Between September 16 and 18, 2016 the North Moravian City of Ostrava will play host to a meeting of the European organizations and communities involved in the project of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). The purpose of this gathering that will be attended by over a hundred people from all over...

Almost 88 percent of the world’s 1.2 billion youth live in developing countries. Although the global youth population is expected to grow, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for young women and men remain limited, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. At the same time, there is a largely untapped reservoir...

¿Cómo seguimos? ¿hacia dónde, con quiénes? ¿Cómo podemos mejorar la gestión y la participación? ¿Cuáles son nuestros próximos desafíos? Entre el 6 y 7 de abril se desarrollará en Montevideo, Uruguay el taller "Repensando la REAF", participarán en el mismo Representantes de la sociedad civil, a través de referentes de organizaciones...

493万贫困人口、山区土地支离破碎、农业比较效益受到挤压、资源环境约束趋紧等实际困难，“十三五”时期贵州该怎么办？在近日召开的贵州省委农村工作会议上，贵州省提出要立足实际，不断厚植发展优势，以创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享五大发展理念为引领，推动现代山地特色高效农业发展、一二三产业融合发展、无公害绿色有机农产品大省建设、农业园区发展、农民生活改善和脱贫攻坚实现新跨越。

Governance of water use for irrigation is a challenging topic, due to alteration in climatic patterns and the resulting resource scarcity in arid and semi-arid regions. Success stories can turn quickly into failures when significant disturbances occur. This contribution focuses on the institutional analysis to highlight factors which enable or...

Des programmes de formation adaptés aux besoins de la femme rurale seront mis en place par le ministère de l’agriculture, des ressources hydrauliques et de la pêche outre un espace permanent d’exposition et de commercialisation de ses produits, a affirmé jeudi le ministre Samir Betaieb. Il a ajouté lors du forum sur...

Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population. Dundgobi...

Sitio web de la Red Nacional de Agricultura Familiar (RENAF Colombia), explica sus antecedentes, recursos, mesa, eventos, entre otros.

To date, food security and nutrition (FSN) policies have been developed mainly through traditional, “top-down” approaches; that is, they are designed and implemented at the national level, often without sufficiently taking into account the priorities and needs of local stakeholders, and without involving them in the policy-making process. This lack...

This “Lessons Learned” document of the conservation agriculture (CA) in sub-Saharan Africa toolkit reviews experiences over the last two decades. First, the context and challenges of CA in sub-Saharan Africa are addressed. Then the main issues follow – those previously raised in the Teaser as being crucial to the successful...

En réponse à une demande du ministère égyptien de l’agriculture, le Programme européen de voisinage pour l'agriculture et le développement rural (ENPARD) a focalisé ses travaux et échanges sur la réforme du système de vulgarisation agricole qui a fait l'objet de deux ateliers de travail au premier semestre 2016. Le premier atelier...

In the period to 2020, the new CAP is going to invest EUR 4.6 million1 from the EU budget in Slovakia’s farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs and growth, sustainability, modernisation, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given...

The FLW Platform is an informal Commission expert group, which will be composed of a maximum of 70 members representing the public and private sectors. It will include competent authorities from member states, EU umbrella organisations and federations involved in food waste prevention, NGOs, and EU bodies (e.g. Committee of Regions)....

Food Tank has put together a list of documentaries and films to inspire, educate, and give viewers some food for thought. Each film explores a different topic in food and agriculture, some with a dash of social equality or a splash of health awareness. Whether you're a social activist, small...

Today more people live in cities than ever before, but we still depend on rural areas for our food. In the developing world, up to 80 per cent of food is produced on small farms that are usually family run. Yet it's also true that 70 per cent of the...

Uncertainties and low non-agricultural commodity prices resulted in a stronger global economic slowdown in 2016 than expected; the situation is expected to improve in 2017. Cereals and oilseeds are characterised by a combination of a global record production with weak EU production, particularly for wheat and maize. Ample global supply...

Sustainability is the cornerstone of FAORwanda’s work, from building the resilience of Rwandan families to supporting the domestication of the Sustainable Development Goals. Explore these initiatives and more in this quarter’s newsletter

The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (a)...

Numerous sources provide evidence of trends and patterns in average farm size and farmland distribution worldwide, but they often lack documentation, are in some cases out of date, and do not provide comprehensive global and comparative regional estimates. This article uses agricultural census data (provided at the country level in...

En 2008, le Maroc a adopté le Plan Maroc Vert, qui vise à faire de l’agriculture un des moteurs de croissance de l’économie nationale dans les quinze prochaines années. Pour atteindre ses objectifs ambitieux, le Plan Maroc Vert cible les exploitations familiales de petite et moyenne taille et les exploitations...