Major global corporations have tried to advance digitalization of African agriculture by launching payment systems, credit platforms, and digital insurance. But to serve largely subsistence farmers, they have to compete against the local startups — particularly on cost of service in a highly fragmented business, with no easy path to...

The Focus Group on reducing emissions from cattle farming explored possibilities for mitigating emissions of ethane and ammonia from cattle – and their cost effectiveness. Its scope included both milk and meat cattle and all types of production intensities but was limited to mitigation measures at animal and animal housing...

This report was developed under the FAO EBRD project on bioenergy with the aim is to support decision-making related to bioenergy investment in countries of operations of the EBRD. Egypt, a country of operation, has a large agriculture sector, the requirement to produce 20 percent of its electricity from renewable...

América Latina y el Caribe es una de las regiones que más ha avanzado en la lucha contra el hambre en los últimos años y la primera en comprometerse a erradicarla al 2025, cinco años antes de la meta de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). Aun así, el hambre...

Os antropólogos que vão aos Krahô só pesquisam os homens. Eles não pesquisam as mulheres. Neste ensaio, a pesquisadora busca alcançar o entendimento do seu povo, os Krahô, ouvindo as mulheres. Após o contato com os não indígenas, passamos a sofrer para aprender a cultura dos Cupen. O mesmo parece não acontecer...

Sweden: extra quota allocation to trawlers could put the survival of the Western Baltic Cod stock and SSFs are risk

The campaign is within the framework of the Sustainble Development Goals (SDG) and is based on the reflections of the Conference on Rural Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Brasilia, 2014) and the XIII Regional Conference on Women (Montevideo, 2016), as in the experience of two previous campaigns regarding...

Organic agriculture is one of the most widely known alternative production systems advocated for its benefits to soil, environment, health and economic well-being of farming communities. Rapid increase in the market demand for organic products presents a remarkable opportunity for expansion of organic agriculture. A thorough understanding of the context...

L’objet de la présente étude est de faire l’analyse de la situation de la petite agriculture (élevage et culture) qui constitue le mode de production prévalent en milieu rural mauritanien en dehors des grandes exploitations irriguées tenues par des opérateurs privés (l’agro-business) et les systèmes pastoraux agropastoraux transhumants et semi-intensifs...

Chiapas, Mexico is one of several coffee-growing areas that has been hit hard by coffee’s biggest enemy — coffee rust. This devastating fungus attacks the leaves of a coffee tree. It causes them to fall off, stops photosynthesis and ultimately kills the tree. 

The newsletter of November 2017 includes: ICCAT 2017: historically high bluefin tuna quota – but what about small-scale fishers? Fundacja MARE and LIFE at the forefront for a cleaner Baltic Sea Other news from around the EU News from our members Welcome on board Press review

The Seminar will discuss practical opportunities for promoting 'Resource Efficiency' through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). It is intended for anyone involved in RDP implementation at the European, national, regional and local levels. The event will build on ongoing ENRD thematic work on  ‘Resource Efficiency’, including aspects such as water use...

Mozambique has a population of about 25 million people. Most live in rural areas and rely on farming for all or part of their household income. Located on Africa’s south-eastern seaboard, the country encompasses biodiversity sites of great significance. Today agriculture is said to account for 25% of Mozambique’s gross domestic...

The World Bank and FAO have launched a $36 million project aimed at providing immediate assistance to over 630,000 poor and food-insecure people in Yemen - more than 30 percent of whom are women - as well as increasing longer term agricultural resilience in the conflict-ridden country.

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

The path to fairer land governance in Europe reached a milestone, as the European Parliament approved an own initiative report that recognizes the urgent problems of land concentration, and access to land in the EU and demands for adequate responses.

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...

The majority of developing countries are commodity dependent. Commodity-export-dependent developing countries (hereafter referred to as CDDCs) derive the bulk of their export earnings from primary commodities such as minerals, ores, metals, fuels, agricultural raw materials and food. Countries that have a high ratio of commodity imports to total merchandise trade...

The European Commission’s DG Agriculture and Rural Development, with the support of the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, held an EIP-AGRI workshop on 7-8 February 2017 in Zagreb, Croatia. This workshop aimed to discuss the uptake and ways to increase the uptake of the broad range of sustainability tools involving environmental...

This document reviews the status and trends in aquaculture development in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. It updates the last Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) “Regional Review on Status and Trends in Aquaculture Development in the Near East and North Africa – 2010”...