Le Projet CALAO - Capitalisation d’expériences d’acteurs pour le développement de techniques agroécologiques résilientes en Afrique de l’Ouest - a été mis en œuvre au cours de l’année 2017 dans le cadre du Projet d’Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest (PASANAO), financé par l’AFD et dont la...

Los eventos climáticos extremos representan el 70% de los desastres que ocurren en América Latina y el Caribe, siendo el sector agrícola (incluyendo ganadería, pesca y actividad forestal, además de la agricultura strictu sensu) el que concentra la mayor parte de los daños y pérdidas que estos ocasionan. A medida...

Hearing in the European parliament on the state of play of the landing obligation before its full implementation in January 2019 proves lack lustre.

El presente curso es una iniciativa de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y la Agencia Sueca de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (SIDA), adaptado para Latino América y el Caribe por el Núcleo de Capacitación en...

O Slow Food parte da premissa que o alimento é o principal fator de definição da identidade humana, pois o que comemos é sempre um produto cultural. Acreditamos que a informação e a educação são essenciais para que a sociedade entenda o potencial de transformação e o impacto gerado a...

La asociación de usuarios del Distrito de Adecuación de Tierras de Gran Escala del Río Zulia (ASOZULIA) Norte de Santander, con un área de influencia de 45.536 hectáreas, está interesada en la planificación productiva de su territorio. Dentro de sus actividades agropecuarias se encuentran el arroz (12.000 a 17.000 ha),...

Quels sont les investissements qui répondent aux spécificités des oasis et comment on peut unifier les efforts pour stabiliser la sécurité entre eux ?Dans l’environnement économique oasien c’est le moment de diversifier ses investissements indispensables pour obtenir des bons rendements et améliorer la vie des citoyens. Ce symposium vise à...

The world’s food systems face two immense challenges today. One, to produce enough food to nourish a global population of seven billion people without harming the environment. Two, to make sure food systems deliver nutrition to everyone, particularly the world’s poorest, many of whom suffer from chronic under-nutrition. This Report...

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This programme is designed to improve living conditions for rural people in mountain zones, where climate change has caused erosion and desertification. It has two components: Agricultural value chain development and value addition Sustainable nature resource management, climate change adaptation and diversification. The programme area includes 32 rural communes in the provinces of...

De un momento a otro, pueden perderlo todo: los pequeños productores son un sector fundamental para la agricultura y la alimentación de América Latina y el Caribe, pero viven en constante riesgo de desastres. Una sequía severa, un huracán o una inundación pueden diezmar por completo su producción y afectar severamente...

This Smallholder Country Factsheet developed by the ESA Small Family Farm Team examines the strengths and weaknesses of smallholders in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's remarkable transformation to a low middle-income country within the past decade was strongly driven by an increasing productivity of the agricultural sector. Still, 89 percent of...

La innovación consiste en la implementación de un sistema integrado que contempla la utilización de tecnologías y técnicas agroecológicas para la producción de hortalizas por parte de mujeres campesinas. Este sistema fue implementado a través del proyecto “Producción Hortícola Sostenible PY-212”, ejecutado por Tierra Nueva y financiado por la Fundación...

O conceito de mercado não deve ficar restrito à interação entre demanda e oferta.  Ele vai muito além do processo de compra e venda, compreendendo aspectos de interações sociais, culturais e cognitivas. Normalmente vistos como espaços onde ocorrem trocas, conversações e negociações para uma transação comercial entre as partes envolvidas – como...

Fresh fruits and vegetables contribute significantly to food and nutrition security, poverty reduction and to economic development in the countries belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Smallholders who make little use of post-harvest (PH) technologies produce most of the fresh fruits and vegetables supplied to mass...

This Smallholder Country Factsheet developed by the ESA Small Family Farm Team takes a closer look at the livelihood of smallholders in Indonesia. Agriculture still accounts as the major employer before industry and services, with rice production as an important mainstay of the Indonesian economy. A striking high share of...

This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure looks at how resource efficiency is being supported in rural Europe. Resource efficiency means using natural resources in a sustainable way. It also means minimising the impact of human activities on the environment. The concept of resource efficiency is encapsulated in the idea...

This How To Do Note (HTDN) in this toolkit on Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems tackles the complexities of seed systems, setting out a process to support national agricultural policy decision makers, national and international development agencies and IFAD Country Programme Managers (CPMs) in the design and supervision of seed-related projects....

“Seeds are the basis of life. Human life, your life, is dependent on plants. The qualities of the seed go beyond beauty to sustaining us nutritionally and medicinally. Seed is the foundation of human diets across the world.” The National Seed Dialogue and Celebration honoured the role of smallholder farmers in...

Singur, located in Hooghly district of West Bengal, came into the limelight for its peasants’ movement in 2006. The government acquired 1,253 acres (500 hectares) of multi cropping agricultural land and leased it at a highly subsidized rate to MNC Tata through the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (a state...