The overall objective of this Regional Initiative is to reduce rural poverty by promoting and supporting inclusive small-scale agricultural development, with special attention to governance and institutions, including improving access of smallholders to social protection, rural services and markets, strengthening the capacities of producers’ organizations and promoting youth employment and...

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...

The multifaceted relationships between water resources and food security (FS) are at the core of sustainable development challenge in Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper proposes a multidimensional analysis of two indices related to water security and FS. The five components of the Water Poverty Index (mWPI) -...

As for any advocacy activity, it is important to know the local administration and political landscape, the political alliances that are in place, and the attitudes of different parties and different administration units towards environmental issues in general. What is the current attitude of various ministries towards the issue of...

With only one-quarter of expected rainfall received in the Horn of Africa in the October-December period, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) called for an immediate response to prevent widespread drought conditions from becoming a catastrophe. “The magnitude of the situation calls for scaled up action and coordination at national and...

This report provides information regarding the state of implementation of the current CAP young farmers’ mechanism. The different implementation styles of the Members States are described and the currently implemented policy tools are evaluated. Based on the secondary analysis and case studies, several policy recommendations are formulated, aimed at improving...

Despite six years of crisis in Syria, agriculture remains a key part of the economy. The sector still accounts for an estimated 26 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and represents a critical safety net for the 6.7 million Syrians – including those internally displaced - who still remain in rural...

Este documento aborda la relación entre cambio climatico y seguridad alimentaria y además ofrece un panorama de las politicas que están implementando los paises para mitigar los efectos del cambio climatico en la región.

Les difficultés de commercialisation entravent le bon fonctionnement de la filière dattes en Algérie, particulièrement pour les cultivars à faible valeur marchande. Afin de tirer profit des expériences extérieures, et notamment de celles des agriculteurs des pays européens et des pays voisins (Maroc et Tunisie), de nombreux mécanismes et outils...

Livestock are key to food security. Meat, milk and eggs provide 34% of the protein consumed globally as well as essential micronutrients such as vitamin B12, A, iron, zinc, calcium and riboflavin. But their contribution to food security and nutrition goes well beyond that, and includes a range of other...

This document has been prepared based on sound scientific principles and international approaches to monitoring cage aquaculture facilities. In general this is a guide to help support good monitoring practice, with details on what to monitor, parameters to be collected, how data is collected, appropriate ways to process the data...

Ao conceder o Selo de Identificação da Participação da Agricultura Familiar (SIPAF) de número 1.800, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) fez, nesta semana, o balanço dos últimos números do programa. A boa notícia é que já são mais de 145 mil agricultores familiares beneficiados...

El nuevo estudio publicado por la cooperación internacional entre FAO y Brasil presenta un mapeo de los roles de las mujeres algodoneras en cinco países (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay y Perú), identificando las áreas de empoderamiento y desapoderamiento que, en mayor y menor medida, afectan su participación en este importante...

Despite growing consensus on the socio-economic benefits emanating from enhanced land tenure security, issues related to how best to measure it and what constitute universal indicators of tenure (in)security are poorly understood. As a result, issues of what drives tenure security are poorly understood and inconclusive. This study, thus, examines...

By working with farmers to gain greater access to markets, development organizations are assisting them in potentially becoming more prosperous and successful. But the farmers also become more exposed and vulnerable to market forces and climate change that even the brightest minds in business and academia often struggle to understand.

Benchmarking can support farmers to improve their productivity and sustainability performance. At its simplest, benchmarking is defined as improving the performance, of a farm, for example, by comparing with peers, learning from others and identifying actions. Valuable lessons can be drawn from benchmarking by raising the subsequent questions: why are...

Historieta breve que busca introducir, principamente a los productores, en los temas comunes del campo y en prácticas sustentables. Por ejemplo: manejo agroecológico de plagas, manejo poscosecha, pastoreo, fertilidad y otros. En cada ejemplar se presenta un conflicto de la vida cotidiana de los productores, que es posible solucionar, mediante...

The PNBA was established in 1976 to preserve biodiversity, particularly migratory bird colonies. In 2000, the objectives broadened to include development of the local communities, which was deemed to be an integral part of the ecosystem, and the park’s management adopted a development and management plan (DMP). The aim of this...

This study investigated correlation and regression analyses designed to asses the respective relationships between the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale/ Prevalence (HFIAS/ HFIAP) as a measure of food access, the Household Dietary Diversity Score, the Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) as a measure of food stability and (i)...

Persistent poverty and under-development in South Africa’s former homeland communal areas have been little changed by post-apartheid ‘rural development’ policy. Rural development policy has often been characterised by impulses towards topdown planning, a default assumption that agriculture ought to drive rural development, a reliance on resource-intensive income generation projects, and...