La artesana paraguaya María del Carmen, 38 años, cree en el empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales por medio de la producción y la comercialización del algodón, además de generar una importante fuente de trabajo e ingreso a las familias que se dedican a la agricultura primaria o de pequeña escala. Su...

Desde su origen la humanidad ha utilizado a la flora y la fauna de diversas maneras, como alimento, bebida, medicina, ropa, materiales de construcción y combustible. No es de sorprenderse entonces que a una escala planetaria, la diversidad cultural de la especie humana se encuentra estrechamente asociada con las principales...

Declaración de Santo Domingo: Juntos hacia una Iberoamérica justa y Sostenible, aprobada durante la XXVIII Cumbre Iberoamericana de Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno realizada el 25 de marzo de 2023. Las Jefas y los Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los países iberoamericanos, reunidos el 25 de...

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018, endeavors to address the distinctive demands and realities of peasants and rural communities through the prism of human rights and governmental responsibilities. With its 28...

The present study reports the population structure, genetic admixture and phylogeography of cattle breeds of Sri Lanka viz. Batu Harak, Thawalam and White cattle. Moderately high level of genetic diversity was observed in all the three Sri Lankan zebu cattle breeds. Estimates of inbreeding for Thawalam and White cattle breeds...

This interview is part of a series conducted in the lead-up to the 4th Global Conference of the One Planet Network Sustainable Food Systems programme to be held from 24-27 April in Hanoi, Vietnam.  When asked about the current moment for food systems, Lim Li Ching brings the conversation back to 2009, when...

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a tool for fostering a new paradigm in natural resources management. Combined with an Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) approach, in community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration, PAR facilitates transformative change through a simultaneous process of research and taking action, linked together by critical refl ection....

Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held un-der customary tenure. Yet there are many contending views and debates on the impact of these land policies and this book reveals how tenure security, agricultural productivity, and social inclusion were...

Dados do Censo Agro 2017, divulgado pelo IBGE em 2022, mostram que a região Norte concentra a maior proporção de produtores rurais indígenas (5%). O último Censo realizado mostrou que estabelecimentos indígenas têm maior proporção de mulheres na sua administração (25,90%). Além disso, 27,99% dos produtores indígenas têm menos de...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming. These writeshops represented an opportunity...

El gobierno brasileño formalizó este miércoles 22 el regreso del Programa de Adquisición de Alimentos (PAA), que consiste en la compra de frutas, verduras, leche y otros alimentos ofrecidos por pequeños productores para ser enviados a poblaciones en situación de inseguridad alimentaria. En su nueva versión, el programa quiere incentivar la participación...

Entre os dias 11 e 14 de dezembro acontece, em Brasília, a 6ª Conferência Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional com o lema: “Erradicar a fome e garantir direitos com comida de verdade, democracia e equidade”, que resultará em recomendações para a elaboração do 3º Plano Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e...

Esta será la tercera ocasión que Regeneration International realice la Cumbre Alimentaria de los Pueblos. Este evento único en su clase, es una gran celebración de 24 horas del Día Mundial de la Alimentación, el 16 de octubre de 2023, en la que participarán ponentes apasionantes de todas las regiones...

Between 2017 and 2022, LandCam explored creative strategies to enable Indigenous communities in rural areas of Cameroon to exercise their rights to their historical and legitimate territories. Cameroon’s land laws do not recognise collective and customary land rights, making Indigenous Peoples particularly vulnerable to expropriation, displacement and human rights violations. A...

The 2023 ECOSOC Youth Forum is convened by the President of ECOSOC and co-organized by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), and the Office of the Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, in collaboration with the United Nations Inter Agency Network on Youth Development (IANYD), and co-convened by the Major Group...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.

O setor agropecuário é um dos que sofrem os maiores impactos negativos resultantes das mudanças do clima. A principal conclusão das pesquisas é que as secas, a maior variabilidade da precipitação, a elevação das temperaturas médias e os extremos de calor, bem como as grandes concentrações atmosféricas de gás carbônico,...

Este libro reúne los resultados de investigación de los becarios de la segunda cohorte del Programa de Investigación y Formación en Sistemas Agroecológicos Andinos apoyado por la alianza entre Fundación McKnight y CLACSO. Este proyecto ha permitido que estudiantes de posgrado lleven a cabo investigaciones relevantes para la agricultura de...

La Plataforma de Conocimientos sobre Agricultura Familiar en colaboración con Barefoot Guide Connection organizó una serie de “talleres de escritura”, para ayudar a los profesionales a escribir sus propias experiencias, generando conocimientos que destaquen las prácticas, cambios, innovaciones e impactos de lo que hacen en apoyo a la agricultura familiar. Estos...

Non-extractive and power-equalising research involves different knowledge holders (e.g. researchers and farmers) in a process of close cooperative engagement, jointly producing new knowledge, with mutual learning. As such, this form of cooperative enquiry is a significant reversal from dominant roles, locations, and ways of knowing. I offer some examples and reflections on...