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#Water scarcity is one of the most pressing global challenges. In the past two decades, the annual amount of available freshwater resources per person has decreased by 20%. #Agriculture sector is the most affected, where #WaterScarcity also threatens #FoodSecurity in regions relying on irrigation. Effective water management, international cooperation, inclusive governance, and nature-based solutions can help overcome these challenges. Read more: https://buff.ly/P8QSsjK #WorldWaterDay #WWD

#IDF2025 | Forests and Foods What are wild foods and how are they relevant in the face of a food and health crisis? Wild foods have the potential to revive forests, reduce hunger and bring prosperity to forest-dependent communities. 🔗 Watch this animated video by SIANI - Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative and NTFP-EP: https://lnkd.in/gC3djXEd #LinkingPeoplesandForests

🚨 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲: 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🚨 The UN Food Systems Coordination Hub is calling on everyone committed to a just, sustainable, and resilient food future to share their insights for the Independent Stakeholders’ Report to the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4) in July 2025. ⚠ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. ⚠ Food systems shape our health, our planet, and our future. Yet, too often, decisions are made without the voices of those most affected. This is your chance to change that. 🌱 𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀—𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱. 🌱 🔹 Ideas and innovations to drive transformation 🔹 Criticisms of what’s not working 🔹 Solutions that are already making a difference 🔹 Struggles and challenges that need urgent attention 📢 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱? EVERYONE who believes food is a right, not a commodity: 👩🌾 Farmers, producers & food workers 🌍 Civil society & grassroots organizations 🧑🎓 Researchers, academia & Indigenous peoples 🧺 Consumers, youth, women & trade unions 🏢 Private sector sustainability change-makers 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲? ✔ Provide ideas for the UNFSS+4 outcomes ✔ Ensure grassroots voices are heard ✔ Provide actionable recommendations for the SDGs ✊ Your voice can help shape the global agenda and the future of food systems. Don’t let others decide for you. 📅 Deadline: 27 March 2025 📝 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁! 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵: https://lnkd.in/dcCQ55Jx 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗶𝘀: https://lnkd.in/dSskWN5S 𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗼𝗹: https://lnkd.in/dAAqSvfK UN Food Systems Coordination Hub United Nations FAO World Food Programme International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Right to Food Bangladesh National Right to Food Community of Practice World Health Organization UN Environment Programme IPES-Food

We're very proud of the SIANI expert group Wild Foods in Asia, led by NTFP, and the work they do to raise awareness of the role forests play for Food Security. Happy International Forests Day!

#CallForProposals : The Agroecology Europe Forum 2025 is looking for your ideas to shape an engaging, diverse, and impactful programme! Whether you have a fully developed project or just a bold vision, this is your chance to contribute. Prior knowledge of agroecology, or direct linkage to, agroecology is not necessary, but programme contributions should connect to the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE-FSN) 13 principles of agroecology Closing date: Monday, March 31st, 23:59 CET #AEEUForum2025 #agroecology https://buff.ly/Jy04n8Y Albaeco Malmö stad SLU - Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet Agroecology Europe Association

#CallForPapers ⎮ The MDPI Special Issue “Enhancing Water Use Efficiency in poultry production“ is now open for submissions in Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This Special Issue focuses on poultry production practices that improve water use efficiency through genetic selection, farm management, nutrition, and processing. https://buff.ly/YnNLdha Closing date: 31 May 2025 #Research #Paper

NEWS STORY | Today is International #ForestDay – this year celebrating the role of forests for #FoodSecurity. In a new article, SIANI’s new expert group Wild Foods in Asia, led by NTFP-EP Asia explains why wild foods are so important. The group will work with villages to preserve local and indigenous knowledge about forest food and traditional crops. Read the story https://buff.ly/7wXoAso https://buff.ly/AeBCltp

🌳 To celebrate the #InternationalDayofForests we will look back at some of our past work related to this year's theme #Forests and #Foods! This (old but still partly relevant) policy brief from 2013 is based on a contribution by Focali and our partners SIANI to the FAO conference “Forests for Food Security and Nutrition” held at FAO in May 2013. The joint participation in the conference by the two networks via Maria Ölund and Matthew Fielding was one of the first activities in the still ongoing close partnership. That food-security and food-systems is deeply intertwined with the broader values of forests and trees in the landscape as #Agroforestry is today much more recognized but in governance and management silos and too narrow views on the role of forests still persists. Direct benefits to #foodsecurity are very important as the pandemic underlined where the forests for many local communities became “the local supermarket” and traditional use of #NTFPs was revitalized. Examples of this was shared in our joint webinar The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on forest communities and forest resource use: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eapJsZft Current geopolitical turbulence spotlights the need to develop diverse and resilient food-systems to not only depend on long value chains and in these conversations the role of forests and trees for food-security are important. Their broader importance in the landscapes for food-systems via indirect benefits as rainfall for agriculture and enhanced resilience to shocks as storms will also need more attention ahead with increasing impacts of climate change on food-systems. One of the recommendations in the brief is worth repeating: “discussions on food and forests needs to move beyond single understandings of forests when thinking about food security and start to focus on the complex but multiple benefits that forests provide and the opportunities for enhancing food production and resilience through focusing on forests. Single definitions and government ‘departmentalization’ risk hiding the complex interactions of forests within a landscape and distort the multiple benefits forests have for food security and ultimately for poverty alleviation” To do this there is a need to strengthen cross-sectoral approaches to enable landscape management for the benefits of food and nutrition security in which trees are an important resource. Connect with us in Focali - Forests, Climate & Livelihoods network and SIANI - Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative if you are interested to contribute to bridge knowledge, policy and action on #foodsystem #agriculutre #forest #trees #landscape #biodiversity #water and #livelihood issues! There are trade-offs and synergies, and thus a great need to collaborate more ahead! As we did last week with the SIANI and Focali annual meetings held back-to-back where these interlinkages were discussed! #ForestDay #Focali2025

#CallForProposals ⎮ The Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) initiative aims to give recognition, visibility, and financial support ideas to scale up or scale out land restoration solutions across the Sahel and the Great Green Wall region: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Deadline to apply: March 31, 2025. https://buff.ly/1Ly8Q5q #LandRestoration #Funding #GreatGreenWall