Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

8 entries

A woman wearing a face mask and a visor stands behind a table of vegetables selling her produce.

COVID-19 and forest communities

December 2020 – ongoing

Man cutting a cacao fruit from the tree

Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?

Emily Polack
10 December 2020

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

20 July 2018

Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)

2015: the International Year of Soils

09 April 2015

Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)

It's time for revolution in forest business

Duncan Macqueen
17 November 2014

Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya

Duncan Macqueen
11 November 2014

A sign protesting against development

Understanding growing pressures on land: 'land grabbing' and beyond

Began April 2008

Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)

Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture

Laura Sicili
02 October 2014

A woman wearing a face mask and a visor stands behind a table of vegetables selling her produce.

COVID-19 and forest communities

Active Project

Man cutting a cacao fruit from the tree

Promoting producer agency in food systems – might new global guidelines offer any hope?

Insight, 10 December 2020

Workshop participants undertake a participatory resource mapping exercise for community enterprises (Photo: Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources - ANSAB)

Forest and Farm Facility launches Phase II

News, 20 July 2018

Central Malawi: Belia Sikelo farms groundnuts using 'conservation agriculture', a set of practices including no-till farming, designed improve soil structure and help resist erosion. (Photo: T. Samson/CIMMYT)

2015: the International Year of Soils

Article, 09 April 2015

Northern Ghana: a village chief learns forestry skills. Rural communities need investment to build up forest and farm enterprises and link them to markets and support networks (Photo: Treeaid, via Creative Commons)

It's time for revolution in forest business

Insight, 17 November 2014

Leaders of the Southern Aberdare Conservation Network (SACN) discussing support from the Forest and Farm Facility (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)

Taking the brakes off forest farm development in Kenya

Insight, 11 November 2014

A sign protesting against development

Understanding growing pressures on land: 'land grabbing' and beyond

Active Project

Delegates at the international symposium on agroecology (Photo: John Choptiany/FAO)

Agroecology offers FAO a 'new window' on agriculture

Insight, 02 October 2014

Forests image

New roadmap for boosting small-scale and family forest producers

News, 30 June 2014

This family in the Mecati Forest, Mozambique, cut down trees and cleared the land on this hillside to grow a crop of cowpeas. They will use this land for two more years, use the cut timber for firewood, and them move on (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

2014: the International Year of Family Farming

Article, 22 April 2014