These guidelines have been prepared as practical action points to strengthen small-scale fishing organisations and help them make their voices heard in the decision-making process. Based on interviews with fishers and fishing organisations from the Atlantic (France, Spain and Portugal), the guidelines are made up of practical action sheets, each...

On 18 January 2017, the issue of the human rights of agricultural workers with no land of their own and other people working in rural areas was placed on the agenda of the European Council Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) for the first time. As a researcher studying how...

The SDG Insights is a series of video interviews conducted with a wide range of experts on what the future looks like for businesses, governments, NGOs and international organisations who are aligning themselves with the Sustainable Development Goals. Coming from many different backgrounds, we hear them openly share insights on their personal...

140 tons of ghost nets retrieved by 533 Polish small-scale fishers…and counting!  

Agriculture is a major factor in sustainable global resource management in terms of land, water, biodiversity, and emissions to land, water, and the atmosphere. Agriculture is not just rural, but occurs on and within the margins of urban areas and major cities. Production depends on resourceintensive input supplies, and interfaces...

The rationale of this project is to reduce vulnerability of the rural Jordanian and the disadvantaged communities in the context of water scarcity for agriculture, increased demand for food and livelihood provision from growing populations, and rising energy demand. To this end, the project pilots a three-pronged, community-based approach, combining...

3rd Prize winner of ALiSEA and Luang Prabang Film Festival short film contest about Youth & Agroecology. The pyramid compost is about a simple solution to a big problem. Documenting the inspiring initiative of a local woman from Chiang Mai, in her efforts to stop agricultural burning and promote organic...

Nesta quarta-feira (8), a campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos foi lançada a nível internacional na sede da Organização das Nações Unidas para Alimentação e Agricultura (FAO), em Brasília. As ações acontecerão até o mês de novembro e têm como temática os 17 Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) estabelecidos pela...

Por meio do Bolsa Família, o governo federal ajuda com dinheiro 13,8 milhões  de famílias pobres no Brasil, metade delas no Nordeste. A Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA) é uma rede de três mil organizações sociais que promove a coleta de água de chuva, bem como técnicas e conhecimentos para uma...

In this Rural Connection number we have information’s about a LAG mission to China and the ensuing cooperation that will follow, about a LAG initiative tackling mental health issues in rural areas, about the major Agri Innovation Summit held in Lisbon, the PEGASUS research project, the first European Rural Youth...

Cooperatives are a relatively recent business model, dating back only to the 1840s, but their short history has been full of twists and turns. Today, in countries once part of the Soviet Union, cooperatives operate under a wide variety of laws, regulations and tax codes. Now those laws, civil codes and...

Jameed is an important dairy product in Jordan that has been produced in the region for centuries and used as a main ingredient in popular traditional cuisine called Mansaf. Jameed is a hard dry skimmed yogurt, mainly processed using sheep milk using a small scale labor-intensive process. Jameed processing is...

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. It is a short poetic documentary about the process of harvesting to produce peanut oil in...

This issue of the FARNET Magazine not only highlights the ability of FLAGs to adapt to a wide variety of territories but also to reach those parts of society that others cannot reach while tackling head on some of the important challenges faced by EU fisheries and aquaculture sectors. Indeed,...

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...