Looks at solidarity purchasing groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS) in Rome as an example of sustainable food consumption.

YAAY busca posicionarse como una marca de objetos artesanales, contemporáneos y accesibles comercialmente y desarrolla colecciones de productos como accesorios u objetos utilitarios y trabaja bajo pedido de acuerdo a la necesidad de los clientes. Para este fin el área de desarrollo de marcas comunitarias trabaja con grupos de mujeres artesanas ayudándoles...

Black Gold: the Secrets of Compost was filmed on location in Swaziland, and is the first in the Living Classroom series. The Living Classroom is the result of GardenAfrica’s training programmes that have been successfully developed and implemented over the past ten years with sustainable agriculture & permaculture specialists. It was built...

A number of partners, including UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, the GEF Small Grants Programme, the Government of Norway, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and the ICCA Consortium, worked closely to develop this toolkit for governing and managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). The purpose of the toolkit...

Las alianzas público-privadas (APP) se consideran como un mecanismo institucional importante para acceder a recursos financieros adicionales, compartiendo riesgos y haciendo frente a otras dificultades en pos de un desarrollo sostenible e incluyente. A pesar de que varias formas de colaboración público-privada han existido por algún tiempo, no se dispone...

Farm income is a volatile, subject to significant fluctuations from year to year. One of the ways in which farm income volatility can be addressed is by adding value to the outputs of the farm and by maximising the use of farm resources of all types – land, capital, buildings,...

Many rural development initiatives attempt to improve the lives of small-scale farmers. Some succeed, some fail – but all of them can offer valuable lessons for the future. In a two-phased documentation workshop, a group of experts working in IFAD-funded projects in Ethiopia described, analysed and wrote down some of...

L’objectif principal de cette étude était d’analyser le fonctionnement et d’estimer la rentabilité de la filière villageoise d’huile de palme brute dans la région de la Sanaga-Maritime  du Cameroun. Il ressort de l’étude que la filière villageoise d’huile de palme est constituée de trois types de planteurs : les petits...

This publication is a summary of the experiences lived during the seven years (2003-2010) of implementation of the Sustainable Natural Resource Management Project (PMRN), managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) and supported by German Technical and Financial Cooperation (GIZ and KfW). The PMRN operated in seven Departments in...

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is becoming increasingly risky due to extreme climate variability. In recent times, scientific studies have strongly suggested that many developing countries face substantial environmental and social challenges, with food insecurity high on the list (Vogel and O’Brien 2003). With a relatively large and...

Marine aquaculture is a success story in Greece. Starting in the early 1980s, the first hatcheries supplied the first fingerlings for on-growing in cage farms. Cage farming technology was known from the salmon industry and easily adopted in the Mediterranean conditions. As the European Union (EU) imports of fishery products...

Rural development support from the European Union is governed by REGULATION (EU) No 1305/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 December 2013on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which is implemented into...

It is important that any international investment should bring development benefits to the receiving country in terms of technology transfer, employment creation, upstream and downstream linkages and so on if these investments are to be “win-win” rather than “neo-colonialism”. These beneficial flows are not automatic: care must be taken in...

Greater collaboration between state bodies and local agencies providing services to farmers and rural dwellers and the development of shared services by Local Action Groups in the delivery of the LEADER programme were among the recommendations of a report published by the NRN in 2010. The report on ‘Stimulating the...

The Farm Structure Survey 2013 was conducted during autumn 2013 as a sample survey. The aim of the survey is to obtain detailed and complex information on the whole scale of the Czech agriculture, i.e. its size, structure and development of agricultural holdings, about their equipment, specialisation of their production...

This report is the second in a series of three publications that comprises an overview of the Iraq Salinity Assessment. This report documents solutions and impacts identified in the first report in this series. The third report in the Assessment proposes investment options and methods to analyze the investment options...

El Gobierno de Cuba y la FAO acordaron la elaboración del Marco de Prioridades del País (MPP), en el que se identifican las principales prioridades nacionales para recibir Asistencia de la FAO y los resultados que Cuba desea obtener, en correspondencia con el mandato y objetivos estratégicos de la Organización...

El presente documento contiene recetas de cocina de 26 especies de hortalizas nativas en las que se describen los ingredientes y procedimientos para su preparación como alimentos. Con dicha información se espera promover el consumo y el aprovechamiento de estas especies identificadas en las diversas regiones de Guatemala.

To meet the needs of a growing global population that is projected to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural production must increase significantly. As such, agriculture and rural development will continue to play a critical role in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. This brochure highlights some of the key collaborations between IFPRI...

The climate of Uganda is regarded as its most valuable natural resource, and a major determinant of other natural resources, such as water, forests, and wildlife, as well as human activities based on these resources, such as agriculture and ecotourism (Republic of Uganda, MWE 2007). Together these resources provide the...