Ministers of Agriculture and Food from South Eastern Europe (SEE), Heads of Delegations and representatives of the national bodies in charge of animal health, gathered on 25th of January 2017 in Podgorica at the extraordinary ad-hoc meeting organized under the joint auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...

FAO promotes the transition to sustainable and climate-resilient agricultural policies and governance mechanisms, working with countries on reviewing their policies and investment strategies and helping them align their policies and programmes in support of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as well as the Paris Agreement on climate change....

The second newsletter of the SIMRA project has been published! It provides information on SIMRA’s progress after one year of working on the project; on SIMRA’s first stakeholder workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, in October 2016; and on SIMRA’s first results such as a social innovation definition, the launch of innovative...

A number of organisations made submissions to the CAP consultation, which closed last week. Here we outline three differing ones  – one from public health, one from farming  and one, which we devote more space to, from a platform bringing a number of organisations together in Germany.

O galo vai cantar hoje no mínimo três vezes para acordar você, Maria! Você que é trabalhadora rural e que não pode deixar de participar do concurso "Vozes, Imagens e Histórias e Experiências das Mulheres Rurais". O prazo final de inscrição é hoje (15). Para quem não sabe, o concurso é...

Crop diversification is often promoted as a strategy to achieve climate resilience. However, the benefits to crop diversification may vary depending on household resource endowments. For farm households with few resources, as shown by studies of Burkina Faso, Malawi and Zambia, crop diversification is likely to be an important strategy...

A partir d’une enquête réalisée en 2010, cette étude propose d’approcher la diversité des élevages bovins laitiers du Cheliff en Algérie et d’explorer les stratégies adoptées par les éleveurs des types d’exploitations identifiés. L’analyse utilise les méthodes statistiques multidimensionnelles, sur la base de critères structurels (foncier, taille de cheptel, Unités...

Floods, landslides, drought, storms, earthquakes and forest fires . . . Bosnia and Herzegovina is prone to natural disasters that hurt agriculture. Supported by the Swiss Government, FAO organized a conference here today on “Post-Disaster Needs Assessment Guidelines,” presenting findings and recommendations for improving current methodologies for assessing damages and...

his year for the 17th time the Fair of dry-cured meet prosciutto or popular as “Prsutijada 2017″ was organized from February 10th till 12th in the village Mackat, Serbia. More than 10.000 domestic and international visitors visited this event. The aim of this event was to promote traditional processing of meat products from...

Uno de los retos de las pequeñas y medianas empresas latinoamericanas es el de la internacionalización de su oferta de negocios. Este proceso se desarrolla en períodos de mediano y largo plazo y comienza cuando se toma la decisión de exportar. Para enfrentar los desafíos que este proceso supone, las empresas...

FAO Near East and North Africa Fisheries and Aquaculture team with the FAO Representation in Egypt started a national project under the Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction funded by the FAO Multi-Partner Programme Support Mechanism (FMM), with the objective to reduce pre and post-harvest losses and waste...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) organised a conference on the theme “New economy models and social innovation: an opportunity for a better Europe” on the 23rd of February 2017, in Brussels. As a partner of the SIMRA project (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas), Euromontana attended the conference...

Within the framework of the Slow Fish initiatives, on the 21st of May the Low Impact Fishers of Europe held a workshop addressed to the stakeholders of the sector to discuss together the policy needed in the EU for small scale fishers and to better inform the future work to be...

FAO has issued a set of calls for expression of interest for internship positions, specifically encouraging applicants from the Global South and Indigenous Peoples.

Las reservas de biosfera integran la diversidad biológica y cultural. En ellas se reconoce el papel de los conocimientos tradicionales y locales en la ordenación de los ecosistemas. Estas deben centrarse en un enfoque de participación múltiple; haciendo especial hincapié en la participación de las comunidades locales en la gestión....

En América Latina y el Caribe, aunque existan muchas organizaciones de productores de comercio justo, con sus redes nacionales y articulaciones regionales, los consumidores no están bien organizados, ni familiarizados con las propuestas y prácticas de consumo responsable. Al mismo tiempo, son muy pocas las entidades que se dedican al...

One of the main objectives of SIMRA is creating collaborative and learning opportunities where local stakeholders (communities, researchers, businesses) could work together towards the realization of social innovation initiatives, which could leave a lasting legacy in the area where they are promoted. These initiatives in SIMRA are named Innovation Actions...

El Servicio Ecosistémico de la Polinización es uno de los “beneficios de la naturaleza a los hogares, las comunidades y las economías”(2), clasificado como un servicio de regulación y definido como el proceso de transferencia de polen de la parte masculina de la flor (ANTERA) a la parte femenina de...

Avec 7 emplois induits par exploitation, l'agriculture est un secteur économique majeur en France. Elle contribue à l'économie nationale, mais aussi au maintien d'un tissu économique local sur l'ensemble des territoires. Pourtant, trop souvent, les actions politiques dans le domaine agricole ont manqué d'un cap clairement défini et clairement affiché....

Le monde produit 1,5 fois plus de nourriture qu’il n’en faut pour nourrir l’ensemble de la population, mais un tiers de la nourriture est perdu ou gaspillé. En outre, pendant que la plupart des paysans du Nord et du Sud étaient en pleine crise et voyaient leurs revenus fondre, les...