These guidelines have been prepared by IFOAM-Organics International as part of the Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture. It makes political sense to support organic agriculture, as it contributes in many ways to the welfare of society and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also...

Interview with Joana Rodrigues Mousinho, 61, fisherwoman, fisher representative and member of the National Articulation of Fisherwomen (ANP) and the Movement of Fishermen and Fisherwomen (MPP), Itapissuma, Pernambuco, Brazil.

Well-designed dairy development programmes can improve the income and nutrition of poor households, as well as providing decent employment in milk processing and marketing. A review of evidence on the importance of livestock for women argued that despite two-thirds of the world's poor livestock keepers being women, little research has...

Environmental protection and human food security co-exist in a critical balance, one that is often difficult to get right. The pressures of population rise, farming intensification, and loss of habitats and species mean that protections afforded under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy are pivotal to the conservation of agri-ecology. In...

Community supported agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between farmers and the local community, where the responsibilities, risks and rewards of farming are shared. Benefits are enjoyed by all sides: farmers for instance can receive a more stable and secure income and closer connection with their community, and consumer members can...

A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) lançou o Painel de Políticas da Sead, no final do mês de julho. A ferramenta é uma plataforma eletrônica criada para dar transparência aos números das principais políticas públicas voltadas para a agricultura familiar. Desenvolvido pela Coordenação-Geral de Gestão...

The conference will bring up local as well as international researchers, senior scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders from all over the world dealing with water resources management in arid lands. The conference will serve as a wide-ranging forum for exchange of innovative approaches and novel knowledge and experience in water...

FAO promotes a multidimensional approach to reducing rural poverty, focused on increasing women’s access to productive resources, decent employment and business opportunities, strengthening the capacity of rural institutions and services, and supporting measures to increase social protection coverage and effectiveness.

This booklet, authored by John Kurien and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, brings together important insights on community empowerment in the traditional fisheries in Cambodia gleaned through field work and consultations undertaken between 2012 and 2015.

Com R$ 3 milhões da Finep, projeto do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia prevê a capacitação de 1.000 piscicultores e produtores rurais de Manaus e do interior do estado. Os pequenos produtores de peixe terão a oportunidade de melhorar a capacidade técnica e dinamizar as criações. Já os plantios...

The 'Global Peasants' Rights' congress sheds light on the situation of small scale farmers and the rural population around the world, draws public attention to the importance of peasants for sustainable local and regional production of food in agro ecological quality and emphasizes the need to protect their rights and...

Forum Synergies’ rural sustainability gatherings are a lively exchange of practical knowledge and experiences between local actors, social organizations and policy makers from across Europe. During this three-day meetings we bring together people from all walks of life to learn on the spot from each other about sustainable practices in...

Visitar um contrato Ater Quilombolas, que também atende mulheres, e conhecer ações de organização produtiva e econômica executadas pela Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) com agricultoras, são algumas das agendas da visita técnica da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) aos estados do Maranhão e do...

Este estudio señala, en primer lugar, cuáles son los factores determinantes para la adopción de tecnologías agrarias. En segundo lugar, identifica las zonas que un eventual programa de difusión de innovaciones debería priorizar para maximizar su impacto entre los pequeños agricultores. De este modo, ha sido posible determinar cuáles son...

Agri-environment measures provide payments to farmers who subscribe, on a voluntary basis, to environmental commitments related to the preservation of the environment and maintaining the countryside. Agri-environment measures are a key element for the integration of environmental concerns into the Common Agricultural Policy. They are designed to encourage farmers to protect...

Organized by the IsDB and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) under the title “Youth engagement in agriculture production: Developing technologies that appeal to youth to make farming an attractive career option”, the seminar looked at the challenges and problems facing rural young people and what should be done...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs

The international community is committed to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition worldwide by 2030. While much progress has been made, conflict and human-induced and natural disasters are causing setbacks. This year’s The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World warns that the long-term declining trend in undernourishment seems...

This document analyzes the main changes that have taken place in agriculture and the rural milieu during the 2016-2017 period. It also considers the prospects and main trends in the region, in a context characterized by a slow and uneven global economic recovery in 2016, but with signs of an...

Coastal erosion and accretion are natural processes. However, such instances have becomeabnormally highdue to human activities and sea-level rise.