In the past 50 years, around 5,2 million Colombian farmers have been displaced from their lands, and about 8 million hectares of farmland were taken from their owners due to Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The war and neoliberal policies caused suffering, especially for women farmers. In order to overcome this...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, domestic workers make up 18% of the female labour force. Migrating from rural areas to work in the city, many maintain both rural and urban identities. With strong connections to their family’s farm on one hand, and playing a key role in buying and...

Funcionarios de la FAO tomaron parte ayer y hoy en las actividades de la Semana de la Agricultura Familiar Chilena, organizada por el Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario de Chile (INDAP) en el marco de la feria mundial Expo Milán 2015. Las actividades, que se desarrollarán durante cinco días, apuntan a sensibilizar...

A bocage is a balanced environment, created to combine trees, crops and livestock. The concept of a bocage perimeter is created to solve the problems associated with extensive agriculture (overgrazing, erosion, fires etc.). A bocage perimeter is the result of land consolidation at the request of owners of a site....

Dans la région du Sahel, des techniques simples d'amélioration des sols et de rétention de l'eau ont aidé les agriculteurs du pays à reverdir près de 300 000 hectares de terres menacées de sécheresse.

It is becoming clearer by the day that we need to reform our food system. From droughts, to challenges in energy demand, to the lack of transparency in our food choices, there are many reasons why we need to change from a conventional industrial food system to one that is...

La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) han alineado sus esfuerzos bajo una meta común: la completa erradicación del hambre en todos los países de la región para el año 2025, señaló hoy la Oficina...

Addressing agricultural export competition has been a longstanding demand from many countries, notably developing and least-developed countries. Advancing on this issue would make the multilateral trading system fairer, it would support farmers world-wide, and it would create a more level playing field for trade across the globe.

The Slovenian farm, Puhan, has 11 hectares of arable land, three acres of grape vines and a hectare of forest. Its tourist offer is based on a wide variety of food and drink healthy, mostly local products. The farm is a member of the association “DISI Prekmurje po” (Scent of...

In semi-arid cropping regions of West Africa, fallow periods are getting shorter. As land becomes more scarce, farmers are not able to give their soils enough time to rest. This is leading to depletion of soil organic matter, severely threatening soil fertility and damaging soil structure. In the worst cases,...

Este grupo se define como promotores de un estilo de vida sostenible, acompañando procesos de emprendimiento comunitario urbano y rural y de fortalecimiento de consumo y producción de comida sana y nutritiva. Su piedra angular es la agricultura orgánica y actualmente coordina el Mercado Agroecológico Tierra Viva en donde se integran más...

En el marco de la Cumbre Mundial de Desarrollo Sostenible se reunieron hoy el Director General de la FAO, José Graziano da Silva y la Secretaria Ejecutiva de la CEPAL, Alicia Bárcena con los miembros del Cuarteto de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), para revisar el estado...

CEEweb together with Young Researchers of Serbia, Eko-Centar, Juniperia, Daphne – Institute of Applied Ecology and Naturalists Club Poland have launched a project on experience sharing and capacity building in small-scale farming. The project “Empower the powerless: Visegrad experience for small-scale family farms in the Western Balkans” aims to place...

The Guidelines aim to support European farmers by clarifying how they can, under certain conditions, cooperate to jointly sell olive oil, beef and veal, and arable crops without breaching EU competition rules. These markets are worth more than €80 billion annually. The European Commission has adopted new Guidelines on how specific...

Six portraits of farming families from all over the country

Con el fin de aportar visibilidad, informar y concientizar sobre el significativo aporte de la agricultura familiar a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria del pueblo argentino, el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación a través de la Secretaría de Agricultura Familiar a cargo de Emilio Pérsico, creó...

Humans have always taken what they needed from the planet’s soils, but the time has come to pay back this debt to Nature. These words from Kyrgyz National Agrarian University rector Ryspek Nurgaziev capture well the essence of discussions at the international scientific conference on soils and food security in Bishkek,...

'New peasants’ – youth deciding to become farmers and choosing agroecological production methods – are a crucial response to the trend of rural outmigration. Sidney Ortun Flament and Bruno Macias see knowledge sharing and exchange as a means to support this movement.

Bajo el lema “Territorio, trabajo y valor agregado en origen”, el INTA realizará la décima edición del evento que ya ha convocado a centenares de miles de personas en todo el país. INTA Expone Cuyo 2015 tendrá lugar en San Juan, más precisamente en la Villa Aberastain, departamento Pocito (20 kilómetros al sur...

En América Latina y El Caribe la Corporación Procasur ha trabajado desde 1996 en el desarrollo y difusión de herramientas y metodologías para la gestión efectiva del conocimiento, fomentando la capacidad de los actores públicos y privados para luchar contra la pobreza rural. Mediante la vinculación con instituciones internacionales, nacionales y con gobiernos...