The Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Cyprus was formally adopted by the European Commission on 3 December 2015, outlining the priorities of the Republic of Cyprus for using the €243.3 million of public money that is available for the 7-year period 2014-2020 (€132.2 million from the EU budget and €...

Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...

The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

More than two decades ago in the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, farmers began planting two rice crops each year. Rice production increased, but for how long? Depleted organic matter and acidification are now affecting soil health, and farmers who can’t afford fertilizer are seeing their rice yields declining. This is...

Video que da cuenta de las propuestas de esta nueva expo que se realizará del 4 al 6 de septiembre en Pocito, San Juan.

This report presents the case of demonstration farms that operate within a cooperation network. The purpose of the study was to present the advisory opportunities in the process of linking education and the needs of farmers, with regard to innovative knowledge. In this process the advisory role was shown through...

El simposio “Adaptación de la Agricultura Familiar al Cambio Climático en América Latina y el Caribe” tuvo como objetivo principal analizar con especialistas, decisores e investigadores de América Latina y el Caribe y España, los desafíos del cambio climático y en particular las oportunidades para la cooperación orientada a la...

Abhijit Mohanty brings us the story of certain tribal villages in Koraput district of southern Odisha that have successfully overcome the challenges posed by denudation and inadequate irrigation and have etched out a path towards food security and well-being.

During a support partnership with the Royal Agriculture University, AVSF conducted in May 1992 in Cambodia, a study showing how high animals’ morbidity and mortality rates were in the villages. Traditional farming practices, sometimes not really adapted, were an important factor, but beyond, the main reason for such a situation...

The smallholder farmers' dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It generates an image on how small family farmers in developing and emerging countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the...

Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

In the past 50 years, about a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land has been lost, threatening food production, cultural landscapes and biodiversity. One of Japan’s most valued cultural landscapes includes rice terraces. In order to prevent them from abandonment, an innovative concept known as the Ownership System, was devised almost...

El ministro de Agricultura y Riego, Juan Manuel Benites, manifestó su confianza en que la exportación de productos no tradicionales, especialmente los agrícolas, crezcan hasta en 20% el 2015. “Eso nos está permitiendo tener un ritmo de crecimiento de las exportaciones agrícolas, principalmente de frutas y hortalizas que son nuestros rubros más...

10 March 2015, Rome - An innovative partnership spanning five African countries is providing important lessons on how governments can procure food for public institutions, such as schools, directly from small-scale family farmers. Modelled on Brazil's achievements in fighting hunger and poverty, the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA...

Esta guía está dirigida a organizaciones sociales, con el fin de fortalecer prácticas de comunicación a lo interno. Lo anterior permitirá trabajar de mejor manera para transformar más ampliamente nuestras realidades. Esta propuesta puede servir también a las personas involucradas en la planificación de objetivos y tareas a realizar en...

Desde hace 25 años, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria –INTA– y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, a través del Plan Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria, llevan a cabo el Pro Huerta. Con el foco puesto en mejorar la alimentación de la población que habita las áreas urbanas, periurbanas y rurales,...

In September 2015, not only agri-food exports but also imports to the EU went up compared to the previous month (EUR +388 million; +4.5%). In particular, values of oilseeds other than soybeans, coffee and tea, and cocoa beans were at a higher level in September compared to August 2015. EU...

This technical guide elaborates on specific aspects of the VGGT relating to agricultural investments by providing detailed guidance to government authorities and others on actions they can take to help them to create an enabling environment for responsible and sustainable investments. In following this guidance and applying the principles of...

This document describe strategic plan of the Ministry of afgriculturte of Croatia. The document also covers activities and priorities in regards to the family farms sector.  

El albergue ecológico Chalalán ubicado en la Amazonía boliviana, es uno de los casos más exitosos de eco turismo comunitario e indígena en el mundo, y ha sido nominado por la revista National Geographic, entre los ochenta destinos turísticos principales del planeta. El eco albergue pertenece al pueblo indígena Uchupiamonas,...