The report underlines the important role played by policies and actions that make human mobility a pillar of sustainable food systems and inclusive territorial development. This would also be a way to mainstream complex migration dynamics into interventions targeting FNS. Such policies and actions necessarily imply a focus on inclusive...

La REAF (Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur), ha dado un importante paso hacia la elaboración de las Directrices Regionales de apoyo a la Agricultura Familiar a través de la ratificación del compromiso político de los estados participantes durante los eventos celebrados entre el 19 y 23 de junio...

La Gestión Comunitaria del Agua y Saneamiento en Latinoamérica y el Caribe ha venidojugando un rol preponderante para lograr que millones de personas tengan acceso al agua para consumo humano en las zonas rurales, periurbanas y en algunos casos urbanas en la región de las Américas. Investigaciones recientes, realizadas por AVINA y la...

New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today. While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...

Many European rural areas are locked into a “circle of decline” by two mutually reinforcing trends–firstly, a shortage of jobs and sustainable business activity and secondly, inadequate and declining services. Over the last two years the ENRD has carried out work to look at the first of these challenges by...

Esta reunión busca crear un escenario que permita abordar los desafíos referentes a la gobernanza de la tenencia en la región, por medio del compromiso político y técnico de los agentes públicos, privados y de la sociedad civil involucrados. Junto a ello, la reunión busca promover una reflexión frente a...

Following the first workshop on this topic in December 2016, FAO is convening a broader circle of countries to discuss agriculture’s place in the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development. The overall objective of the event is to help member countries nationalize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to raise awareness amongst...

This seminar is dedicated to exploring and sharing the existing experiences with implementing the EIP-AGRI via Rural Development Programmes support. This event will be held with the support of the Greek RDP Managing Authority – Network Support Unit of the National Rural Network. With over 230 Operational Groups (OGs) already...

“Gestionar las contradicciones y trabajar nuestras diferencia desde un espacio de conversación política, hombro con hombro, para favorecer la cohesión de la Agricultura Familiar Campesina de la región”, fue la premisa que definió la jornada inaugural de la Primera Conferencia de la Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur Ampliado, que se realiza...

El artículo se focaliza en los conflictos que se producen en la localidad de Roldán provincia de Santa Fe, a partir de la regulación de aplicación de productos agroquímicos. Aplicaciones que se mantienen de forma sostenida desde el proceso de agriculturización que vive la región y los cuestionamientos que se...

La seguridad alimentaria es el mejor camino para la paz, señalaron los asistentes del Foro internacional para la Paz realizado en Colombia, en el marco de las celebraciones del Día Mundial de la Alimentación 2017. El foro convocó a ministros de la región, miembros del gobierno colombiano, organismos internacionales, el sector privado y...

The burning Autumn sun is rolling on the cretes of Anatolia. On the arid outskirts of the village of Tahtacıörencik, the hens of the Kır Çocukları eco-project are witnessing curious activities. A group of about 40 visitors, including 12 foreigners, is invading the poultry breeding farm.  Perched on the fence,...

In Colombia, Rural Development Institutional programs have made of local agents imperceptible since their trajectories have not been considered in the search for solutions to the problems in their territories. The present work introduces an innovative system to the production of the leaves of the plantain variety ‘Cachaco’ (Musa ABB S). This improvement, which was...

Worldwide, the food sovereignty movement is taking root. The multitude of new food sovereignty initiatives speak to its strength as a concept, and as a source of practical responses to today’s problematic food and farming system. The stories in this issue of Farming Matters address interwoven issues of food sovereignty...

While there has been an unprecedented achievement in poverty reduction in the last three decades, eradicating extreme poverty and halving poverty by 2030 are still two of our greatest challenges. Today, about 767 million people continue to live in extreme poverty. Roughly, two thirds of the extreme poor live in...

This brochure introduces the work of SFE (Sub-regional office for Eastern Africa) related to Natural Resource Management, including key partners and the link with the SDGs. It covers NRM activities in the subregion, which are also in line with intergovernmental priorities intervention areas: 1 - Sustainable access to, and utilization...

This newsletter is the third edition of the Farm-Success Project newsletter. The Farm-Success Project newsletter outlines all of the most recent Farm-Success Project developments, detailing the Project’s road to creating strategies to train farmers for a sustainable succession process in order to enable and to motivate young farmers to continue...

La situation géographique de la zone sahélienne expose les États membres du Comité Inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre à des chocs et catastrophes récurrents naturels et provoqués. Ces épisodes récurrents de catastrophes qui souvent sapent la confiance dans...

Rural development has an important role to play in the sustainable development of Georgia. Evidence from the experience of European Rural Development Programmes confirms the role that rural development can play in terms of increasing the welfare of rural populations and reducing the economic imbalance between rural and urban areas....

In the province of Guanenta (Santander), lack of technical assistance received by producers is one of the main obstacles to the production of snuff. The objective of this research was tocharacterize the snuff production systems in the province, considering technical, socioeconomic and environmental variables. The sample was determined from census by producers suppliedby Coltabaco,...