How best to help smallholder farmers access information and advice they need to increase their productivity is an unsolved puzzle. Work led by the World Agroforestry Centre and the International Livestock Research Institute with support from the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) and other partners in...

Questionamentos sobre a influência dos sistemas prevalecentes de produção e distribuição de alimentos na soberania alimentar de povos e países tiveram início já na década de 1980, mas ganharam força e importância política a partir dos anos 1990. Embora diretamente relacionada com a temática da segurança alimentar, a discussão sobre...

Although relatively new, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is attracting increasing interest and attention in various parts of the world including in Central Asia. FAO and other partners have a number of on-going and forthcoming projects which deal with different aspects of the CSA approach. Given the importance of conceiving and...

The 2016 Eurasian Grassland Conference will take place from the 20th to the 24th September 2016 in the historic town of Sighişoara in central Romania. This is the 13th annual meeting of the EDGG (formerly known as European Dry Grassland Meetings, EDGM), which aims to promote exchange and collaboration between...

The Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS) was declared in July 2010 by the African Union Heads of State and Government (at the 15th Ordinary Session of the AU Summit) in Kampala, Uganda. This decision was made in recognition of the unacceptable and chronic crisis of hunger and malnutrition...

Video institucional de la Representación de la FAO en Bolivia en el marco del proyecto GCP/GLO/495/MUL Mecanismo para Bosques y Fincas – FFF, el cual pretende sistematizar los resultados alcanzados en el fortalecimiento de la Organización de productores MINGA.

Edited video of Susana’s interview on the role of women in fisheries. 

Organic farms have a higher diversity of plants, insects and animals. Wildlife can find shelter more easily in the clusters of wild plants usually growing on organically managed land. Abundance of native plants comes with benefits for local animals, that are perfectly adapted to live alongside them and this in...

The primary media channel in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in rural areas, radio plays a key role in the networking of Dimitra Clubs, enabling them to share experiences and ideas, but also to reach surrounding rural communities. Given their participatory and gender sensitive approach, Dimitra Clubs are natural partners for local...

In the Netherlands, a peer review method for farmers arose as an alternative to the biodynamic certification system. By collectively observing and discussing sitespecific challenges, these biodynamic farmers experience first-hand the power of collaboration and drive commitment to sustainability beyond the standards of biodynamic certification.e

The need for restoring forests is increasing in the Asia-Pacific region considering the extensive areas of degraded forests and lands. In this context, a new approach, called forest landscape restoration (FLR) is currently being promoted widely. FLR is an innovative approach that integrates forest restoration work with other activities across...

The demand for smallholder financing is staggering. Over 270 million smallholder farmers in the regions of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia require over USD 200 billion in financing to grow their businesses and improve their livelihoods. We looked closely at what it would take to change that...

On 8-9 June, Shi Yan and Judith Hitchman, URGENCI’s vice-president and president, participated in the final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets, on behalf of Urgenci, as part of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) delegation. Other Civil society organizations were present as well (La Via Campesina,...

The plenary session of the event FOOD 2030 will take place on 13 October with the participation of high level officials, industry, entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, and civil society organisations.

Expanding economic development to rural areas is a top priority for Azerbaijan, as it works to diversify the national economy and reduce dependence on oil. One of the first impediments to be tackled is excessive land fragmentation and small farm sizes. A new project launched here today by FAO will help...

Partiendo de su evolución histórica, el estudio se centra en la situación actual del esquema más potente de integración acometido de América Latina: lo MERCOSUR, con sus precedentes más inmediatos, en un contexto influido por otras iniciativas de integración y de cooperación presentes en la región. Los Países parte pertenecen...

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO’s mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the...

The film promotes Community Supported Agriculture, a model for sustainable development of small agriculture and collecting local food production.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced an especially high population growth and rate of urbanization, with about half of the region’s population living in cities. Farming in the region faces constraints from changing demographics as well as lack of arable land, limited rainfall, high temperatures, and soil...

FAO’s water and income diversification projects have become instrumental to tackle the negative impacts of El Niño induced drought for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Afar Region of north eastern Ethiopia. FAO supports the Afar regional government’s effort to improve the livelihood of pastoral and semi-pastoral households through animal...