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This week the CSIPM and allies are launching ‘You do politics, we go hungry’, an advocacy campaign urging the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) to coordinate a policy response to the current food crisis. The CFS will hold a one-day plenary session on 19 December (you will soon receive more detailed information on this) and we hope it will take bold […]

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (FAO REU) together with the Eco Ruralis association from Romania is jointly organizing through a Letter of Agreement two online webinars and an in-person training on the implementation of UNDROP. Each online webinar is structured in sessions of 3

This Public Forum is organized by Association of Farmers and Private Landowners (AFLU), the academic community, and the civil society of Ukraine and Europe, with the participation of FAO REU. «SMALL PEASANT FARMS AND FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN WARTIME AND POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION OF UKRAINE: POLITICAL DIALOGUE»  — November 15–16, 2022 Our partners and friens Eco Action

Experiences from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye Evidence on gender-based inequalities and their importance for sustainable and inclusive agri-food systems (Anna Jenderedjian, FAO REU)  Tracking information on the situation with women’s rights on land ownership and control – SDG Indicators 5.a.1 and 5.a.2 (Giorgi Kvinikadze, FAO REU) 3d November 2022 09:30-11:00 CET 10:30-12:00 Ankara 11:30-13:00 Baku/Tbilisi/Yerevan

During the week of the 30th of May, Schola Campesina Aps (Italy), ADI (Kyrgyzstan), and Çiftçi-sen (Turkey), with the financial support of FAO, hosted agroecology trainings with the aim of sharing knowledge and raising awareness within the participants’ organisations on the opportunities brought by Agroecology. Overall the event was successful in building capacity and a

Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/13/ukraine-farmers-seed-food-crisis?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR21fri1ak63OXSkVu5HkBa2WIX1L-y5-x7quI0tOLWlAW9ScJUw9bw4Ow0 Photo caption: Wheat grain is pictured at a warehouse in Bashtanka, Mykolaiv region, as Russia’s attacks on Ukraine continue. Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters The war in Ukraine has made the food crisis triggered by the pandemic worse. People in Ukraine not only fear for their lives but are facing possible food shortages. Because

[Русский ниже] Schola Campesina APS (Italy), FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia and Gradina Moldovei (Moldova), together with Agro-Eco-Cultura (Belarus), EcoAction (Ukraine), Permaculture in Ukraine (Ukraine) held the webinar ‘Seeds and Knowledge: Agroecology to strengthen autonomy of rural women. The webinar is part of a series of 4 webinars organised in the region to discuss and highlight the