This guide identifies two key components for establishing effective conservation agriculture systems: developing multidisciplinary scientific and technical capacity; and collaborating closely with farming communities – not just with farmers – to build on their existing knowledge. It provides a suite of technical tools for Farmer Field Schools and extension service ...

Countries receiving debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative will be among the first to benefit from the new World Bank -- International Monetary Fund approach to strengthening the impact on poverty of concessional assistance in low-income countries. The new approach features a more inclusive and participatory process for helping recipient c...

The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide. Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic production systems. I...