Dear Donor Ministers, We, the undersigned, are raising the alarm on the impact of COVID-19 on food security in low-income countries, especially on small-scale family farmers and producers, rural women, and youth. The COVID-19 health crisis risks becoming a global food and nutrition crisis if governments do not act now. Global hunger has been slowly […]
In achieving the objectives of the campaign, two sets of campaign materials are produced covering six themes on resilient family farming: 1) Economics and Food Systems; 2) Biodiversity, Environment, and Culture; 3) Gender and Youth; 4) Health and Nutrition; 5) Sanitation and Safety, and 6) Policies, Services, and Organization. Read more REGISTER HERE: https://up-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdumprTsiE90J7ZtoZ8EGA96SD9z254ye
SEWA Madhya Pradesh organized 17,000 small marginal women farmers who are growing cotton in 3 blocks of Khandwa district. SEWA took the initiative to train women to grow BT cotton with less investment and earn more for their sustainable livelihood. Photos by SEWA Madhya Pradesh
AFA’s work at the regional level with farmers in forested landscapes started in 2015 when FAO Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) supported AFA’s national and regional consultations. AFA then came up with its regional agenda on the issue. Since then, FFF, under the leadership of its manager, Jeff Campbell, has accompanied AFA in this work, […]
Fifteen years ago, Sibuguey Bay in southwestern Mindanao, Philippines, was in an alarming state. Fish and other marine resources were nearly depleted due to illegal, unregulated fishing and mangrove deforestation. But the situation began to turn around in 2005, when the Coalition of Municipal Fisherfolk Associations (COMFAS) began to rehabilitate and establish fish and marine sanctuaries covering 9,000 hectares of mangrove forests. COMFAS members include hundreds of […]
SEWA MP is running the Digital Sakhi project, with the support of L&T Financial Services, in Dhar And Badwani districts of Madhya Pradesh. Over the period of one year, the Digital Sakhi program enhanced the skills of 1,000 women entrepreneurs working in dairy, goat farming, poultry, agriculture, and tailoring business. The project also provided additional […]
The global pandemic COVID-19 did not skip Mongolia. On 27 January 2020, Mongolia shut its borders with China and closed all kindergartens, schools, and public gatherings as preventive measures against the COVID-19 outbreak. The first case of COVID-19 in the country was reported on 10 March and as of 16 July 2020, 262 cases have […]
Join the Ceres2030 and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub for a virtual event to be held on July 21, 2020, from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. (CET). COVID-19 has caused massive disruptions to almost every aspect of our food systems, making the invisible visible. New hunger numbers released on July 13 in the 2020 State of Nutrition and Food Security in the World report […]
