La Ruche qui dit oui, qui permet la vente directe de produits alimentaires, connaît un fort engouement en France, avec plus de 5.000 agriculteurs et artisans membres du réseau. Pourtant ce système, organisé par une entreprise privée, essuie des critiques, en particulier de la part des Amap et de certains producteurs....

Pacific Island countries and territories already face a range of development challenges due to their specific geographic and socio-economic characteristics, and their generally high exposure to natural hazards. The projected changes to the climate of the Pacific Island region over the coming decades present another challenging dimension that the region...

This compendium of best practices brings together practical ecologically sound and nutrition-sensitive approaches to improving theproductivity of backyard, community and family farms. With the increasing awareness of the importance of safe and healthy diets, there is aresurgence of interest in these complementary pathways to household level food securityMany of these...

A Reunião Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) do Mercosul é um fórum de diálogos políticos entre governos e movimentos sociais para a produção de políticas públicas. Ademais, a REAF também é um ator coletivo que domina capacidades institucionais, ocupando uma posição-chave na formulação da agenda das políticas para a agricultura...

O presente artigo analisa a “agricultura familiar” na América Latina, como manifestação dos modos de vida e complexidades da região. Debatese a categoria como “conceito-síntese” das rupturas e continuidades do Agro latino-americano.

Justina grew up on her family’s farm in the Ukmergė region of central Lithuania and she wanted to continue in her family’s footsteps by becoming a young farmer. Initially, she had access to land and some older equipment. However, being an ambitious young person with a lot of ideas and...

L’activité agricole occupe 86% de la population rurale au Burkina Faso dont les pratiques demeurent traditionnelles et la production tributaire des conditions climatiques. Dans le contexte actuel de changement climatique, marqué par les irrégularités pluviométriques et la hausse des températures, le monde rurale est le plus exposé aux crises alimentaires...

Food is one of the key drivers of climate change: how our food is produced and arrives at our tables accounts for about half of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). To understand the role of our current food system in climate change, we must examine it as a whole...

Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about...

Mountain areas have difficult climatic and environmental conditions, but mountain people are used to adapting to these. Thanks to their great experience of innovation and adaptation, they have already started to tackle the challenge of climate change. This X European Mountain Convention will present a state-of-the-art of the situation in...

Nota conceptual que orientará el debate en la 34º Conferencia Regional para América Latina y el Caribe en un de los temas a tratar ligado a los retos para la transformación del sector rural en América Latina y el Caribe: desarrollo territorial rural, agricultura familiar, inclusión social y económica e innovación. Transformar...

In the framework of efforts to fight extreme poverty and recognising the importance and need to protect the poor and vulnerable population, in 2007 Mozambique approved Law No. 4/2007 which structured social protection into three levels, including basic social security. In 2010 the first National Basic Social Security Strategy (ENSSB...

In order to continue to develop this regional approach, from 23–25 November 2016 the regional symposium on title ‘agroecology for sustainable agriculture and food systems in Europe and Central Asia’ will be held. It will start with a field visit on 23 November afternoon and the internal CSO meeting, followed...

This video shows how the clubs in Niger have been crucial in ensuring women’s access to land and water, while contributing to nutrition, food security, gender equality and the reduction of rural poverty at the same time.  Access to Water and Land” is part of a series that illustrates the...

What is agropreneurship? Google won’t provide you with a definition, which today you might consider unusual. Then there is the fact that auto-correct keeps trying to tell me to correct the spelling of the word.  Which makes me think…the NEXT HOT THING! So let’s make it a word and a reality...

O Plano Setorial de Mitigação e de Adaptação às Mudanças Climáticas para a Consolidação de uma Economia de Baixa Emissão de Carbono na Agricultura - Plano ABC é um dos planos setoriais elaborados de acordo com o artigo 3° do Decreto n° 7.390/2010 e tem por finalidade a organização e o planejamento...

In 2010, severe flooding killed nearly 2 000 people in Pakistan and wiped out 1.6 million homes. Whole villages were submerged, and families lost not only their homes, but also their livestock and standing crops – 2.4 million hectares of soon-to-be-harvested crops were destroyed, and estimated agriculture losses stood at...

 Throughout history, the ‘milpa’ has been the basis of Mesoamerican agriculture. The milpa is an agroecological practice where maize (Zea mays), edible gourds (Cucurbita spp), and beans (Phaseolus spp) are intercropped in association with woody, medicinal, and fodder plants, as well as fruit trees. Maize is more than a crop...

Ending hunger and other goals where FAO plays an active role are part of a globally agreed agenda for the next 15 years. It was only natural, then, for FAO’s representative in Kazakhstan to take part in a recent tree-planting ceremony designed to draw public attention to those goals. To raise...

The document provides an overview of the situation that small-scale fishers in developing countries face in terms of: financial and economic performance of fishery enterprises; vulnerabilities and poverty; adaptations to a changing environment including, climate variability and change; and access to technology, infrastructure, financial services and social protection schemes. It...