The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF2014) aimed to raise the profile of smallholder and family farmers by focusing global attention on their important role in alleviating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment and enabling sustainable development. 

According to the FAO, farming infrastructure, together with irrigation canals and grain depots, has been destroyed. It said the storage facilities of the state seeds body across the country had also been damaged, so it had distributed just a tenth of the 450,000 tons of seeds that farmers needed to...

Drylands represent 40% of the Earth's surface, produce 44% of the world’s food and are home to 80% of the world’s poor. Eighty per cent of Kenya comprises arid or semi-arid lands. Rainfall occurs in just one or two short, intense seasons. Because the land is so dry, when rain...

This project's goal is to sustainably reduce poverty and improve livelihoods for small farmers involved in agricultural value chains in the target areas. Its specific objectives are to empower the rural poor to participate in commercial farming and to increase farm family incomes while decreasing income variability.

Este número de Mundo Rural incluye artículos sobre: Los aportes de INDAP a la agenda nacional, Nuevo ciclo del Programa de Desarrollo Indígena, Se dio inició a las actividades de conmemoración, Puesta al día y mayor visbilidad de la agricultura familiar, INFOR sale al rescate del quiscal en La Araucanía, Con una agricultura sustentable y saludable:...

Este fascículo, en su versión actual, es el primero de una serie inicial de textos y recursos del Sistema de Gestión Estratégica para el Desarrollo Territorial y la Agricultura Familiar (SiGET), cuya finalidad es compartir un conjunto de orientaciones metodológicas sobre los procesos de gestión social del desarrollo de los...

La presente tecnología describe la construcción de un cobertizo semi-techado para llamas o alpacas y sus crías que permite proteger al ganado ante las inclemencias del tiempo, como heladas, lluvias, granizadas, nevadas y vientos, que provocan índices altos de mortandad en el ganado camélido.

Activité vitale de par sa fonction nutritive, l’agriculture a un rôle déterminant en termes économiques, sociaux et environnementaux. Elle continue également d’être un facteur stratégique de la stabilité géopolitique du monde. Très exposée aux chocs météorologiques et aux catastrophes naturelles, l’agriculture doit cependant accroître sa productivité tout en réduisant son...

10 de los 17 Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) establecen una vinculación directa con el papel de la Agricultura Familiar para su consecución, haciendo referencia explícita en el ODS 2, que subraya la necesidad de poner fin al hambre, lograr la seguridad alimentaria y la mejora de la nutrición y...

El VI Encuentro Regional se realizará en Montevideo, Uruguay, desde el 30 de noviembre al 02 de diciembre de 2016, en dependencias de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española y Parlamento Uruguayo. En este sitio encontrará información sobre...

The technical guide on Improving the governance of pastoral lands builds on a number of initiatives and studies from recent years that have highlighted pastoral governance and land tenure, revealing the inherent challenges pastoralists face, the shortcomings of governments in securing pastoral tenure, and the emerging examples of success and...

La 29ème session de la conférence régionale de l’Organisation des Nations-Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) se tiendra à Abidjan du 4 au 8 avril 2016. A quelques jours de l’ouverture de ces assises, le ministre de l’Agriculture et du Développement rural Mamadou Sangafowa a co-animé en compagnie du sous-directeur...

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which is helping develop the plow system, hopes the government will encourage the creation of small- and medium-sized businesses to build more.

Al emprender procesos de gestión social participativa del desarrollo integral, endógeno y sustentable de los territorios rurales, suele ser necesario establecer -o verificar que existan ya- determinadas condiciones básicas iniciales. También hay que realizar al menos una aproximación inicial a varias tareas, para construir luego sobre sus resultados y profundizar...

The thematic group on Smart Competitive Rural Areas covered three meetings and a final Seminar, starting in September 2015 and concluding in May 2016 The first meeting and subsequent feedback from stakeholders including the European Commission, Rural Networks Assembly, Steering Group and NRN, NSU and MA feedback and other partners...

  Learning is a lifetime activity. Nowhere is this clearer than in agriculture, and especially among women farmers. Being responsible for over 70% of agricultural production on our continent, we farm through knowledge sharing. In complex and closely knit social groups, starting in early childhood, knowledge is birthed, nurtured and passed...

The role of small-scale family farms in development is the subject of long-standing debate. Despite predictions on the likely evolution of small farms, as urban and industrial sectors account for larger shares of economic activity, the agricultural landscape in the developing world continues to be dominated by family-operated smallholdings. Consequently,...

Revival of agro biodiversity that characterizes traditional agriculture is crucial for addressing food and nutrition security. Bringing back millets, pulses, coarse cereals etc. into the cropping systems can help fill the nutritional gap that is ever widening in the present rural communities.

The recently launched Policy in Focus special edition on Public Policies for Family Farming in the Global South aims to follow up on the celebration of the United Nations International Year of Family Farming (IYFF 2014), as well as on the recent adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Both...

Recent advances in technology and telecommunications have the potential to make financial services more accessible and affordable for smallholder households in rural areas. With digital platforms such as mobile phones, smallholders can now use financial services without having to visit a bank branch. The number of digital financial services (DFS)...