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Between present disruptions and future threats to the food supply chain, the COVID-19 outbreak has generated extreme vulnerability in the agriculture sector. It is therefore crucial to mobilize all available instruments, institutions and stakeholders from both public and private sectors and civil society to ensure an appropriate and timely response.
Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service (EAS) systems play an indispensable role at the frontline of the response to the pandemic in rural areas. However, in order to adapt to the emergency context within the government regulations, EAS providers need to rapidly change their way of operating.
OINR is organising a series of webinars to discuss the role of extension and advisory services in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in different regions.
This brochure on Global Knowledge Product provides an update of work carried out in 2020 on the development of some selected strategies, guidelines for assessment of innovation systems, strategies for promoting agricultural innovation and knowledge portals for sharing of technologies and good practices that integrate sustainable agricultural production and food security. The development of knowledge products contributes to FAO’s strategic objective on making agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable.
This publication contains twelve modules which cover a selection of major reform measures in agricultural extension being promulgated and implemented internationally, such as linking farmers to markets, making advisory services more demand-driven, promoting pluralistic advisory systems, and enhancing the role of advisory services within agricultural innovation systems.
Developed within the context of the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), this is a global information-sharing portal where resources related to capacity development for agricultural innovation, such as good practices, innovation outputs, capacity development tools, guidelines, success stories and lessons learned, can be accessed and shared. TAPipedia allows TAP partners and other stakeholders to share resources and to gain knowledge from different sources, partners and regions.
This video is about SALSA, an EU-funded, transdisciplinary, research project that works for a better understanding of how small farms and food businesses contribute to sustainable food and nutrition security (FNS).
This guide captures principles and methods of ongoing coaching processes for innovation niche partnerships under the Capacity Development for Agricultural lnnovation Systems (CDAIS) project, financed by the European Union. The content of this guide is a result of discussions, interactions and application by project team members from Agrinatura, FAO and partners from the eight pilot countries (Angola, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, Laos and Rwanda).
La contribution des femmes à l’agriculture et au développement rural est primordiale pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle de leurs familles et de la société entière. Cependant, malgré l’importance de leur rôle dans l’agriculture, les agricultrices doivent faire face à de nombreux obstacles liés au genre qui limitent leur productivité agricole.
In an effort to support beekeepers in the sustainable production of good quality beehive products, TECA together with its partners, have developed a set of information sheets on good beekeeping practices for the main bee diseases. They are designed following the TECA standards, to help beekeepers, and those providing advisory services to the beekeepers, correctly identify honey bee diseases, apply the correct treatment and to prevent them. The information sheets available in this catalogue can also be consulted online through the TECA Knowledge Base: http://teca.fao.org/technologies/browse
This document contains a brief report of the FAO Regional Meeting on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Sustainable Food Systems and Nutrition in Asia-Pacific held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 11–13 September 2017. During the meeting FAO engaged a broad range of stakeholders from government officials and intergovernmental organizations to non-state actors, including civil society, private sector, research/academic institutions and cooperative/producer organizations in the dialogue on issues related to agricultural biotechnologies.