A century ago forests covered large foot hill chains in Uzbekistan and provided manifold benefits. Currently, only 7.3% of Uzbekistan is forested. Specifically villages below mountains or lower ranges suffer from mud flows after hails and even slight rains. Climate change will fuel the serisks, e.g. by increase of hails....

Entre los años 2003 y 2005, la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Bogotá, ha liberado al mercado de Boyacá y Cundinamarca seis nuevas variedades de papa tetraploide: Pastusa Suprema, Esmeralda, Betina, Punto Azul, Rubí y Roja Nariño. A pesar de que actualmente todas ya se encuentran en el mercado en...

Las montañas proporcionan diversos servicios ambientales como agua, energía, suelo y biodiversidad y son de vital importancia no solo para las poblaciones locales sino también para los ecosistemas y las poblaciones que se encuentran a menor altitud. Por consiguiente, el impacto del cambio climático en los ecosistemas de montaña está...

Drought is one of the most constraining climate extremes to livelihoods particularly in dryland environments. Effective adaptation to drought is partly dependent on farmers’ perceptions and how these are harmonised with scientific knowledge systems into local adaptation policies and strategies. This paper examined the perceptions of drought among farmers in...

For the first time, Somali farmers are turning themselves into suppliers of high-quality food assistance for their fellow Somali people. European Union, Austria and United Nations food agencies are backing landmark initiative

Apple production in South Tyrol is a true illustration of a vibrant agricultural innovation system. It is a collaborative and pluralistic structure that comprises private and public actors, different tiers of producer organizations, cooperatives, research, extension and advisory services, all geared towards integrating small-scale apple producers in a highly productive, profitable and efficient system.Today,...

O Estado Brasileiro assumiu o compromisso de reduzir as desigualdades de gênero no nosso país reconhecendo as particularidades do meio rural. Para isto, desde 2003 vem implementando um conjunto de políticas e programas que buscam garantir direitos à cidadania e ao desenvolvimento econômico, bem como, promover a autonomia das mulheres...

Malgré leur importante contribution à l’éradication de la pauvreté, à la sécurité alimentaire, les pêcheurs et autres travailleurs de la pêche artisanale continuent à être marginalisés à divers niveaux. C’est dans ce contexte que le Comité des pêches (COFI) de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) a...

The topics covered in this Dossier concern 21 research units based in Languedoc-Roussillon Region, involving over 1 000 researchers whose activities are fully or partially focused on addressing—in collaboration with many partners—major family farming challenges in France and worldwide.The scientists have developed four multidisciplinary approaches to deal with family farming...

Pastor John Kamara, Musaia, Koinadugu Province, Sierra Leone.Through the narrative of his life, Pastor Kamara tells the story of the development and improvement of honey business in Sierra Leone. From the struggle to make a living collecting honey in the traditional way to the success of producing raw honey with...

The World Agriculture Watch (WAW) aims to generate and disseminate improved knowledge of rural and agricultural transformations, putting national and international stakeholders in a better position to build dialogue and policy. The WAW will provide a global platform for facilitating the acquisition and sharing of relevant data and information in...

Comme décidé lors de la table-ronde sur la Déclaration de Maputo, tenue du 20 au 24 septembre 2014 à Kinshasa, la CONAPAC a mis en branle son plaidoyer en vue de l’augmentation de la part du budget national réservée à l’agriculture à au moins 10 %. Un cahier de plaidoyer...

En la República Dominicana existen 347,563 explotaciones agrícolas, de acuerdo a datos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO). De estas fincas, 281.526 son unidades familiares, lo que equivale a un 81% de predios agrícolas en manos de familias. A nivel mundial existen 570...

The growing number of local agriculture initiatives and their diversity reflects the population's need to reconnect with basic values and their raising concern about sustainability. Alternative forms of (sub-) urban agriculture, such as direct selling, basket delivery services and community-supported agriculture (CSA) are developing. Are these initiatives specific, regarding “resilience”...

De las 570 millones de granjas que hay en el mundo, más de 500 son granjas familiares, lo que hace de la agricultura familiar el principal modo de producción agrícola del planeta. Las granjas familiares producen alrededor del 80% de los alimentos del mundo en términos de valor, y tomadas...

This new edition of Save and Grow comes following the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012 and the launch of the Zero Hunger Challenge by the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. The challenge has five elements: guarantee year-round access to adequate food, end stunting in children, double small farmer productivity, foster...

La transformación rural es un proceso de cambio social integral mediante el cual las sociedades rurales diversifican sus economías y reducen su dependencia de la agricultura; llegan a ser dependientes de lugares distantes en materia de comercio y en la adquisición de bienes, servicios e ideas; se mueven de aldeas...

The credit market serving agriculture in Nigeria is encumbered by operational and administrative inadequacies and the discriminatory tendencies of financial institutions. The government has implemented policies to redress the situation, but small-scale farmers have not benefitted from these incentives to any reasonable degree. This makes it imperative to examine the...

The proposed GIAHS project, Sikkim Himalaya-Agriculture is a part of globally significant biodiversity hot spots of the world within the greater quadri-national junction of Khanchendzonga landscape in the Eastern Himalayas. The region is an assemblage of sacred landscapes called Demazong (the valley of rice) or the Shangrila (the hidden paradise...

Given the importance of the sustainable use of biodiversity for food and agriculture, and the critical role of biodiversity and ecosystems in sustainable intensification of agricultural production, this publication addresses these issues, and by doing so also contributes to furthering the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Programme of...