Con la creciente preocupación de los consumidores por el cambio climático, la degradación del medio ambiente, la pérdida de biodiversidad y el bienestar animal, se han realizado diversos esfuerzos concertados para desarrollar y garantizar la sostenibilidad en los sistemas ganaderos. La ganadería sostenible es entendida como un sistemas y prácticas que minimizan el impacto de la actividad en el entorno
National inventories of greenhouse gases (GHGs) serve as pivotal tools for assessing a country’s climate progress. They enable the calculation of human-induced GHG emissions and absorptions over a specific timeframe. In Colombia, for instance, GHG emissions amount to 302,974 Gg CO2 eq, with the Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector accounting for 59% of these emissions. While this
Since the 1930s, farmers in the lower eastern regions of Machakos and Makueni in Kenya have a history of collective working through Mwethya groups- a name referring to organized farmer groups focusing on soil conservation. Farmers forming modern cooperatives have sustained this group model to work together to achieve their social and economic growth. Kimatwa SACCO is a women-led cooperative
As a pivotal annual assembly, COPs serve as the primary global multilateral decision-making platform on climate change. This year, nearly every country in the world has agreed to “transition away from fossil fuels” by 2050, the main driver of climate change.1 It is the first time such an agreement has been reached in 28 years of international climate negotiations. Moreover, COP28
There is no easy answer to this question, which is increasingly being asked by researchers in the Bioversity-CIAT alliance. However, some promising experiences are beginning to emerge around an approach known as human-Centered Design (HCD). In the Alliance, we define this approach as an open, iterative, five-phase process (Fig 1): (i) identifying a research problem or challenge (Scope), (ii) gathering
Do you know where your tea comes from? Recentreports on the state of the industry have shown that there is cause for concern about whether your cup of tea was produced ethically, particularly if those leaves came from India. Worryingly, these results pertain to tea plantations, which are a highly regulated sector with established worker protections. But there is another,
From the dedicated CGIAR pavilion and beyond, participants from the Alliance immersed themselves in the events, drawing delegates’ attention to the importance of food systems transformation in climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the Alliance’s latest research. Gathering insights from the Alliance’s team on site, it became clear that finally, food systems took center stage in the negotiations.
Agriculture and the processing of and trade in food products are notoriously riddled with inequality. Rural women as well as marginalized groups at the base of agrifood supply chains typically experience poor terms of trade and are embedded in highly unequal relationships with other actors along the chain. As a result, agrifood companies and Voluntary Sustainability Systems (VSS) are increasingly