Farms in Northern Ireland face a series of challenges due to the crisis in farm profitability which saw farm incomes drop by 16% in 2014/15 and a devastating 46% in 2015/16. Low prices threaten many farms since low profitability makes it less appealing for the next generation to take over. In...

Over the past 15 years, in Central and Eastern Europe, a strong informal network of land tenure and land management professionals interested in and working with land consolidation, land banking, land market development and other similar topics has emerged. The process has mainly been driven and also partly funded by...

La vida de las mujeres rurales en los cerros orientales de Bogotá (Colombia), en veredas como Los Saches, el Verjón Bajo, Fátima o el barrio San Luis, es afectada por la presión inmobiliaria, los decretos de delimitación forestal dictados sin recorrer el territorio, la siembra de especies no nativas, e,...

El Foro de Parlamentarios de la Pesca y la Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe (FOPPACALC) es un mecanismo promovido por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) que tiene por objeto fortalecer, desde los espacios legislativos, las acciones y políticas para incrementar...

The second newsletter of the SIMRA project has been published! It provides information on SIMRA’s progress after one year of working on the project; on SIMRA’s first stakeholder workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, in October 2016; and on SIMRA’s first results such as a social innovation definition, the launch of innovative...

Farmers from Manica Province, Gondola district in Mozambique welcomed FAO mission in support to Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in Mozambique. The mission focused on identifying priorities that promote sustainable proven innovative practices and principles of production and post-production processes (responding to the Regional Initiative 2 – RI2) over the...

Family farming (FF), a social category made up of individuals living in the rural milieu who work the land for productive and reproductive purposes, mainly with other family members, has assumed considerable importance as a social entity in a number of countries. Several definitions of FF are currently in use,...

Desde 2014, y con el apoyo de la ILC un grupo organizaciones en el país colaboran en la elaboración e implementación de una Estrategia Nacional de Involucramiento (ENI) para el acceso democrático a la tierra en Nicaragua. La ENI es un esfuerzo colectivo de articulación y de diálogo entre actores...

For the fifth consecutive year, Brazil is considered as being the second largest producer of transgenic plants of the world, after the United States. The area for this type of culture already exceeded 40 million of hectares in our country. The continuous increase of the area planted with transgenic soy, maize...

It was in 2015 that the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 17 Goals, and SDG 14 deals with marine ‘life below water’, which is is formulated with the aim to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

MagosVölgy Ecological Farm was established in 2013 by Judit and Zoltán Dezsény, a young urban-to-rural migrant couple. MagosVölgy Ecological Farm is situated in North-Hungary, 85 km north to the capital of Budapest. MagosVölgy literally means Seeds Valley as well as Elevated Valley. Seed is the core symbol of life, representing the...

The 2016 EIP-AGRI workshop in Krakow focused on building innovative food systems and supply chains which connect producers with consumers. The workshop covered both the perspective of the farmer and of the city, giving cities easy access to fresh, safe and healthy food, benefiting local producers and contributing to local...

Compilation of official support for the Declaration of the Decade on Family Farming 

Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...

Desde el 2013, Nitlapan ha venido trabajando en alianza con la  hoy financiera Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL) en brindar asesoría técnica a pequeños caficultores.  El testimonio de Aurora Galeano, es una muestra de cómo con una asistencia técnica adaptada al cultivo y a las condiciones de la familia genera resultados...

Serie de videos que muestran investigaciones, noticias, tecnología y avances que pueden ser adaptados por la pequeña agricultura.

Worldwide, the figures on child labour are worrying. According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are about 215 mn ‘child workers’, many of whom work full-time, and close to 170 mn are ‘trapped’ in activities considered...

La Guía brinda información elemental para que autoridades locales, entidades técnicas, productores y productoras y público en general puedan interiorizar y poner en marcha procesos para abastecer programas de compras públicas a partir de la producción local de alimentos y de la participación directa de la agricultura familiar, dinamizando la...

This video tells the story of Joyce, an inspiring and entrepreneurial Kenyan fish farmer who has overcome many challenges to develop a thriving Tilapia and Catfish farming business. FAO and the ASTF fund are supporting aquaculture programs in Kenya with the aim to increase local fish production to fulfil local...

This document provides a departing point and a brief summary of the livestock weight, impacts and related-policies for possible livestock evolution by 2050