Decent employment is vital in achieving food security and reducing poverty. In impoverished rural communities around the world, men and women often depend solely on the income from their labour, because it is the only asset they have. Employment opportunities are, however, often precarious, poorly remunerated and the conditions in...

El presente manual ha sido elaborado para promover el concepto de Mercados Saludables como una iniciativa válida que garantice la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria, el estado nutricional y la salud de las comunidades. Adicionalmente, el presente trabajo es una guía práctica para que todos los actores, especialmente las autoridades locales,...

El objetivo del evento es identificar las principales temáticas que la subregión de Mesoamérica considera prioritarias para ser atendidas en materia de SAN, Derecho Humano a la Alimentación Adecuada, Agricultura Familiar y cumplimiento de los ODS; con el objetivo de que posteriormente estas materias sean posicionadas en la agenda de...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

The CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems is a global agricultural research partnership to realize the potential of dryland communities. The program brings together eight CGIAR centers, and numerous international, regional, and national partners to engage in integrated agricultural systems research. In 2015, war and political instability ravaged many countries in...

There are certain crop plants that are not cropped but edible, containing high nutrients and medicinal value. These crops also called as hidden harvests are capable of providing essential nutrients to our diets besides contributing to household income.

Pociūnėliai is a small town in Šiauliai County, Lithuania. In recent years its population has been decreasing as young people are leaving for the city and businesses have declined. Men typically work in the farming or forestry sector doing physical labour. The women however have very limited work opportunities. The...

El presidente del Estado, Evo Morales, garantizó una inversión de 250 millones de bolivianos para la producción y promoción del café boliviano. Este apoyo está dirigido a concretar el Programa Nacional de Café presentado ayer en ocasión del Lanzamiento del 2do.Torneo Nacional Taza de Calidad “Café presidencial Evo Morales Ayma...

Irrigation is crucial for agricultural activities, however, if not managed well, it entails high water losses and can be inefficient. The raised bed system is an improved surface irrigation strategy, which enhances productivity and makes the application of water in irrigated systems more efficient. It can be easily implemented by...

Birch sap tapping is an ancient tradition in Finland. There are many Finnish folk tales about the extraction of birch sap and it is believed to have medicinal properties. At exactly the right moment at the beginning of spring, a small hole is drilled into the tree trunk and this...

Since February 2014 Sierra Leone, with support from the Government of Germany and FAO is implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT). This video interviews a wide range of engaged national stakeholders from the land, fisheries and forestry sectors and documents best practices and lessons learned....

En homenaje por su contribución científica en el mundo, se inauguró la exhibición “Legado de Norman Borlaug, a 50 años de la Fundación del CIMMYT”, que estuvo abierta al público en las instalaciones de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa). En el marco de este evento,...

Esta guía describe como construir tu propio secador y los pasos para realizarlo de manera simple y fácil.

Given the context of transitions related to rapid urbanization, the roles that rural economies and societies will have to play (particularly smallholder farmers and other rural producers) in creating sustainable and inclusive food systems, in generating employment and incomes and in contributing to more balanced, equitable and mutually reinforcing patterns...

El propósito de este texto es explorar el concepto de sistemas territoriales de agricultura familiar (STAF) en el marco de procesos que promuevan, de manera integrada, iniciativas de desarrollo de nuestros territorios rurales y de fortalecimiento de las agriculturas familiares, en el marco de políticas nacionales articuladas o complementarias entre...

The aim of this seminar is to bring together experts and researchers from the agriculture and food sectors to debate over methodological and empirical issues regarding relationships among Euro-Mediterranean countries on topics such as food policy, trade and marketing. This seminar will also focus on the topics of food security and...

Este documento incluye aspectos de la agricultura de conservación, laboreo de conservación, aperos para laboreo de conservación incluyendo la plantadora manual (jab planter) y de los cultivos de cobertura. Todas esas tecnologías ahorran mano de obra.

This report is the result of the work of the EIP AGRI Focus Group (FG) on Ecological Focus Areas (EFAs) and more specifically on how landscape features (LFs) contribute to the profitability of arable crop production. The scientific literature shows that LFs provide habitats for beneficial insects and other arthropods,...

The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF2014) aimed to raise the profile of smallholder and family farmers by focusing global attention on their important role in alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment and enabling sustainable development. 

According to the FAO, farming infrastructure, together with irrigation canals and grain depots, has been destroyed. It said the storage facilities of the state seeds body across the country had also been damaged, so it had distributed just a tenth of the 450,000 tons of seeds that farmers needed to...