In Swaziland, the marketing initiative of the Swaziland Agricultural Development Programme, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping farmers gain access to finance and markets.  

The Vikizijula community in Swaziland talks about bees as the 'insect of hope'. This refers to the way beekeeping and producing honey has transformed their lives. Parents are now able to send their children to proper schools, and some have also been able to construct larger houses. Bees have been...

La política pública para el sector rural es interpelada en razón de múltiples conflictos e intereses contrapuestos, y su sentido último, así como su sostenibilidad en el tiempo, depende en gran medida del contexto social y político. En Argentina, el período abierto luego de la crisis de 2001-2002 planteó el...

Keeping its tradition of exploring major emerging issues, Nature & Faune has chosen to dedicate this edition to looking at the implications of this rapid urbanization and its implications for urban food and nutrition security, focusing on the specific roles of sustainable management and utilization of natural resources in Africa‘s...

The emergence of social movements: Community Supported Agriculture, between Food Sovereignty and Solidarity Economy. The end of the 20th century can be characterised by the emergence of both extreme forms of globalisation of trade and of social movements. The spaces in which the latter emerged were not only the World...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

Smallholder irrigated vegetable production in the Central Rift Valley region of Ethiopia is instrumental in ensuring the year-round availability of fresh vegetables in the local market in the country. However, a number of problems constrain irrigated vegetable production in the region. Therefore, asurvey was conducted with the objectives of assessing...

The two pig breeds, Mangalița and Bazna, have been ignored for a long time because of their low prolificacy and low carcass yield. However, there are rearers who appreciate them and fight to bring them back to the public’s attention. One of them is the agronomist Ioan Tătăran, from the...

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 Zambia described, analysed and wrote down some of...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo el proceso de mercantilización asociado a la agricultura familiar puede influir en la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de las familias. La primera parte introduce el tema, estableciendo cómo las consecuencias de la modernización agrícola orientan hacia una mirada diferente a la pequeña producción...

Access to markets is considered a major constraint to the development of family farming. This article aims to analyze the access of family farmers in the municipality of Unaí, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil to two markets: the fair of family farming, and the sale of products for Brazil’s National...

Como institución responsable de promover la integración armónica de la población campesina al desarrollo económico y social de la nación, el Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural y de la Tierra deberá adecuar la estructura agraria promoviendo el acceso a la tierra rural, saneando y regularizando su tenencia, coordinando y creando...

Family farmers in the Paraná region of Brazil are conserving local and traditional seeds and promoting diversification of varieties. They are supported by organisations such as AS-PTA. Access and use of these seeds creates autonomy, food sovereignty and sustainable livelihoods. The government's PAA program is playing a major role in...

This food policy report reviews resilience processes, activities, and outcomes by examining a number of case studies of initiatives by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to enhance resilience capacity, and draws implications for policymakers and other stakeholders looking to strengthen resilience. Resilience building relies on integrated programming—a cross-sectoral approach with a long-term commitment...

The study was conducted in 2011 at Hamamavhaire and Mhende irrigation schemes in Chirumanzu district in Zimbabwe to determine the typology of the farmers using different irrigation technologies. A structured household survey was carried out on a sample of 79 respondents drawn from farmers using the sprinkler (n=32), flood (n=39)...

Every time we rediscover traditional products we gladly remember the flavours from our childhood. Who had the chance, at least once, to visit a sheepfold, knows that is a special place, where fresh raw cheese, sour cream with hot polenta and butterfried lamb are just a few of their specific...

This article aims to describe and analyze the process of systematization of experiences of family farmers in the territory of Semiárido Nordeste II, located in state of Bahia, Brazil, as well as to provide clues about how they contribute to strengthen the agroecology in that region. The Brazilian semiarid region...

El sector agropecuario argentino ha experimentado profundas transformaciones en las últimas décadas. Si bien existen controversias respecto de cuáles son los cambios que refieren a procesos novedosos o a tendencias de larga data en el sector, lo que es evidente es que en la actualidad existe una realidad compleja que...

Lineamientos estratégicos de INDAP, período 2014-2018. Abarca temáticas desde el contexto histórico de la institución hasta el plan de gobierno de la presidenta Michelle Bachelet. La agricultura familiar campesina, el mundo rural e Indap, la economía rural, los pueblos originarios, el potenciar el desarrollo de jóvenes y mujeres, el cuidado...

This report discusses how WFP has approached gender mainstreaming in its Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative, and examines how P4P contributed to empowering smallholder women farmers over a five-year pilot period. It documents how WFP went beyond adopting symbolic gender considerations to embrace a transformative agenda in the drive for...