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Pulses and soils: a dynamic duo
It is widely known that healthy soils contribute to growing healthy and nutritious foods. But did you know that pulses also improve soil health by providing and mobilizing nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous and micronutrients?
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Côte d’Ivoire : le maraîchage en transition agroécologique (épisode 2)
Les systèmes de cultures maraichers agroécologiques basés sur la diversité des espèces cultivées et le recours aux intrants biologiques permettent d’améliorer les revenus des producteurs tout en préservant leur santé et celle de leur environnement. La complexité des systèmes agroécologiques par rapport au système conventionnel nécessite un dialogue entre chercheurs...
Côte d'Ivoire
2024 - CIRAD
Event
Presentación de la Alianza Iberoamericana Parlamentaria Iberoamericana y Caribeña por la Seguridad Alimentaria para Todos y Todas
En el marco de la I Cumbre Parlamentaria Mundial contra el Hambre y la Malnutrición celebrada en las Cortes Generales de España en 2018, parlamentarios y parlamentarias de Iberoamérica y el Caribe acordaron crear la “Alianza Parlamentaria Iberoamericana y Caribeña por la Seguridad Alimentaria para Todas y Todos”, con el...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition
Food systems and diets underpin many critical challenges to public health and environmental sustainability, including malnutrition, noncommunicable diseases, and climate change, but sustainable healthy diets have the unique potential to reshape the future for both human and planetary well-being. The 2024 Global Food Policy Report draws on recent evidence to...
2024 - IFPRI
Journal
L’agroécologie dans la formation
Que faire face à des ressources naturelles qui se dégradent de plus en plus, dans un contexte marqué par les effets des changements climatiques qui frappent de plein fouet plusieurs pays africains ? Face au renchérissement des coûts et à la raréfaction des engrais et des pesticides chimiques ? C’est...
2024 - Réseau international Formation Agricole et Rurale (FAR)
Newsletter article
India: The Tiger Widows of the Sunderbans
In the forests of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, limited livelihood options often drive male fishers literally into the jaws of death, with their widows left struggling for survival.
The expression ‘Byaghro Bidhoba’, which literally translates to ‘Tiger Widows’, is a term used to refer to women who have lost...
India
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Hepyerinden Digital Platform for women-led cooperatives
Hepyerinden.coop is an innovative e-commerce platform that significantly impacts family farmers' lives by providing technological, social, financial, and commercial advancements. Technologically, it allows farmers to sell their products online, reaching broader markets. Socially, it empowers women-led cooperatives, fostering community solidarity. Financially, it increases income for farmers by reducing intermediaries. Commercially,...
Türkiye
2024 - Hepyerinden
E-learning
Gestión de los riesgos climáticos a través de la protección social
¿Por qué vincular la protección social con la gestión de los riesgos climáticos? ¿Cómo puede contribuir la protección social a las estrategias inclusivas de gestión de los riesgos climáticos? ¿Cuáles son los principales desafíos y oportunidades para integrar la protección social y la gestión de los riesgos climáticos?
Empleando un...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Crop diversification for sustainable farming: What do farmers think?
Farmers across the districts of Panipat, Sonipat, Karnal, and Yamuna Nagar in Haryana, India, have encountered considerable challenges over the past decade due to groundwater depletion and the adverse impacts of climate change. Despite the alarming decline in the groundwater table of 33 cm per year, farmers continue to rely...
India
2024 - CGIAR
Blog article
Exploiter la qualité des arbres indigènes d’Afrique
Les semences sont une première étape critique de l’action pour le climat. Elles confortent les moyens d’existence des populations locales ; améliorent la sécurité alimentaire et préservent la diversité bioculturelle. Le tout récent projet RTRP-Seed (Right Tree, Right Place: Seed Project – soit « projet de semences pour le bon...
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Book
Oportunidades para promover el comercio agroalimentario intrarregional en América Latina y el Caribe
El comercio mundial ha experimentado una serie de grandes sacudidas en los últimos 15 años. En el caso de los alimentos, el comercio se ha visto afectado por factores como la crisis financiera internacional de 2008-2009, las tensiones comerciales entre las principales economías del mundo, los efectos del cambio climático,...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Transforming food systems for sustainable healthy diets: A global imperative
The impacts of our diets extend well beyond mealtime to affect our health and well-being. Unhealthy diets underpin many public health challenges, including all forms of malnutrition and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Many countries are facing a double burden of malnutrition—meaning that undernutrition and micronutrient deficiencies coexist with overweight and...
2024 - IFPRI
Journal article
Bringing back cattle grazing to abandoned farmlands. A lesson from silvopastoral ecological intensification in the landscape of the Carpathian foothills, SE Poland
Development of the modern, highly specialised and economically efficient, forestry in the 1700s has substantially changed the structural characteristics and dynamics of European woodlands. In particular, the ban on forest grazing that had been almost universally adopted throughout all Central Europe, unleashed the processes of development of shade−tolerant undergrowth, leading...
Poland
2024 - University of Rzeszów, Poland
Book
Investment case for anticipatory action and adaptive and shock responsive social protection in the Philippines
The Philippines has made significant strides in reducing poverty, but the persistent threat of natural disasters, compounded by the country's vulnerability and exposure, continues to jeopardize these gains. Many households in disaster-prone areas hover precariously close to the poverty line, and the devastating impact of disasters on their assets, income,...
Philippines
2024 - FAO
Video
Sonia Reiman: creciendo junto al Programa de Desarrollo Territorial Indígena (PDTI) del Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Sonia Reiman es una artesana en telar y productora de hortalizas de Lumaco, Región de La Araucanía, Chile. En este video, ella cuenta cómo una política pública, denominada Programa de Desarrollo Territorial Indígena del Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP), junto a un cercano apoyo de extensionistas, han contribuido a...
Chile
2024 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Practices
Climate smart farmer field school catalogue: Cocoons
The climate smart FFS initiative for smallholder farmers in Jordan has been launched under the project Building Resilience to Cope with Climate Change in Jordan Through Improving Water Use Efficiency in the Agriculture Sector (BRCCJ). A suite of climate smart FFS training materials has been developed for different crops, cropping...
Jordan
2024 - FAO
Blog article
Différenciations des perceptions et des rôles chez des femmes en viticulture face aux enjeux environnementaux : explications et implications
WorldWine Women est une association de femmes engagées pour la transition écologique dans le monde du vin. En 2020, l’équipe était composée de quatre étudiantes en agronomie, biologie, ingénierie et commerce qui sont parties de septembre 2020 à janvier 2021 à la rencontre de vignerons et vigneronnes de 14 pays...
2024 - AgriGenre
Report
Resilience, Reciprocity and Recovery in Gaza: Drawing Lessons from Women-led Agribusinesses Amidst Conflict and Crisis
Full Report
This report, prepared and released in December 2024, is part of ‘Gaza Foodways’ (2021-2026) an action research project with the Palestinian Hydrology Group, the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP), the University College of Applied Sciences in Gaza, and the Centre for Agroecology, Water & Resilience at Coventry University (UK). It is...
Gaza Strip - Palestine
2024 - Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Video
Accès au foncier, un casse tête pour plusieurs femmes au Bénin
Ce court reportage présente les difficultés d’accès au foncier des femmes au Bénin. Pas de terre lors du partage de l’héritage, pas de possibilité d’acheter un terrain et stéréotype de genre très forts, bien que les femmes soient protégées par la loi au Bénin, les défis du foncier auxquelles elles...
Benin
2024 - Le rural Bénin TV
Case study
Estimación de la pérdida de alimentos de 10 cadenas de la canasta básica de Guatemala
Reducir la pérdida y el desperdicio de alimentos se considera una acción relevante para reducir los costos de producción y aumentar la eficiencia de los sistemas agroalimentarios, mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición y contribuir a la sostenibilidad ambiental. Teniendo en cuenta sus impactos económicos, sociales y ambientales, reducir...
Guatemala
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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