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...

The European organic movement stimulates and rewards the further development of organic systems, improving the resilience and environmental performance of organic production systems, while innovative tools for upholding the integrity of the supply chain promote trust. Policy makers and citizens widely recognize and value the contribution of organic farming to...

Más alla de la creciente cobertura de la protección social entre los más pobres en América Latina y el Caribe, ésta no ha logrado alcanzar a las y los trabajadores de la agricultura familiar y en el ámbito rural en general. Es en el marco de estos esfuerzos, la FAO...

SANA es un nuevo programa de cooperación que busca fortalecer la lucha contra el hambre en América Latina y el Caribe, creado por la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y la Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura, FAO.

The Rural Development Programme (RDP) for Cyprus was formally adopted by the European Commission on 3 December 2015, outlining the priorities of the Republic of Cyprus for using the €243.3 million of public money that is available for the 7-year period 2014-2020 (€132.2 million from the EU budget and €...

Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...

The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

More than two decades ago in the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, farmers began planting two rice crops each year. Rice production increased, but for how long? Depleted organic matter and acidification are now affecting soil health, and farmers who can’t afford fertilizer are seeing their rice yields declining. This is...