Resources | Family Farming Knowledge Platform | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024)

Blog article
Aquaculture Africa 2023 conference: Unlocking the potential of sustainable aquaculture in Africa

Africa's aquaculture sector has great potential to help feed the rising population of a continent that is affected more than any other by problems such as climate change and malnutrition.According toSOFIA 2022, Nigeria produced nearly 12 percent of all cultured aquatic animals in Africa in 2020, and the rest of...

2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

E-learning
Introducción al comercio, la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición

Este curso ofrece una visión general de los conceptos de comercio, seguridad alimentaria y nutrición, y examina sus vínculos.

2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
Teaching the teachers

The best way to educate consumers is right at the start, when they are school children.In early 2021, Roxana Castellón, who works at Agrecol Andes, a Bolivian NGO, began approaching public schools around Cochabamba, asking the directors if they were interested in adding a new topic to their biology curriculum....

Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

2023 - Access Agriculture

Blog article
Regenerative, organic and agroecology: What’s the difference?

Find out what three main routes to sustainable farming actually mean and how to support them.

Regenerative, organic, agroecological. You might encounter all of these terms in the search for ‘sustainably’ grown food (there’s another!). This word soup is a great sign that lots of farming communities are experimenting to find a better way, but as a consumer, it can be pretty confusing. Here’s a quick...

2023

Article
Slow Food Uganda Coffee Festival returns

The event takes place in Mukono Town on May 12Unlocking community barriers for a profitable and open source agroforestry coffee value chain: this is the leading theme at the 4th Slow Food Uganda Coffee Festival. Slow Food Uganda believes that agroforestry in coffee production is the key to achieving sustainability...

Uganda

2023

Report
Climate change, migration and rural adaptation in the Near East and North Africa region

Migration has always been an integral part of people’s lives and livelihoods in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. At least some of this migration is partly driven by a deterioration in environmental conditions and an increase in the frequency of weather extremes (e.g. drought, sea level rise,...

2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Integrated rural development improves prosperity in rural communities

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is hosting the third regional workshop of an informal technical network on community development for Europe and Central Asia. Members will discuss ways to promote the principles of the territorial approaches to rural development in the region. The event is...

2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Video
Imagining Research for Food Sovereignty

Imagining Research for Food Sovereignty

2023 - CAWR Coventry University

Book
Family Farming in Spain 2023 Yearbook

Agriculture and livestock facing the challenge of climate change. Innovation and entrepreneurship for sustainable progress

In 1994, UPA began the adventure of publishing a Yearbook of Family Farming. The objective was simple, although ambitious: to collect in an annual work the main data, ideas and proposals of this production model, which in the Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers we have defended since our origin.Now,...

Spain

2023 - Union of Small Farmers and Ranchers of Spain - Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA)

Blog article
Building Community Scale Solar Infrastructures to Power India’s Agriculture Sector

Smallholder farmers in India are on the frontlines of the climate and agrarian crisis and they include most of the farming population in the country. They face high input costs, are very sensitive to climate risks, lack knowledge of sustainable agricultural practices, and experience crop yields that are ~50% lower...

India

2023 - AESA

Article
The combined impact of shallow groundwater and soil salinity on evapotranspiration using remote sensing in an agricultural alluvial setting

Waterlogging and shallow groundwater (GW) have caused many environmental problems in many places worldwide due to poor irrigation and nonfunctionaldrainage systems, particularly withflood irrigation(Ochoa et al., 2007,Zhang et al., 2021). The groundwater depth (GWD) is often considered an essential factor in controllingETrates (Devitt et al., 2002). Consequently, higher ET rates...

Egypt

2023 - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies

Article
Nourishing people and the planet

The path to human health and prosperity depends on the success of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.1Yet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off-track, challenging the fulfilment of essential human needs and jeopardising the integrity of our ecosystems.2Accessible, nutritious, and affordable food is one of the most fundamental...

2023 - The BMJ

Article
The Data in Emergencies (DIEM) Hub for evaluating multiple shock impacts on food security

Food crises are underpinned by a complex configuration of shocks stemming from climate change1, conflict and social unrest2, displacement and migration3, geopolitical pressures and economic conditions4. Building resilience against acute and protracted food crises5requires an evidence-based strategy for programme design, policy formulation and optimizing investments. To meet this requirement, the...

2023

Manual
Analyse des trajectoires des politiques et du droit foncier agropastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest

Cette publication rend compte des trajectoires contrastées des politiques de sécurisation du foncier pastoral en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il est courant de souligner qu’en Afrique de l’Ouest, la question du « foncier pastoral » est fréquemment au cœur de l’actualité notamment à travers la fréquence des conflits agro-pastoraux souvent meurtriers,...

2023 - Comité technique « Foncier & développement »

Technical paper
Assessing impact of agroecological interventions in Niger through remotely sensed changes in vegetation

Water scarcity is a major challenge in the Sahel region of West Africa. Water scarcity in combination with prevalent soil degradation has severely reduced the land productivity in the region. The decrease in resiliency of food security systems of marginalized population has huge societal implications which often leads to mass...

Niger

2023

Newsletter
IIED Biodiversity newsletter May 2023

IIED's biodiversity newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updatedon our work exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods. In this edition we're delighted to announce the upcoming launch of the REDAA grants programme, as well as share some new blogs and a short seminar...

2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Video
A participatory guarantee system

The international organic certification system can be bureaucratic and expensive, and beyond the reach of smallholder ecological farmers who produce for the local market. In many countries, Participatory Guarantee Systems, or PGS, are emerging as an alternative accreditation system. While PGS systems are created locally and differ from one country...

2023 - Access Agriculture

Website
FAO Regional Initiative - Empowering smallholders, family farms and youth

This Regional Initiative uses a complex, multidisciplinary and area-based development approach, tailored to the Europe and Central Asia region. It takes into consideration the region’s heterogeneity and the special challenges it faces.The overall goal is to address the key problems of rural people by empowering smallholders and family farms to...

2023 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Investing in Farmers Markets as Vehicles for Innovation

During the recent U.N. Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment, the World Farmers Markets Coalition highlighted the role farmers markets can play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.The World Farmers Markets Coalition was launched after the first U.N. Food Systems Summit in 2021. Today, its members, which span 70 countries, point...

2023 - Food Tank

Report
Proceedings of the Third regional consultation on geographical indications in Europe and Central Asia

On 20 December, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and oriGIn hosted the online event, Third regional consultation on geographical indications in Europe and Central Asia. Some 111 representatives from 34 countries of geographical indications (GIs) groups, national intellectual property offices and the World Intellectual Property...

2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations