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    国际农药管理行为守则 – 家用农药管理导则 2025
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    家庭杀虫剂在高收入国家(HICs)的家庭和花园中常用于控制害虫和疾病传播媒介,而在中低收入国家(LMICs)的使用也在逐渐增加。在这些地区,家庭杀虫剂通常在本地商店和非正式市场中销售,供普通公众使用。然而,这些产品对人类和环境的风险不容低估。由于缺乏杀虫剂使用或风险相关的培训,以及对标签信息理解不足,家庭杀虫剂的不当使用、不正确的存储和处理每年都会导致许多中毒事件和自我伤害事件的发生。有许多因素会增加使用家庭杀虫剂的相关风险。其中最主要的包括:许多国家对家庭杀虫剂缺乏监管和控制;家庭杀虫剂作为非处方产品被随意出售给普通公众,而未提供任何使用建议;以及使用者通常缺乏意识,未能认识到这些产品可能对家庭成员、宠物以及蜜蜂、鸟类等家周围的益生生物和其他野生生物具有毒性,尤其是在家庭成员近距离接触的情况下。
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    Empowering women veterinary paraprofessionals through gender-responsive training
    Lessons learned
    2025
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    Women make up two-thirds of the 600 million low-income livestock keepers globally. Despite their leading role in the day-to-day care of animals, they are severely underserved by veterinary extension and advisory services. Women frontline animal health professionals can be a crucial channel for reaching and addressing the needs of women livestock keepers, particularly in contexts where rigid gender norms restrict women’s interactions with male service providers. Yet, in sub-Saharan Africa, the veterinary workforce remains predominantly male, and women face significant gender-based challenges working in the field. These include pay gaps, conflicting family responsibilities, gender bias, sexual harassment, limited confidence, and insufficient technical training in animal restraint. As a result, many women professionals may shift to safer, more flexible, office-based positions (e.g. laboratory technicians stationed in clinics) or leave the profession entirely, furthering the gender gap in veterinary service access. Two FAO initiatives have developed and tested gender-responsive training packages for veterinary paraprofessionals to enhance productivity for both women and men livestock keepers while promoting capacity building and business sustainability for women and men frontline professionals. This paper provides an overview of how these training programmes were designed and implemented with a cross-cutting gender-responsive approach. It also shares key results, learnings, and recommendations that may benefit other stakeholders interested in integrating gender considerations into veterinary education programmes.
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    Evaluation of FAO’s Country Portfolio in Somalia
    2018–2022
    2025
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    This evaluation assesses the strategic relevance and contribution of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Somalia from 2018 to 2022, providing insights and recommendations to improve programming. As one of FAO’s largest and longest-running country programmes, this assessment is particularly important given the last country programme evaluation was conducted in 2012.The evaluation makes eight key recommendations including that FAO Somalia develop strategic business cases to translate its priorities into actionable programme areas that address crises' root causes. It also recommends reprioritizing natural resource management with a comprehensive vision to address core challenges in Somalia, updating FAO Somalia’s structure to enhance cohesion across main and sub-offices and initiating corporate-level discussions to find robust ways to maintain the critical mass needed for operations in Somalia to alleviate operational strains.
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    Restauration de la région méditerranéenne: état et défis
    Unasylva No. 255 - Vol. 75 2024/1
    2025
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    Ce numéro d’Unasylva est consacré à la restauration des écosystèmes forestiers dégradés dans la région méditerranéenne. Paru dix ans après la dernière publication sur les forêts méditerranéennes, le présent volume fournit un état des ressources forestières en Méditerranée et s’intéresse principalement aux efforts déployés en matière de restauration, aux développements récents et aux opportunités visant à respecter les engagements régionaux et mondiaux. En outre, il met l’accent sur les efforts de restauration de la Méditerranée que la Décennie des Nations Unies souhaite promouvoir à l'échelle internationale.
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    Institutionalizing multi-actors agricultural innovation platforms to foster field-level agricultural innovation systems by empowering smallholder farmers 2025
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    The multi-actor agricultural innovation platforms (MAIPs) are co-innovation platforms established in rural communities where farmers and key value chain actors become empowered through participatory action research (PAR), knowledge co-creation and application, market linkages, policy engagement, and so on. These platforms effectively amalgamate knowledge and insights from researchers alongside the practical experience of farmers. MAIPs, aiming to meet the practical needs of farming communities, are conducive to building a collaborative relationship among multiple actors to activate their potential for co-innovation and develop integrated solutions. The effectivenesses of MAIPs are increasingly acknowledged, and thus their scale-up is now on the agenda. Therefore, there is an urgent need for an effective approach to institutionalizing them as integral agencies to contribute to agrifood system transformation towards sustainability.