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In most of Southeast Asia agriculture and forestry are managed separately which has been proven to exacerbate poverty, food insecurity and marginalisation, hitting highlands communities the hardest. Agroforestry is increasingly seen as the bridge between the two domains.
Female smallholder farmers have low access to markets due to time constraints, lack of market information and transportation disadvantage. These factors reduce their competitiveness and make them dependent on middlemen.
Our Expert Group will develop and pilot a cloud-based, blended learning educational course that will support young agripreneurs across Africa in development of their business ideas.
The project will use spatial video narratives, produced by younger adult or adolescent community members to obtain and present knowledge about their lived experiences of rural-urban transformation and access to food.
Understanding land-use transitions requires moving from simplistic and linear representations of both their causes and the processes of change to interaction among many factors at different spacial and temporal scales.
There is increasing awareness that food and nutrition security interventions may fail unless they are coupled with WASH interventions, especially in low and middle income countries.
This Expert Group is set to understand and improve the role of universities in food security of rural communities. The point of departure for the work of this group is the idea that universities can play a big role in supporting sustainable livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
The 2018 edition of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA), one of FAO’s annual flagship publications, will focus on migration and the challenges it poses to food security as well as to peace and stability. Today there is growing international attention to the phenomenon of migration, its causes, its effects and the way in which it occurs.
IFAD, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, is targeting half a billion smallholders in the Africa, Latin-America, Central Europe and Asia with its programmes and funding.