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Environment, Part of One Health, Is Often Missing in Action

byRichard Seifman - Former World Bank Senior Health Advisor and U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer

July 12, 2022

There is good news in that, at the global level, there has been increased attention and deliberation about One Health ...

Climate Change

West Africa Hit by Worst Food Crisis in a Decade: 38 Million People Could Go Hungry by June

byHannah Fischer-Lauder

April 12, 2022

A total of eleven major international organizations, including Oxfam, Action Against Hunger, and Save the Children, recently raised the alarm ...

Food and Agriculture

Ukraine War: Global Food Security at Risk, says FAO

byQU Dongyu - Director-General of FAO

March 19, 2022

Over the past two years, COVID-19 has presented many challenges to global food security. Today, what is happening in Russia ...

Food and Agriculture

The Importance of Flexible Funding in the Era of COVID-19

byDr. Festus Akinnifesi - Head of Unit, Multi-Partner Initiatives and Flexible Funds, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Division, United Nations FAO

December 3, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is a painful reminder that things don’t always happen the way we want them to. The world ...

Food and Agriculture

Reimagining Generational Gaps to Transform Africa’s Agri-food Systems (Part II)

byDr. Festus Akinnifesi - Head of Unit, Multi-Partner Initiatives and Flexible Funds, Resource Mobilization and Partnerships Division, United Nations FAO

November 18, 2021

Editor’s Note: This article is part two of a two-part series by Impakter’s long-term contributor Dr. Festus K. Akinnifesi, Executive ...

Health

G20 Summit: Make One Health a Reality

byDr George Lueddeke - Global Lead of the International One Health and Wellbeing and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative & Coordinator of the One Health-One Planet Europe-Africa-LAC Allianceand2 others

July 23, 2021

This is the summer of Italy on the World Stage--And recognition of One Health as a global concern: What happens ...

Food and Agriculture

FAO Investment Centre’s Annual Review Highlights Successes in 2020 and Beyond

byThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

July 6, 2021

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Investment Centre has increased support to investment and policies, working in 120 countries across the ...

SDG Series

Global Youth Start Movement to End Hunger and Transform Agri-Food Systems Through the World Food Forum

byAndrej Pavicevic - Managing Editor

May 7, 2021

Launched in May of 2021, the World Food Forum (WFF) is a youth-led movement, founded by the Youth Committee of the ...

Society

Investing in Cities Reaps Rewards

byJames Tefft

April 13, 2021

New World Bank/FAO Report Looks at Urban Food Systems Governance Evolving food preferences, rising malnutrition, public health concerns, rapid urbanization, ...

Climate Change

Formulation of NDCs in Belize – the Use of FAO’s EX-ACT Tool

byCo-authors Dr. Ada Ignaciuk - Senior Economist at FAO & Jihae Kwon - Economist at FAO

February 12, 2021

To pave the road and pursue efforts to limit average global temperature rise to 1.5°C, countries update their Nationally Determined ...

In Nepal, the Rural Women's Economic Empowerment Joint Programme, implemented by UN Women, Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development and World Food Programme, and funded by a consortium of donors seeks to improve women farmers’ agricultural production and income, but also changed gender-discriminatory attitudes of their male counterparts.

Rural women form a large proportion of the agricultural labour force in Nepal and play a vital yet unrecognized role in agriculture that sustains nearly 80 percent of the population. Perceived mainly as care givers, their work in farming is largely undervalued. Women farmers are often paid less than men for the same work, and lack access to resources and markets due to discriminatory attitudes. However, since the launch of the Joint Programme, a new narrative is unfolding across the villages of Rauthat and Sindhuli districts.

As more Nepalese men migrate abroad to find work, an increasing number of rural women are taking up farming. By improving women’s agricultural production, access to markets and leadership skills, the programme has increased their income, food security and independence.

Pictured: Chandra Kala Thapa, one of many smallholder women farmers from Ranichuri village in Sindhuli district, was barely able to produce enough grains to feed her family. With support from the Joint Programme, she converted her field from grain production to high-value vegetables. “Now the prices are good and the money comes on time. This was not the case when I used to cultivate grains instead of high-value vegetables,” she says.

Photo: UN Women/Narendra Shrestha

Read More: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2017/2/feature-women-farmers-of-nepal-take-charge-of-their-lives

Global Leaders

Moving Towards Sustainable Agricultural Policy Making

byDr. Ada Ignaciuk - Senior Economist at FAO, and Joanna Ilicic - Economist and Policy Analyst at FAO

December 18, 2020

To ensure food security and livelihoods in face of changing climate and to reduce the pace of climate change, there ...

18 April 2020, Santiago, Chile - Lo Valledor, the main wholesale market in Chile, continues to provide the public during this health emergency with all the protective measures for them collaborators and the community. More than 30,000 visits per day, in its 1,200 stores, can be sure of acquiring responsibly managed fruit and vegetables.

Global Leaders

Assembling the Puzzle: Conceptual Framework and Methods for Assessing Food Systems

byThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

November 19, 2020

Sustainable food systems can play a big role in ensuring the availability and access to safe, nutritious and affordable food, ...

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Environment, Part of One Health, Is Often Missing in Action

West Africa Hit by Worst Food Crisis in a Decade: 38 Million People Could Go Hungry by June

Ukraine War: Global Food Security at Risk, says FAO

The Importance of Flexible Funding in the Era of COVID-19

Reimagining Generational Gaps to Transform Africa’s Agri-food Systems (Part II)

G20 Summit: Make One Health a Reality

FAO Investment Centre’s Annual Review Highlights Successes in 2020 and Beyond

Global Youth Start Movement to End Hunger and Transform Agri-Food Systems Through the World Food Forum

Investing in Cities Reaps Rewards

Formulation of NDCs in Belize – the Use of FAO’s EX-ACT Tool

Moving Towards Sustainable Agricultural Policy Making

Assembling the Puzzle: Conceptual Framework and Methods for Assessing Food Systems

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