“Mărginimea Sibiului” Association of Traditional and Ecological Products Producers was founded on 30 March 2011, at the initiative of a few kind producers from Sibiu County. Coordinated by the president Gheorghe Budrală, the association has 28 members now. “Mărginimea Sibiului” Association aims to valorise the traditional food heritage, and this...

If Not Us Then Who is a US registered charity, 501(c)(3) that supports a global awareness campaign highlighting the role indigenous and local peoples play in protecting our planet. We work in partnership with communities to make films, take photographs, curate content, commission local artists and host events. Our work aims...

Rural youth are the future of food security. Yet around the world, few young people see a future for themselves in agriculture or rural areas. Rural youth face many hurdles in trying to earn a livelihood. Pressure on arable land is high in many parts of the world, making it...

Several projects have been set up in the Walloon Region of Belgium to use public procurement to support family farming. Report of a seminar that brought together representatives from these projects and representatives of Southern farmers networks to discuss lessons learned. Looks at problems and challenges from the farmers perspective...

This new edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture highlights the significant role that fisheries and aquaculture plays in eliminating hunger, promoting health and reducing poverty. Never before have people consumed so much fish or depended so greatly on the sector for their well-being. Fish is extremely nutritious...

The estimated 500 million family farmers worldwide are often the main food producers in many regions, making vital contributions to the variety and quality of local diets. Paradoxically, many also struggle on marginal lands and suffer from limited inputs, confining themselves, their families, and their communities to food and nutritional...

Bogdan Alecu – manager in Ministry of Agriculture and Rural development. In order to understand the importance of family farms, we have to know what they are and what they represent. They are small-scale agricultural farms, where the activities are performed  mostly by the family members.

Recientemente han vuelto a ganar protagonismo temas que parecían olvidados en las prioridades de política pública en algunos países andinos. Después de décadas de centrar el foco en la agricultura de exportación – y en ocasiones casi exclusivamente en la de mayor escala -, en estas naciones se ha vuelto...

El objetivo de este artículo es describir y analizar las características del trabajo hortícola, platense en particular. Además de un análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo de esta, se pretende identificar las formas a través de la cual surge de esta una competitividad para el sujeto que la aporta -el horticultor boliviano-,...

The IFAD-funded PAMA Programme - the Agricultural Markets Support Programme - supports the implementation of major economic reforms launched by the government during the 1990s, including the commercialization of small-scale farming through better access to markets and improved linkages with private sector operators. The programme enables small-scale farmers in Boane,...

Le présent travail est le fruit de la capitalisation de 8 expériences qui illustrent de façon très concrète les liens entre développement local et agriculture familiale. Il ne vise, en aucun cas, à traiter de manière exhaustive toutes les problématiques liées à l’agriculture familiale. Il présente ici des expériences vécues,...

This is the Gender Strategy for the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems (Dryland Systems). It sets out the challenges and targets for including gender aspects and addressing gender issues as a core activity and outcome of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems. The Strategy's overall goal is: to...

Fisheries play an important role in the economic and social life in Burundi. Yet, about 10 to 15% of the harvest was lost during the processing phase. Fish drying, which is the most common processing technique in the country, was done generally on bare ground. This has led to partial...

Esta publicación está dirigida a organizaciones e instituciones de la sociedad civil y a funcionarios gubernamentales, a fin de que puedan conocer cómo las redes de Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres (GRD) y Adaptación al Cambio Climático (ACC) vienen y pueden seguir contribuyendo con la sostenibilidad del desarrollo en América...

The agricultural sector has attracted rising concern and development focus due to the uncertainty triggered by the supply shocks experienced globally in the last five years and the ever-increasing price index for food items. Bahrain faces its unique challenges in this domain mainly as a result of a combination of...

En los sistemas de producción porcina, se requiere implementar una capacitación continua a nivel del personal que trabaja en las granjas, esto dado por el avance tecnológico que se viene observando a nivel de la industria, como así también, en los paradigmas que se introdujeron en esta y que al...

Between 2008 and 2013 ASARECA coordinated and provided leadership in implementing a project called “Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa” (DONATA) across 6 countries in eastern and central Africa. The approach in DONATA was the innovation platform for technology adoption (IPTA). At the start of the project, there were...

There are several studies on Paraguay´s rural family agriculture, they are from diverse perspective: typological characterization, competitiveness, limiting factors for their development, among others. No studies that address the economic-financial profitability of this type of agriculture have been identified in the specialized literature. This publication reports the results of an...

Growing water-thirsty crops like maize in drought-prone areas is obviously risky. Yet many of Zimbabwe's smallholder farmers are doing precisely that - and with it, increasing their chances of poor yields, lost income and hunger. Working alongside Zimbabwe's Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development, FAO, through its Technical Cooperation...

La  agricultura  familiar  —hasta  hace poco, «invisible» para la población urbana y los políticos— está cobrando cada vez mayor importancia en la agenda internacional y en las agendas nacionales de un número creciente de países.