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(Re)claiming power in value chains: A guide for small-scale farmers and their advocates

Manuals & Guidelines
August, 2022
Africa
Latin America and the Caribbean
Asia

This guide is intended to support smallholder farmers, and advocates working closely with them, in exercising more agency and living more independently according to their own priorities. It aims to assist smallholders in making free choices in relation to farm production, markets and trade. Farmers with agency can negotiate with, and challenge, the people and institutions that affect their lives.

Vozes Femininas. Por uma recuperação econômica verde e inclusiva.

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2022
América do Sul
Brasil

O planeta Terra vive uma emergência climática e a necessidade de soluções e ações se tornou ainda mais urgente com a crise mundial ocasionada pela pandemia da Covid-19. As relações entre o modelo de produção do agronegócio, o desmatamento, a destruição da biosfera e o aquecimento global, entre outros fatores que desequilibram o meio ambiente, favorecem o surgimento e a proliferação de novas doenças em escala mundial. Um novo pacto social, político e econômico verde precisa ser debatido e muitas ideias e ações devem ser colocadas em prática para não haver um colapso ainda maior. As mulheres

L' agriculture algérienne : l’héritage du passé et les défis contemporains

Journal Articles & Books
July, 2022
Algeria

L’article retrace les différentes étapes de l’évolution, notamment de l’étatisation à la libéralisation, que l’agriculture algérienne a traversées depuis l’indépendance. Il évalue l’impact des réformes et des diverses politiques publiques relatives au régime foncier, à l’emploi, aux modes de financement, au rendement des cultures, au système des prix et des marchés agricoles. Les défis actuels, sécurité alimentaire et changements climatiques, s’inscrivent dans une stratégie de développement durable, tant agricole que rural, fondée sur une approche territoriale.

Healthy soil, Healthy planet, Healthy people

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2022
Kenya
Brazil

We cannot live without healthy soil and land. It is on these resources that we produce most of our food and build our homes. We need them to provide clean water and precious plant nutrients, to conserve biological diversity and to cope with climate change. And they form the basis for the livelihoods of millions of people. But despite such known facts, these valuable resources are in a dire state. A third of all soils world-wide are already degraded, and each year, further huge expanses of fertile land go lost.

Pertes et dommages : l’heure des comptes

Reports & Research
June, 2022
Afrique
Amériques
Asie
Europe
Océanie

Selon une nouvelle étude d’Oxfam, les besoins de financement des appels humanitaires de l’ONU liés aux événements climatiques extrêmes sont huit fois plus élevés aujourd’hui qu’il y a 20 ans ! Et à chaque catastrophe climatique, dans les pays riches comme dans les pays pauvres, ce sont les personnes les plus pauvres qui sont le plus durement touchées.

Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2022
Global

This chapter explores how land tenure impacts households’ resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of a changing climate. Following a review of the ways in which climate change adds pressure to land availability and natural resources, the chapter highlights how land tenure can constrain individuals’ options to adapt to shifting environmental conditions.

Azerbaijan: Systematic Country Diagnostic Update

Reports & Research
May, 2022
Azerbaijan

The Azerbaijan Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) Update 2022 identifies the most critical challenges facing the government in the effort to achieve the country’s national goals and the twin goals of eradicating extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. It also identifies policy priorities to address these challenges within a changing economic and geopolitical environment. The SCD is a comprehensive evidence-based analysis founded on the latest data and analyses available.

Guardianas del Territorio

Videos
Websites
April, 2022
América Latina y el Caribe
Argentina

La serie microdocumental Guardianas del Territorioes una producción audiovisual de cuatro capítulos que narra las historias de diferentes grupos de mujeres defensoras ambientales que luchan día a día ante el avance extractivista en Argentina, el cambio climático y las violencias de género en el cuerpo-territorio.

 

¿Quiénes son las Guardianas del Territorio?

 

 

 

Differentiated impacts of desertification, land degradation and drought on women and men

Reports & Research
April, 2022
Global

The study  titled “Differentiated Impacts of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought on Women and Men” released this week at  COP15  has revealed that women are twice more affected by drought, land degradation, and deforestation. Drought and land degradation tend to increase the burden of unpaid care and domestic work shouldered by women and girls, which has also been further compounded by the coronavirus disease.