The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is in Tanzania, where climate change is taking a toll on local populations. FAO-backed initiatives are making it easier for farmers and families to produce crop varieties that grow in dry conditions. Plus, new soil methods are increasing production and energy-saving stoves...

En este capítulo se realiza una introducción general del estado actual de las discusiones sobre la agricultura familiar en Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala y México, como parte de un proyecto más amplio titulado “Análisis de pobreza y desigualdad rural en América Latina” que realizó RIMISP para el FIDA en...

Anne Giraud (28) and Remi Lonjon (30) started their small-scale organic berry farm in the mountains near La Brigue in the South of France with the help of Terre de Liens. Next to the organic fresh small-fruit, marmalades and syrups they sell eggs from their 60 chicken on weekly farming...

In recent years large-scale agricultural input subsidies have had a contested ‘rehabilitation’ in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper reviews the changing paradigms, politics and theories associated with input subsidies’ decline and rise, and the implementation and impacts of recent large-scale programmes. Empirical evidence is patchy, and their impacts contested and dependent...

In the Near East and North Africa (NENA), the role of women in agriculture and the rural sector has increased significantly. In many countries of the region, agricultural incomes no longer suffice to sustain the livelihoods of rural men and women. This has resulted, in particular, in massive migration of...

In Rwanda, P4P focuses on supporting the government’s efforts to boost agricultural production, on increasing the income of smallholder farmers and developing the agricultural market. In order to reduce post-harvest losses, P4P and partners support farmers’ cooperatives with training in post-harvest handling, equipment and storage facilities. Cooperatives also receive training...

El objetivo general de un Censo Agropecuario es contar con información actualizada y estructural de las actividades agrícola, ganadera, forestal, caza, pesca y otras, a través de la cuantificación de las Unidades Productivas Agropecarias (UPA), que permitan establecer políticas, planes y programas de desarrollo que favorezcan al sector agropecuario. En el...

La presente quinta edición (2014) se fortalece de la experiencia recogida en las versiones anteriores y adapta sus contenidos especialmente a la realidad chilena y a las necesidades locales de potenciar una alimentación saludable. Busca convertirse en un aporte a la nutrición y salud de la población local, al entregar...

Modern farming technologies have eased the burden of hard labour for many farmers worldwide. However, many of the world’s farmers – mainly small scale farmers – still lack the technology to efficiently reap their crops. From a single farmer in Africa servicing his local community to the overarching need to...

This chapter provides a general introduction to current discussions on family farming in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador, as part of a larger project titled “Analysis of rural poverty and inequality in Latin America” produced by RIMISP for IFAD in 2013. Our analysis of family...

Sustainable food production in the rain-fed smallholder sector of Zimbabwe is imperative in current and future climates given the increasing proportion and role of the sector in food security. Backgrounds of the smallholder sector include low resource bases, declining soil productivity, climate variability and increasing human population. Impacts of climatic...

Forest producers are often seen as marginal players within the agricultural sector. However, 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests for their livelihoods and daily needs. This raises a number of interesting questions regarding the importance of forest producers. Among them, if the role of forest producers is...

 Emanuela Russo and Fergal Anderson moved to county Galway, Ireland in September 2011 to start a small vegetable farm. Emanuela, originally from Milan, Italy and Fergal from Galway studied Journalism and Communication and Public Advocacy and Activism respectively and could not imagine to become farmers when they graduated from high...

Livestock production is the most important agricultural branch in terms of value, in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & Macedonia

In Guinea-Bissau, a country on the West African coast between Senegal, the Republic of Guinea and the Atlantic, rice is the staple food. During the past three decades, agriculture in Guinea- Bissau has undergone a radical transformation. In Guinea-Bissau, there is a common discourse that young people have abandoned the...

This  issue of Caravan – a collaborative effort with the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems – focuses on gender related research being undertaken by ICARDA and national and CGIAR research partners across the world's dry areas, reflecting on experience and insights from Morocco to South Asia and beyond. Articles...

The family of the three brothers Christos Belides (32), Miltiades Belides (30) and Theodoros Belides (20) has a long history of wine producing. Their grandfather was winegrower in Constantinople and in 1922 he took some of his wine varieties with him to Greece. Nowadays the winery is located near the city...

La FAO ha realizado una encuesta en 71 países y ha analizado 21 estudios de caso en África, Asia y América Latina para conocer más sobre estas unidades de agronegocios. El objetivo principal ha sido extraer lecciones y buenas prácticas para orientar a los países miembros sobre cómo establecer y...

The presence of the family farming on the forest areas is a characteristic of the north part of Rio Grande do Sul. This condition is the result of the settlement of European immigrants, implemented by public and private colonization projects along the 19th and 20th centuries. The colonies establishment resulted...

The Lexicon of Sustainability's Know Your Food is a short film series that introduces consumers to key terms and principles that can help them make more informed decisions about the food they eat.