Adopted by the 127th Session of the FAO Council, November 2004. The objective of the Voluntary Guidelines is to provide practical guidance to States in their implementation of the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context...

Indigenous peoples amount to one third of the 900 million human beings who live in rural areas in extreme poverty.3 They are frequently discriminated against, and many do not enjoy full legal, social, or cultural recognition. Analysing and addressing the...

Assisted Natural Regeneration is one of the silvicultural tools employed to combat deforestation and degradation; it consists of a variation of enrichment planting which was first developed for tropical forests with poor natural regeneration. Even though the technology is based...

Forests, in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere, are located at the intersection of an array of conflicting interests, ranging from subsistence needs of local populations to global concerns about climate change, within and outside the field of forestry. As a...

A menudo el trabajo que realizan las mujeres en su hogar no es valorado y se confunde con el realizado en la explotación agrícola. De esta manera, se subestima el aporte que hacen en la agricultura y para la seguridad...