The Expert Meeting on Climate Change Implications for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, was held at the GFCM, Rome, 4–6 December 2017, with the objective to provide technical support the development of an adaptation strategy to cope with the potential effects of climate change on fisheries, in the framework of...

The shouts can be heard from a distance as one approaches Domboshawa, 30 kilometres northeast of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Tokupai madomasi! Tokupai mbambaira! Do you want tomatoes or sweet potatoes? Mune marii? How much do you have? Scores of women and children carrying bundles of vegetables, sacks of sweet...

El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...

By 2050 humanity's ranks will likely have grown to nearly 10 billion people. In a scenario with moderate economic growth, this population increase will push up global demand for agricultural products by 50 percent over present levels projects The Future of Food and Agriculture, intensifying pressures on already-strained natural resources.At the same...

How the failure to properly recognise and regulate the EU’s fish producer organisations [POs] is failing the Common Fisheries Policy and smaller-scale fishermen and what should be done to resolve it.

Are the founding principles of open source – the ability to share, distribute, modify and reproduce information – transferable to agriculture? If in the computer field, free software is now a reality, this paper examines whether and how agricultural tools can be created and disseminated through ‘free’ processes. We look...

The vast majority of agricultural holdings in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are less than 2 hectares, made up of multiple parcels – 7 on average. This fragmentation of agricultural land is one of the greatest challenges for the country’s agricultural sector, having adverse effects on the productivity, competitiveness...

This edition includes perspectives on LEADER/CLLD, forestry, integrated approaches to rural policy and the new European Solidarity Corps, as well as short updates from the Slovenian and Slovakian networks. The edition’s thematic section brings ‘A focus on… social inclusion’, including an overview of social inclusion challenges in rural Europe, highlights of...

La temática de esta edición es la construcción social de mercados y su relación con la agricultura familiar. ENTREVISTA: Sergio Schneider. Mercados y agricultura familiar OBSERVATORIO: Indicadores de sostenibilidad para emprendimientos de agricultura familiar DIÁLOGOS: Mesa Técnica de Agricultura Familiar y Economía Campesina de Colombia POLÍTICAS: Primer trimestre de 2017 EN ACCIÓN: Colombia: Implementando estrategias...

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