Ao longo das últimas décadas, diversos conhecimentos, tecnologias sociais e inovações têm sido criados e experimentados por diferentes atores sociais, dentre estes agricultoras e agricultores familiares, alinhados com a perspectiva de melhor convivência com o Semiárido. O Programa Semear foi criado para facilitar o acesso a esses saberes, trabalhando a gestão...

Seeking solutions and income development systems for urban farmers with limited access to water and land. 

About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment. Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...

A produção de alimentos orgânicos tem tudo para render ótimos resultados em 2017. Um levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo (SDC), vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa), mostrou que a área de produção orgânica no país pode ultrapassar os...

Sjoerd Wartena – founder of Terre de Liens, a French landrights movement – explains to Elisabeth Winkler from the Biodynamic Land Trust, how he and his wife created a civic organisation.

Empreendedoras. Essa é a palavra que define as mulheres da Associação de Mulheres Produtoras de Broas e Outros Produtos Alimentícios da Agricultura Familiar (Asprobroas), no povoado Taboquinha, em Arapiraca, que criaram uma agroindústria especializada na produção de doces derivados da mandioca e conquistaram mercado em todo o estado de Alagoas. O...

This is part of a series of descriptive reports and later in-depth analysis of the survey data. These series are aimed to provide an assessment of the state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi in order to inform policy and reform processes and programming by the government...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), which lays out the principles and targets expected to guide development in the coming decade, highlights the interconnection and complexity of global challenges. Objectives related to food, nutrition, agriculture and natural resources are intrinsically interrelated. Consequently, achieving the specific targets of the...

L’élevage constitue une composante indissociable des systèmes agraires oasiens. Par ses revenus complémentaires, les restitutions de matière organique aux sols et la fourniture d’une force de travail, il contribue à la sécurité alimentaire et à la résilience de ces systèmes. Toutefois, ces milieux arides ont subi récemment des changements profonds,...

Para el año 2050, el sector agrícola tiene el desafío de aumentar la producción en más del 60% para alimentar al mundo. En Latinoamérica, las zonas áridas y semiáridas, donde los agricultores familiares tienen como principal sustento la ganadería extensiva, presentan alta susceptibilidad al cambio climático, fragilidad ambiental y altos...

A violência contra as mulheres não tem uma naturalidade. Em qualquer região, estado, município, elas podem ter os seus direitos desrespeitados. E um país como o Brasil, onde a extensão territorial contempla diferentes realidades e contextos, precisa ter armas abrangentes contra esse crime. Só no meio rural são 14 milhões...

Held for the first time in India, the 2017 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact will bring together public, private and civil society organizations from across the humanitarian and international development community to not only discuss the latest trends in digital inclusion but the wider use of data to support achievement of...

The path to fairer land governance in Europe reached a milestone today, as the European Parliament approved an own initiative report that recognizes the urgent problems of land concentration, and access to land in the EU and demands for adequate responses.

This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from...

The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa’s top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent’s honey, but travellers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn’t enough to go around. In a country where 85% of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the beekeeping – or...

Skylark is based on the belief that in order to achieve sustainability, the whole crop rotation, in fact the whole farm management, should be taken into consideration. The foundation has 400 participating farmers and 60 knowledge and supply chain partners all working towards a more sustainable arable agriculture in the Netherlands....

Les relations entre le dromadaire et l’oasis relèvent d’une certaine ambiguïté car le dromadaire, animal du nomade par excellence, marque les territoires désertiques de sa mobilité alors que l’oasis est, par essence, un point d’attache. Si, au cours de l’histoire, le dromadaire ne pénétrait en ville que pour les étapes...

Growing crops is a challenge in the hilly terrain of Assam-India. To counter this, Sloping Agriculture and Land Technology (SALT) has been introduced as an alternative farming method to the farmers in place of jhum.  Farmers are trained on - A-frame or making the contour line by using the A-frame;...

Living in and from the forests of Central Africa is intended first and foremost as a full-scale extension tool concerning NWFPs in Central Africa. It is a work on the groups who have always lived in these forests, forests that contribute to every aspect of their daily lives, both material...

The current Tunisian Code on Forests that applies to the common rangelands does not reflect the complexity of the land tenure status of common rangelands nor does it effectively support the needs of these dryland communities. Furthermore, Tunisia lacks a national strategy of rangeland management and a functioning coordination between...