This year has been a study in contrasts for global agri-food systems. On one hand, food production has surged ahead of population growth. With a global production growth rate of 2.5% far outpacing the world’s population increase of 0.87% ...Read more >>

Tunisia

It can be described as a species substitution. It has arrived in the Mediterranean Sea from other parts of the World and found the right conditions to proliferate. But the consequences for fisheries are disastrous, with millions of euros of ...Read more >>

Morocco

Farmers, fishermen, and the local community of the Mediterranean Nador region, located on the northern shore of Morocco, were facing two main problems: lack of income-generating activities (and also low income, especially for women) and soil ...Read more >>

Egypt

Simplicity, ease of implementation, economic advantages, and social factors are the main features of cultivating oilseed sunflowers. Yet, statistics show that in 2021, this crop was not amongst those grown in the West Minya region, Egypt. However, ...Read more >>

India

Women belonging to the transhumant tribal population of Jammu and Kashmir in India face several obstacles to leading healthy lives. They are part of various nomadic communities comprising nearly 600,000 people, more than some countries' ...Read more >>

Sierra leone

According to FAO, the agriculture sector employs around 65% of Sierra Leone's labor force and about 75% of its population, with women primarily employed. Almost 5.4 million hectares, 74% of the country's total land area, is considered suitable for ...Read more >>

Serbia

Made according to a cherished grandmother's recipe, Zlatar cheese (Zlatarski sir) is a unique product. It is crafted from cow's milk sourced from mountain pastures and a healthy environment, and it takes its name from its production area: the ...Read more >>

Albania

Nigella Sativa L., also known as black cumin, is an annual flowering medicinal plant whose resulting raw materials have wide-ranging applications, from the food industry to pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
Yet, when the Agricultural University ...Read more >>

Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco

Threatened by climate change and even more by large-scale fisheries, small-scale fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea are at risk of extinction. New generations are increasingly reluctant to follow in their parents' footsteps, and the opportunities ...Read more >>

Kenya

A staple food in the diet of the communities that inhabit Kenya's semi-arid and coastal regions, cassava needs processing centers to be transformed into flour or a dried product. For the Kifili and Kwale communities near Mombasa, this center is ...Read more >>

Tunisia

When a young boy from the ...Read more >>