No último ano, a comercialização de produtos da agricultura familiar recebeu apoio de R$ 197,5 milhões da Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), por meio do  Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). Desse montante, cerca de R$ 184 milhões (95,16% do total) foram destinados à Compra com Doação Simultânea (CDS), pela qual...

Starting or participating in an agrifood business could make good sense for women in poor rural areas of Albania. A new study commissioned by FAO – and presented at a conference here today – identifies several business ideas and examines value chains and markets with potential for improving women’s incomes....

O Seguro da Agricultura Familiar (SEAF) foi criado com o objetivo de promover a produção agrícola, apoiando o agricultor para que possa plantar com segurança. É direcionado a produtores que conduzem sua lavoura como um empreendimento viável, integrado ao mercado e acessam o crédito do custeio agrícola do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento...

The third web-debate will take place on Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 10am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)*. The debate will center around illegal,unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, a high priority topic in fisheries governance that has received international attentions and is included in Sustainable Development Goals (SDG Target 14.4). That being...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) Trust organised a national workshop on ‘Enhancing capacities of women fishworkers in India for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines’ in Chennai, India, on November 21-23, 2016. There were 63 participants from nine coastal states of India—participants from Gujarat could not attend....

This paper provides an overview of concepts, issues and research on the relationship between financial inclusion and inclusive rural transformation. When considering how the growth of demand for financial services is related to the broader processes of structural and rural transformation, the evidence shows that agricultural credit provides positive returns,...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO) in partnership with the Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS) will organize a Policy Dialogue Workshop on “Sustainable Development Goals and Agrarian Transformations in the Global South: Trends and Opportunities” on 23-27 October 2017 in Harare, Zimbabwe. FAO plays a...

This ENRD workshop discussed ways to respond to demographic change and promote social inclusion in rural areas. Entitled 'Social Hubs in Rural Europe', the event explored existing hubs of activity and inspiring initiatives from across Europe around specific social inclusion and demographic change issues,

Fishing communities, in particular women, in Sri Lanka’s war and disaster ravaged regions require support. Sri Lanka receives many tourists from all over the world, attracted by its beautiful coasts and other natural and cultural treasures. But few people know that small-scale fishing communities in Sri Lanka face difficult challenges and...

Em janeiro de 2003, foi criado o Programa Fome Zero, que mais tarde aglutinaria programas de transferência de renda, de fornecimento de energia elétrica e para construção de cisternas em regiões castigadas pela seca. Após 11 anos, o número de pessoas subalimentadas caía 82,1% – a maior queda registrada entre as...

Women in the Fishery Sector are afflicted by a lot many bottlenecks like unhygienic market conditions, apathy towards the sector in general and women in particular, cut-throat competition, and inability to keep their produce dry and fresh, etc. SEWA-Kerala has been lobbying on their behalf with government authorities and thanks to...

The programme’s goals were to increase the food security of smallholder farm households in southern Africa and enhance their livelihoods while conserving and improving the natural resources used for agriculture. The focus of the programme was on developing productive farming systems for smallholder farmers who managed maize-based systems, based on...

O Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa) disponibilizou em seu site o Painel Brasileiro de Sementes, ferramenta de consulta pública sobre os dados da produção de sementes no país. A medida reforça as ações de transparência, como prevê a política de dados aberto do Poder Executivo Federal. Pelo Painel será...

This edition provides an account on the activities and results of the FAO Sierra Leone Representation from January to March 2017. Food insecurity and poverty, a major challenge to meet-ing SDGs target 2.1 in sub-Saharan Africa.

The regional workshop, entitled “Engaging agriculture, forestry and fisheries in support to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” was held in Kigali, Rwanda from 19 to 21 September 2016. This event served as an opportunity for FAO to engage more effectively with countries in Africa, through its delivery mechanisms, on...

The paper focuses on the various stressors to which SSF are subject to, whether environmental or socio-economic and how it affects their vulnerability. The study was done in three coastal communities in Ghana that were closely assessed in terms of how multiple stressors combine to affect SSF.

The guide results from the accumulated lessons of many resource persons in many countries on supporting farmer field schools (FFS) in learning and adaptive management for sustainable land and water management. FAO supported the capacity development process through field projects and the field work that underlies the guide was conducted...

The Food and Agriculture Orgnization of the United Nations recently released the publication titled Towards gender-equitable small-scale fisheries governance and development—A handbook. Prepared by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), this handbook aims at providing practical guidance on how to achieve gender-equitable small-scale fisheries in the context of...

Fisheries, an important sub-sector of Indian agriculture, and is dependent on the country’s rich marine and inland water resources. Forty-seven percent of fish production is from along India’s 8,118kmlong coastline. The rest (53 percent) is from inland water resource that “comprises 45,000km of rivers and streams and 1.6 million hectares...

Eurostat has published its regional yearbook providing statistics and data collected in the 28 Members States of the EU. This yearbook focuses on different subjects such as health, education and training, labour market, research and innovation, tourism and transport among others. This 2017 edition also presents a focus on European...