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.

El Niño has had an extremely heavy impact on livestock and agriculture in Ethiopia. Shukri Ahmed gives dramatic figures on the consequences of the drought. He also illustrates FAO Response Plan 2016, underlining the need for urgent action and the importance of building resilience.

Крупное исследование Grand View Research, Inc. Observes, показало, что рынок органических продуктов питания и напитков будет расти ежегодно в среднем на 15.5 % в течение 2016-2020 годов. Общий объем рынка органических продуктов составит по прогнозам около $ 212 млрд. к 2020 году.

O Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), uma das seis instituições de pesquisa da Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, está lançando a publicação “Turismo Rural, Indicação Geográfica, Gastronomia e Sustentabilidade”. O turismo rural é hoje uma realidade nos espaços rurais do Brasil. A agricultura moderna do século...

To answer this question, I would like to recall Alexander Wezel’s definition of agroecology. Our French colleague defined it, first, as a science. This is obvious, since agroecology generates scientific knowledge in the strictest sense. However, agroecology, like many other hybrid disciplines (for example, political ecology, environmental history, and ecological...

تشكل الفلاحة العائلية النشاط الرئيسي في القرى والمداشر والتجمعات السكانية الثانوية بولاية سوق أهراس، انطلاقا من الجهة الغربية على مستوى أكبر سهول الولاية بكل من دائرة سدراتة ومداوروش إلى غاية الحدود المتاخمة لولاية أم البواقي، على مستوى بئر بوحوش وأم العظائم، وهي تعطي مردودا وفيرا من الحبوب الجافة والبقوليات على...

Почти 80% крайне бедных и голодающих людей проживают в сельской местности. Большинство из них — это семейные фермерские хозяйства, которые не могут произвести достаточное количество продуктов, чтобы избежать голода или крайней нищеты. В то же время такие хозяйства производят самую большую долю потребляемой пищи во всём мире: они являются «основными действующими лицами...

From our field visits to Ndian Town, Fabe, Meangwe II and Ikondo-Kondo resettlement, we witnessed and heard about the tactics and strategies used by oil palm companies. The devastating impacts that plantations have had in other countries are more or less reflected in this part of Cameroon. We witnessed how...

Soil loss in Ethiopia is an expensive problem, adding up to more than US$100 million every year. The country is locked in a cycle of land degradation and poverty, costing it not just money, but soil and crop harvests as well.

The first days of summer show Moldova at its best. Dramatic skies, seemingly endless rolling hills, fruit trees and field crops growing vigorously. The national palette contains every shade of green. On a recent road trip, photographer Dorin Goian captured these seasonal moments for the United Nations Food and Agriculture...