Agriculture begins with seed. Without seed, there can be no crops and no food production. When harvests fail or seed stocks are lost, seed insecurity ensues, which can reduce food security and livelihoods. In most smallholder farming systems farmers save seed from the previous harvest to plant in the next season. They select seed from… [Read More]
Food and Nutrition Resources
A list of free guides, how-to tools and other resources on Food and Nutrition for NGOs and development professionals.
A Free Publication on Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chains
This publication has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers. This guide provides validated step-by-step guidance for NSVC project design, relevant not only for IFAD but… [Read More]
A Free Resilience Building Guide
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc. whilst at the same time encouraging us to work simultaneously at the… [Read More]
A Free Action Toolkit on Tax Power Campaign Reflection
When funds are missing for quality public services, it’s communities living in poverty, particularly women and girls, that suffer the most, making the world more unequal. Around the world, millions of girls are missing out school. Women are more at risk of violence in their cities from poor public transport and lighting. And women are… [Read More]
A free Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit
The New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture is pleased to present the Local Regulation of Agriculture Toolkit, developed with grant funds provided by Farm Credit East Northeast AgEnhancement. They have created the Toolkit for farmers and municipal decision makers to guide development of local farm friendly regulatory environments in which agricultural enterprises can operate successfully,… [Read More]
A free Toolkit for Transforming Food and Agriculture to Achieve the SDGs
Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss, decreasing fish stocks and forest… [Read More]
Save and Grow: A Free Policymaker’s Guide to the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Crop Production
Save and Grow addresses the crop production dimension of sustainable food management. In essence, it calls for “greening” the Green Revolution through an ecosystem approach that draws on nature’s contributions to crop growth, such as soil organic matter, water flow regulation, pollination and bio-control of insect pests and diseases. This guide offers a rich toolkit… [Read More]
EU Free Guide on Undernutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
These documents call on the EU to do more to fully integrate WASH into all of their development programmes and strategies, including health, gender and nutrition. Food and nutrition security, health and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are intrinsically related and have to be recognised as preconditions for and outcomes of sustainable development. With 50%… [Read More]
A Free Advocacy Guide for Small and Diaspora NGOs
Understanding advocacy and how to use advocacy approaches and tools can help organisation’s to increase their impact. However often the technical language that surrounds advocacy, and concerns about risk, can make it seem more difficult and complicated than it really is. As part of the Common Ground Initiative Peer Learning Programme, INTRAC produced this toolkit… [Read More]
Free Gender and Inclusion Toolbox: Participatory Research in Climate Change and Agriculture
This toolbox was guided by the valuable feedback and recommendations of key practitioners, scientists and subject experts at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the CGIAR and many local development partners. They also benefited greatly from the many workshops, co-design events,… [Read More]
A Free Healthy Built Environment (HBE) Linkages Toolkit
The HBE Linkages Toolkit describes how population health is influenced by the design of our neighbourhoods, housing, transportation systems, natural environments, and food systems. The purpose of this Toolkit is to generate conversation and adaptation by outlining a rationale for “why” the built environment is important for health. It brings together research based key messages… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit: Digital Tools for Agriculture
Digital Development for Feed the Future (D2FTF) is a collaboration between the U.S. Global Development Lab (Lab) and the Bureau for Food Security (BFS) at USAID. Launched in September 2015, this three year partnership is aimed at integrating digital tools and approaches into the Feed the Future portfolio. Due to the rapid global growth and… [Read More]
A Free Training Guide: Gender and Climate Change Research in Agriculture and Food Security for Development
This training guide was prepared by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to fill that gap by supporting work to investigate the gender dimensions of responding to climate change in the agriculture and food security sectors. The final goals are to improve food production, livelihood security and gender equality in the context… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit for Communities for Healthy Food
In 2014, LISC NYC, a community development intermediary, partnered with Community Development Corporations (CDCs) to launch the Communities for Healthy Food (CfHF) program. CfHF improved the food infrastructure in target neighborhoods by ensuring low-income communities and communities of color have access to healthier and more affordable food options, a voice in the food movement, and… [Read More]
A Free Menstrual Hygiene Management Toolkit
This toolkit was designed to help teachers, school health and nutrition coordinators, and other school personnel in Zambia carry out such programs or activities in their schools. Menstrual hygiene management is an important component of a water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) program for schools. The Schools Promoting Learning Achievement through Sanitation and Hygiene (SPLASH) project,… [Read More]
A Free Food Security Communications Toolkit
This toolkit was prepared as part of the EC-FAO Programme on “Linking Information and Decision Making to Improve Food Security” which is funded by the European Union and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Food security professionals increasing realize that they must use communications strategically for their work to have… [Read More]
EU Free Guide on Achieving Improved Health for all through Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
This free guide of EU is focused on to achieve improved health for all through water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). The EU is rightly held as one of the world’s leaders on international development. The EU and its 28 member states make up the world’s largest aid donor, contributing more than 50% of the world’s… [Read More]
A Free Toolkit on “How to Program Digital Tools into Agriculture Programs”
Digital technology has enormous potential to improve food security in Feed the Future countries and around the world. The purpose of this toolkit is to demonstrate the importance of digital tools in agriculture. It will give a brief overview of the digital tools that are currently being used in the field by U.S. Agency for… [Read More]
A Free Publications on Improve Agricultural Crop Production Forecast Statistics in Sub-saharan African Countries
Agriculture is an important economic driver for sustainable development in Africa and employs between 60 and 80 percent of the country’s rural population. The sector also contributes to food security, foreign exchange earnings and provides raw materials for agro-based industries in the region. For instance, it accounts for about 30.2 percent of the gross domestic… [Read More]
A Free Publication on Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this free publication from FAO, you can learn about Pulse Crops for Sustainable Farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa is a problem affecting 153 million individuals (ca. 25%). This problem could be worsen by the ongoing soil degradation, being cause by the reduction of soil organic matter and insufficient nutrient supply…. [Read More]
