Although there are well-established concerns about climate change effects in northern Ethiopia, there is little quantitative information concerning how serious these effects are to small holder farming. Moreover, studies on farm level adaptations that farmers make to minimise the potential impacts of climate change are lacking. Both quantitative and qualitative...

The project beneficiary is a female farmer who has been growing and selling vegetables in Malta. She applied for EU funding to convert to organic farming. She had been considering this conversion for some time and the funding opportunity allowed her to put her ideas into practice. The objective of the...

Building on FAO’s work on good practices in agriculture and forestry, the BEFSCI project (see box below) has compiled a set of good environmental practices that can be implemented by bioenergy feedstock producers in order to minimize the risk of negative environmental impacts from their operations, and to ensure that...

Folleto que explica brevemente los objetivos y características del Programa de Alimentación Escolar, en el marco de la iniciativa América Latina sin Hambre 2025.

Сегодня органическое сельское хозяйство получило признание во всем мире, а спрос на ор- ганик-продукты увеличивается с каждым годом. Органическое фермерство поддерживает здоровое состояние земли, экосистемы и людей, учитывая весь жизненный цикл веществ и элементов.

This paper explains an approach on Conservation Agriculture in Mongolia. Following a request by the Government of Mongolia, FAO has implemented the TCP project “Improved Cereal Production Technology” from 2000 to 2002. The project’s main objective was to introduce Conservation Agriculture (CA) technologies in the wheat-fallow production system of Mongolia...

El ganado menor es un rubro importante para los pequeños productores, ya que requiere menos espacio para la crianza y se lo considera como una fuente de ingreso rápido para resolver problemas imprevistos. En este contexto, este trabajo tuvo por finalidad analizar los aspectos socio-económicos, productivos, reproductivos y de comercialización...

This policy paper has been prepared to highlight the key opportunities and challenges confronting farmers throughout the world as they consider and adopt practices that contribute to green economic development, poverty eradication and improved food security. It focuses on the role of farmers in green economic development and how a...

Agriculture plays a key role in the economic and social development of Georgia. Though over half of the active population works in this sector, it makes up only 17% of the GDP. The rural population has not benefited from the economic growth of recent years and is as a result...

13 farmers’ organizations from eight countries within the Baltic Farmers’ Forum on the Environment (BFFE) present their contribution for sustainable farming around the Baltic Sea. Farmers are aware of their key role in water management in light of the sensitive Baltic Sea, and as part of the overall sustainable development...

This document forms part of the systemization of the FAO project “Strengthening of High-Andean Indigenous Organizations and Recovery of their Traditional Products” (2007-2011), financed by the New Zealand Aid Programme. Its aim is to strengthen national capacities to recover, systemize, disseminate, adapt and replicate some of the processes and lessons...

The Green Revolution not only failed to ensure safe and abundant food production for all people, but it was launched under the assumptions that abundant water and cheap energy to fuel modern agriculture would always be available and that climate would be stable and not change. In some of the...

  The Agricultural sector has the greatest potential for improving rural livelihood and eradicating the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). By the end of the GTP period, the government seeks to double yields of smallholder farmers largely by scaling-up best practices, producing high value crops, expanding irrigation development and promoting natural...

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest about EUR 63 billion in France's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernizations, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to France to adapt both...

Inorganic fertilizer is one of a handful of agricultural technologies that have immense potential for raising the productivity of poor smallholders, enabling them to increase income, accumulate assets, and set themselves economically on a pathway out of poverty. The very low prevalence of fertilizer use by Mozambican farmers—below five percent—is...

To provide immediate livelihood relief to at least 100 vulnerable families in rural and semi-rural areas in eastern Libya through the provision of agricultural inputs and technical support to maintain or expand their vegetable production capacity.

E-conference of the International Network for Family Poultry Development in collaboration with FAO and supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) / 16 January - 3 February 2012

This report provides information and analysis, both of the current situation and context of the agri-food sector and the outlook for 2013. This is a joint effort developed for a fourth consecutive year by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (eclac), the Regional Office for Latin America...

本文综述了我国农业生态学的发展过程与演化特点, 并站在国际视野上分析了现代农业生态学发展趋势, 着重提出农业生态学正从宏观与微观两个层面不断拓展, 并把研究引向深入。从宏观层次上讲, 农业生态学正从已往的宏观农业生物学层面逐步深入到“三农”的社会学层面, 研究水平从以往关注农业生态系统结构与功能的关系逐步发展到人们普遍关心的食物系统(food system), 即从生态经济学角度研究农业生态系统能物流形成与运转对经济社会发展的影响以及社会政策法规对食物系统的调控作用。也就是说, 现代农业生态学越来越重视人类社会生态觉醒对保护农业生态系统环境, 促进无污染生产及市场营销的重要作用。因此, 在当代西方国家, 许多农业生态学工作者十分重视通过各种社区运动(movement)或行动(action)来促进政府、生产部门、销售部门以及相关管理部门接受农业生态学思想, 自觉按照生态规律办事, 保证食物生产系统健康高效运行, 这已成为现代农业生态学教学科研和生产实践的重要内容, 涉及科学理论研究-实验示范推广-各种联盟运动推进-社会公众自觉参与等全过程, 体现了现代农业生态学的时代特征。从微观层次上讲, 现代农业生态学正进入农业分子生态学时代, 它借助现代生物学的发展成就, 运用系统生物学的理论与技术, 深入研究农业生态系统结构与功能的关系及其分子生态学机制。特别是随着现代生物技术的不断完善, 环境(宏)基因组学、蛋白组学技术的问世, 极大地推进了人们对未知生物世界的认知, 尤其是对生物多样性和基因多样性的深层次剖析, 使得农业生态学能从分子水平上深入研究系统演化的过程与机制, 促进从定性半定量描述向定量和机理性研究推进。客观上要求农业生态学工作者必须与时俱进, 不断完善自己的知识结构, 提高现代科学研究技能, 只有这样才能自觉接受新的科学知识, 促进传统科学向现代科学提升。本文特以例证分析了这一科学发展的必须性和重要性, 旨在引发广大同行的反思与共鸣。

Five case studies are included here as examples of attempts to link small farmers with markets in Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The case studies explore the business model used and the lessons learned. They are drawn from among the loose network of the organizations that are members of...