Integrated Pest Management (IPM) has been known for some decades but is often used and understood in different ways by different people. In other words, all available control options (e.g. cultural, physical, biological, chemical) should be considered and applied reasonably by farmers. Nevertheless, IPM is not simply a toolbox and integration...

Uma pesquisa do Centro de Apoio e Promoção da Agroecologia (Capa), instituição executora de contrato de assistência técnica e extensão rural (Ater) da Sead, apontou que houve ampliação da diversificação entre agricultores familiares produtores de tabaco. “Havendo segurança de que outro sistema produtivo possui maior viabilidade, troca-se de sistema”, conclui o levantamento,...

Malnutrition, including over- and under-nutrition and micro-nutrient deficiencies, is the top contributor to the global disease burden. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, 2 billion are overweight or obese and 2 billion are micronutrient deficient. The vast majority of the world’s hungry live in developing countries. Southern Asia faces the greatest...

The solution to these global challenges rests upon unlocking the full potential of women in the world of work. Did you know that 52% of Zimbabweans are women, and yet there are fewer women being represented in parliament (32%), local Authority (16.7%) and in managerial positions in the private sector...

Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world but thanks to its political and social stability has experienced a higher economic growth compared to its neighboring countries. Senegalese population strongly relies on agriculture and livestock rearing activities: 46 percent of the workforce is employed in the agricultural sector,...

Productores de 14 países demandaron políticas concretas para potenciar la producción ecológica y la alimentación saludable al cierre del VII Encuentro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Agricultura Ecológica y Orgánica que tuvo lugar en Rurrenabaque, Beni. Más de 200 productores reunidos en el municipio beniano reclamaron a los gobiernos de la región...

El Proyecto Insignia Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar para la Economía Rural y la Seguridad Alimentaria del IICA presenta un instrumento de apoyo para los servicios de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural, cuyo fin es servir de base para realizar una autoevaluación sobre el desempeño institucional, delinear una...

La conférence a pour objectif de Montrer l’importance de l’agriculture familiale dans un contexte d’émergence de l’agri- business en Afrique Centrale, en vue d’un soutien plus accru des gouvernements et des partenaires en faveur des organisations paysannes, en particulier des jeunes entrepreneurs agricoles. Analyser les politiques publiques nationales et régionales en matière...

O governo do Estado de Mato grosso do Sul decretou a criação de dois programas de apoio de incentivo a agricultura familiar e indígena: o Programa de Apoio às Comunidades Indígenas (Procacin) e o Projeto Quintal Produtivo. O Proacin é destinado a apoiar os agricultores familiares das comunidades indígenas para o...

Seabirds forage in highly productive areas of the ocean, which are also targeted by commercial fishing vessels. This overlap can cause them to be accidentally caught on hooks, or entangled in nets. For small-scale low impact fishers, such incidental by-catches of seabirds represent a potential danger to life and limb....

More than 40 percent of economically active women in Armenia are employed in agriculture, compared to about 30 percent of men. The vast majority of those women are informal workers on family farms however, and this fact has major implications for rural livelihoods and wellbeing, according to a report just...

Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity is a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. Farmers often have limited access to genetic resources. Not only do they need greater access to the genetic material in research stations and gene banks, they also need to collaborate with scientists who are willing...

Le mardi 12 septembre 2017, Monsieur le Ministre de l’Agriculture, du Développement rural et de la pêche a procédé à l’ouverture officielle de l’atelier de démarrage de projet «Promotion du Développement inclusif des chaines de valeurs dans la région de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche Orient «NENA»  au niveau de...

Video que muestra la relevancia de recolección de aguas lluvia, a través de cisternas, en territorios con escasez hídrica como en el semiárido brasileño. La recolección les permite disponer del recurso y regar sus plantaciones todo el año.

A Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) assinou, no final de dezembro, o primeiro contrato de compra de alimentos orgânicos de agricultores familiares do Amazonas, por meio do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). O projeto, da Associação dos Produtores Orgânicos do Estado do Amazonas (Apoam), prevê o fornecimento de 12,36...

LIFE strongly urges MEPs of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) to vote against the lifting of restrictions to pulse fishing.

The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) are the first international instrument dedicated entirely to the immensely important – but until now often neglected – small-scale fisheries sector. The SSF Guidelines represent a global consensus on principles and guidance...

Effective management of water resources on irrigated lands, monitoring of irrigated and arid pastures, water conservation in irrigated agriculture, and the influence of agroforestry and protective afforestation on water conservation were the focus of the roundtable held here today at Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Co-organized by the FAO Liaison Office with the...

For more than a decade, Main Street Project has been working to create new possibilities for the growing numbers of rural Latino immigrantsstranded in low-wage farming and food industry jobs with no benefits and no future. In 2010, Main Street Project set out to create a new regional food system...

Copa and Cogeca launch new #EUFarmRecipes book, each recipe with a story to tell, to show consumers that farmers and their cooperatives are the first producers of food