboratory equipment
Organic agriculture uses organic seeds or untreated conventional seeds when no alternative exists. In both ways, seeds can carry diseases and are better treated using a method which • is acceptable for organic farming, • has a good success rate at disinfecting the seeds and • does not significantly reduce...
2023 - Bresov Project
Blog article
Launch of Special Issue on Participatory Action Research in a Time of COVID and Beyond
The outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 was a challenge for any practitioner intent on engaging in authentic dialogue for people-centered, place-based transformative praxis with the most marginalized in society–be they in Europe or the Majority World. The pandemic called on us to explore new and creative methodological approaches, to...
2023 - Agroecology Now
Report
Seed harmonisation in Eastern and Southern Africa
Failures, corporate occupation, and the rise of digitalised seed trade: dire implications for farmer managed seed and food systems in Africa
Regional seed policy harmonisation processes on seed and plant variety protection (PVP) legislation have been underway for the past 15 years on the African continent. These have taken place under the auspices of various regional economic communities (RECs), including the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), Common Market for East and...
2023 - The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
Article
Farm size and productivity relationship among the farming communities in India
The relationship between farm size and productivity has been a topic of interest in agricultural research for decades due to the significance of agriculture in rural economies and its potential to reduce poverty and promote inclusive growth. The relationship between farm size and productivity is influenced by factors such as...
India
2023
Blog article
Busia farmers Embrace Agro-ecological Farming
Farmers in Busia County have partnered with Kilimo Hai, an agriculture organization, to adopt agro-ecological farming practices using organic fertilizers made from animal waste and rabbit urine as pesticides. This transition has been motivated by the high cost of conventional farming inputs and the need for sustainable ecosystem management and...
Kenya
2023
Policy brief/paper
Supporting the health and well-being of Europe’s agricultural workforce
Good health is vital to the roles that agricultural workers play in sustaining our food supplies, caring for our environment, and safeguarding the social fabric of rural communities. EU policies, including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), can be coordinated to help improve the overall well-being of our agricultural work force,...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
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