In Chundikulam village, located on the eastern tip of Jaffna Peninsula, farmers are facing a peculiar challenge.
While we work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes and thinks about food, a group of concerned actors has partnered to co-lead a series of Independent Dialogues ahead of the upcoming 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit. The Dialogues will promote the centrality of land rights in building sustainable food systems.
Rome, 20 April 2020 - With the COVID-19 pandemic and economic slowdown threatening the lives and livelihoods of the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today committed US$40 million, and launched an urgent appeal for additional funds, to support farmers and rural communities to continue growing and selling food.
À l'approche des prochaines négociations internationales sur le climat, les agriculteurs des régions côtières du Bangladesh soulignent l'importance de droits fonciers solides et bien documentés face aux multiples catastrophes liées au changement climatique qui ont eu un impact négatif sur leur vie et leurs moyens de subsistance. Sous l'égide de l'Association pour la réforme agraire et le développement (ALRD) au Bangladesh et de La Coalition asiatique des ONG pour la réforme agraire et le développement rural (ANGOC) avec le soutien de la Fondation Land Portal et du Forum mondial sur la recherche et l'innovation agricoles (GFAR), une campagne d'information et de médias sociaux a été lancée afin d'amplifier leurs voix sur la question. Cette fois-ci, nous avons pris des mesures collectives pour faire en sorte que le discours sur la politique climatique ne néglige pas le rôle crucial que jouent les droits fonciers dans le renforcement de la résilience climatique de l'une des populations les plus vulnérables. Vous pouvez en savoir plus et contribuer en utilisant les hashtags #IfOnlyTheEarthCouldSpeak #landmatters #land4climate #COP28 et en nous suivant sur Twitter.
Les femmes possèdent moins de 20 % des terres dans le monde.
La moitié des petits exploitants agricoles dans le monde sont des femmes.
70 % de la nourriture de l'Afrique est produite par des petites exploitations agricoles féminines.
Women own less than 20 percent of land in the world
Half of the world’s smallholder farmers are women
70 percent of Africa’s food is produced by women smallholder farmers
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NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened a new open, online webinar series: Large Scale Applications of Machine Learning using Remote Sensing for Building Agriculture Solutions. Remote sensing data is becoming crucial to solve some of the most important environmental problems, especially pertaining to agricultural applications and food security. Participants will become familiar with data format and quality considerations, tools, and techniques to process remote sensing imagery at large scale from publicly available satellite sources, using cloud tools such as AWS S3, Databricks, and Parquet. Additionally, participants will learn how to analyze and train machine learning models for classification using this large source of data to solve environmental problems with a focus on agriculture.
Increased investment in agriculture and food systems—from both the private and public sectors—is critical to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt to climate change. To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible. What role should investment incentives play in encouraging such investment? This Guide helps to answer that question.
Investment in agriculture is essential for sustainable development, in particular for achieving food security, adequate nutrition, decent employment, poverty reduction and environmental protection. In seeking to attract agricultural investment, many governments and local communities have entered into Agricultural Land Investment Contracts (ALIC).
This course has been developed in response to the concerns about increasing large-scale land acquisitions and the need to increase investment in agriculture. The objective is to provide guidance to government authorities engaged in investment promotion, approval, and monitoring activities at all stages of the investment cycle.
