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In Africa, farm advisory services are still dominated by the model of technology transfer. During the last two decades a new approach, based on adult learning methods...

Key messages: The current debate around the need to change the way food is produced, valued, and consumed involves a wide range of actors, from civil society and expert groups...

Putting Research into Use for Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilience (PRUNSAR) was an agricultural research for development programme in 30 countries that produced new agricultural technologies, approaches...

Agroecology is a widely supported solution for transforming agriculture and addressing the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss. It helps smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and achieve...

The UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has been announced as an Ocean Census partner, a landmark programme aimed at accelerating the discovery and protection...

First and foremost, we continued to pay extremely close attention to the food systems agenda, focusing on the efforts of the donor community to support countries in developing national pathways...

IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment

According to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), more than 3,500 out of the 37,000 alien species that have been introduced by many...

This year in review is a snapshot of the Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition in 2022. The report is structured along the four pillars of the joint programme: knowledge...

The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services GFRAS is about enhancing the performance of advisory services so that they can better serve farm families and rural producers...