FAO Namibia Newsletter March 2023 / Issue #1

The Horizon Europe project NATI00NS contributes to the Soil Mission objectives by mobilising potential applicants for regional soil health Living Labs open calls funded by the Mission through a range of engagement events and capacity building activities. Niels Halberg, NATI00NS Project Coordinator at Aarhus University, provides an overview of the...

Koraput district, in South Odisha, India, is characterized by warm and humid climate with 80% of the total annual rainfall received from the south-west monsoon in the months from June to mid-October. Agriculture is primarily rainfed with kharif (June-September) being the main cropping season. Finger millet is a major staple...

NATI00NS is a European project funded under the HORIZON-MISS-2021-SOIL-02 programme and coordinated by Aarhus University (Denmark). The main objective of NATI00NS is reaching out to and preparing regional and national stakeholders across Europe to apply for and implement soil health Living Labs, facilitating the deployment of the EU Mission “A Soil Deal...

Listen to what German farmers have to say about their experience with Agroforestry in this video about the AGROMIX German pilot project field visit. The field visit was coordinated by IfaS which took place on the 9th of February 2023 in Palatinate, Germany. The field visit took participants around three...

The link between increasingly severe climate events and the rising suicide rate among India’s farmers has long been a concern. But with the latest national data reporting the highest ever number of deaths by suicide, effective action to prevent the risk factors endangering farmers — and the climate events that...

World Water Day 2023 is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace. In 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part...

About #HerLand campaign Together with partners, activists and influencers, UNCCD is launching the campaign #HerLand to promote successful examples of women and girls’ contributions to sustainable land management and mobilize support to advance land rights for women and girls around the world.  You too can lend your support by reaching out to your communities and advocating...

Loss and damage is one of the most important issues for climate-vulnerable developing countries.   Communities and ecosystems around the developing world are experiencing unprecedented extreme weather events. Driven by climate change, these shocks will worsen with every increment of global heating, exposing billions of people to catastrophic loss and damage – from loss of...

This course seeks to build the competencies needed for program and project managers, field practitioners and policy makers to apply a transformational sustainability approach to decision-making in the management of dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems.

In this video, part of the longer one "Organic approach to plant health care and pesticides regulation", we focus on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Regulation that is currently being discussed in the EU. IFOAM Organics Europe supports this crucial reform, but considers that, in order for it to be...

Increased investment in the food and agriculture sector is central to achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the goals on gender equality, reduced inequalities and climate action.  Yet IIED research shows that contracts and contracting processes used by companies operating in the food and agriculture sector in low- and middle-income...

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...

In mid-February, the transdisciplinary project BENCHMARKS was launched at Wageningen University. The 5-year research project focuses on monitoring soil health across Europe. FiBL Switzerland is one of the 29 partner organisations from across Europe. The European Commission, the Joint Research Centre and representatives of the business and land management sectors...

The Horizon Europe project NATI00NS contributes to the Soil Mission objectives by mobilising potential applicants for regional soil health Living Labs open calls funded by the Mission through diverse events whose main results will be reported back to provide policy recommendations and inputs for potential future calls. Giulia Campodonico, Head...

Habitat connectivity helps sustain biodiversity in rural Europe and can also bring about economic benefits. This Policy Insight aims to help raise awareness about funding available through the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for landscape features, which facilitate better habitat connectivity and thereby environmental benefits which can also be economically advantageous....

O Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas é uma ferramenta de busca, idealizada pelo Idec (Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor), com o objetivo de estimular a alimentação saudável e sustentável em todo o Brasil e mostrar que os produtos orgânicos e agroecológicos podem ser mais acessíveis aos consumidores. O Mapa visa a...

The Rainforest Alliance prohibited paraquat in its first sustainable agriculture standard, published in 1993. Since then, and in close collaboration with farmers who participate in the Rainforest Alliance Certification Program, we have shown that key crops can be grown without paraquat in tropical agriculture supply chains. More generally, phase outs...

Denmark has the highest market share in the world of organic food and beverages (13,0% in 2021). Danes are proud to have a shared vision to be the world leaders in developing sustainable organic production. Denmark is a small country with a high proportion of agricultural land (good soil, good...

From the 1960s and onwards we witnessed the rise of the liberation theology movement. This movement emphasized the need for social justice and a critical and affirmative stance towards oppression and marginalization. The church during this time was enamoured by celebrity preachers and aligned to an oppressive status quo. Jesus,...