This chapter provides a general introduction to current discussions on family farming in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia and Ecuador, as part of a larger project titled “Analysis of rural poverty and inequality in Latin America” produced by RIMISP for IFAD in 2013. Our analysis of family...

Sustainable food production in the rain-fed smallholder sector of Zimbabwe is imperative in current and future climates given the increasing proportion and role of the sector in food security. Backgrounds of the smallholder sector include low resource bases, declining soil productivity, climate variability and increasing human population. Impacts of climatic...

Forest producers are often seen as marginal players within the agricultural sector. However, 1.6 billion people around the world depend on forests for their livelihoods and daily needs. This raises a number of interesting questions regarding the importance of forest producers. Among them, if the role of forest producers is...

 Emanuela Russo and Fergal Anderson moved to county Galway, Ireland in September 2011 to start a small vegetable farm. Emanuela, originally from Milan, Italy and Fergal from Galway studied Journalism and Communication and Public Advocacy and Activism respectively and could not imagine to become farmers when they graduated from high...

Livestock production is the most important agricultural branch in terms of value, in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & Macedonia

In Guinea-Bissau, a country on the West African coast between Senegal, the Republic of Guinea and the Atlantic, rice is the staple food. During the past three decades, agriculture in Guinea- Bissau has undergone a radical transformation. In Guinea-Bissau, there is a common discourse that young people have abandoned the...

This  issue of Caravan – a collaborative effort with the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems – focuses on gender related research being undertaken by ICARDA and national and CGIAR research partners across the world's dry areas, reflecting on experience and insights from Morocco to South Asia and beyond. Articles...

The family of the three brothers Christos Belides (32), Miltiades Belides (30) and Theodoros Belides (20) has a long history of wine producing. Their grandfather was winegrower in Constantinople and in 1922 he took some of his wine varieties with him to Greece. Nowadays the winery is located near the city...

La FAO ha realizado una encuesta en 71 países y ha analizado 21 estudios de caso en África, Asia y América Latina para conocer más sobre estas unidades de agronegocios. El objetivo principal ha sido extraer lecciones y buenas prácticas para orientar a los países miembros sobre cómo establecer y...

The presence of the family farming on the forest areas is a characteristic of the north part of Rio Grande do Sul. This condition is the result of the settlement of European immigrants, implemented by public and private colonization projects along the 19th and 20th centuries. The colonies establishment resulted...

The Lexicon of Sustainability's Know Your Food is a short film series that introduces consumers to key terms and principles that can help them make more informed decisions about the food they eat. 

Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Family farming remains the predominant form of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. Family enterprises in agriculture, forestry and fishery production play key roles in food security, local economies, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change...

This publication is an effort by Heifer Ecuador to substantiate the importance of small-scale family farming and agroecology in Ecuador. The five chapters comprising this book will take reads through the different puzzles making up Ecuador’s agrarian sector, from the perspective of small farmers, who grow most of our food,...

Ask Rasmussen (27) is slowly taking over Kiselgården from his parents. Kiselgården is one of the oldest biodynamic farms in Denmark. Ask is growing a large variety of vegetables and delivers to many Michelin starred restaurants, among them NoMa and Geranium.

Este material surge a partir de la necesidad de contar con un compendio de información referente al agua, su utilización y recomendaciones. Incluido en el marco del “Proyecto Integrado para el Manejo del Agua en el NO del Chubut” (PROFEDER INTA), que tiene como finalidad desarrollar alternativas para el mejor...

Progress in raising awareness and advocacy in favour of family farming during 2014, by IYFF-2014 National Committees. International Year of Family Farming IYFF-2014.

Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo colectivo y sobre todo interinstitucional, desarrollado en el marco del proyecto de cooperación técnica TCP/ARG/3302 “Fortalecimiento de las capacidades que permitan abordar los procesos de Ordenamiento Territorial Rural de forma participativa e interactiva” de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la...

La cuarta reunión de la Mesa de Cooperación Internacional para la Agricultura dibujó un panorama amplio sobre el ejercicio de la cooperación en el ámbito agrícola local. Además, el espacio permitió compartir, ante un cada vez más extenso grupo de cooperantes, las prioridades gubernamentales en materia agrícola.

This paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people’s unemployment in Africa through agriculture. Using notions of transitions and mobilities we set out a transformative work and opportunity space framework that privileges difference and diversity among work opportunities, rural areas and young people. We argue that...

In constrained environments such as mountainous and Mediterranean areas the sustainable use of forage resources by domestic herbivores has to combine production, conservation of high environmental value areas and product quality. The sustainability of animal production systems relies on their ability to reconcile economic performance based on the added value...