Guadalupe Moller lives in Turco, a small community in rural western Bolivia, near the Chilean border. She’d spent most of her life in La Paz, Bolivia’s capital, but four years ago she moved back to Turco, where her family’s roots are. Now, at 61 years old – and thanks to an implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development and Lands – she’s begun a whole new life in the land of her ancestors. She produces charque – crushed and salt-dried llama meat.
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profiles the Panamanian coffee farmers who did not give up, despite the difficulties that the pandemic poses. Instead they chose to go ahead and keep caring for the plant seedlings.
The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho is a place of stark beauty; deep canyons, majestic highlands, vertiginous hillsides, alpine grasslands, sun and sky. But, land degradation and climate change have upended traditional agricultural practicesand small-scale farmers struggle to survive. With the support of the and funding from the Global Environment Facility (), the Government of Lesotho is building innovative incentive programmes.
Georgia has received Geographical indication labels for Sulguni, a salty, soft cheese made from fresh cow or buffalo milk, and other native delicacies.
Gastronomy is a cultural expression related to the natural and cultural diversity of the world. On June 18, we celebrate Sustainable Gastronomy Day and acknowledge that everyone plays a role in making sustainable choices for healthy diets and a food-secure future. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still unfolding across the globe, sustainable gastronomy - celebrating seasonal ingredients and local producers, preserving wildlife as well as our culinary traditions - is today more relevant than ever.
Transforming food and agriculture: Creating food security while fighting climate change
Two farmers in Ethiopia share their story on how looking after the land strengthens communities and helps biodiversity.
channels climate and environmental finance to smallholder farmers, helping them to reduce poverty, enhance biodiversity, increase yields and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
In the most remote areas of Angola, the wave of coronavirus infections that has swept the world has not yet reached deep into the villages and farming communities. A new joint campaign launched by with the Ministry of Agriculture of Angola aims to keep it that way. In the country’s northern central region, a group of women farmers wear face masks and stand at least a metre apart. They are taking part in a training session on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Gilbert Houngbo, President of writes that "in most of Africa, people are more likely to die from starvation caused by the economic fallout from the pandemic than from the disease itself. An additional 23 million people are expected The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that our current food production, processing and distribution systems are vulnerable." He says investing in small-scale farmers can help boost food security on the continent.
Coronavirus puts 14 million people at risk in Latin America and the Caribbean
and partners have a new easy-to-navigate designed to help decision makers understand their food systems, identify their levers of change, and decide which ones to pull.
Vertical gardens and microgardens have enjoyed new popularity, which the COVID-19 pandemic . From high-tech urban facilities allowing vegetables to grow indoors or outdoors to tiny farming plots that fit in urban settings, both can offer high-yield opportunities to grow leafy green vegetables and other high-value food crops. helps galvanize microgardens as a food and nutrition strategy for poor households vulnerable to malnutrition, among other projects.
The African continent looks like it could be the worst hit from the economic fallout of the crisis: 80 million Africans could be pushed into extreme poverty if action is not taken. And disruptions in food systems raise the prospect of more Africans falling into hunger. Rural people, many of whom work on small-scale farms, are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of the crisis. therefore urges that the COVID-19 response address food security and target the rural poor.
reports on chronic bee paralysis, a viral disease of honeybees. It can cause rare, but severe, symptoms, including colony loss. Trade in honeybees has increased its prevalence.