Family farming remains the predominant form of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. There are more than 570 million farms in the world of which over 500 million are family-owned. They are responsible for at least 56 percent of agricultural production. These smallholder resource-poor farmers are confronted by many challenges...

El presente documento es un conjunto de estudios realizados en 2015 en ocho países y es complementario al ya publicado en 2014 y reeditado/actualizado por el IICA en 2016 con el título “Políticas públicas y Agriculturas familiares en América Latina y el Caribe: balance, desafíos y perspectivas” Este nuevo material...

Due to inaccurate methods of harvesting, farmers tend to destroy the quality of the mangoes and obtain reduced yields of the fruit which results in a loss of income of the farmers. Through selective harvesting techniques, mangoes are harvested in three stages from the trees based on their maturity level....

Agriculture contributes significantly to Morocco’s economy and employs 40 percent of the country’s workforce. But the sector continues to face major challenges and important steps need to be taken to make it more sustainable. Working with the private sector to pave the way is key. With this in mind, the...

Viva Maria continua em campanha pelo empoderamento das mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos! Até o próximo dia 15 de agosto estão sendo coletados depoimentos de trabalhadoras do campo, das águas e da floresta. São mulheres como Dona Raimunda dos Cocos que dedicou sua vida à luta pelo babaçu livre. Pra isso ela...

Transmission of farms within the family - this is the main theme of the European project Farm Success, in which the Association of Private Agriculture in the Czech Republic is also involved . As part of our case studies, we have farms stories  from several European countries and we think it...

Family farmers in the West Bank are growing high value crops such as almonds and apricots on once-barren hillsides, seeing their incomes rise by 80 per cent or more. About 36,000 people have taken part in an IFAD-funded natural resource management programme, which prioritized terracing, fencing, irrigation, rock removal and...

This short film is part of the short films that have been received in the framework of the short film contest organized by ALiSEA and the Luang Prabang Film festival about Youth & Agroecology. Saynam, aged 30, was born into a middle-class agricultural family which farms and raises livestock. She...

A partir de junio y por un periodo inicial de seis meses, el Dr. Thierry Winkel, investigador francés experto en enfoques y metodologías de ciencias de sostenibilidad, se integró a la Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM) para apoyar la investigación Baquiana, “Bases sociales y ecológicas para la gestión participativa de...

A Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) levantou indicadores ambientais e financeiros para quem pretende fazer a transição agroecológica. A pesquisa faz parte do projeto Transição Produtiva e Serviços Ambientais, que teve início em 2013, e é feita em conjunto com agricultores familiares e médios produtores dos quatro biomas brasileiros:...

This report presents the findings of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group (FG) on 'Agroforestry: Integrating woody crops into specialised crop and livestock systems'. Agroforestry, here defined as the practice of integrating woody vegetation with crops and/or livestock systems, is a historical approach to farming that is being re-discovered. Agroforestry practices have...

O Governo Federal lançou o Programa Nacional de Regularização Fundiária para solucionar o caos fundiário histórico no país e, principalmente, na região Amazônica. Entre as novas ações, a Lei n°13.465/17 contempla o Terra Legal, transformando a execução do programa em uma política permanente. Tal direcionamento pretende fortalecer a agricultura familiar na Amazônia Legal, já que...

Around the world, knowledge about ecological impacts of fishing, especially in the smallscalesector, is generally poor, impeding thus the implementation of an ecosystem approach tofisheries (EAF). The same condition exists in Thailand where fisheries sustainability is a majorconcern. As a first step towards EAF, we conducted a comprehensive literature review...

The FAO Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming has just concluded the first ever e-learning series on social protection and agriculture for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, aimed at continuing the sensitization and practical capacity development of governments in the region to effectively adopt social protection policies that...

The European Union (EU) is continuing to work strategically to achieve its commitments to help reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025 and to allocate EUR 3.5 billion (2014–2020) to improve nutrition. Preliminary results for 2016 indicate a three-fold increase...

2nd Prize winner of ALiSEA and Luang Prabang Film Festival short film contest about Youth & Agroecology. What did you learn about the testimony of an organic farmer in Laos and his message to the younger generation...

Daqui a 15 dias, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) vai lançar a campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos 2017. Realizada entre março e outubro, a campanha vai valorizar a agricultora como protagonista do desenvolvimento sustentável no meio rural, mostrando a força e a importância da mulher do...

Social farming, or care farming as it is also called, defines short or long-term activities that use agricultural resources such as animals and plants to promote and generate social services in rural areas. Examples of these services include rehabilitation, therapy, sheltered employment, life-long education and other activities that contribute to...

El modelo de acumulación impulsado desde el Estado revitaliza la matriz primario exportadora, en la cual productos como el banano, cacao, flores o palma africana vienen a jugar un papel fundamental en la generación de empleo y de ingresos no petroleros para el país. Tal modelo vulnera nuestra soberanía y...

The specialisation and intensification of European farming systems increased productivity but also led to serious consequences on the environment. These consequences include water pollution due to an excess of manure and slurries in certain areas and high reliance on external mineral and feed inputs, loss of biodiversity and lower resilience...