Smart specialisation (S3) is an example of fruitful interaction between science and policy. The concept was first developed in the context of the high-level expert group on ‘Knowledge for Growth’ created by the European Commission. It was recast through work by researchers both within and outside the Commission to foster...

No momento em que o Brasil comemora sua recente saída do “Mapa da Fome”, a cidade de São Paulo coloca-se diante do espelho para observar as mudanças em sua Política de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional e verificar o quanto as medidas implementadas são efetivamente capazes de conduzir a um modelo...

A Lei 12.651, de 25 de maio de 2012, também conhecida como novo "Código Florestal", estabelece normas gerais sobre a Proteção da Vegetação Nativa, incluindo Áreas de Preservação Permanente, de Reserva Legal e de Uso Restrito; a exploração florestal, o suprimento de matéria-prima florestal, o controle da origem dos produtos florestais,...

O presente artigo explorará as perspectivas de gestão sustentável compartilhada para os recursos hídricos entre os países membros do Mercosul, abordando o tema da Integração Regional para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável da região. Detentora do maior potencial hídrico do planeta, o aproveitamento de tais recursos no âmbito do Mercosul voltado aos...

Innovation as a policy goal, normative practice, and a conceptual framing of purposeful human activity, has received increasing attention. The question of what kinds of purposeful innovation might benefit smallholders in developing countries has been raised. This issue presents and analyses the work of Innovation Platforms (IPs) established by the...

The National Committee for the Promotion of Family Farming in DR Congo has drafted and approved an Electoral Strategy for the Farming Community and a Pledge of Commitment addressed to the country’s public authorities and potential political leaders in order to galvanise support for Family Farming in DR Congo.

ORC’s annual Organic Producers’ Conference is the event where organic and other producers interested in ecological approaches to sustainable food production come together with researchers and advisers to share ideas on making agriculture perform better, for their businesses and society. This year we will focus on what we have in common...

This ENRD workshop focused on the designation of ‘Areas facing natural or other specific constraints’ (ANCs) by programme authorities. It covered many aspects related to the implementation of the new ANCs system, specifically focusing on techniques for applying biophysical criteria and fine-tuning, as well as on payment schemes. The workshop further...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in conjunction with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Lao PDR, the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Embassy in Vientiane has launched a regional symposium promoting the Geographical Indications (GI) initiative which aims to help smallholder farmers...

Egypt has been suffering from severe drought and is going to face an even stronger scarcity of water resources used for agricultural production. Nowadays, 80% of the available water in Egypt is provided to the agricultural sector. Within the prospect of ongoing horizontal and vertical expansion of irrigated agriculture in...

Child labour can be found at all stages of agricultural supply chains, affecting children, enterprise reputation, as well as rural and agricultural development. This course presents a number of business-oriented strategies to reduce child labour in agricultural supply chains, including in crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture. It aims to...

Rwanda is the first country in the world where women hold a parliamentary majority and new laws have given women rights to land, employment opportunities and education. Now, in the most remote parts of the country, gender equality is going a long way to reducing poverty.

La apicultura es la práctica de la gestión de las abejas en las colmenas para la polinización, la producción de miel y otros productos como la cera, la jalea real, el propóleos y el polen. Además, un aspecto importante de la apicultura es la producción de abejas, reinas, paquetes de...

Weaver ants help to protect your fruit and nuts from fruit flies and many other pests. If you don’t have weaver ants in your orchard yet, collect all the nests from an ant colony and transfer them to one of your fruit trees. Help the ants to spread to more...

The strongest El Niño weather episode in the last several decades has caused repeated crop failure, decimated livestock herds and driven some 10.2 million people across Ethiopia into food insecurity, FAO reported as it presented its emergency response plan to urgently protect livestock and rebuild crop production in the Horn...

The Khalifa International Date Palm Award was established under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. The inauguration ceremony attracted both regional and international attention to the date palm tree and the strategic future of dates as a balanced food product, and highlighted...

Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania is a landscape stewardship NGO, registered as a charity in 2004 in Romania and in the UK. ADEPT has been working for 10 years to protect the nature-rich, farmed landscapes of Transylvania, and to support the traditional farming communities who have created them over centuries and who...

Para promover a inclusão produtiva e levar diretamente ao agricultor tecnologias nas cadeias de caprinos e ovinos e de sementes agroecológicas, a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) implementará o Programa de Apoio à Inovação Social e ao Desenvolvimento Territorial Sustentável (InovaSocial), com financiamento de R$ 30 milhões do Banco...

The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of India and the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD are co-organizing a national round-table workshop - in collaboration with IFAD’s Asia and the Pacific Division ¬ to discuss the main issues emerging from the evaluation of IFAD’s country programme in India, as...

Civil society has urged governments and public institutions to support the declaration on the Decade of Family Farming and to put in place the appropriate tools required to promote Family Farming in their countries.