Approximately 370 million indigenous peoples live in over 90 countries around the world. Many of these peoples have survived due to their relative isolation, in territories that are increasingly recognized as physically and biologically outstanding on a global scale. In fact, a significant fraction of the world’s priority areas—based on...

El viernes 21 terminaron en Fortaleza (Brasil) tres días intensos de análisis de experiencias y evaluación de políticas sobre agricultura familiar. Convocados por el IICA1 y la Secretaría de Desarrollo Agrario del Estado de Ceará, especialistas del nordeste brasileño, de México, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú,...

Following the declaration of the IYFF- 2014 by the United Nations General Assembly, 22nd December 2011, and the creation of more than 50 National Committees, representatives of Farmers' Organisations from five continents -Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania– met in Abu Dhabi on January 21st-22nd 2014, with the intention of...

Small Farming across the EU - 27 Bailey, A., Suta, C. (2014), EuroChoices In the article Bailey and Suta show the importance of small farms (as measured in 2010) across the EU, and investigate how households on small farms cope with what is inevitably a low level of farming income. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1746-692X.12047/pdf

This document summarizes the fifteen projects that were selected by a panel of international experts as those which best represent the technological, institutional and organizational innovations carried out with and by small farmers – known as family farming - in LAC. The majority of cases clearly show the link between the...

Over the next 7 years, the CAP will invest almost EUR 11 billion in the Irish farming sector and rural areas. Among the key priorities are jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Ireland to adapt both direct payments and rural development programmes to its...

The agroecology courses have grown the last years, and its introduction in educational institutions began especially from the 2000s. Since then, several courses are created annually. However, there are few and spread studies that perform a systematic quantitative analysis of courses in agroecology in Brazil. This study aimed to identify...

This course provides guidance on good feeding management on dairy farms in the tropics

Montenegro is a candidate country for EU membership. In October 2007, Montenegro signed the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) that entered into force in January 2008 as the Interim Agreement on Trade and Trade-related Issues. The SAA entered into force in May 2010. Also in 2010, the European Commission issued...

The German organic farmer Friedrich Wenz is one of the pioneers of reduced tillage. He has developed the so-called WEco-Dyn system. In this video, he explains how the WEco-Dyn system works and underlines the role of soil fertility as a prerequisite for successful reduced tillage systems. Farmers participating at this...

Pekka Pesonen, Secretary General of the EU Farmers' and Cooperatives organization Copa-Cogeca, explains what "family farming" means for farmers in the EU. In particular, Mr. Pesonen points out that in the EU agriculture family business and industry can hardly be separated.

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest more than EUR 19.5 billion in Greece's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Greece to adapt...

South-South and triangular cooperation has an enormous potential role in agriculture and rural development in developing countries, both in unlocking diverse experiences and lessons and in providing solutions to pressing development challenges. From the cases that follow, a number of common lessons emerge. First, it is important to create a...

Almost half of the world's agricultural workers are women - but in Africa, less than 15% of them own land. Rice farmer Awa Jagne explains what it means to her to own her own land and produce food for her family.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Serbia has been going through profound economic and institutional shifts, with significant consequences for structural changes in the agricultural sector, its output and productivity, as well as agricultural policy. By the early 1980s Serbia had experienced significant growth in agricultural production, which stagnated in the...

A agricultura familiar necessita de tecnologias apropriadas para melhorar os processos produtivos, aumentar os níveis de produtividade e se tornar mais competitiva. Predominantemente, os agricultores ainda têm pouco acesso às técnicas necessárias à produção sustentável. No entanto, existem várias tecnologias disponíveis para adoção imediata e incorporação em diferentes arranjos produtivos. Várias...

Viçosa市坐落于巴西米纳斯吉拉斯洲带 达马塔地区，由群山和贫瘠的土地围绕。这 里更适合家庭耕作而不适于机械化生产。

In Africa and in particular, Sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that there are more than 45,000 species of plants, of which about 1,000 can be eaten as green leafy vegetables. Most of the latter fall within the category of African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs). ALVs are also known to be rich...

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest almost EUR 45 billion in Spain's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Spain to adapt both...

Mountain agriculture today represents 16% of utilized agricultural area (UAA) in the 27 member European Union states (EU-27) and 34% in Spain (European Commission 2013). Mountain areas are defined by their unfavorable topography, typically described by elevation and/or slope, remoteness, and more extreme climate, but this can vary significantly between...