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...

O Natureza Viva deste domingo (13) fala mais sobre a Campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos, coordenada no Brasil pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), e a reta final das inscrições para o concurso "Vozes, imagens, histórias e experiências das mulheres rurais", que termina nesta terça-feira (15).  Mara...

For the first time ever, a complete global overview of policies supporting organic agriculture has been compiled, and tools for advocates and policy-makers are now available in the ‘Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture’. Published by IFOAM - Organics International, the toolkit can be downloaded free of charge. Over...

A sucessão familiar é um dos grandes desafios da atualidade no âmbito rural. Neste ambiente, é costumeiro os filhos herdarem dos pais suas propriedades, fazendas e plantações, com a responsabilidade de seguir em frente com as atividades da família. Visando a importância do assunto, a AgroBrasília, em 2017, tem como tema...

The Resilience Design (RD) in Smallholder Farming Systems Approach helps farmers and those who support them have deeper understanding of their farming systems within their agroecosystems. The RD approach helps farmers identify influences that affect their farm sites as well as external resources that can benefit the site. Guided by a set...

Raising awareness, understanding and interest in land consolidation is the objective of a nationwide campaign being conducted here by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. Since the start of November, three public awareness workshops on land consolidation have been held, in the cities of Gostivar, Bitola and...

Four agricultural service cooperatives in the conflict-affected Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine today are receiving agricultural equipment for land cultivation – to improve production of cereal, forage, and oil-bearing crops. The distribution is the latest stage in FAO’s project to support farming cooperation in eastern Ukraine. A chronic lack of...

A condição socioeconômica superior das famílias produtoras de tabaco é um dos fatores que estão fazendo com que mais de 70% dos jovens construam seus projetos de vida na continuidade das atividades rurais. Essa nova situação foi revelada em pesquisa encomendada pelo Sindicato Interestadual da Indústria do Tabaco (SindiTabaco) ao Centro...

The AIS 2017 is a joint initiative of a Portuguese consortium, the Portuguese Government, the EIP-AGRI network and the European Network for Rural Development. It will gather around 500 farmers, rural businesses, startups, Rural Development Programmes managing authorities, national rural networks, Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects, LEADER Local Action Groups, advisors...

De acuerdo a lo establecido en el Convenio Constitutivo de FONTAGRO con respecto a la duración del cargo y después de haber cumplido dos períodos de fructífera labor al frente de la Secretaria Ejecutiva, el Dr. Hugo Li Pun finalizará su mandato al 31 de diciembre de 2017. Durante la reunión...

In the beginning was a global food crisis The 2008 global food crisis has obviously also hit Western Africa and one of its leading sector: rice. This crisis has prompted the States and regional institutions to put measures in place to improve the local rice production and offer.

We are glad to echo a news that highlights the strength that Family Farming is acquiring in Eastern Europe, and is that Macedonia has officially formed its NCFF and one of its first steps has been the elaboration of a study of characterization of Family Farming (In Macedonian) in the...