The livestock sector is a complex one that touches not only on animal production and agriculture but on environment, health, and land-use rights. Addressing all of these topics within a policy is a delicate task especially where there is a wide range of competing objectives: economic growth, employment, equality, food...

The digital single market offers many opportunities for agriculture and food value chains -up to the consumer- to become smarter, more efficient, more circular and more connected. This event will place Horizon 2020 investments in farm and food digitisation in their broader policy context and showcase successful and inspirational projects....

'It is time to stop subsidizing agricultural practices that contribute to global warming, and start subsidizing food, farming and land-use practices that restore the soil’s capacity to draw down and re-sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil.' Ronnie Cummis

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), la Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) del Mercosur, la Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) de Brasil y la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) de Argentina, organizan la Campaña Regional #Mujeres Rurales, mujeres con derechos, una...

This brochure comes to support awareness about land security among the rural population and investors. Securing land tenure remains a problem in most African country. And for good reason, the legal security of land depends on social peace as well as economic and social development. In Côte d'Ivoire, FAO and...

In its October 2016 advice, ICES advised that all anthropogenic impact on eels – including recreational and commercial fishing at all stages, hydropower, pumping stations, and pollution should be kept as close to zero as possible. At the end of August of this year, LIFE Members from the Baltic Sea area,...

Esta publicación integra las actividades del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de políticas agroambientales en países de América Latina y el Caribe", en el marco del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil – FAO.  Con el propósito de compartir las experiencias y aprendizajes, el presente documento sintetiza los estudios desarrollados en Costa Rica, Cuba, Panamá,...

The power of statistics to support change cannot be overstated. In Tajikistan, no one knows this better than the State Agency for Statistics. High-level managers and professional statisticians from the Agency recently completed FAO training on a new methodology for surveying the country’s family farms. The practical training – conducted in...

The European Commission has proposed new fishing quotas for 2018 but new rules create a paradox whereby fishermen won’t actually be able to cast off and go out to sea. The Commission proposed new fishing quotas for 78 fish stocks in the Atlantic and North Sea on Tuesday (7 November). Fisheries...

Several advocacy forums are making progress in their processes to develop guidelines to support Family Farming. In some cases these guidelines have led to draft legislation for Family Farming being developed.

O acesso da população de baixa renda à moradia está mais fácil. Desde dezembro do ano passado, uma medida provisória publicada pelo governo federal desburocratiza, agiliza e reduz custos das ações de regularização fundiária urbana e rural no País. Com ela, as famílias que moram em locais irregulares têm mais...

Esta nueva publicación: “El Estado de Arte del Algodón en Países del Mercosur y Asociados”, compila información acerca de la cadena de valor del algodón con énfasis en la agricultura familiar de 6 países de America Latina: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay y Perú, cuyas informaciones fueron obtenidas entre el...

In 2016 one of the strongest El Niño events witnessed in the past 50 years struck. Mozambique, like many other countries in southern Africa was not spared. Thousands of farmers were left destitute as they helplessly watched their livestock die and crops fail as a severe drought raged on. The...

This technical guide provides details of numerous techniques specific for tropical wet zones. It describes the core principles of agroecology, distilling local knoweldge accumulated by family farming. This guide is designed as a support tool for technicians and farmers involved in actions to promote and develop agroecology and consists of two...

Pescado artesanal is an online platform and a communication campaign to increase the consumption of artisanal seafood. The online platform pools products of four auctions, making local seafood more accessible to buyers.

LIFE members, staff and scientists explain current challenges and future opportunities to give the right to fish Bluefin Tuna back to small-scale fishing communities. Small-scale fishers play a vital role for coastal communities. For centuries they fished for Bluefin tuna, which provided a significant seasonal source of income for them. Since...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has launched the “Agribusiness Development through Entrepreneurship for Youth Employment” project in cooperation with several agricultural technical schools in Fayoum, Egypt. The project is educating, developing, and assisting young agriculture students or graduates that have demonstrated entrepreneurial promise.

Future policies towards livestock farming and trade in the UK and EU should support a shift to healthy sustainable diets and develop more coherent approaches to environmental objectives such as climate change, protecting nature and high animal welfare.

Desde su aprobación en 2015, la Agenda para el Desarrollo Sostenible ha convocado a los países a repensar el actual modelo de desarrollo y a hacer las transformaciones necesarias para erradicar el hambre y la pobreza. Los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible constituyen un ambicioso marco de referencia para que gobiernos...

Esta herramienta de comunicación e incidencia es el resultado de estrategias implementadas por grupos de mujeres que trabajan por la garantía de sus derechos, el reconocimiento de sus identidades y la participación en los espacios de toma de decisiones que afectan a las mujeres rurales en Latinoamérica. Con esta herramienta se...