This paper presents a survey conducted in northwestern Nicaragua, which aims at understanding how the flows of money and food generated by the diversified and multi-situated activities of farm households intervene in food access and perception of food security. In the study area, family agriculture develops in difficult agro-ecological conditions,...

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...

Both the IPCC and IPBES claim that a “transformative” change that can still reverse the catastrophic trends through an agroecological approach. Within this context, this fact sheet, elaborated by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) calls for an increase in awareness among decision-makers of the significant potential of agroecology to tackle challenges...

The Pan-African Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA-FSN) training facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) brought experts from FAO to promote a multisectoral approach to enhance the work of parliamentarians towards fostering an enabling environment to eliminate hunger. The training took place...

La debilidad de los sistemas de información hidrometeorológica en la región del Gran Chaco es uno de los principales obstáculos para la identificación de áreas de mayor vulnerabilidad a un clima cambiante y para la gestión inteligente de la variabilidad climática.Gran Chaco PROADAPT junto con una diversidad de aliados ha trabajado para...

The acceleration of ecological crises has driven a growing body of thinking on sustainability transitions. Agroecology is being promoted as an approach that can address multiple crises in the food system while addressing climate change and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond the more technical definition as, “the ecology...

Este documento es una guía para la aplicación de la metodología de análisis costo beneficio (ACB), en particular para la evaluación de medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay. Esta metodología permite hacer evaluaciones ex ante de alternativas de políticas, programas o proyectos de inversión,...

Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Groups (ARLG) does transdisciplinary and participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology in the United States and Latin America. Research and teaching efforts focus on developing and applying transdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions between agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes. Most of this...

Le vératre blanc est très répandu sur les alpages. Il y est classé comme « plante problématique », due à sa toxicité. Il se développe dans des pâturages sous-exploités et fait donc partie des plantes « supplantant volontiers la flore voisine ». La vidéo présente les differentes méthodes pour le...

The workshop explored how to ensure the most effective contribution of current RDPs and future CAP Strategic Plans to support the implementation of EU biodiversity policy, by encouraging dialogue and facilitating exchanges among the relevant agriculture and environmental actors involved in biodiversity conservation in rural Europe. Through presentations and group...

Max Herger et Cornel Werder montrent à l'exemple de l'Alp Ruosalp dans le canton d'Uri, comment réguler les rumex des Alpes. La vidéo traite des sujets suivants :• Emplacement et biologie• Adaptation de la gestion• Régulation mécanique• Stratégie d’assainissement• Ensemencement• Conclusions

An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems

The WFP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the FAO Subregional Office for Mesoamerica, both located in Panama, organized the "Workshop on Exchange of Experiences in Community Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security" in September 2016 in Colombia. The aim was to exchange knowledge, experiences and tools...

The French veterinarian Bruno Giboudeau, together with farmers, has developed the Obsalim method. The word derives from the French "Observations alimentaires" and means "feeding observations". This method enables farmers or advisors to observe symptoms in a dairy herd in a relatively short period of time and to make an analysis...

Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the infl ux of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is diffi cult to increase production and productivity to achieve food...

Malawi is vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change, owing to its significant exposure to climate variability and environmental degradation as a result of human activities over the years. In a bid to enhance resilience among rural subsistence farmers, who make up 70 percent of total population of about 17...

Petit village rural de 5 500 habitants - Aujourd'hui, nous vous proposons un document exceptionnel :   1) pour la qualité de l’établissement crée (rien y manque) - et son emplacement en brousse, loin de tout autre centre de santé 2) pour des raisons de proximité : le lien professionnel entre le président du...

El objetivo de esta publicación es documentar y sistematizar la evidencia disponible en los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre la relación de la ganadería y el cambio climático con la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, resaltando las innovaciones de producción pecuaria con bajas emisiones y el sustento...

"Entre Semiáridos" é uma memória dos sentimentos e aprendizagens geradas pelas trocas de saberes entre campesinos e campesinas das regiões do Sahel, na África; do Corredor Seco, na América Central; e do Semiárido brasileiro.  

Desertification can be prevented. The same strategy that helps to prevent desertification is also effective in addressing problems caused by drought and other forms of land degradation that cause problems with food production from the affected lands.  This article presents the concept of Sustainable Land Management in fighting desertification and lists...