Building a booming fisheries sector step by step

Namibia has built a booming fisheries industry from scratch since independence in 1990. FAO guided the country's efforts to manage stocks sustainably and share proceeds equitably.

Returning exiles reap a rich harvest

After 14 years of absence because of armed conflict, a community has returned to its homeland in the Peruvian Andes and is learning again how to cultivate the land. FAO's TeleFood campaign is helping them.

Aquaculture comes of age in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's Fish Farming Centre is paving the way for the private sector to produce fish for the national and international markets. The Centre, founded with FAO's help, conducts research and tests fish raising systems suitable for local conditions.

Growing vegetables, cultivating minds

In a TeleFood-sponsored school garden in Villa El Salvador, Peru, students harvest their first vegetables. The results are far better than what was expected and many more schools could benefit from the programme.

New lake, new thinking in Burkina Faso

An innovative FAO programme teaches African villagers not only how to increase fish production, but also to manage their own natural resources. Burkina Faso fishers recount stories about these new and sometimes perilous activities.

Now on stage: lessons of life and agriculture

A rural drama initiative in Egypt teaches farmers techniques for raising crops in a more sustainable way -- lessons that carry over to raising families

Eastern Edens - the once and future gardens of Afghanistan

Building on centuries of traditional horticulture, FAO is working to re-establish the country's nursery orchards

Date palm comes to Namibia

Government farm lays groundwork for Southern Hemisphere's first commercial date sector

Afghanistan: Locust control campaign successfully concluded

A locust control campaign in Northern Afghanistan has succeeded in keeping crop damage to a minimum.

Bangladesh dairy cooperative lifts farmers out of poverty

Now the largest milk cooperative in the country with 40 000 members, Milk Vita is set to expand. Four articles examine its remarkable 25-year history.

Afghanistan: a way out of poverty with milk and poultry production

Afghanistan: Working with local farmers, FAO has set up milk collection centers and started poultry production for women

Senegal reinvents grassroots development

FAO's Special Programme for Food Security, especially active in Senegal, shows how simple technology can improve poor farmers' lives. Vietnamese experts, working at the village level, teach new methods.

Saudi citrus industry thrives in desert

An FAO-supported research centre has pioneered citrus production in southwestern Saudi Arabia, where 50 000 tonnes of fruit a year are now grown.

Communities act to save Cambodia's great lake

An environmental education centre in Cambodia targets adults, children and tourists to save the fish and the flooded forest

Can roof-top gardens help feed hungry cities?

In an experiment in Dakar, Senegal, families produce household vegetables on their roofs in trays of enriched water.

A tale of two farming families in Nepal

One family obtained a 40-year lease on a degraded hillside and learned how to grow trees and grass for fodder, thereby improving their lives and environment. Another family wasn't so lucky.

Bolivian bees put buzz in life

Beekeeping was successfully introduced to 18 Bolivian communities by a participatory conservation and development FAO project

Tipping the scales towards a better diet in Peru

FAO encourages Peruvians to eat anchovies through a combined fisheries, nutrition and education project

Obsolete pesticides threaten communities in Ethiopia

Tonnes of dangerous pesticides accumulate in Ethiopia, contaminating groundwater and soil. FAO helps the Government clean up this toxic waste.

Silos and mills reduce work, boost profits in Bolivia

FAO's fundraising and awareness raising TeleFood campaign helps farmers with simple but effective technologies

Getting food to market in Nepal

Farmers used to waste time selling their produce to customers one-by-one on city streets. FAO helped build wholesale markets and a marketing system, a boon to buyers and sellers.

Putting ability before disability in Thailand and Cambodia

FAO project restores hope to the handicapped by helping them to become independent mushroom growers

Cows for Kosovo

FAO and the World Bank airlifted 2 500 cows to Kosovo so farmers who had lost everything in the fighting could get started again.

A rural development success story in Honduras

A rural development project in Honduras has shown that people’s participation is key to success. See, hear and read about the project

FAO, midwife to India's top aquaculture centre

When the largest freshwater aquaculture centre in India opened in the 1980s, it needed outside help. FAO was there with equipment, advice and fellowships to train scientists.

Fishers launch patrol of their own waters

In Malawi, southern Africa, a fishing community had to take drastic steps when stocks collapsed. FAO helped villages set up committees to manage resources and enforce strict fishing limits.

New land law entitles people to security in Mozambique

An FAO project helped the Mozambique government draft a new law that gave legal status to traditional land tenure systems.