Monitoring public spending devoted to food and agriculture is a critical policy analysis tool to better understand agricultural public expenditure and how it affects agricultural development, food security and economic growth.This course will equip you with the skills to carry out your public expenditure analysis, looking at total amounts and breakdown of spending. This will allow you to better mo...

This course focuses on SDG Indicator 5.a.2 which assesses women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control. The course describes the indicator, explains its rationale and provides countries with step-by-step guidance for conducting the assessment.Course content:Importance and rationale of Target 5.a of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development How SDG Indicator 5.a.2 can help monitoring Tar...

One important contributor to global CO2 emissions is agriculture, which today accounts for a third of global CO2 emissions and growing. Regenerative farming is one of a number of measures that could address the problem, but there are several barriers that prevent executing the practice at scale, such as fragmented ownership, diverse regulations and misaligned incentives.Transitioning to, and susta...

Finance for sustainable agrifood systems has increased, but remains woefully short of transition needs. This report analyzes climate finance to global agrifood systems in 2021/22, tracking flows across financial sources, climate uses, sectors, regions, and instruments. Flows have risen markedly compared to data from 2019/20 presented in CLIC’s first Landscape Climate Finance to Agrifood Systems (2...

This course has the objective to support countries and regions in planning the information needs for monitoring, pilotage and evaluation during the life of their Food and Nutrition Security and Agriculture programmes. The course, also, offers practical guidance on building an M&E system which is feasible, practical and relevant to the programme’s needs.The target audience for this course inclu...

The negative impacts of burning, especially crop yield loss and increased fertilizer costs, translate into decreased income for farmers and puts into danger food security. Once demonstrated, this impact of burning on profits -- not initially understood by many farmers, who burn only because they believe it necessary – eventually drives demand for alternatives. In many regions of Latin America with...

Agroforestry systems have gained increasing recognition as sustainable land management solutions that integrate trees, crops, and livestock to enhance biodiversity, improve soil health, and mitigate climate change. However, the increasing frequency and intensity of wildfires present a significant threat to agroforestry landscapes, necessitating the development of fire-adaptive strategies. This rev...

The Mission objectives are as follows:Increasing the reach of farm mechanization to small and marginal farmers and to the regions where availability of farm power is low;Promoting ‘Custom Hiring Centres’ to offset the adverse economies of scale arising due to small landholding and high cost of individual ownership;Creating hubs for hi-tech& high value farm equipments;Creating awareness among s...

Plastic waste continues to increase by 4% every year. One type of plastic is Styrofoam, which comes from polystyrene (PS) polymers. However, Styrofoam has the disadvantage that it is not easily decomposed in nature. It is necessary to replace plastic-based food containers using biodegradable, abundantly available, low-cost natural materials. This research uses rice straw and bagasse with the addit...

The purpose of this inter-country study is to explore further mobilisation of agricultural residues for bioenergy and biorefineries (fuel driven and non-fuel driven) applications, and provide an assessment of potential opportunities, barriers and sustainability issues. The study assesses different uses of agricultural residues in Denmark (for energy and biofuels), the U.S. (for advanced/second gen...