Consultations
Réagir à l'impact de l'épidémie de COVID-19 sur les chaînes de valeur alimentaires à travers une logistique efficace
La pandémie de COVID-19 se révèle être le plus grand défi sanitaire, social et financier du vingt-et-unième siècle. Elle a un impact non seulement sur la vie, les moyens de subsistance et la nutrition des populations, mais aussi sur le commerce des denrées alimentaires, les chaînes d'approvisionnement alimentaire et les marchés. Dans le cadre de cette consultation en ligne, nous vous invitons à partager des exemples, des bonnes pratiques et des études de cas sur la façon dont l'impact des mesures de confinement liées au COVID-19 sur la sécurité alimentaire et l'agriculture est géré dans vos pays en termes de commerce et logistique.
Consultations
L'Accord sur la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine et le développement agricole: Enjeux et perspectives
L'Accord portant création de la Zone de libre-échange continentale africaine (ZLECAf) offre à l'Afrique une occasion unique de déployer son potentiel économique en faveur d'une croissance inclusive et d'un développement durable. Pour qu'il soit propice à la sécurité alimentaire et à une meilleure nutrition il est largement admis que l’accord portant création de la ZLECAf devra être étayé par des mesures et des politiques d'accompagnement. Cette discussion en ligne a pour but d'ouvrir un échange d'idées, de bonnes pratiques et de leçons apprises sur les enjeux et les perspectives de la mise en œuvre de la ZLECAf dans le secteur agricole.
Rapports et notes de synthèse
Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food and nutrition security - an overview
The important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage is widely accepted. Nevertheless, they are often under the radar of the agriculture policy mechanisms, which tend to focus...
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Can small farms and small food businesses in SALSA’s Southern European countries contribute to sustainable food security?
It is estimated that the total number of small farms in Southern European (SE) countries has decreased by 33% between 2010 and 2019. This loss is despite the widespread acknowledgement and appreciation of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving...
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Can small farms and small food businesses in Northern Europe contribute to sustainable food security?
There is widespread acknowledgement and appreciation in Northern Europe of the important role that small farms play in supporting rural livelihoods, conserving biodiversity, and maintaining traditional landscapes, rural traditions and cultural heritage. The EU-funded SALSA project set out to examine...
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Policy Brief Lessons from Africa
The main challenge for African food systems in the future will be to provide food for a rapidly growing population with changing diets and food preferences. Whilst the population of Europe is decreasing, with consumers demanding food that is produced in an environmentally and socially responsible...
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Publications phares de la FAO
La situation mondiale de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture 2019 - Aller plus loin dans la réduction des pertes et gaspillages de denrées alimentaires
Cette nouvelle édition du rapport prête attention aux pertes et aux gaspillages alimentaires, tout en fournissant de nouvelles estimations concernant les pertes alimentaires qui interviennent juste après la récolte, à l’exception des pertes qui surviennent au niveau de la vente. S'adressant tout...
Formation, outils et bases de données
E-learning: The Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems
Through this mobile resource, you will be able to explore the Principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, endorsed by the Committee on World Food Security.
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Perspectives Agricoles de l'OCDE et de la FAO 2019-2028
Cette quinzième édition conjointe des Perspectives agricoles de l’OCDE et de la FAO présente des projections sur les principaux produits agricoles, les biocarburants et la pêche. Elle comprend un chapitre spécial sur les perspectives et les enjeux auxquels seront confrontés les secteurs agricole et...
All Africa synthetic pesticide congress and the eastern Africa conference on scaling up agroecology and ecological organic trade mutually merge
The “1st All Africa Synthetic Pesticide Congress” organized by the World Food Preservation CenterÒLLC merges with the Eastern Africa conference on “Scaling up Agroecology and Ecological Organic Trade” organized by Biovision Africa Trust, IFOAM Organics International and their Partners to become the “1st International Conference on Agroecology Transforming Agriculture & Food Systems in Africa”.
The “1st All Africa Congress on Synthetic Pesticides, Environment, Human and Animal Health” has expanded its goals by the recognition of Agroecology as a means of combatting synthetic pesticide and fertilizers contamination in the African continent and ensuring actions towards true sustainable agriculture and food systems. The “Agroecology and Ecological Organic Trade” equally see the need to address threats to sustainable agriculture and food systems.
The conference has attracted world leading scientists on both the impact of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers on the African people, their animals, and environment and advocates for Agroecology as a means of producing food without the need for synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. This rare consortium of leading world scientists, practitioners and other players will chart a course to substantially and sustainably reduce synthetic pesticide and fertilizer contamination in Africa. We invite you to participate in and contribute to this seminal event. https://www.worldfoodpreservationcenterpesticidecongress.com/
Among the keynote speakers at the conference are Professor Hans Herren, the first Swiss to receive the 1995 World Food Prize and the 2013 Right Livelihood Award (alternate Nobel Prize) for leading a major biological control effort. Also, Professor Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkley, who has pioneered in establishing that the herbicide atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that demasculinizes and feminizes male frogs. Other keynote speakers at the congress are on the forefront of research on the impact of synthetic pesticides and GMOs on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. Also, world leading scientists will be speaking on regenerative agriculture and food sovereignty.
The “1st International Conference on Agroecology Transforming Agriculture & Food Systems in Africa: Reducing Synthetic Pesticides and Fertilizers by Scaling Up Agroecology and Promoting Ecological Organic Trade ” will be held at the Safari Park Hotel & Casino, Nairobi, Kenya on June 18-21, 2019.
CONTACTS:
Charles L. Wilson, Ph.D., Founder World Food Preservation CenterÒLLC, Charles Town, WV, USA
David Amudavi, Ph.D., Director, Bivision Trust, Nairobi, Kenya
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About World Food Preservation Center:
To feed the world's exploding population, we MUST save substantially more of the food that we already produce. Up until now we have invested a disproportionate amount of our resources in the production of food (95%) while only (5%) in the postharvest preservation of food. This has left us with tremendous postharvest "Skill Gaps" and "Technology Gaps" in developing countries. The World Food Preservation Center® LLC is filling these gaps by: (1) promoting the education (M.S. and Ph.D.) of young student/scientists from developing countries; (2) having young student/scientists from developing countries conduct research on much needed new postharvest technologies adaptable to their native countries; (3) organize continent-wide postharvest congresses and exhibitions for developing countries; (4) publish much needed new texts/reference books on postharvest technologies/methods for developing countries; and (5) develop a comprehensive database on all postharvest knowledge relative to developing countries with access portals for researchers, students, administrators, industry, businesses, and farmers.
About Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT):
Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is a not-for-profit organization established in Kenya in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation for ecological development in Switzerland and supported by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi. The Trust’s goal is to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Kenya and other African countries through supporting dissemination of information and knowledge on appropriate technology to improve human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Agricultural output and food supply are however hindered by various environmental factors and lack of information and relevant training for the African smallholder farmers. Plant pests, for instance, are responsible for up to 80% of crop losses. Ecologically sustainable solutions are a practical alternative for African farmers to achieve good crop yields without relying on expensive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. What is lacking, however, are effective dissemination pathways to deliver relevant information to the farmers.