It’s December. Yet another year in our cycle of life is drawing to a close as we search for hope and solidarity in the face of daunting adversities. The world is marred by rising temperatures, erratic weather events, extreme poverty, hunger, wars, conflicts and violence. A systemic model that placed...

El tomate es uno de los cultivos hortíco-las más importantes en nuestro país y en el mundo por su gran aceptación como alimento y versatilidad en la elaboración de comidas. El fruto no posee un valor nutricional muy elevado; no obstante, debido al alto nivel de consumo, aporta importantes nutrientes a la alimentación humana....

Rural households in the areas close to this conflict have also been affected particularly hard by the situation in the region . The current war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation will pose additional threats and negatively impact Ukraine’s rural labour markets, potentially affecting rural households and populations’ livelihoods through...

Malnutrition in all its forms (undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency, overweight and obesity) is a major global challenge, and improving nutrition is a key priority for global development, as recognized in the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016–2025) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this context, ensuring availability, physical...

Solidaridad and partners implement the three-year (2021 to 2024) Better Chicken for a Better Future project to create a fully functioning, inclusive and integrated value chain that provides decent jobs and better incomes for small-scale poultry farmers in Ghana.

Results of 10-year project reveal that rewilding areas can boost biodiversity and crop yields

By looking at the topic from a historical, regional and national angle, followed by analyses of recent changes and challenges on the continent in terms of food policy, the book gives an overview of current trends in Latin America. The focus is on policy in ten countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has published a study that analyzes how the so-called ‘Blue Economy’ discourses and practice plays out from the perspectives of small-scale, artisanal fishworkers in ten Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panamá, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. The study, titled...

La crise alimentaire mondiale de 2007-2008 a remis au goût du jour la nécessité de bâtir des dispositifs efficaces pour renforcer la résilience des populations face à ces chocs. Après avoir été un temps décriés, les stocks et réserves alimentaires se sont alors hissés au rang des instruments fortement promus...

A growing number of poultry farmer field schools (FFS) are being implemented in developing countries by a wide range of actors. Experience over the past two decades has shown that good-quality facilitation and learning activities are key to the success and long-term sustainability of poultry FFS. This manual provides practical information...

Growing a variety of crops, including legumes such as beans or pigeon peas, and adding plant residues or manure to soils, according to an international team of experts, may increase food crop yields in regions such as rural Africa, where small-scale farmers cannot apply much nitrogen fertilizer. The study, published...

María María vive en el Valle de Jequitinhonha, en el norte interior de Minas Gerais, una región que había sido rica y gran productora de oro, pero que ahora estaba plagada de hambre y pobreza. El paisaje que solía ser verde y vivo, se había vuelto gris y triste. La vida...

UPA edita, desde 1994, la mayor obra de referencia y análisis de la agricultura y ganadería familiar en España. Con la coordinación de la Fundación de Estudios Rurales, las voces de más prestigio del medio rural, español, europeo y mundial, se expresan en esta publicación, que recoge también innumerables datos...

GRAIN produced an outstanding report evaluating the resounding clamor to shift funding away from industrial agriculture and toward agroecology in order to achieve food sovereignty. While it’s true that we need to resource and strengthen agroecology, the idea that it’s matter of moving money around, or pointing institutions in a...

El Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario (MIDA), con el apoyo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), ha establecido un sistema de alerta temprana y vigilancia de la sequía en agricultura (ASIS, por sus siglas en inglés). El objetivo de ASIS es proporcionar a los...

Soil biodiversity contributes to the provision of multiple ecosystem functions and services and is therefore emerging as a nature-based solution to global challenges. Despite the substantial progresses made in obtaining knowledge about soil biodiversity and its functions, only around one percent of soil organisms have been identified so far. The...

Le CCFD-Terre solidaire, qui lutte contre l’insécurité alimentaire, vient de mettre en place un programme baptisé « Face ». L’initiative vise à renforcer les capacités des organisations féministes face au changement climatique et à financer des alternatives pour la transition écologique et la préservation de la biodiversité.

Global change – including population growth, urbanization, land use change and climate change – is increasingly disturbing the equilibrium of the world’s drylands. Growing numbers of people are dependent on natural resources for their survival, against a background of advancing land degradation, weakened traditional governance and the intensified and unsustainable...

Les consommateurs sont un moteur puissant de la transition vers un monde en développement durable qui ne laisse personne pour compte et respecte les droits humains. Cette publication vise à faire le lien entre le travail central des organisations de consommateurs et la réalisation du droit à une alimentation adéquate,...

National and international climate discussions overlooked agriculture for decades. The climate community has happily realized the significance of agricultural and food systems in combating climate change. Climate specialists who are new to the complexities of food and agricultural systems must study how those systems function and the causes of food...