The power of statistics to support change cannot be overstated. In Tajikistan, no one knows this better than the State Agency for Statistics. High-level managers and professional statisticians from the Agency recently completed FAO training on a new methodology for surveying the country’s family farms. The practical training – conducted in...

The European Commission has proposed new fishing quotas for 2018 but new rules create a paradox whereby fishermen won’t actually be able to cast off and go out to sea. The Commission proposed new fishing quotas for 78 fish stocks in the Atlantic and North Sea on Tuesday (7 November). Fisheries...

Several advocacy forums are making progress in their processes to develop guidelines to support Family Farming. In some cases these guidelines have led to draft legislation for Family Farming being developed.

O acesso da população de baixa renda à moradia está mais fácil. Desde dezembro do ano passado, uma medida provisória publicada pelo governo federal desburocratiza, agiliza e reduz custos das ações de regularização fundiária urbana e rural no País. Com ela, as famílias que moram em locais irregulares têm mais...

Esta nueva publicación: “El Estado de Arte del Algodón en Países del Mercosur y Asociados”, compila información acerca de la cadena de valor del algodón con énfasis en la agricultura familiar de 6 países de America Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay y Perú, cuyas informaciones fueron obtenidas entre el...

In 2016 one of the strongest El Niño events witnessed in the past 50 years struck. Mozambique, like many other countries in southern Africa was not spared. Thousands of farmers were left destitute as they helplessly watched their livestock die and crops fail as a severe drought raged on. The...

This technical guide provides details of numerous techniques specific for tropical wet zones. It describes the core principles of agroecology, distilling local knoweldge accumulated by family farming. This guide is designed as a support tool for technicians and farmers involved in actions to promote and develop agroecology and consists of two...

Pescado artesanal is an online platform and a communication campaign to increase the consumption of artisanal seafood. The online platform pools products of four auctions, making local seafood more accessible to buyers.

LIFE members, staff and scientists explain current challenges and future opportunities to give the right to fish Bluefin Tuna back to small-scale fishing communities. Small-scale fishers play a vital role for coastal communities. For centuries they fished for Bluefin tuna, which provided a significant seasonal source of income for them. Since...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the “Agribusiness Development through Entrepreneurship for Youth Employment” project in cooperation with several agricultural technical schools in Fayoum, Egypt. The project is educating, developing, and assisting young agriculture students or graduates that have demonstrated entrepreneurial promise.

Future policies towards livestock farming and trade in the UK and EU should support a shift to healthy sustainable diets and develop more coherent approaches to environmental objectives such as climate change, protecting nature and high animal welfare.

Desde su aprobación en 2015, la Agenda para el Desarrollo Sostenible ha convocado a los países a repensar el actual modelo de desarrollo y a hacer las transformaciones necesarias para erradicar el hambre y la pobreza. Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible constituyen un ambicioso marco de referencia para que gobiernos...

Esta herramienta de comunicación e incidencia es el resultado de estrategias implementadas por grupos de mujeres que trabajan por la garantía de sus derechos, el reconocimiento de sus identidades y la participación en los espacios de toma de decisiones que afectan a las mujeres rurales en Latinoamérica. Con esta herramienta se...

Under the high-patronage of Dr. Khalid Bin Abdul Rahman Al-Ohaly President of the Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain and Dr. Ismahane Elouafi Director General of International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the international workshop on “Climate Change and Soil Salinity Dynamics - Threats and Challenges”...

Este estudio indaga sobre la inserción y experiencia laboral de los jóvenes rurales en el Chile de la segunda década del siglo XXI; esos jóvenes, hombres y mujeres que actualmente tienen entre 15 y 29 años, han nacido y se están desarrollando en un entorno económico, social, cultural e incluso demográfico radicalmente distinto del de...

¿Qué es un sistema alimentario? En una región donde conceptos como los de cadena de valor, agrocadena o cadena productiva se han abordado de múltiples maneras, se hace necesario ampliar la perspectiva desde una dimensión más integral de las implicaciones derivadas de la idea de que los alimentos pueden estar...

Stakeholders in the agriculture sector in Eastern Africa have developed a strategy to fight Fall Armyworm pest which is increasingly threatening food security, trade, and livelihoods in Africa, bringing together all actors in the sub-region. The strategy was the outcome of a Regional Strategy Workshop on Fall Armyworm in Eastern and...

Las premisas de la Convención sobre la Eliminación de todas las Formas de Discriminación contra la Mujer (1979), la declaración de Brasilia, de la Conferencia de Mujeres Rurales para América Latina y el Caribe (2014) y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (2016) orientan las reflexiones presentadas en este “Atlas de...

By pooling the ideas and knowledge of technical experts, partners, and concerned national institutions, Kyrgyzstan aims to prepare a high-quality proposal for financing by the Green Climate Fund. A three-day national facilitation workshop on Green Climate Fund readiness and project formulation – hosted and organized by Kyrgyzstan’s State Agency on...

Everybody needs food – and that means that everybody needs farmers. Farming was one of humanity's first professions, an organised way to meet the fundamental needs of each and every person on the planet. It's this fundamental need that means that farming is just as important today as it was...