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North Macedonia’s membership in European commission will boost sustainable aquaculture
North Macedonia has joined the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission (EIFAAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as it 37th member. Ljupcho Nikolovski, the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy of the Republic of North Macedonia, informed QU Dongyu, FAO Director-General, about...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Miscellanea
6 Pilar del Plan de Acción Mundial del Decenio de la Agricultura Familiar
Para conseguir innovaciones sostenibles, es necesario diseñar de forma inclusiva prácticas y técnicas agrícolas y adaptarlas a los conocimientos y prácticas que poseen los agricultores, con el fin de satisfacer las necesidades de las generaciones presentes y futuras. Te compartimos el #6Pilar del #PlanAcciónMundial
Para conseguir innovaciones sostenibles, es necesario diseñar de forma inclusiva prácticas y técnicas agrícolas y adaptarlas a los conocimientos y prácticas que poseen los agricultores, con el fin de satisfacer las necesidades de las generaciones presentes y futuras.
Te compartimos el #6Pilar del #PlanAcciónMundial para mayor información te invitamos a revisar...
2023 - Onda Rural de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology ANNUAL TECHNICAL REPORT 2022
Based on stakeholder mapping results and building on existing partnerships and experiences, a diversity of local and national food system actors (FSAs) (1,346 individuals involved so far, 42% female, 58% male) have played a critical role in supporting the emergence of the Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs). Engagement principles, visioning, and codesign...
2023 - CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology
Video
Webinar "Connecting with Europe - Rural Europe Takes Action" during Feeding Ourselves 2023
Organised by Forum Synergies, in partnership with Cultivate & ARC2020. Forum Synergies helped giving the European touch to the Irish gathering FEDDING OURSELVES 2023, with the webinar "Connecting with Europe - Rural Europe Takes Action" held on Saturday 25th. Two european initiatives from the book "Rural Europe Takes Action -...
European Union
2023 - Forum Synergies, in partnership with Cultivate & ARC2020.
Article
The individual empowerment Index (IEI): A new approach for empowerment measures
Over the last three decades, many research works have been conducted to define and measure the complex and composite concept of empowerment. However, an individual empowerment tool is still needed, to be applied for any disadvantaged group, women, youths (male or female), poor, etc., or any economic sector, and which...
2023
Video
Plan de Acción del Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura Familiar: Sexto Pilar
El Plan de acción mundial, diseñado en torno a siete pilares de trabajo que se refuerzan mutuamente, recomienda una serie de medidas interconectadas que abarcan desde la escala local hasta la mundial. Este video describe el pilar 6 del Plan de acción mundial.
2023 - Onda Rural de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Miscellanea
5 Pilar del Plan de Acción Mundial del Decenio de la Agricultura Familiar
Si bien la agricultura familiar es la base de la seguridad alimentaria, los agricultores familiares son los más afectados por la pobreza y la vulnerabilidad, y se enfrentan a los mayores niveles de riesgos económicos, financieros, sociales y medioambientales.
Te compartimos el #5Pilar del #PlanAcciónMundial, para mayor información, te invitamos a...
2023 - Onda Rural de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
The status of women in agrifood systems
The status of women in agrifood systems report uses extensive new data and analyses to provide a comprehensive picture of women’s participation, benefits, and challenges they face working in agrifood systems globally. The report shows how increasing women’s empowerment and gender equality in agrifood systems enhances women’s well-being and the...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
African food systems transformation collective
Agriculture in Africa is arguably the most important sector, given its contribution to food security, as well as its being the continent’s principal source of income and livelihoods as well as the main source of employment for more than half of Africa’s population – the majority of them being women.
It...
2023 - THE AFRICAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION
Book
Resilience and food security in a food systems context
Summary: This open access book compiles a series of chapters written by internationally recognized experts known for their in-depth but critical views on questions of resilience and food security. The book assesses rigorously and critically the contribution of the concept of resilience in advancing our understanding and ability to design...
2023
Blog article
Intercrops will benefit the farming and food systems of tomorrow
A new European project, coordinated by CIRAD and involving 27 organizations in 14 countries, launched recently. Named IntercropValuES, it aims to use the advantages of intercrops to build productive, diverse, resilient, profitable, environmentally friendly cropping systems that are acceptable to farmers and agrifood chain stakeholders.
Food production is resource-intensive, and currently...
2023 - Cirad
Blog article
Press release: “We need concrete support for the Soil Mission” – A call by the research and innovation platform for organic and agroecology, TP Organics
Healthy soils are essential for food production but are under threat: over 60% of soils in Europe are unhealthy, thus not able to deliver vital ecosystem services, including climate change mitigation and adaptation. With the EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’, the European Commission is pioneering a novel instrument...
European Union
2023 - TP Organics
Event
Segundo Diplomado Virtual Agaves y Mezquites. Regenerando Zonas Semi-Áridas
Debido al éxito obtenido, este 2023 repetimos nuestro diplomado de agaves y mezquites para regenerar zonas semiáridas.
Mexico
2023 - Vía Orgánica
Report
Workshop Report - Dana + 20: Mobile Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Climate Change Two Decades after the Dana Declaration
Mobile Peoples – including many Indigenous, traditional, nomadic and tribal peoples – are confronted with unprecedented challenges, including increasingly frequent floods and droughts associated with climate change; desertification, deforestation and other forms of land degradation; and loss of biodiversity, all of which threaten their food sovereignty, security and access to...
2023 - Nomadic Peoples, Volume 27, Number 1, March 2023, pp. 100-140(41)
Event
2º Diplomado Agaves & Mezquites
Las y los participantes recibirán herramientas para detonar acciones que trasformen su paisaje mediante el desarrollo de un programa educativo virtual, impartido por docentes dedicados a la investigación de sistemas productivos y regenerativos en zonas semiáridas.
PERFIL DE INGRESO:
Dirigido a toda persona interesada en transformar su paisaje, en impulsar y...
Mexico
2023 - Vía Orgánica
Blog article
Driving the transition towards healthy soils in Europe: IFOAM Organics Europe supports Soil Living Labs
It is estimated that more than 60% of EU soils are unhealthy. The EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” aims to accelerate the transition to healthy soils by 2030. The creation of 100 Living Labs and Lighthouses under the Soil Mission will accelerate the forming and uptake of solutions by land managers and improve citizen...
European Union
2023 - TP Organics
Article
The transformative value chain: rethinking food system interventions
Food value chains (VC) are an integral part of food systems, and (VC) programs remain central in the work of development agencies. Despite their popularity among donors and their attempts to tackle food and nutrition security, poverty alleviation and environmental sustainability, food value chain interventions are at crossroads. The ongoing...
2023
Blog article
Mechanizing post-harvest activities for a sustainable soybean value chain in Zambia
Under the “Sustainable, resilient and inclusive food systems development Programme”, funded by the global Flexible Multi-Partner Mechanism (FMM), FAO has supported the Government of Zambia and the soybean industry in preparing the soybean value chain analysis and upgrading sector strategy for 2023-2028.
Hand-threshing, a widespread practice that undermines socio-economic benefits. The analysis...
Zambia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Guidelines
Guidelines on integrating the “leave no one behind” principle into development planning in Europe and Central Asia
The imperatives to leave no one behind (LNOB) and endeavour to reach the furthest behind first – as pledged by the 193 Member States of the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are gaining more traction among development practitioners as...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
E-learning
Introduction of the e-learning series “Making agricultural investment and supply chains work for women and men”
This introduction clarifies the rationale and scope of the e-learning series, the target audience it was designed for, and the different courses that make it up.
2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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