The Sahel region faces severe drought and desertification. Often, women have to walk 10 kilometres for water. FAO’s “1 million cisterns for the Sahel” project helps women and farmers harvest and store rainwater. The cisterns provide clean water for drinking and growing food to millions of people in arid areas....

La garantía de los derechos de las mujeres rurales es un pilar fundamental para el desarrollo sostenible. Sin embargo, en el caso del uso de la tierra, el agua y otros recursos productivos, las mujeres aún no gozan de un derecho legítimo: igualdad de condiciones con los hombres en el...

Two-year EU-funded project supporting small-scale fishers across the Baltic and North Sea celebrates its closure with well attended gathering in Brussels. 

La agroecología no solamente es una ciencia o una técnica, es un modo de vida, en donde debemos poner la sostenibilidad de la vida en el centro. Para ello es necesario descolonizar los procesos productivos, los modos de vida, los hábitos de consumo y las relaciones comerciales. Es necesario crear...

Reportage en Périgord Vert à Saint-Pierre-de-Côle où Maël Gallard et Laure Baillard sont en train d'installer un nouveau projet agricole sur les cinquante hectares des Causses de Cesserou.

Ideas that might have sounded naïve or unrealistic just a few years ago are now firmly planted in the public conversation about food and agriculture. How to make the best use of digital technologies? How to eliminate food waste and loss? How to ensure that agriculture works together with nature? What...

More than twenty years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations contributed to the growing recognition of the role of pollination in agricultural production, with the publication of “The Pollination of Cultivated Plants in the Tropics”. Since that time, the appreciation of pollinators has grown, alongside the...

Like many farmers in Senegal, Guilé Mané used to struggle through the dry season. Rainfall in Senegal can be very low and irregular, even in the rainy season. Guilé and the other women had to walk long distances to reach sources of clean water and use part of their income...

Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan was once a rural town of 12,000 inhabitants. It is now home to at least 120,000 refugees - most of whom have fled the conflict in Syria. This sudden increase in population created competition for already limited resources. But investments in agricultural production and access...

Youth around the world are increasingly turning away from agriculture. Traditionally requiring tough manual labour and offering low wages, agriculture does not often appeal to new generations who generally prefer to try their luck finding jobs in cities. Yet, agriculture has the greatest potential of all sectors to reduce poverty, for...

When the announcement was made that FAO regional offices around the world would each receive an additional US$ 1 million to advance food and agriculture priorities, the technical team in Budapest wasted no time in putting forward proposals for Europe and Central Asia.

Join Ban Ki-moon, Kristalina Georgieve and Bill Gates for the launch of the Global Commission on Adaptation to catalyze a new global movement bringing scale and speed to adaptation solutions.

More than twenty years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations contributed to the growing recognition of the role of pollination in agricultural production, with the publication of “The Pollination of Cultivated Plants in the Tropics”. Since that time, the appreciation of pollinators has grown, alongside the...

Aziz Akhannouch annonce, lundi 15 octobre 2018 à l'occasion du 11e Salon du cheval à El Jadida, qu'un million d'hectares de terres va être distribué au profit des petits agriculteurs. Le ministre marocain de l'Agriculture, de la pêche maritime, du développement rural et des eaux et forêts, veut ainsi assurer...

Le présent document analyse le lien qui existe entre la transformation de l'agriculture et l'emploi dans la région Proche-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord, où le chômage, notamment des jeunes, représente un défi fondamental. Il rappelle succinctement les origines du problème et met en lumière les réformes de politique générale menées...

Smallholders and family farms are strongholds of food production, food security, and rural development. Without innovation, their important services cannot be secured for the long term. Representatives of governments, academia, civil society, and private sector and international organizations from Europe and Central Asia are meeting for four days in Hungary to...

The Regional Knowledge Exchange on the promotion of efficient rice farming practices and value chains in sub-Saharan Africa took place from 7 to 11 August 2017 in Elmina, Ghana. The workshop brought together over 40 participants from ten countries and technical partner institutions involved in the implementation of the regional...

A Produção Integrada é voltada para uma agricultura sustentável, com boas práticas agrícolas e que permite rastreabilidade, certificação e a oferta de alimentos seguros. O pesquisador da Embrapa Hortaliças Jorge Guimarães fala sobre o assunto.

Soil erosion is the most serious precursor of soil degradation that comes with global implications. It is a global issue and we can see its traits everywhere we go. The reason for this is that erosion is caused by numerous factors, originating from both natural processes and human activities. In...

SWISSAID y Alianza Semillas de Identidad, conformada por 6 Redes y Movimientos campesinos nacionales, están implementando el modelo Agroecológico con más de 35 000 familias campesinas con énfasis en el estudio, conservación, mejoramiento y uso de semillas criollas con prácticas agroecológicas. El 85 percent del área de granos es sembrada...