O encontro no Pavilhão da Agricultura teve um objetivo maior: reunir forças para dar prosseguimento aos trabalhos feitos por mulheres no estado, no entanto, que não são pulverizados. A intenção é ter a campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos como norte e impulsionadora da luta das mulheres do campo.  Embaixadora da...

A pesar de la creciente popularidad de los Modelos de Negocios Inclusivos, hay una falta de enfoques prácticos sobre la forma de implementar, monitorear y evaluar los mismos. Dos metodologías que han ganado relevancia en el mundo de la cooperación son LINK/ CIAT y FAO/MNI. Ambas buscan la vinculación de...

The guidelines for the Support and Promotion of Family Farming in the CPLP Member States were endorsed and approved in the 2nd Extraordinary Meeting of CONSAN-CPLP, held in June 2017 in Brasilia. They detail a set of common guidelines and priorities that aim to contribute to the recognition of family...

Video extendido que hace un balance de cómo se desarrolla, las acciones ejecutadas y los principales logros del proyecto Fortalecimiento de los Programas de Alimentación Escolar en ALC en los países de la región. Versión corta, en español.Este video es parte de las actividades del proyecto ejecutado en el ámbito...

O secretário técnico da Reaf participou de reunião com representantes de todas subsecretarias da Sead oportunizando a todos uma visão geral da Reaf e sua relevância para a construção e fortalecimento das políticas da agricultura familiar no âmbito do Mercosul. Viscay destacou a importância da participação da Sead e explicou...

O Brasil é um país de proporções continentais: seus 8,5 milhões km² ocupam quase a metade da América do Sul e abarcam várias zonas climáticas – como o trópico úmido no Norte, o semi-árido no Nordeste e áreas temperadas no Sul. Evidentemente, estas diferenças climáticas levam a grandes variações ecológicas,...

A large coalition for Peasants’ Rights, with Eco Ruralis Association as a member, launches today, the 28th of March 2017, the Petition for Peasants’ Rights (peasantsrights.eu) and asks the EU and its Member States to actively participate in good faith in the elaboration of the "UN Declaration on the Rights...

En diciembre del año 2011, la Asamblea General de Naciones Unidas declaró el año 2014 como Año lnternacional de la Agricultura Familiar (AIAF). En el transcurso del año, la ONU y varias agencias relevantes recalcaron el potencial de los agricultores familiares. Así la FAO afirmó que los agricultores familiares son...

The newsletter of July and August 2017 includes: Portugal at the core of LIFE’s Atlantic strategy LIFE member from Ireland “Heritage Bill” could pass first phase for official approval Other news from around the EU News from our members Press review

A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) lançou, na manhã desta quinta-feira (23), em Brasília, a campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos.

Teniendo estos referentes, la oficina regional de la FAO, inició el proceso de elaboración de la Estrategia Regional de Género, teniendo como meta el diseño de un instrumento que responda a los retos del contexto actual en América Latina y el Caribe, algunos de los cuales están en el orden...

In sub-Saharan Africa good progress was made in reducing hunger until 2010, after which time the decline in the prevalence of undernourishment came to a halt and then rose to 22.7 percent in 2016, while the number of undernourished rose to 224.3 million. In many countries, the worsening situation in...

The paper discusses the role social protection can play in saving livelihoods while also enhancing the capacity of households to respond, cope and withstand threats and crises. It focuses on social protection’s role in protracted crises and fragile and humanitarian contexts, as well as discusses the importance of shock-response systems,...

A recent study under the project ‘Municipal waste compost in UAE: Importance, feasibility and use’ by a group of scientists from the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) suggests that co-composting of sewage sludge with green waste significantly dilutes heavy metals and improves nutritional quality of the final product called ‘co-compost sludge’. This...

This study explains how threats to soils and soil services are linked to agricultural soil management, how threats can be mitigated, and which barriers complicate this. It highlights trade-offs and synergies that exist between different interests affected by soil management, such as climate change mitigation, water and air quality, biodiversity,...

The program aims to improve, among other things, dialogue and cooperation among three riparian countries of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers through increased access to information and knowledge transfer regarding water management in the region. The riparian countries have different levels of development, and capacity, in managing water on national...

This toolkit is aimed at anyone involved in advocating for pro-organic policies, designing them, or deciding on them. It is therefore aimed both at government representatives and private sector users. The toolkit is composed of a series of tools, including: A main report, the "Guidelines for public support to organic agriculture": these...

This document was developed through a participatory process initiated by FAO, following a series of regional consultations on the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable SmallScale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) during which a request for more information on how to...

Aspectos generales sobre las formas de conservación de alimentos y su correcto envasado destinado a productores de la Agricultura Familiar que comercializan en Ferias. 

Morar na cidade não impede que as pessoas tenham espaço verde em suas casas ou apartamentos para cultivar hortas. Cuidar da procedência do que é consumido é atentar-se também para a saúde e a qualidade de vida. De acordo com a delegada federal da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e...