Dryland areas cover more than half of sub-Saharan Africa and are home to nearly 50 percent of its populations, who depend on agriculture (including livestock, crops and fisheries) as their main livelihood strategy. Sporadic and irregular rainfall patterns are the most important environmental driver for these regions and water, in...

Le patrimoine oasien joue un rôle écologique important dans le maintien de la biodiversité, malheureusement ce patrimoine est fortement détérioré  par plusieurs facteurs entre autres l’exploitation irrationnelle de la ressource en eau, la désertification et le changement climatique ce qui accélère l’abandon de nombreux vergers phoénicicoles dans les oasis et...

Report consist of an overview from ten European countries explaining the situation about family farming in their own country. Countries involved: CZ, PL, I, NL, CH, LT, LV, SK, HU, UK Date: 5. April 2016

A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with...

Data from October 2016. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database. Family farms dominate the structure of EU agriculture in terms of their numbers, their contribution to agricultural employment and, to a lesser degree, the area of land that they cultivate. There were 10.8 million farms in the...

En América Latina y El Caribe, la Agroecología ha sido desde hace décadas una forma de vida de muchos agricultores, campesinos, pescadores artesanales, pastores, recolectores, pueblos indígenas, afrodescendientes y pueblos y comunidades tradicionales. La agroecología ha sido promocionada y reivindicada por los movimientos sociales como un modelo de agricultura armónica...

Material publicado por la estación experimental agroforestal de Esquel (Chubut). El documento habla sobre la participación de los componentes de la dieta para porcinos, los puntos donde hay que prestar principal atención y de forma práctica cómo conocer la CC de la cerda y así guiarse con la cantidad de...

In the last two decades, food security policy in Malawi has focused on enhancing the maize productivity of smallholder farmers, primarily through the Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) (Chirwa and Dorward 2013). While this has raised maize yields, production shocks, such as droughts and floods, continue to result in wide-spread...

Women have always had an important role in Eritrean society. During the struggle for independence they helped transform Eritrean society, and today rural women contribute substantially to the agriculture sector and provide income for their households. Like women around the world and especially those in developing countries, the women in...

All around the world there are millions of farmers who continue to farm and refuse to turn their land and resources into just another money making industry. They continue to fight for their autonomy and their fundamental right to grow clean and nutritious food for their local communities. Gerald Miles is...

Malawi is a small country located in southern Africa with only 119,000 km2 for a population of about 16.7 million people. With agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, Malawi’s high population density of 140 people/km2 requires that agricultural productivity and other ecosystem services must be optimized. As part of...

OCLA es una organización de carácter regional, que interactúa y potencia actividades conjuntas con otras Sociedades y organizaciones involucradas en la promoción de la agroecología.  SOCLA promueve la creación de capítulos nacionales utilizando el modelo de la ya existente Sociedad Brasileira de Agroecología, de manera que en cada país se...

A new fish hatchery and aqua feed production unit were inaugurated last week in the Issyk-Kul province of Kyrgyzstan – the first instance of support for aquaculture infrastructure since dissolution of the Soviet Union.  Financed by the Government of Finland, the facilities were built under an FAO project entitled, “Towards Sustainable...

The four-member family Petrovic from Prnjavor near the town of Sabac, has been growing raspberies for years, agriculture being the only source of income for the family. Jovan, his wife Gordana and two sons Milan and Ivan, college students, cultivate maize, soybean, wheat and clover on 3,3 hectares of their...

Water is precious in Eritrea, where farmers have to cope with droughts and crop failures. With support from the government and an IFAD-funded project, farmers and herders are expanding spate irrigation, an ancient form of water management. By harnessing floodwaters and collecting run-off, farmers can provide enough water for the...

La propolis, ou «colle d'abeille », est un mélange résineux que les abeilles récoltent sur les bourgeons des arbres et des résines végétales. La propolis est utilisée par les abeilles dans la ruche pour ses propriétés antimicrobiennes et anti-virales. Les humains peuvent également bénéficier des propriétés de la propolis. En...

Life of Nomadic pastoralists from Mongolia

"Este número se enfoca principalmente en la importancia de las plantas leguminosas, tanto en su valor como alimento humano y animal, como en su contribución a la conservación y recuperación de los suelos agrícolas. Varios de los artículos tratan sobre experiencias donde las semillas comestibles de leguminosas, las legumbres, combinadas...

Modern dairy plants buy fresh milk from local farmers and herders to make into many different products. The company pays a fair price, but requires strict hygiene: they only buy milk that is clean and fresh.

Quase metade da área rural brasileira pertence a 1% das propriedades do país, de acordo com o estudo inédito Terrenos da desigualdade: terra, agricultura e desigualdades no Brasil rural divulgado hoje (1º) pela organização não governamental (ONG) britânica Oxfam. Os estabelecimentos rurais a partir de mil hectares (0,91%) concentram 45%...