This paper approached the complex issue of the association of semi-subsistence vegetable producers and their access to the large retail chains, in the context of the financial support received through the National Rural Development Program in order to connect these farms to the market.    

La Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, FAO; el Programa Mundial de Alimentos de Naciones Unidas, PMA; y el Gobierno de Brasil, se unen para promover soluciones que permitan incrementar los ingresos y las capacidades empresariales de la Agricultura Familiar, vinculándolos como proveedores de los programas...

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, IPES-Food, is a new initiative aimed at informing the debate on how to reform food systems. IPES-Food has identified 10 key principles to guide the urgently-needed transition to sustainable food systems. They include principles to shape the sustainable food systems of...

Like in other parts of Europe, wood pastures and silvopastoral systems were integral parts of traditional land use patterns and extensive livestock keeping for thousands of years in Hungary. This type of land management was a dominant feature up to the mid-twentieth century. The underlying causes for its deterioration include...

La diputada local, Angelina Solís, consideró ayer que la nueva Ley de Agricultura Familiar aprobada por la Asamblea Legislativa, evitará el éxodo de cientos de familias rurales a las zonas urbanas del Distrito Federal, además de que detonaría la capacidad productiva de más de 18 mil hectáreas de cultivo ubicadas...

Ianco Zifceak is one of the people who know his agriculture. Immediately after the Revolution, five hectares of agricultural land was returned to his parents and then he bought and rented other hectares, so as in 2004 he worked approximately 200 hectares with his brother Ioji. But he practices the...

  El artículo tiene como propósito avanzar en la caracterización de los circuitos cortos de comercialización en la Argentina y sus alcances para el afianzamiento de la producción familiar diversificada y su reconexión con el territorio. La metodología empleada es fundamentalmente cualitativa y se basa en dos estudios de caso. Si bien...

6 September 2015, Bo District (Sierra Leone) - Over one thousand people that have been displaced by flooding in six villages of Bo District, South of Sierra Leone, are in urgent need of food, clothes, medicines and shelter to cope with the traumatized situation that has befell them. The flood...

This course has been developed as part of the "Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics". The course is based on the Guidelines for Linking Population and Housing Censuses with Agricultural Censuses, prepared jointly by FAO and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and available in the Resources section.

Household mentoring is an innovative tool that provides the skills and knowledge that enable poor families to improve their well-being and incomes. And, as an IFAD-supported programme in Uganda has shown, it also promotes greater equality and shared decision-making among household members.

As part of the objectives of the project “Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Man and the Biosphere Reserve in Cuba: Bridging Managed and Natural Landscape. (COBARB) in communities of the Cuchillas del Toa and Sierra of the Rosario Biosphere Reserve were analyzed different biological economic and social aspect to determined landscape zones...

Although it is widely recognized that land tenure security is an integral part of agricultural intensification, there is no single clearly defined and universally applicable property rights regime to achieve this end. Countries that strive for economic development and food security through agricultural intensification need to utilize land governance strategies...

La terre est aride à Katikati, village du nord de la Tanzanie. Ici, les nomades Masaï parcourent jusqu’à 100 kilomètres par jour pour trouver un point d’eau. Mais à présent, un puits a été foré leur donnant accès à l'eau potable et une chance de se sédentariser en construisant une...

The real solution to our pest and weed problems lies in non-toxic, ecological methods of agriculture, not in pulling the pesticide trigger. In organic systems, farms are managed to maintain and build soil fertility, improving the overall health of microbes, plants and animals as one ecosystem. 

El presente artículo describe y evalúa la incidencia de la transferencia de tecnología en el trabajo de agricultores familiares lecheros de acuerdo a su entorno, a partir de dos casos en los que se ha intervenido de manera directa en acciones de investigación y extensión, uno en Perú y otro...

This study determined the adaptation and coping strategies adopted by farmers under yam- and cassavabased farming systems in Ebonyi and Enugu States in Nigeria’s derived savannah agro-ecological zone. The study uses data from 400 farmers. The likelihood that the farmers engage in some actions to cushion the effect of climate...

Con el propósito de resaltar el importante papel que juegan los pequeños agricultores en el país, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en conjunto con otras 13 instituciones ligadas al sector agropecuario nacional, ponen en circulación el libro "Año Internacional de la Agricultura...

El agua es indispensable para todas las actividades humanas y sobre todo para la agricultura. Pero también es un recurso cada vez más escaso en el mundo y su desperdicio y contaminación son enormes. En esta edición de LEISA presentamos artículos basados en experiencias innovadoras de uso del agua realizadas...

La lucha contra el hambre sigue adelante en todo el mundo, pero con unos 805 millones de personas que todavía no tienen suficiente para comer, todavía queda mucho por hacer. Sesenta y tres países en desarrollo ya han alcanzado la meta relativa al hambre del objetivo de desarrollo del Milenio de...

The purpose of this research is to determine the significance and importance of rural workshop implementation in professional and technical training of Industrial Design students. Based on qualitative approach, the study utilized in-depth interviews and discourse analysis to examine the significance of working in rural areas for undergraduate students. Special...