Food production has multiple impacts both on and off the farm. These can often be negative, such as the pollution of rivers, the emission of greenhouse gases, the spread of antibiotic resistance, the degradation of soil, the rise of obesity and the spread of disease. Yet none of this damage...

This practice describes golden roles for dairy production, including; feeding milk cows, calf rearing, breeding adult cows, heat stress management, animal health, producing quality milk, and housing dairy stock.

Smallholder and family farmers face significant social, economic and environmental challenges in their everyday lives which demand timely access to information. Yet information and communication services are not always easy to access in rural areas. Numerous barriers exist, including illiteracy, speaking a minority language, inadequate or non-existent infrastructures, as well...

En toda la región del Cono Sur se ha vivido un intenso proceso de revitalización de la “Agricultura Familiar” (AF). En Argentina desde 2003, pero más fuertemente desde el año 2008, se ejecutan políticas para el sector. En este trabajo analizaremos la aparición pública de la AF en la esfera estatal como parte...

El artículo presenta un reflexión acerca de la ley ambiental, la relación entre ésta y el derecho a educación en el cual se incluye el derecho a la educación ambiental. Tema en torno al cual se establece la problematización que se presenta en el artículo.

Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the tropics. How to achieve sustainable intensification of food production systems in tropical regions that are challenged by ongoing climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity is a...

The National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods is part of the project GCP/SEC/008/TUR, which contributes to the Regional Initiative 1 for the REU Region and to the SO3 by improving knowledge for evidence-based policies. The purpose of the National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods for the...

The Conference builds on the political momentum gathered at the Climate Change Summit in Paris, December 2015, where world leaders renewed their commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, pledging USD 4 billion over the next 5 years for the restoration of Africa’s landscapes. During the Conference, partners will define a roadmap for...

Dryland areas cover more than half of sub-Saharan Africa and are home to nearly 50 percent of its populations, who depend on agriculture (including livestock, crops and fisheries) as their main livelihood strategy. Sporadic and irregular rainfall patterns are the most important environmental driver for these regions and water, in...

Le patrimoine oasien joue un rôle écologique important dans le maintien de la biodiversité, malheureusement ce patrimoine est fortement détérioré  par plusieurs facteurs entre autres l’exploitation irrationnelle de la ressource en eau, la désertification et le changement climatique ce qui accélère l’abandon de nombreux vergers phoénicicoles dans les oasis et...

Report consist of an overview from ten European countries explaining the situation about family farming in their own country. Countries involved: CZ, PL, I, NL, CH, LT, LV, SK, HU, UK Date: 5. April 2016

A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with...

Data from October 2016. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database. Family farms dominate the structure of EU agriculture in terms of their numbers, their contribution to agricultural employment and, to a lesser degree, the area of land that they cultivate. There were 10.8 million farms in the...

En América Latina y El Caribe, la Agroecología ha sido desde hace décadas una forma de vida de muchos agricultores, campesinos, pescadores artesanales, pastores, recolectores, pueblos indígenas, afrodescendientes y pueblos y comunidades tradicionales. La agroecología ha sido promocionada y reivindicada por los movimientos sociales como un modelo de agricultura armónica...

Material publicado por la estación experimental agroforestal de Esquel (Chubut). El documento habla sobre la participación de los componentes de la dieta para porcinos, los puntos donde hay que prestar principal atención y de forma práctica cómo conocer la CC de la cerda y así guiarse con la cantidad de...

In the last two decades, food security policy in Malawi has focused on enhancing the maize productivity of smallholder farmers, primarily through the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) (Chirwa and Dorward 2013). While this has raised maize yields, production shocks, such as droughts and floods, continue to result in wide-spread...

Women have always had an important role in Eritrean society. During the struggle for independence they helped transform Eritrean society, and today rural women contribute substantially to the agriculture sector and provide income for their households. Like women around the world and especially those in developing countries, the women in...

All around the world there are millions of farmers who continue to farm and refuse to turn their land and resources into just another money making industry. They continue to fight for their autonomy and their fundamental right to grow clean and nutritious food for their local communities. Gerald Miles is...

Malawi is a small country located in southern Africa with only 119,000 km2 for a population of about 16.7 million people. With agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, Malawi’s high population density of 140 people/km2 requires that agricultural productivity and other ecosystem services must be optimized. As part of...

OCLA es una organización de carácter regional, que interactúa y potencia actividades conjuntas con otras Sociedades y organizaciones involucradas en la promoción de la agroecología.  SOCLA promueve la creación de capítulos nacionales utilizando el modelo de la ya existente Sociedad Brasileira de Agroecología, de manera que en cada país se...