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ProjectFactsheetArticulación institucional para el vínculo de la agricultura familiar a los programas de alimentación escolar en los países de la región del sistema de la integración Centroamericana - TCP/SLM/3701 2021
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No results found.En los países de la región SICA se calcula que una población de cerca de ocho millones de estudiantes recibe alimentación escolar. La adquisición del 30 por ciento de esos alimentos, con productos procedentes de la AF, significaría una importante fuente de ingresos. Los PAES son un instrumento de política fundamental para dinamizar las economías locales y facilitar las estrategias de desarrollo territorial. Se trata de intervenciones de protección social, orientadas hacia la aplicación efectiva del derecho a la alimentación adecuada, y garantizan el acceso a los alimentos de poblaciones vulnerables, representando un gran potencial para desarrollar la AF y los mercados locales. El presente proyecto planteó como objetivo fortalecer las capacidades institucionales, mediante la revisión de las normativas y de los mecanismos de coordinación, para propiciar la implementación de los PAES con compras públicas a la AF en países de la región SICA de manera efectiva. -
Book (series)Evaluation reportEvaluación de resultados y lecciones aprendidas del "Programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre: Marcos institucionales más efectivos para mejorar la agricultura familiar y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional”
Código de programa: GCP/SLM/001/MEX
2022Also available in:
No results found.El Programa Mesoamérica Sin Hambre (MSH) es una iniciativa de cooperación regional, con un presupuesto total de 15 millones de dólares y un ciclo de duración de ocho años (2015-2022), financiada por la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID) y ejecutada por la FAO en nueve países de Mesoamérica: Belice, Costa Rica, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá y República Dominicana. El Programa ha logrado alcanzar los dos resultados planificados, con distintos niveles de avances en los países participantes. En particular todos los países disponen de un marco habilitante inicial para mejorar el apoyo del Estado a los productores de la agricultura familiar y a la seguridad alimentaria nutricional y se han fortalecido capacidades de instituciones sectoriales y de gobiernos locales para la gestión de servicios de apoyo a la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura familiar. La evaluación identifica numerosas experiencias con potenciales de aprendizaje, entre las cuales destacan la complementariedad con otras intervenciones de FAO y de otros cooperantes, el modelaje regional de instrumentos de política sectorial, experiencias de CSS-Triangular entre los países participantes. La evaluación recomienda la continuidad del apoyo financiero para la implementación de una siguiente fase del programa MSH para el período 2023-2028 dando particular atención al diseño de instrumentos para incrementar la sostenibilidad de las capacidades institucionales y la elaboración de modelo conceptual de intervención que considere todos los factores causales del problema y su interacción. -
BookletHigh-profileRuta metodológica para el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar en el marco del programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO: Logros y lecciones aprendidas 2022
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No results found.La publicación analiza los avances alcanzados en términos del fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar en la región mesoamericana y en los países de intervención del programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO, iniciativa conjunta de la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura. En el documento se identifican fortalezas, desafíos y lecciones aprendidas en los procesos implementados de 2016 a 2022 en Belice, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá y la República Dominicana. Se describe el enfoque teórico y la ruta metodológica propuesta por el programa y ajustada a la realidad de cada país, que incluye establecimiento de mecanismos de diálogo, conceptualización y registro de la agricultura familiar, generación de evidencias en los territorios, y formulación y aprobación de marcos normativos para el desarrollo del sector. En el documento se identifican los resultados obtenidos con ejemplos concretos y se presentan algunas recomendaciones para superar los desafíos aún existentes frente al fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar en la región mesoamericana.
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Book (series)FlagshipThe State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
Urbanization, agrifood systems transformation and healthy diets across the rural–urban continuum
2023This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that the intensification and interaction of conflict, climate extremes and economic slowdowns and downturns, combined with highly unaffordable nutritious foods and growing inequality, are pushing us off track to meet the SDG 2 targets. However, other important megatrends must also be factored into the analysis to fully understand the challenges and opportunities for meeting the SDG 2 targets. One such megatrend, and the focus of this year’s report, is urbanization. New evidence shows that food purchases in some countries are no longer high only among urban households but also among rural households. Consumption of highly processed foods is also increasing in peri-urban and rural areas of some countries. These changes are affecting people’s food security and nutrition in ways that differ depending on where they live across the rural–urban continuum. This timely and relevant theme is aligned with the United Nations General Assembly-endorsed New Urban Agenda, and the report provides recommendations on the policies, investments and actions needed to address the challenges of agrifood systems transformation under urbanization and to enable opportunities for ensuring access to affordable healthy diets for everyone. -
Book (series)Technical studyThe impact of climate variability and extremes on agriculture and food security - An analysis of the evidence and case studies
Background paper for The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018
2020Also available in:
No results found.Global climate studies show that not only temperatures are increasing and precipitation levels are becoming more varied, all projections indicate these trends will continue. It is therefore imperative that we understand changes in climate over agricultural areas and their impacts on agriculture production and food security. This study presents new analysis on the impact of changing climate on agriculture and food security, by examining the evidence on recent climate variability and extremes over agricultural areas and the impact of these on agriculture and food security. It shows that more countries are exposed to increasing climate variability and extremes and the frequency (the number of years exposed in a five-year period) and intensity (the number of types of climate extremes in a five-year period) of exposure over agricultural areas have increased. The findings of this study are compelling and bring urgency to the fact that climate variability and extremes are proliferating and intensifying and are contributing to a rise in global hunger. The world’s 2.5 billion small-scale farmers, herders, fishers, and forest-dependent people, who derive their food and income from renewable natural resources, are most at risk and affected. Actions to strengthen the resilience of livelihoods and food systems to climate variability and extremes urgently need to be scaled up and accelerated. -
Book (series)Technical studyPacific oyster farming
A practical manual
2024Also available in:
No results found.The purpose of this manual is to give the reader a foundation of practical knowledge regarding all aspects of Pacific oyster cultivation. It is targeted at new entrants to the market wishing to establish a farm, and existing operators who wish to develop their farms and explore new cultivation techniques. The methodologies described can be applied both to low-tech, low budget, small-scale farming operations and to high-tech, big budget, industrial-scale aquaculture production enterprises. This guide focuses on the functional expertise and technical equipment required to construct and manage an operational farm in the diverse environmental and physical locations in which they can be situated, from the initial stages of finding and selecting a suitable site, to the conclusion of the first production cycle and harvesting the crop. The manual contains a brief introduction which describes the relevance of the species with regards to global aquaculture production figures and how it can form an important part of future food production strategies. Chapter 2 describes the anatomy and biology of Crassostrea gigas and gives an indication as to the environmental conditions in which the species thrives as well as the pathologies and predators that can result in poor health leading to potential mortalities. Chapter 3 deals with all aspects of undertaking a survey of potential oyster farming sites and what data should be collected and examined to assess a site’s suitability, but also which areas are best suited to different cultivation techniques. After this, Chapter 4 introduces the main farming techniques that will be described in detail in the following chapters, which includes off-bottom cultivation, on-bottom cultivation, and suspended cultivation, and gives details of some of the most common cultivation equipment necessary to undertake these operations. The techniques and strategies necessary to procure seed oysters and how to develop them through the nursery stage are also introduced. This includes the basic principles of upwelling, which then leads into Chapter 5, which provides a detailed description of how to build and operate one particular example of a Floating Upwelling System (Flupsy) which is suitable for use in remote but sheltered conditions. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 constitute the main body of the manual and provide an in-depth look into the three major cultivation techniques that this guide concentrates on: “Farming with trestles and bags in the intertidal zone”, “On-bottom cultivation in the intertidal or subtidal zone” and “Offshore longline cultivation”.