Smallholder farmers produce most of the food in developing countries, but still they account for majority of the 800 million food insecure and poorest people globally. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger worldwide. Smallholders and their families account for a large portion of our...

Este documento presenta a FAO los conceptos utilizados en un análisis integrativo de estudios de caso realizados en Guatemala, Jamaica, Paraguay, Perú y Brasil en el marco de los sistemas de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural (ATER), y un conjunto de recomendaciones cuyo objetivo es mejorar dichos servicios para agricultoras...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

The innovation stems from an FAO project – financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), and the European Union’s Comprehensive Institution Building Programme (CIB). The aim of the initial pilot project was to create a network of agro-meteorology stations that use data on air temperature, humidity and other factors to...

The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zimbabwe from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...

This booklet has been written by the European Access to Land network in cooperation with Urgenci, the network for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), based on CSA members’ stories from across Europe. Land and communities – new building stones for European food and agriculture. In the last 10 years alone, Europe has...

When countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) achieved their independence, formal social protection schemes established by former colonial powers were, to varying degrees, assimilated or mimicked by the State, particularly pension systems for government and formal-sector workers. These systems, however, have proven to be highly subsidised and...

A  leaflet on opportunities for small-scale coastal fishermen in the EMFF.

The FAO Director-General argued that the world's rural areas will be the key battleground in the push to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda, since it is there that poverty and hunger are most concentrated.At the same time, most of the increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.   

Unsustainable water use (over-drafted aquifers, seasonally dry rivers, disappearing lakes and wetlands) is a problem across the world. This is especially true in the NENA region, which includes many of the most water-short countries in the world. This review indicates that there are rather few examples of carefully documented impacts...

These guidelines have been prepared by IFOAM-Organics International as part of theGlobal Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture. This is a special adaptedversion of a more complete report. It has been adapted to suit the needs and currentcontext of Sub-Saharan African countries. Country examples are chosen to reflectsituations...

The civil conflicts in South Sudan has since 2013 resulted into increased influx of refugees into West Nile, Uganda. As at February 2017, the FAO estimated the total refugee population in West Nile region at 628,000 people (86% women and children, 3% the elderly, and 5 people per household). While...

L’atelier multi-acteurs, « Rôles des organisations professionnelles agricoles (OPA) dans les services de formation professionnelle et d’appui-conseil pour les petites et moyennes exploitations agricoles des périmètres de grande hydraulique au Maroc », animé par le bureau d’étude Cap Rural, s’est déroulé le 17 septembre 2015 à l’ENA-M. Il a rassemblé...

Com o objetivo de incentivar e valorizar experiências exitosas da agricultura familiar no ambiente escolar, o Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE), autarquia vinculada ao Ministério da Educação, lançou na última semana o concurso Boas Práticas de Agricultura Familiar para a Alimentação Escolar. Trata-se de um processo seletivo que...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

Investir em diferentes tipos de produtos em uma mesma propriedade traz muito mais que benefícios financeiros, representa também benefícios para o meio ambiente. A forma como se cultiva os alimentos faz toda a diferença. A escolha do que plantar, quando plantar e como plantar pode ser fundamental para conservar a...

The global discourse on food sovereignty suggests several mechanisms for improving food security and agricultural livelihoods, including redistributive land reform and restructuring of markets to improve food distribution and access. In Brazil, the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) social welfare programme has created innovative links between public nutrition and food security programmes and...

Bimestriel d'informations du monde rural et de l'environnement en République Démocratique du Congo

The overall objective of this Regional Initiative is to reduce rural poverty by promoting and supporting inclusive small-scale agricultural development, with special attention to governance and institutions, including improving access of smallholders to social protection, rural services and markets, strengthening the capacities of producers’ organizations and promoting youth employment and...