Agriculture remains the most important sector in Albania’s economy and provides the income base for the majority of the population. Among Albania's farmers 74 percent are small family farmers with very limited size of holdings averaging not more than 0.5 hectare, but accounting for the highest share of agricultural production. This...

The endorsement of the National School Feeding Programme (Projecto de Alimentação Escolar—PRONAE) by the Mozambican Council of Ministers in 2013 represented a key stage in the institutionalization of school feeding and local food purchases in the country’s education system. This publication presents analysis on the divide between policy change and...

Convocatoria de Fontagro ​(Mecanismo de Cooperación entre países de América Latina y el Caribe y España), que desde el pasado 1 de Marzo y hasta el 30 de Abril de 2018 está abierta, denominada “Escalamiento de Innovaciones para el mejoramiento de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe”....

Libro resumen de la 1era Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores en Políticas Públicas de la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur. La presente publicación, representa la consolidación del trabajo iniciado en Posadas, y busca seguir estrechando lazos y comenzar a materializar el desarrollo de investigación de carácter regional, además...

Interview with Nadjirou Sall at the World Agricultures Watch International Workshop “Understanding Farming Diversity for Better Policy-making and Project Targeting” 19-20 December 2017, IFAD Headquarters, Rome ,Italy

The food and agriculture sector is faced with a critical global challenge: to ensure access to safe, healthy, and nutritious food for a growing world population, while at the same time using natural resources more sustainably and making an effective contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Through this annual...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy and contributes over 45 percent of government revenue. The agricultural sector is the largest employer, representing 60 percent of total employment. Overall, approximately 80 percent of rural women are employed in agriculture. However, the percentage of agricultural land held by women remains...

A youth group called Mwelekeo Mpya, Kiswahili for New Direction, is indeed pushing young people in Nyamala village, Kilifi County, in a new direction. Here, youth are discovering that farming is not an outdated way of life. Amos Mkare and Dominic Mzungu are both 22 and high school graduates. They are...

Although only 5 percent of Tajikistan's land area is farmable due to the country's mountainous geography, agriculture accounts for 53 percent of total employment. Among those households that engage in agriculture, almost 90 percent can be classified as small family farms. With 0.2 hectares on average, Tajikistan's smallholders operate on...

A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou a criação do sistema nacional de certificação da produção da agricultura familiar. O projeto também prevê a criação do selo de produção da agricultura familiar, que identifica os alimentos que vêm deste segmento da economia rural. O projeto de lei, do deputado Assis do Couto,...

The right to food is a fundamental pillar to the right to life. Yet it is also arguably the most violated human right globally. Today, hundreds of millions of individuals – some 821 million – remain food insecure. They lack consistent physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious...

Awra Amba is an intentional community of around 500 people founded in northern Ethiopia to combat poverty, exploitation and gender inequality. At the heart of this magnanimous project is a simple question: why should any one human being exploit another? This is the question that the founder of Awra Amba, Zumra...

El desarrollo rural requiere de emprendimientos que inviertan en ciencia y tecnología para brindar nuevas herramientas al sector agrícola y ganadero. En la zona Andina de América Latina, hombres y mujeres han tenido un limitado acceso a nuevas tecnologías, limitaciones que se acrecientan si son las mujeres quienes buscan su...

L’analyse et la quantification des performances de la petite agriculture familiale (PAF) constituent un enjeu au regard de la transition agroécologique. Cet article utilise une méthode combinant enquêtes auprès d’agriculteurs de la PAF de Guadeloupe, typologie et évaluation, à l’échelle de l’exploitation, des avantages qu’ils tirent de pratiques agroécologiques en...

The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world’s food has been a linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent empirical attempts to reinvestigate this number have lacked raw data on how much food smallholders produce, and have relied on model assumptions with unknown biases and with...

Brazil is the fourth largest milk producer in the world. Besides its economic relevance, milk production has an important social function in Brazil. Dairy activity employs a large amount of people and contributes to regional development. But some drawbacks remain, such as poor labor conditions and problems for family succession....

En esta nota se analizan los resultados de un modelo productivo de ciclo completo de sesenta madres, que produce y vende capones con nivel de productividad de 1.217 kilogramos anuales por cerda madre, con servicio natural dirigido e instalaciones específicas de bajo nivel de inversión, alimentación con maíz de propia...

In the span of a few decades, the world has witnessed a technological revolution, which has generated economic and social change at an unprecedented pace. Today, an app on your smartphone can help raise awareness of a social cause worldwide and help a farmer activate the sprinklers to water her...

CVC stated its satisfaction with the Commission’s proposal to limit financial aid to 60,000 EUR per farm, but added that it is important to take the active farmers who work there into account, as well as the economic and social conditions of the workers and day labourers.  Moreover, cuts to the...

The benefits of mixed methods are well recognised. Using mixed methods, researchers are able to overcome shortcomings inherent in individual methods while enhancing the validity and reliability of their research findings. Mixed methods are commonly used in cross-sectional studies – to answer research questions, and/or explore contemporary social issues. However,...