Participatory research approaches are widely being used for promoting the uptake of agricultural integrated innovations. The methods encourage greater knowledge sharing among farmers and give them more confidence in the technology being promoted which in turn brings about wide adoption of the technology in question. Therefore, understanding efficiency and effectiveness...

This Report argues that the possibilities for ensuring women’s economic autonomy are distributed inequitably among the various territories within countries, affecting not only the quality of life of women who live in lagging territories, but also the development processes in the region’s countries.

The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. Not only is agricultural land the country’s main natural resource, the agricultural sector still accounts for 30 percent of...

Este video forma parte de un módulo de comunicación y capacitación sobre tierras comunales desarrollado en Guatemala para fomentar la participación activa e informada de las comunidades rurales en procesos decisionales relacionados con la tenencia de sus tierras. Este quinto y último bloque temático presenta lo que pueden hacer las comunidades...

The guidelines give an overview of the requirements for the organic feed processing. It describes the main aspects to consider, such as raw material selection, separation, labelling, packaging, transportation, storage, control, etc. This tool is a summary of the certification requirements and the reference regulation EAC 834/2007 (and its implementing...

Los artículos reunidos en este documento se basan en las ponencias y comentarios de los expertos que participaron en el seminario regional Agricultura y Cambio Climático: Agrobiodiversidad, Agricultura Familiar y Cambio Climático, realizado el 20 y 21 de agosto de 2014 en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América...

A Unique Sense of Place - the Tarnava Mare area of South-eastern Transylvania is one of the forgotten jewels in Romania's crown. It is one of the Europe's most important natural and cultural landscapes, including some of the finest pristine wildflower rich grasslands – the result of centuries of good...

Only a small number of governments have established meaningful and effective farmer-centred measures for the implementation of access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. One reason is the highly complex nature of the international regulatory system. This special issue of Farming Matters magazine presents practical ways in which access and...

The FAO Youth Mobility, Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction (RYM) project aims at mitigating distress economic mobility in Tunisia and Ethiopia. With the support of the Italian Development Cooperation, the project will promote innovative mechanisms and rural development strategies with the objective of mitigating distress migration for rural youth...

Con el objetivo de conocer el impacto que las investigaciones del CIMMYT tienen en el mundo y la importancia de acelerar la adopción de políticas públicas para incrementar la productividad de la agricultura en sus respectivos países, los embajadores de Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Panamá, así como el...

Pollen is one of the products of the beehive that the beekeeper can collect to increase his/her income from beekeeping. Pollen is often called the "super food". High performance athletes are quoted as eating pollen because of its high energetic power. Each pollen grain carries a variety of vitamins, proteins...

A hazelnut farm in France’s Aquitaine region sought to upgrade and extend its visitor centre to improve access to children and disabled people as well as to provide more facilities. The plan also responded to a rise in overall visitors. The hazelnut farm used EAFRD funding to create an interactive...

The 29th session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa will be held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, at Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire, from 4 to 8 April 2016. Jointly hosted by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Conference is...

Improved standards for food safety and animal health should make Georgia’s agriculture sector more competitive. That is exactly the objective of a new US$5 million project launched recently by FAO and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture. The four-year project – financed by the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Austria Development Agency –...

The main aim is to reduce costs and improve profitability. Soil health is improved as is soil moisture. Zambia is leading the way in Sub-Saharan Africa and this programme shows how the technique is practised.

EU forests serve a wide range of economic, social and environmental purposes and provide around three million jobs. Wood remains the main source of financial revenue and forest biomass represents the biggest source of renewable energy in the EU. However, forests also provide a large range of other products, such...

The key message of this video is that secure tenure rights provide the foundation for economic growth, enhanced food security and nutrition, reduced conflict, and improved natural resource management while also improving the overall investment environment, thereby fostering increased investment.It addresses the importance of safeguarding land tenure rights in line...

The Seminar is part of the ENRD work on ‘Smart and Competitive Rural Areas’ where the main objective is to ‘To maximise the impact that RDPs have on supporting farms and rural firms in accessing emerging markets’. The main focus for the activity has been on cooperation and investments which increase...

This short film is showing a bit from the daily life on a summer mountain goat farm I Western Norway. It shows a modern and mechanized summer mountain farm with mechanized milking. The milk is preceded and on the farm. The chesse is sold from the farm and delivered to...

How 25 women farmers are working to reduce pesticides use and shift to agroecology