In the context of food, environmental and global energy crisis, Mexico is one of the countries with the highest rate of food poverty; in the state of Puebla over 60% of the population has difficulty access to nutritious food. In this scenario the Agroecology is shown as an alternative capable...

Este video trata sobre cómo la disponibilidad, acceso y uso sostenido de semilla de calidad por parte de agricultores familiares de granos básicos, sigue siendo un tema prioritario para lograr la seguridad alimentaria y reducir la pobreza rural. El uso de semilla de calidad en el momento oportuno puede resultar...

Value chain development is adopted widely as a private sector–led approach to agricultural development that can benefit smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing agricultural value chains in Ghana to include smallholders. The study is based on case studies of five...

The Europe and Central Asia region (ECA) has achieved Millennium Development Goal 1C, to halve the proportion of undernourished people, with undernourishment at less than 5 percent in the region since 2010-12, the lowest of all five FAO regions. All countries in the region have made considerable progress in reducing...

Gender inequality presents a significant barrier to increasing agricultural production and food security in Ethiopia. The lack of nationally representative sex-disaggregated data and analysis has hindered the development and implementation of evidence-based policies. This report aims to contribute to filling this gap by presenting a gender analysis of the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency’s Agricultural...

Este número de Enlace, correspondiente al periodo febrero-marzo de 2015, incluye: Realizan evento estatal del Programa de Producción de Maíz (Pepma) ciclo agrícola 2014 Realizan Feria de Agricultura Familiar y Campesina en México Clausura de la Asamblea General Ordinaria del CNA y entrega del Premio Nacional Agroalimentario 2014 AMSAC y CIMMYT colaboran para impulsar...

En el presente trabajo interesa poner en cuestión la categoría “agricultura familiar” y el uso extensivo que se le ha otorgado a la misma. Seconsidera que ello ha tendido a homogeneizar actores sociales distintos, generando un espacio teórico y político difuso. Se propone así abrir un espacio de discusión en torno a la caracterización de...

The training workshop will facilitate a greater understanding of the different processes of trade and economic integration affecting the agricultural sector in Central Asia. Given the different degrees of the countries’ involvement in global and regional trading schemes, lessons learned from reforming agriculture will be drawn upon. Apart from experiences...

En el marco del proceso de expansión de capacidades enfocado en la transformación y agregación de valor a los productos alimenticios locales de los municipios de Manaure y Dibulla, se desarrollaron capacitaciones sobre conservación de alimentos durante cuatro días con la participación de más de 50 actores del territorio y a cargo...

The transition from Socialism to Capitalism occurred in many countries worldwide, but nowhere was it so sharp as in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Many researchers studied this process since the fall of the Berlin Wall in the autumn of 1989. Twenty-five years later, an international workshop was...

Jeni Dumbravă has been working in agriculture since 1970, when she was an economist for CAP, a vegetable growing farm in Poarta Albă. „The people never respected the office hours since in agriculture one cannot work according to a fixed schedule. Even then, during communism, people loved the work compared...

Depuis leurs indépendances, l’Algérie, le Maroc et la Tunisie ont suivi diverses politiques agricoles sans réussir à garantir la sécurité alimentaire par la production agricole locale. En Algérie, une politique agricole à travers le plan national de développement agricole (PNDA) fut mise en oeuvre a partir de l’année 2000 afin...

Foundation trustees and staff recently visited Heifer families in Guatemala whose livelihoods have been affected by climate change. Drought and disease are severely hurting their coffee crops, and it can take them years to recover.  

This video has been produced on the occasion of the Private Sector Forum on Food Security in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region that was held in Barcelona on 5 and 6 May 2015. While family farming and small businesses have always been vital to food security and economic development,...

The work aims to develop sustainable systems of food production by promoting agroecological practices. This experience was developed in rural communities of the People's Council Zaragoza, municipality of San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque. Action-participation, based on philosophy of popular education and university extension - the investigation was used as...

The Kerala State provides a different picture of the success of women in farming. Collective power of women groups, integration of local self governments and proactive credit schemes have enabled landless women to emerge as commercial organic farmers in Kerala. Women are now visible as major farmers in the State,...

As a child, he would spend his holidays with his grandparents in Tomești, Harghita county, and with the ones in Stânceni, Mureș county, whose yards he would fill with animals he would “collect” from the village. He went to high school far away from his parents, in Gheorghieni, because that’s where...

Provee de información básica necesaria para la capacitación en riego parcelario a las organizaciones de usuarios de agua con fines agrarios, especialmente acerca de los conceptos básicos para realizar el riego a nivel parcelario, lo cual se resume en tres aspectos fundamentales: la preparación del terreno, construcción de composturas y...

This brief summarizes the results of a novel analysis that examines the determinants of adoption of agricultural practices to improve food security and their productivity implications in Tanzania. Conducted by the FAO Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture Programme (EPIC), the approach integrates historical Climate data with a rich...

Desde el mes de noviembre de 2015, un grupo de pescadores artesanales del Departamento de La Guajira, han tenido la oportunidad de reunirse con otros pescadores de Nuquí y Bahía Solano en el Chocó con quienes han venido compartiendo experiencias y conocimientos relacionados con ordenamiento marino-costero, pesca sostenible y responsable,...