Greater efficiency and sustainability in Tajikistan’s agriculture sector are the focus of a new cooperation agreement between FAO and the Government of Tajikistan. The FAO Country Programming Framework for Tajikistan, signed by both parties this week, outlines three main areas of work for the period 2016-2017: food and nutrition security and...

The Land for our Food is a documentary movie produced by the Access to Land network and directed by Julio Molina. The video takes us on the journey of Gavin Bridger, a grower from the Community Supported Agriculture project of Farnham Local Food in England, through various European countries in his...

Un «árbol campeón» generalmente se refiere a los mayores especímenes de una especie de árbol - ya sea una sequoia imponente, un baniano que se extiende por miles de metros, o a un antiguo olivo que podría parecer pequeño en la comparación. Sin embargo, otros árboles son campeones a su manera:...

En este conocemos a Stella Maris Rébora, docente entrerriana comprometida con la construcción de una sociedad más justa e igualitaria, que luchó por el acceso a la educación de la población rural más postergada. Llegó a formar parte del Movimiento Rural (donde fue nombrada responsable nacional de los maestros rurales)...

Based on the success of the 1st edition, the Alpine Convention is organizing the Reading Mountains festival The “Reading Mountains” festival is an opportunity to celebrate the cultural diversity of the Alps – its many languages, different, yet similar cultural heritage and its arts in all shapes and forms. For this...

En este folleto se describe el proceso de elaboración de repelentes naturales y biopesticidas para una huerta ecólogica u orgánica, con materiales de la misma finca o región.   

This paper uses panel data on 46 African countries from 2001 to 2014 to estimate the impacts of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities in Africa, on agricultural expenditure and productivity, income, and nutrition. A difference-in-difference treatment-effects model (based on when a...

Whereas yield increases are considered central in modernised agriculture, they can be seen as just one element of impact in peasant farming. In assessing their farms, peasants depart from the specificities of their farm, the ecosystem in which it is embedded, the society and the markets in which they operate,...

From London to sheep farming on Eigg

The ten-year efforts of the Kaydara Agroecology School Farm, in Senegal, led to concrete benefits for the community and for the environment. Gora Ndiaye, founder of the "African Gardens" association, summarizes the some important features of the project.

"En este número, presentamos reflexiones y experiencias concretas de innovaciones en los procesos productivos y manejo de los recursos de la agricultura familiar campesina a partir de la sinergia entre los agricultores, protagonistas del saber-hacer en el campo, y los profesionales e investigadores provenientes de la universidad o de institutos...

Metade da população brasileira é composta por mulheres, que também têm papel importante no mundo rural, mas as propriedades comandads por mulheres representam apenas 5% da área rural. Não ter a posse da terra significa uma relação de poder do homem sobre a mulher. Para a diretora executiva da organização não governamental (ONG)...

El Boletín de Agricultura Familiar (BAF) es una publicación trimestral que busca divulgar información sobre la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe a través de entrevistas, sistematización de buenas prácticas y presentación de información diversa sobre las prioridades en la agenda regional para la agricultura familiar. La Edición 14...

Egypt faces two nutritional challenges. The first is the “growth-nutrition disconnect.” High economic growth has not been accompanied by reduction in chronic child malnutrition, at least throughout the 2000s. Instead, the prevalence of child stunting increased during this decade—an atypical trend for a country outside wartime. The second challenge is...

Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015a). When embedded within a broader...

Our planet is heating up. Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather events like droughts, cyclones and floods are becoming more common. All of these events have two things in common: 1) they have the worst effect on the world’s poorest people, many of whom work as...

Cattle of the Sudanese Hamerenya breed have some special qualities, including docility and a high milk yield. Through an IFAD-supported programme, farmers in the Adi Quala subdistrict in Eritrea were able to take out small loans to invest in the purchase of Hamerenya cattle. The programme also helps the farmers...

Produit dans le cadre du projet Mécanismes de reddition des comptes dans la gouvernance foncière, ce rapport examine la redevabilité dans les transactions foncières au Sénégal. Il passe au crible le cadre juridique national qui régit les investissements fonciers et explore les occasions de reddition de comptes et la manière dont...

This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in Europe and Central Asia and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. This paper addresses three basic questions. First, what does the family farm mean for the actors involved in it?...

East Africa could be the lucky exception to the disastrous effects of climate change as scientists predict increased precipitation as temperatures rise. Scientists working with the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) — Kizito Kwena, William Ndegwa, Imad Ali-Babiker and Hezron Mogaka— say the flipside...