Fisheries, an important sub-sector of Indian agriculture, and is dependent on the country’s rich marine and inland water resources. Forty-seven percent of fish production is from along India’s 8,118kmlong coastline. The rest (53 percent) is from inland water resource that “comprises 45,000km of rivers and streams and 1.6 million hectares...

Eurostat has published its regional yearbook providing statistics and data collected in the 28 Members States of the EU. This yearbook focuses on different subjects such as health, education and training, labour market, research and innovation, tourism and transport among others. This 2017 edition also presents a focus on European...

The main purpose of this half-day meeting is to gather feedback on the ‘SSF Governability Index’, a new assessment tool being developed by TBTI to help country gauge what needs to be done to improve governability and achieve sustainability of SSF. The forum will also be an opportunity to build...

El Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia contará con una instancia certificadora pública para la producción orgánica, anunció Hugo Bosque, asesor del Ministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Tierras (MDRyT), en la apertura del VII Encuentro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Agricultura Ecológica y Orgánica (ELAO) que se realiza del 22 al 25...

La reforma agraria puede ser un asunto desconocido, o inadecuado en algunos países, o puede parecer que se trata de nada más que una reforma (en contraposición a la revolución). Cuando hablamos de reforma agraria popular estamos hablando de lucha de clases, de construcción de soberanías, de sueños de libertad....

Much awaited weather data will soon be available to thousands of farmers in The former Yugoslav Republic Macedonia – one of the most arid countries in Europe. Installation of new hydro-meteorology equipment, and a two-day workshop in Skopje, are two milestones occurring this week in an FAO project aimed at...

The project aims at improving food security and reducing rural poverty of smallholder farmers through providing guidance and technical support to enhance the quality, impact and sustainability of Agricultural Water Management (AWM) investments. Water is crucial to economies and to livelihoods and is central for poverty reduction. Sufficient availability and...

The contribution of women fishworkers in India has been at least equal to that of men. However, despite being a colossal human resource that plays a significant role in food security, income and employment generation, women have been systematically discriminated against, both socially and economically.

Achieving healthy diets, adequate nutrition, good health and wellbeing for all in a sustainable manner while managing responsibly natural resources are at the core of the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. Economic growth and rising incomes have nearly eliminated hunger and undernutrition in Europe and Central Asia. However, malnutrition...

The workshop is part of the TBTI SSF Stewardship research cluster, which aims to provide a global overview of small-scale fishing impacts and contributions of small-scale fisheries (SSF) to conservation and stewardship. The purpose of this workshop is to share information about stewardship activities involving small-scale fishing people in various...

'Inter-Sectoral Governance of Inland Fisheries' is a compilation of 11 case studies from around the world plus an introductory synthesis, aimed at giving readers a detailed look into the diverse, complex, dynamic, scale-laden linkages that inland fisheries have with other water-based sectors. In the process, this volume highlights useful lessons...

Agricultural intensification is required to feed the growing and increasingly demanding human population. Intensification is associated with increasing use of resources, applied as efficiently as possible, i.e. with a concurrent increase in both resource use and resource use efficiency. Resource use efficiency has agronomic, environmental, economic, social, trans-generational, and global...

A trilogy of books has been designed as a sequel to the highly-acclaimed publication "Voices from the Forest: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Sustainable Upland Farming" (RFF Press, 2007) that brought scientific attention to indigenous innovations in improved fallow management. A third and final volume, edited by Malcolm F. Cairns and with the continued assistance...

Past agricultural mechanization efforts in Ghana and Nigeria have focused more on the styles of machinery used in western countries or Latin America, where average farm sizes are much larger. While West African countries, particularly Ghana, are still relatively land abundant compared to Bangladesh, seeking the right balance across various...

One of the most devastating El Niño events on record continues to affect the lives and livelihoods of farmers and herders in Ethiopia. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is begun providing assistance through a destocking programme, aimed at assisting the most vulnerable communities in parts of Somali Region.

The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have acknowledged the need to respect, protect and fulfill the fundamental human right to food and optimal nutrition in Africa.  During extensive deliberations at the Second Ordinary Session of the Fourth Parliament, the Parliamentarians agreed to...

This is an evaluation of the Draft Revised Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture No. 82/2013 on Guidelines for Facilitation for Farmers and the Association of Farmers for Farmers Organization guidelines. One of the mandate of the Law on Protection and Empowerment of Farmers is the strengthening of farmer organizations. The...

Desde la FAO se ofrecen estudios de las cadenas de valor en experiencias productivas en América Latina, realizados específicamente con enfoque de género. A partir de tal aproximación, se espera llamar la atención de entidades públicas y privadas, organizaciones multilaterales, organizaciones sociales, los gobiernos nacionales y locales, sobre las desigualdades...

Belarus is hosting two international conferences this week, both with an emphasis on cooperation and both with the involvement of FAO. Laying the foundation for economic integration and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals was the topic of a two-day conference in Minsk on 26-27 October, organized jointly by the...

A new approach to farming is needed to safeguard human health and avoid rising air and water pollution, high greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, a group of 20 leading agronomists, health, nutrition and social scientists has concluded. Rather than the giant feedlots used to rear animals or the uniform crop...