In the wake of tropical cyclone Ockhi, the focus now should be on improving at-sea cyclone preparedness and search-and-rescue co-ordination to save precious lives.

La Política de Agricultura Familiar campesina, indígena y afrodescendiente PAFCIA, es un instrumento estratégico, con visión de futuro para la toma de decisiones y para dar marco a los procesos de dialogo e incidencia política y técnica, así como para desarrollar y consolidar un modelo productivo diversificado, incluyente y territorializado.  La...

As the implementation of the SSF Guidelines gets under way, it is imperative to lobby for policies and processes that will empower small-scale fishing communities

Food waste (FW) reduction is a priority both at global and European level. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations, there is a specific target (12.3) referring to food waste, and asking - ‘By 2030, to halve per capita global FW at the retail...

  On October 18th, 2018, an important meeting of the World Coordination Committee of the IYFF + 10 (WCC), the International Committee that led the civil society campaign for the declaration of the Decade of Family Farming, took place in Rome. The WCC is composed by representatives of the organizations ROPPA,...

Agrisource is an open online platform for agriculture. Its content is brought by its worldwide community, and highlights all ideas, projects, innovation that somehow facilitate the achievement of two high stake objectives: Mitigating the green-house gas (GHG) emissions Adapting to climate change The information hosted on the website is very diverse, since it...

Uno de los aspectos que ha evolucionado mucho técnico e industrialmente han sido las instalaciones, referido a diseños y equipamientos – En este marco, la evolución mundial de a robótica, la ingeniería industrial, la ingeniería electrónica, la ingeniería hidráulica, la parición de sensores, la existencia de chips y poder contar...

“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...

Se presentan los principales hechos de la visita de una delegación brasilera a Colombia para avanzar en la construcción y formulación del marco conceptual para formular un proyecto de cooperación entre ambos países en Agricultura Familiar. Como insumo de información técnica se destacó el documento «Criterios Generales para la Agricultura Familiar»...

The Guaranis, indigenous people of Morro dos Cavalos in Brazil, are being displaced from their lands to satisfy the interests of politicians and businesses

This publication addresses some of the research gaps in the area of smallholder participation in public food procurement. It identifies good practices, reviews the global body of available literature and draws lessons learned. The findings of this paper have informed the Guidance Note on Public Food Procurement and can assist...

Book on Family Farming Diversity, by CIRAD

La publicación Abordar la agricultura, la silvicultura y la pesca en los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación: Directrices complementarias (Directrices PNA-Ag) proporciona orientación específica para la Planificación Nacional de la Adaptación en los sectores agrícolas. Esta se constituye en una guía útil para los planificadores nacionales y los tomadores de decisiones...

Los estudiantes avanzados en la carrera de agronomía de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (FCA-UNR), participaron en una Práctica Pre-Profesional denominada “Seguimiento, evaluación y toma de decisiones en la crianza de un módulo de producción lechero” bajo la dirección y coordinación de la Ingeniera...

The rising demands by decision-makers to address the emerging challenges in safeguarding natural resources, enhancing food security and promoting effective and sustainable responses to land degradation, call for more knowledge sharing on tools and approaches available to support integrated land use planning. The LRP Toolbox is a freely accessible online ''global...

Small-scale agroecological and organic farming systems require appropriate machinery and technologies, and a change of paradigm in the way they are conceived, produced, sold and patented. The mainstream agricultural model has led to machines that are getting increasingly bigger and more expensive and complicated, and thus inaccessible for many farmers...

Rural societies and the agri-food sector are the scenarios where the vast majority of the environmental, social and economic goals of the Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved. Without the rural and agri-food world, there will be no sustainable development. But to achieve those goals, rural societies and the actors...

An FAO project examines global occupational health and safety policies, practices, standards, problems and challenges in aquaculture occupational safety and health (AOSH)

Increasing agricultural productivity by over 20 percent just by using a negligible percent of arable land for creating forest areas sounds like a good deal. As practice shows, this is achievable with agroforestry – the practice of integrating woody vegetation with crops or animal systems. And the real bonus is...

The brief uses a unique set of data from Zambia collected from smallholders before and after the 2015/2016 ENSO event, which was widely anticipated by regional and global forecast services to contribute to dry conditions in southern Zambia and an overall shorter growing season. Three findings emerge from the analysis....