Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

The Soviet Union collapsed nearly 30 years ago, but its effects linger in the fragmented farm structures and market channels that plague food value chains throughout Europe and Central Asia. A series of FAO publications is dedicated to improving this issue by revealing a path forward to a system that is...

The Miombo woodland is a vast African dryland forest ecosystem covering close to 2.7 million km2 across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The woodlands are characterized by the dominance of Brachystegia species, either alone or in association with Julbernardia and Isoberlinia...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

In the past 50 years, the population of the Central Asia region has tripled. With the need to feed a larger number of people amid increasingly limited water resources and highly vulnerable climatic conditions, the region faces serious food security challenges. A newly launched regional project from FAO and the Global...

The Value Chain Gap Analysis Report on Azerbaijan is meant to fill the “gap” in professional literature via providing a snapshot on how the government, the private sector and donor organizations work on creating an enabling environment to support value chain (VC) development. The report won’t answer any particular questions...

Co-organised by Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish and Snowchange Cooperative, the Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions has wrapped up successfully in Tornio, Finland. Over 150 small-scale and Indigenous fishermen around the world joined forces to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, governance and direct exchanges on common challenges.

LIFE reacts to the Commission’s proposal on Eel ahead of Monday’s Council

Being the biggest world agri-food importer and exporter, the European Union plays an important role in international agricultural markets. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has considerable influence on international agri-food market. With the CAP 2014-2020, the distortive effect of the policy have been dramatically reduced. However, voluntary coupled support are...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

Video sobre las políticas públicas para la gobernanza de la tierra y algunas reflexiones sobre la agricultura familiar en Uruguay

El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en muchas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.  En Guatemala, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) impulsan la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises, una práctica que permite filtrar el agua...

Life calls for a more level playing field and a fairer allocation of quota between larger scale and smaller scale fisheries.

All over the world, women contribute enormously to rural development through their work in agriculture. As a result of male outmigration from rural areas and the growth of commercial farming, women’s roles in agriculture are expanding in many countries (FAO, 2017), with significant consequences for food systems and rural societies...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

In order to address the issue of hunger and malnutrition through nutrient rich and climate resilient underutilized crops, the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), a unique  voluntary, membership-based, self-mandated, apolitical and multi-stakeholder (70 members) organization  in the Asia-Pacific region planned a multi-stakeholder “Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized  Crops...

Le potentiel des pâturages d’estivage jurassiens est très bon. Il est possible de produire 20kg ou plus de lait par vache rien que sur la base d’herbage de qualité. 3 facteurs sont toutefois pour exprimer ce potentiel ; les accès doivent être facile et pratique, bien aménagés, l’approvisionnement en eau...

Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia has as its purposes: i) to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of Neglected and Underutilized species (NUS) and their potential contribution to achieving Zero Hunger; ii) to identify promising NUS that are nutrition-dense, climate-resilient, economically-viable...

Due to land grabbing, native forests and local biodiversity are being lost, people are being evicted from their homes and forced to give up their lands, along with all the other problems linked to the large-scale use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Some individual cases are reported in the booklet “Let’s...

Les 17 et 18 mai 2018, le CNCR à travers le Groupe de Dialogue Social et Politique (GSDP et le Comité National de l’Agriculture Familiale (CNAF) a organisé à Dakar, avec l’appui du Forum Rural Mondial un atelier méthodologique pour l’élaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de...