Forest planning and policy making process in West Africa – and elsewhere in Africa for that matter – has largely been dominated by the State, with very little room for a meaningful participation of civil society. This state of affairs led to a management of forests and forest resources which...

Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...

El Movimiento de los Pequeños Agricultores (MPA) realiza su I Congreso Nacional en los días 12 al 16 de octubre en el Pabellón Vera Cruz, en São Bernardo do Campo – SP, sitio histórico de las luchas obreras. Con el tema "Plan Campesino, Alianza Campesina y Obrera por Soberanía Alimentaria"...

Food security has always been a major concern for China's government. Up until recently that meant ensuring that enough food was produced in China to feed the entire population, and this task fell almost entirely to China's peasant farmers. Over the past couple of decades, however, the government has shifted its...

La publicación "PETROCARIBE: 10 años de lucha contra el hambre. Lecciones Aprendidas", contiene la sistematización producto de una reciente investigación realizada por el Programa de Cooperación Venezuela-FAO, SANA, de las historias de éxito contra el hambre y la desnutrición consecuencia de planes y proyectos implementados en el marco de los...

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between producers and consumers is strengthened. And China has not been left...

David Crespo, a farmer from Portugal, believes that permanent pasture is an “outstanding resource” which can significantly improve animal production. But the usual grasses grown require high nitrogen inputs and lack protein for the animals. He has developed a system of integrating legumes in the pasture which means he has...

Semilla Nueva helps rural Guatemalan farmers find a path to prosperity, health, and sustainability through sustainable agriculture technologies and farmer to farmer education. 

Does the same question asked of the same population yield the same answer in face-to-face interviews when other parts of the questionnaire are altered? If not, what would be the implications for proxy-based poverty measurement? Relying on a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally...

Due to its prime location, Guinea has significant potential for fruit and vegetable production. The country has assets such as soil fertility, abundant rainfall and a rural population traditionally oriented towards agriculture. Farmers represent 61% of the population and constitute 80% of the poor. They are mainly engaged in the...

El documento presenta la sistematización de las experiencias que se refieren al proceso que vivieron las familias para acceder y mantener la gestión del agua para sus actividades productivas, ya sean agrícolas, pecuarias o de transformación. Dichas actividades en su conjunto constituyeron una gran inversión, no solo monetaria sino de...

Esta presentación trata sobre la conceptualización de la agricultura familiar, su importancia, estadísticas al respecto en Venezuela y otros países y políticas sectoriales. 

Las mujeres rurales e indígenas exigen estrategias con enfoque de género para garantizar la soberanía alimentaria en el próximo Foro Internacional "Mujeres Rurales frente al Cambio Climático" el día 15 de octubre en el D.F., a dos meses de la COP21, en París. Estudios científicos demuestran que el cambio climático tiene...

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. 

El Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria es un organismo de vanguardia en Argentina, líder del escenario agro-tecnológico en investigación, extensión e innovación. Es un organismo estatal descentralizado con autarquía operativa y financiera, dependiente del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca. Fue creado en 1956 y desde entonces desarrolla acciones de...

The laying hen sector has had to face many challenges in the past decade, including disease outbreaks and concerns over animal welfare. In cooperation with Wageningen University and other partners, Rondeel company (The Netherlands) thought up a new housing system for laying hens which would be able to provide solutions...

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental, desenvolvido pelo Departamento de Educação Ambiental da Secretaria de Articulação Institucional e Cidadania Ambiental do Ministério do Meio Ambiente - DEA/SAIC/MMA, destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores e agricultoras propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com...

The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It can generate an image on how small family farmers in both emerging and developing countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face,...

African Civil Society Statement: FAO Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, 2015.

The Harvest of Hope initiative is a vegetable box scheme in Cape Town, South Africa, set up as a social enterprise by a local ‘social profit organisation’. By promoting ecological urban farming, Abalimi Bezekhaya (meaning ‘Farmers of Home’ in Xhosa) improves income and household food security, and empowers disadvantaged households...