The rural productive and land management sectors generate significant amounts of organic waste in forms such as wood residues (such as bark, hedge trimmings or leaves), manure, food processing waste and agricultural residues (such as straw). These ‘waste’ products have a significant amount of energetic value. New technologies and greater...

The multiple and complex interconnections between rural and urban spaces, people and enterprises and how these affect poverty and food insecurity are all too often overlooked. Small towns are an important but often neglected element of rural landscapes and food systems. They perform several essential functions, from market nodes for...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), today launched the regional project “Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in NENA countries” during a regional event taking place in Cairo, Egypt. The project will also...

The video explores the role and place of women along fisheries value chain: The significance and values their involvement in fisheries brings to the communities and fisheries development. Why are they involved in fisheries? how are they organized for space in decision-making and policy processes? The focus of this study...

Le riz est un produit essentiel pour la sécurité alimentaire de l’Afrique de l’Ouest. La crise alimentaire de 2008 y a déclenché des politiques publiques d’appuis aux filières riz. La préoccupation des gouvernements est d’assurer la stabilité politique en veillant à la sécurité alimentaire des populations urbaines de plus en...

Climate change represents a challenge for rural people in West and Central Africa, causing water shortages and droughts in some areas and floods in others. It impacts both the demand and availability of water for agriculture, affecting the proportion of people suffering from insecure access to water. Smallholder farmers are...

Every three years, the organic sector comes together at the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest and most significant organic gathering, to discuss and deliberate issues of the day. The OWC is an unique opportunity to share experiences, innovations and knowledge about organics and also take part in the...

The United Nations’ urgent call in February for hunger relief for 20 million people in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria has drawn the world’s attention to the connection between conflict and hunger. While there is no doubt that armed conflicts are a main driver of these hunger crises, more...

FONTAGRO abre hoy la inscripción para la primera edición del Curso Virtual: Preparación de propuestas formales para proyectos de investigación e innovación agropecuaria – Caso FONTAGRO. Este aprendizaje en línea permitirá a los participantes  diseñar propuestas formales de proyectos conceptualizados y estructurados para que resulten útiles tanto en convocatorias de FONTAGRO, como en otras organizaciones nacionales...

The European Parliamentary Research Service has published, in March 2017, a research briefing analyzing the mains drivers of rural poverty and social exclusion in the EU and the European policies and instruments to fight it. The report presents statistics on rural poverty compared to urban poverty. Overall, in the European Union,...

The number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa has increased mainly due to the impact of conflict and climate change with the situation pointing to the urgent need to build affected communities' resilience and to find peaceful solutions that strengthen food security. The prevalence of chronic undernourishment appears to have risen...

Dans un contexte d’aggravation des inégalités entre les agricultures du monde et d’exclusion des paysanneries, AVSF poursuit l’objectif de renforcer les organisations de producteur du Sud dans leurs capacités à participer directement et s’articuler dans des conditions qui leur sont plus favorables aux marchés conventionnels, et se positionner sur des...

Comment: Small in Scale, Large in Scope, Japan - Coastal Communities: A Tsunami is Coming by Xavier Basurto et al., Chile – SSF: Chilled Out by  Juan Carlos Cárdenas and Patricio Igor Melillanca,  Analysis SIDs: Not One Fit by Masanori Kobayashi, Obituary - Christian Brun: Articulate, Wise, Patient by  Michel...

Quinoa, once a staple food of only the indigenous people in the Andes, has become a darling of food aficionados around the world in recent years. So popular it has grown that even some fast food restaurant chains have now dishes and salads with it on their menus. Its exceptional...

El número total de personas que sufre hambre en América Latina y el Caribe ha aumentado, lo cual está revirtiendo décadas de progresos. Al mismo tiempo, el sobrepeso y la obesidad afectan a todos los grupos de edad en hombres y mujeres y constituye  un problema de salud pública en todos...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published a comprehensive series of studies on small-scale family farming in the Near East and North Africa with the aim of catalysing the work of development and agricultural practitioners towards sustainable and inclusive development of in the NENA region. Dr. Alfredo...

Nos arredores da grande São Paulo, na área rural do distrito de Parelheiros, uma mulher começou a trabalhar de forma tímida com o manuseio da terra. Vinte anos se passaram e ela é hoje a responsável pela existência de uma agrofloresta, que fica há cerca de noventa quilômetros do centro...

Healthy food and nutrition is a very immediate and personal part of our lives, and it is our agricultural sector that lays the foundation for this. Our agricultural, horticultural, viticultural and forestry sectors are also instrumental in shaping our homeland and landscapes. Food, agriculture and homeland: since time immemorial, these...

El feminismo ha avanzado mucho en reflexionar, que ya no podemos seguir hablando de las mujeres como un “grupo homogéneo víctimas pasivas de la opresión”, como bien señala la autora feminista post colonialista Mohanty. Ciertamente, no podemos. Sin embargo, sí podemos seguir argumentando que el patriarcado nos alcanza a todas,...

From the Editor, Analysis 1 - SDG 5: Gender equal fisheries by Meryl J Williams, Milestones - The Entebbe Declaration by Venugopalan N, Profile - An independent life! For Metty, a fisherwoman from Kerala, India, fishing has been a mainstay for over four decades by Nikita Gopal, Analysis 2 -...