This report presents a global integrated assessment of the range of potential economic impacts of climate change and stringent mitigation measures in the agricultural sector. The analysis employs five global multiregion multi-commodity models and covers selected combinations of socioeconomic storylines and climate signals by mid-century. Model inputs are harmonised by...

A demonstration of how farmers can adopt new post harvest technologies to enable them to preserve their farming output and market their produce when the market price is most favourable.

Diálogo con la coordinadora del Sistema de Información Pública la Ing. Agr. Patricia Skejich quien cuenta sobre el servicio gratuito que brinda el Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas CIAP.

This documentary examines rural livelihoods in South Africa. Drawing on the narratives of several interviewees, it explains how impoverished people in South Africa's rural, former homeland communal areas survive and sustain themselves. The film suggests both the importance of between rural areas and urban centres, and the multiple activities on...

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...

 This initiative aims to engage Egyptian stakeholders, to generate evidence based for revamping and refining current livestock development efforts, to ensure a sustainable development trajectory for the sector and make it fully consistent with the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy (SADS)2030. 

From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper...

A equipe da campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos divulga a lista de vencedoras do Concurso de vozes, imagens, histórias e experiências das mulheres rurais.  Foram mais de 100 inscritas nas categorias de Relatos de Vida e Experiências de Organizações. Mulheres rurais, negras, quilombolas, indígenas, de todos os lugares do país,...

Este número específico de los Cuadernos de Trabajo sobre Inclusión es fruto de un proceso integrado de cooperación entre los Proyectos Insignia “Inclusión en la Agricultura y los territorios Rurales” y “Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar para la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Economía Rural”, en Guatemala. Para facilitar...

Why are small-scale fisheries excluded from European Blue Growth whilst aquaculture is included? It is time to recognize the potential of fisheries to provide sustainable jobs and food supplies.

The assumption that fishery is a sector exclusive to men only is not true. There is a misleading assumption in most research that fisheries operate in the public domain is usually dominated by men, which is why the private domain (women dominated) is hardly the focus of attention.And this video...

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...

On the aggregate level, sub-Saharan Africa achieved adequate food availability over the 2014–2016 period, with a Dietary Energy Supply (DES) of 110. However, several countries in the region remain highly dependent on food imports to ensure adequate food supplies, with some sub-regions depending on imports for up to a third...

In what ways is agroecology a means to food sovereignty? In Brazil, claiming land rights was the first step along one group of farmers’ pathway to autonomy. The next was to develop and maintain agroecological practices. To achieve this goal, these farmers never worked alone. Strong self-organisation and long-lasting partnerships...

A glimpse into the world of Afishionado Fishmongers a community-minded distributor and retailer of sustainable, transparent and locally sourced seafood based in Halifax, NS Canada.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) inaugurated a capacity building workshop on “Establishing a National Dialogue Platform for Cooperatives” which took place in Cairo recently with the purpose of demonstrating to members of agricultural cooperatives and heads of cooperative directorates from almost all governorates in Egypt,...

Whether through earning or learning, over 2000 Afghan women are helping themselves. Pickled vegetables, mushroom production and complementary feed preparations are the FAO initiatives that - in collaboration with the national Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock and donations from the governments of Germany and Luxemburg - are reaching the...

En el marco de la “Campaña #MujeresRurales, mujeres con derechos”; anunciamos hoy las historias y experiencias seleccionadas que participaron de la Convocatoria “Voces, historias y reflexiones”. Durante el desarrollo de la iniciativa se recibieron 136 relatos de mujeres y organizaciones de todo el país, con un notable apoyo de extensionistas...

The newsletter of September 2017 includes: LIFE engaged from the start in the new Working Group on small-scale fisheries set up by the GFCM Small-scale fishers working in the Southern North Sea worried about the impact of pulse fishing Other news from around the EU News from our members

O Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), da Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, ampliará sua linha de pesquisas em 2017, oferecendo às empresas, consultorias e à sociedade um acompanhamento periódico de preços da produção de orgânicos e estatísticas da agricultura familiar. De acordo com o diretor técnico...