Darragh Flynn (27) started the Happy Pear Living Foods Farm 4 years ago in 2009. He now grows wheatgrass and many different types of sprouts, like beans, sunflower, chickpeas, alfafa, leaks, etc. Darragh delivers all over Ireland and shows us that even without land, it is possible to set up...

CEJA has officially launched the online survey “European Young Farmers: Building a sustainable sector” to hear young farmers’ opinions on farm sustainability to create a better future for young farmers across Europe.  The survey is open to all young farmers across Europe and aims to understand the needs of young farmers...

The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) programme, launched as an initiative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2002, provides international recognition to important traditional agricultural systems (including forestry and fisheries) which conserve agrobiodiversity, indigenous knowledge, culture heritage and agricultural landscapes. Today (as of August 2017), there...

The main cause of food insecurity for many communal households in Zimbabwe is their reliance upon a form of subsistence-based agriculture which is dependent on a limited range of inputs often poorly suited to local conditions. The current agricultural system prioritizes monocropping and grain yield over other factors of food...

This fourth edition of Agrinnovation magazine gives you a round-up of EIP-AGRI news, events and stories from the past year. With food production and short supply chains as its main theme, this edition includes inspirational ideas from Greece, Estonia, Poland, the UK and many more. It also covers opportunities under...

More flexibility to European Union (EU) countries to support young farmers, more ecological focus areas, more support for farmers facing income losses – these were just some of the proposed improvements to EU agri-food policy agreed by EU member states on 16 October 2017. The changes to the four main regulations governing...

The Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure state that responsible investments should do no harm, and safeguard against dispossession of legitimate tenure right holders. They also embody international legal provisions requiring the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from Indigenous Peoples to any project that may affect them. This course...

The South-South Cooperation Forum held at Park Village Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal on 14-16 December 2017 was a success with over 70 participants consisting of farmer leaders, representatives of farmers’ and fishers’ organizations, government officials, scholars from South Asian countries as well as international development partners in attendance. South Asian Association for...

Agricultural land is a precious good and a special asset. It is essential for food, feed and energy production, and the delivery of public goods. It remains a matter within the competency of each Member State of the European Union on a national level. Yet, the acquisition of farmland and...

Minority Rights Group International (MRG) wholeheartedly applauds an historic judgment from the African Court of Human and Peoples Rights in Arusha today in favour of the Ogiek community of Kenya. Following an eight-year legal battle, the Court found that the Kenyan government violated seven separate articles of the African Charter in a land rights...

The newsletter of May 2017 includes: Latest report by the European Court of Auditors confirms lack of transparency in the allocation of fishing opportunities LIFE members from Finland, France, Denmark and LIFE staff as ambassadors of European small-scale fisheries at the event organized by Slow Food in Genoa (Italy) Other news from around...

The report outlines the results of an EU-wide survey among young farmers carried out by CEJA and DeLaval in all Member States. Based on a questionnaire, the objective was to discover the opinion of young farmers in relation to the sustainability of the agricultural sector, together with the challenges they...

The study “Mapping and analysis of the implementation of the CAP” has three main objectives: (1) to map the implementation of the CAP by the 28 Member States, focusing on their implementation choices, the motivation for these choices and the importance attached to the three CAP general objectives; (2) to...

Mais de 1 milhão de famílias vivem em 9.332 assentamentos espalhados pelo Brasil. Cerca de 85%, no entanto, ainda não têm o título da terra. O secretário Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário, José Ricardo Roseno, explica que a falta da documentação dificulta o acesso dos agricultores às...

Pulses are already part of the standard diet in Angola, especially beans (butter, pinto and dry beans) and chickpeas. However, the fair hoped to highlight the wide range of available pulses that can be incorporated into an everyday diet and to raise awareness of the important environmental and nutritional benefits...

The Government of Malawi is currently reviewing the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP), which was initiated in 2005/2006, as a programme to combat poverty and food insecurity. This paper is intended to inform the FISP review and, in particular, how it can be coordinated with the Social Cash Transfer Programme...

Na agricultura familiar é visível como o amor à terra passa de geração para geração. As crianças são capazes de acompanhar o trabalho rural, uma vez que ele acontece no próprio lar. O cuidado com a terra é transferido de mãe para filhos e transforma vidas no campo. Um desses exemplos...

Community Supported Fisheries have been springing up all over the world. They are every bit as much an answer to industrial fishing as CSA is to agriculture. In North America there are already many thousands of members in an organised network, Local Catch.org. The network has much in common with...

The EIP-AGRI workshop 'Organic is Operational' took place in Hamburg, Germany, on Wednesday 14 and Thursday 15 June 2017.

There is self-evidently a place and a need for both small and larger scale fishing fleets, but this requires first of all establishing a level playing field that ensures fair access to resources, to markets, to sector support, and to decision taking processes for all fleet segments.