The United Nations remains engaged and continues to support national efforts as the Southern Africa region grapples with the impact of the unprecedented drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon. In response to the declaration of state of disaster by the Government of Zimbabwe on 3 February 2016 and the...

TE Lochhead and sons are a traditional dairy producer who in 2001, saw their herd of cattle wiped out by the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in southern Scotland. Rather than simply replace the herd, Gavin Lochhead and his family looked into opportunities to differentiate from other farmers. The farmer...

A short video about  a Study visit to Paksong on commercial agriculture

Informe sobre las actividades realizadas por FONTAGRO durante el periodo octubre 2016 a noviembre de 2016.

How to feed our cities? – Agriculture and rural areas in an era of urbanisation

This analytical guide examines how smallscale food producers’ organisations and allied civil society can use the recommendations in their national and international advocacy and how they can work together with their governments to apply them in the context of national and regional policies and programmes. It argues that the policy...

The Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) delegation, led by its President, Theo de Jager, paid a courtesy visit to the Bank Group on 30 September 2016 in Abidjan, to explore areas of collaboration with the Bank. The delegation held a series of technical meetings with the Bank’s Agriculture and agroindustry...

Bacchus Wilson Panyonnoh, a 35-year-old palm oil worker, and Lee Sworh, a community activist, live in the remote forests of south-east Liberia. Both have been affected by the arrival of Golden Veroleum Liberia to build one of the country’s largest palm oil plantations. For Panyonnoh, it offers the chance of...

Small, family farmers in Africa purchase more than half of their seeds every year through local markets and other informal sources--neglected outlets that present a major opportunity for improving access to better crop varieties crucial to dealing with climate, nutrition, and other production challenges in a region where food security...

O governo brasileiro lançou a Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica (Pnapo), com a edição do decreto 7.794, de 20 de agosto de 2012. Foi um importante passo para a ampliação e efetivação de ações de promoção do desenvolvimento rural sustentável, impulsionado pelas crescentes preocupações das organizações sociais do campo e...

Presentación que aborda un análisis crítico sobre los sistemas de innovación para un desarrollo sostenible de los territorios y sus actores realizada por FIA Chile.

This course provides an overview of the Communication for Development (ComDev) approach that aims to address the knowledge and information needs of rural stakeholders and to facilitate their active involvement in development initiatives. ComDev has proven to be a key element in improving the effectiveness and sustainability of development initiatives.The...

The two studies in this report explore these issues further using empirical quantitative surveys as well as qualitative fieldwork from a cross-section of developing economies in South and SouthEast Asia. The first study is an empirical investigation of the digital gender divide amongst the poor (broadly called the Bottom of...

Ouricuri (PE) – Araripe em tupi guarani significa “onde o dia começa primeiro”, traduz a altitude da serra, mas hoje em dia o grande significado no sertão é a conscientização de agricultores e agricultoras, a disseminação do conhecimento da agricultura camponesa e a capacidade de enfrentar a seca, com a...

Voici le modèle de ruche à barrettes « la Grande » fabriqué en palmier raphia. Ce modèle est fabriqué en bois par la Plateforme des Associations des Apiculteurs des Cataractes (PLAAC), en République Démocratique du Congo (voir la technologie TECA «Comment fabriquer une ruche a barrettes « la grande » »). Le palmier...

Este artículo da cuenta de un reciente taller realizado sobre prácticas de gestión de los bancos de germoplasma en reservas comunitarias de semillas, el cual tuvo lugar en el CIMMYT y estuvo a cargo de la doctora Denise Costich, responsable del Banco de Germoplasma. El objetivo del evento fue realizar...

When water is scarce, irrigation scheduling and irrigation efficiency are especially important. New, innovative ways of obtaining real time feedback on irrigation management are currently being developed including digitally connected fruit measuring tools and online precise irrigation-scheduling algorithms.

It takes a few minutes for a fruit fly to find a suitable spot on the mango and inject her eggs under the skin of the fruit. But even in that short time, the weaver ants will have either chased her away or have captured her. Their scent also helps....

A short video about Technical Exchange Workshop on sustainable agriculture in Lao

El presente trabajo se corresponde con una reflexión realizada desde la praxis, no de la teoría o de la mera especulación; es decir, deriva de mi participación profesional en el diseño de programas y proyectos de desarrollo, desarrollo e inversión agroindustrial-agroalimentario, en países de la región, como es el caso...