El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en muchas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.  En Guatemala, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) impulsan la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises, una práctica que permite filtrar el agua...

Life calls for a more level playing field and a fairer allocation of quota between larger scale and smaller scale fisheries.

All over the world, women contribute enormously to rural development through their work in agriculture. As a result of male outmigration from rural areas and the growth of commercial farming, women’s roles in agriculture are expanding in many countries (FAO, 2017), with significant consequences for food systems and rural societies...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

In order to address the issue of hunger and malnutrition through nutrient rich and climate resilient underutilized crops, the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), a unique  voluntary, membership-based, self-mandated, apolitical and multi-stakeholder (70 members) organization  in the Asia-Pacific region planned a multi-stakeholder “Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized  Crops...

Le potentiel des pâturages d’estivage jurassiens est très bon. Il est possible de produire 20kg ou plus de lait par vache rien que sur la base d’herbage de qualité. 3 facteurs sont toutefois pour exprimer ce potentiel ; les accès doivent être facile et pratique, bien aménagés, l’approvisionnement en eau...

Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia has as its purposes: i) to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of Neglected and Underutilized species (NUS) and their potential contribution to achieving Zero Hunger; ii) to identify promising NUS that are nutrition-dense, climate-resilient, economically-viable...

Due to land grabbing, native forests and local biodiversity are being lost, people are being evicted from their homes and forced to give up their lands, along with all the other problems linked to the large-scale use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Some individual cases are reported in the booklet “Let’s...

Les 17 et 18 mai 2018, le CNCR à travers le Groupe de Dialogue Social et Politique (GSDP et le Comité National de l’Agriculture Familiale (CNAF) a organisé à Dakar, avec l’appui du Forum Rural Mondial un atelier méthodologique pour l’élaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de...

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Urgenci's Newsletter - The International Network ofCommunity Supported Agriculture. Urgenci's newsletter has been named TEIKEI,«cooperation» in Japanese, as a tribute to the pioneering role of the Japanese organic agriculturemovement in setting up the first Community -supported Agriculture models. It is also a tribute to the victims ofthe March 2011 Earthquake and...

For rural women and men, land is often the most important household asset for supporting agricultural production and providing food security and nutrition. Evidence shows that secure land tenure is strongly associated with higher levels of investment and productivity in agriculture – and therefore with higher incomes and greater economic...

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a woody perennial shrub of the Euphorbiaceae family. In view of its favourable agronomic traits, tolerance to abiotic stresses and adverse environments, the crop is produced by small farmers in marginal agricultural areas in the Caribbean as well as other parts of the world. In recent years in...

Born in Venado Island, in the Nicoya gulf of Costa Rica’s Puntarenas province, 44-yearold Sonia Medina Matarrita is part of the fourth generation of a small-scale artisanal fishing family. A single mother, Sonia has taken care of her family of two girls and one boy singlehandedly for the past 13...

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 on 20 December 2017 in order to improve the position of family farmers in all five (5) continents. The declaration of the Decade ensures the continuity of the successful IYFF-2014 process by advancing the implementation of public policies...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

The Bosphorus, the narrow strait in Istanbul that connects the Black Sea basin to the rest of the world, hosted a special guest on 12 July. Affectionately named “Bilim” (Turkish for “Science”), the oceanographic research vessel (RV) from Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey was just embarking on...

The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zambia from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...

Bluefin Tuna: the move from recovery to management must directly benefit coastal artisanal fleets.

Livestock Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are “schools without walls” where groups of small-scale livestock producers test, validate, and adapt good agricultural and marketing practices that help them increase their production sustainably and to improve their, and their families’, livelihoods. Over the past two decades, Livestock FFSs have been implemented/supported by...