This paper presents issues and challenges for farm and enterprise diversification and integration of small scale farmers into value chains in East Europe and Central Asia (EECA). First, it discusses context and approaches to agricultural and rural income diversification. Second, it assesses the extent of agricultural diversification in EECA. Third,...

The aim of the study is to assess the food security, adapting/mitigation opportunities to climate change and policy situation and draw policy recommendations. The study was conducted in some selected districts of Tigray Region, Ethiopia based on some exemplary interventions such as communities, ISD, BPA and PROLINNOVA-Ethiopia. Agriculture in tropical...

This web site represents the Agricultural Pollution Control Project - APCP, funded by the World bank/GEF in the period from 2008-2012. The project represented an important agricultural activity of the Republic of Croatia in the context of adoption of new standards and legislation related to Good agricultural practice, especially environmental...

This Spanish project invested in the rationalisation and improvement of existing horticultural production facilities and in the introduction of two new lines of products, namely field tomatoes and watermelons. A group of producers came together to form the Bio Sol Portocarrero company which produces and markets organic horticultural products. The company...

Large, decimated ecosystems can be restored. Bringing large areas back from environmental ruin is possible, and the results are key to stabilizing the earth's climate, eradicating poverty and making sustainable agriculture a reality. Under the guidance of a few people who have knowledge and vision, local uneducated rural poor can...

L’objectif global du projet "Les systèmes accessibles pour gérer les risques dans l’agriculture familiale en Afrique", maintenant appelé "la gestion du risque agricole pour l’Afrique",ou FARMAF, est d’améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des ménages et les moyens de subsistance des ruraux pauvres. Cet objectif doit être atteint en améliorant l’accès et...

Through the Best Practices 2012 competition, the Rural Network of Finland wishes to highlight the best projects and measures implemented as part of the EU-funded rural development programmes for mainland Finland and the Åland Islands for 2007–2013. This year, 193 competition entries were submitted for the following categories: 1) Leader...

Ce présent travail s’inscrit dans le projet ANR ECLIS dont la question de recherche centrale est de comprendre : « de quelle façon l’élevage contribue à la réduction de la vulnérabilité des ruraux et à leur adaptabilité aux changements climatiques et sociétaux en Afrique sub-saharienne » ? ( ANR, ECLIS...

FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has conducted three case studies to examine the opportunities and challenges for smallholders presented by: 1) bioenergy as a new type of value chain, and by 2) bioenergy certification schemes. Understanding the specific challenges and opportunities for smallholder inclusion in...

This study was done in Kabale and Mbale districts of Uganda for the two potato growing seasons of 2011/2012. It sought to determine factors that hinder smallholder farmers’ level of participation in the potato market in addition to those that influence their decisions to participate in the potato market. It...

Un fenómeno de los últimos quince años es la proliferación de organizaciones de alcance nacional que pretenden representar y defender los intereses y derechos de la población rural. Al mismo tiempo, la mayor parte de los conflictos sociales en el país ocurren en las áreas rurales. Tanta efervescencia de actividades políticas en las zonas rurales, ¿representa el surgimiento de...

The considerable food price rise and financial crises and already felt climate change effects on Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have highlighted food security and livelihoods vulnerability and fragility in the region. With many mainly very small islands dispersed in a vast ocean, the challenges for individual countries to address their...

This final report synthesizes the results of the Iraq Salinity Project, a research partnership between five Iraqi ministries and national agencies and an international team of researchers, led by ICARDA, specializing in land and water management, crop improvement and plant breeding, geoinformatics, and socioeconomics. This research builds on previous work...

Vivimos en un país que tiene particularidades culturales, demográficas, geográficas y ecológicas muy singulares; un territorio con poca disponibilidad de tierra para la agricultura y con grandes desafíos para ampliar la frontera agrícola. Sin embargo, su perfil y clima le confieren un alto potencial para cultivar productos con extraordinarias características de sabor, aroma, textura, y cosechados en momentos en que...

Once the scene of devastating droughts in 1984, a few visionaries in Ethiopia have used Agroecological Natural Technology Solutions and Permaculture Design principles to begin bringing areas of arid land back to productivity and ecological balance.

¿Tienen futuro las comunidades campesinas? Siendo en la actualidad un sujeto social omnipresente como forma de organización, de control territorial y de propiedad que se encuentra en buena parte del territorio nacional, cabe preguntarse sobre su lugar, perspectivas y posibilidades en el mundo cambiante de nuestros días.Las comunidades parecen tener algo de anacrónicas, parecen referirse al pasado antes que al...

Dans les zones arides et semi-arides, le FIDA finance et appuie de nombreux projets qui comportent des dispositions ayant trait à la gouvernance des ressources en eau. Dans ce cadre, il promeut la participation active des collectivités rurales pauvres à la gestion de ces ressources et, par conséquent, des ouvrages...

El término intercultural nos remite a la vinculación entre culturas, al intercambio entre ellas, a su interconexión, y pretende ir más allá del concepto de tolerancia. De hecho, la utilización de la categoría es relativamente reciente en nuestro país, pues en la década de 1980 recién encontramos textos que reflexionan sobre el tema. Más aún, no son muchas las...

The State of Land and Water Resources (SOLAW) is FAO's first flagship publication onthe global status of land and water resources. It is an 'advocacy' report, to be published every 3 to 5 years, and targeted at senior level decision makers in agriculture as well as in other sectors. SOLAW...

Two dairy production systems with biggest share in total milk production in Central Serbia are small farms with tie stall barn and small farms with grazing period. In the article are examined their main system characteristics, sustainability and integration in dairy supply chain. Three dimension of sustainability were explored by...