In the village of Chinelnic, Bistriţa County, a small settlement sheltered by the hills, a zoo technical engineer started a duck and goose farm where the fowl live in semi-freedom and they are fed as natural as possible. In 2014, after 20 years of pilgrimage in the city, Radu Marica...

Biskra est célèbre pour ses dattes qui représentent la principale production agricole. Au milieu des années 1980, des serres sont apparues en marge des oasis, ouvrant la voie à de nouvelles dynamiques agraires. Ces dynamiques sont portées par des arrangements entre différents acteurs qui mettent en commun leurs facteurs de...

The objective of the Forum was to bring together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss policy implications, challenges and lessons learned from concrete examples of how farmers have found opportunities to engage in beneficial and sustainable linkages to markets. This contributed to reaching a common understanding of such opportunities...

In semi-arid cropping regions of West Africa, fallow periods are getting shorter. As land becomes more scarce, farmers are not able to give their soils enough time to rest. This is leading to depletion of soil organic matter, severely threatening soil fertility and damaging soil structure. In the worst cases,...

A major symposium on the the global impacts of UK food consumption. Food for humans and conservation are in conflict. The challenge for humanity is how is to produce more food for more people on less land and with less environmental impact. Feeding people should not come at the expense...

In Austria, apart from corn salads, hardly any organic vegetables are available during the winter from domestic production. As a result, most of the vegetables on sale are imported or grown through high-energy intensive production. To address this problem, a project has been developed called winter harvest: seasonal, energy-extensive and...

Important changes to Ethiopia’s coffee sector have occurred in the last decade. The adoption of improved production, harvest, and post-harvest practices has been increasing with positive impacts on coffee productivity and incomes. Upstream marketing has improved, along with large investments in processing capacity, shown by the extended coverage of wet...

INRA Morocco and OCP Foundation will oganise the first conference on Afro-Mediterranean soils, on the occasion of the International Year of Soils 2015. This conference focus on the threats and remedies needed for durable management of soil use and conservation. High quality research papers on applications, management and sustainable development...

Through the development of an innovative short chain delivery system, Axis 4 has helped a Portuguese company to bridge the gap between customers and small-scale fishermen, whilst also encouraging sustainable fishing practices in the Sesimbra area. Direct sales offer exciting alternative market opportunities for fishermen. However, an obligation for all Portuguese...

Esta publicación, fruto principal de estos años de trabajo y compromiso y para cuya realización los autores consultaron casi trescientos artículos científico-técnicos, ha sido concebida para contribuir al tendido de estos puentes de conocimiento, de información y de tecnología, y para constituirse en un nuevo nexo entre las fuentes de...

This compilation presents a number of videos that globally picture the way in which the Peasant to Peasant Agroecological Movement (PTPAM) works within the ANAP, which has been a key to success in the spread of agroecology in Cuba. Each of these videos has the objective of picturing some feature of...

Entrevista a Tito Díaz, Experto en Ganadería y Desarrollo de FAO, y Manager de la Iniciativa Regional de Agricultura Familiar y Desarrollo Rural en América Latina y el Caribe, sobre la importancia de abordar con un enfoque territorial retos tan complejos y críticos para la región como son el combate...

AGRO RURAL es una unidad ejecutora adscrita al Viceministerio de Desarrollo e Infraestructura Agraria y Riego, que tiene por finalidad promover el desarrollo agrario rural, a través del financiamiento de proyectos de inversión pública en zonas rurales de menor grado de desarrollo económico.

Mediante el control de la cantidad y calidad de la luz y manejo de los porcentajes de sombra, 27 productores agrícolas familiares de la zona sur del país, se encuentran trabajando mediante el modelo de producción en ambientes protegidos conocido como  “casa sombra”, desarrollado y adaptado  por la FAO en...

The Flemish Knowledge and Research Network for Organic Food and Farming (FORK) was created in 2009 by Landwijzer, the organic training centre, BioForum, which represents the Flemish organic food and farming sector, the Coordination Centre for Applied Research and Extension on Organic Agriculture (CCBT) and the Network for Organic Food...

“Ferma Stoian – Legume românești” (“Stoian Farm – Romanian Vegetables”) started off in 1992 as a family business. The, following the retrocession of the agricultural lands, the family got an area of seven hectares, on which it cultivated cabbage in the first year. At that moment, the work was performed...

Market participation by smallholder farmers has the potential to pull farmers out of poverty while at the same time increasing food security at the more aggregate level. This paper looks at the dynamics of smallholder maize and beans marketing in Uganda and Mozambique. Using panel data from both countries, we...

FAO supports small family farmers overcome the many constraints they face and tackle today’s challenges. FAO helps agricultural and rural development policy thinking through analysis and advocacy. Analysis provides evidence on the strengths and weaknesses of small family farms and advocacy forms policies that tackle crucial long run growth challenges...

A total of 7,000 three-week-old chickens are being distributed this week to small farms in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Provision of the birds is the latest move by FAO to help vulnerable households whose livelihoods have been compromised by the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine. The dual-purpose chickens – which can...

Ester artículo informa sobre el “Segundo módulo internacional de compras públicas para pequeños agricultores”. En el evento participaron 28 delegados provenientes de ocho países de América Latina, autoridades nacionales, productores y organizaciones de la sociedad civil. Entre los temas abordados estuvo el mercado público ecuatoriano, la oferta de productos por parte...