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Fact sheet
Small farms, big impacts: mainstreaming climate change for resilience and food security

Climate change threatens the natural resource base across much of the developing world. Climate change accelerates ecosystem degradation and makes agriculture more risky. As a result, smallholder farmers, who are so critical to global food security, are facing more extreme weather. Small-scale farmers are impacted more immediately by droughts, floods...
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Conference proceedings
Priorities for FAO activities in the Near East and North Africa

This report is divided into three sections:  Section II outlines how priorities and items requiring follow-up emanating from the previous Regional Conference have been addressed, bringing to the attention of the Members major achievements and aspects requiring further consideration. The section will also draw lessons from the implementation of the...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Book
Estudio comparativo regional de asistencia técnica y extensión rural con perspectiva de género

Programa Regional de Género de la Reunión Especializada de la Agricultura Familiar - REAF
El presente estudio comparativo regional de asistencia técnica y extensión rural con perspectiva de género, convocado por el Programa Regional de Fortalecimiento Institucional de Políticas de Igualdad de Género en la Agricultura Familiar del MERCOSUR, se realizó entre los meses de octubre, noviembre y diciembre de 2013 y principios de...
Argentina - Brazil - Uruguay
2014 - Ministerio del Desarrollo Agrario (MDA), Brasil

Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans

Opportunity – the road to empowerment of stakeholders and to partnership between stakeholders and governments
The role of different levels of governance is not fully clear. Action at village level is very limited. Mechanisms for connecting governments and stakeholders are emerging. Governments are committed to the further involvement of stakeholders. The groundwork for LEADER-type partnerships is being laid. Rural development networks are in place or...
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development

Fact sheet
Capacity Development Support to Rural Women on the Socio-Economic and Gender Aspects of Sustainable Rural Development

This project, started in 2014 under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme, was developed to improve services for rural women by enhancing the capacity of institutions and of agricultural extension and rural advisory services staff in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The project’s ultimate objective was to promote rural women’s socio-economic integration and enhance...
Azerbaijan - Türkiye
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Video
La escuela del silencio

"La escuela del silencio". Una mirada a la desigualdad de género en la educación.
Peru
2014 - UNICEF Perú

Blog article
Creating a brighter future for farmers

Charcoal smokers introduced by the South-South Cooperation programme have improved women’s income in the Edeha fish market.
During the past ten years, over 600 Chinese experts and technicians have been deployed in Nigeria to share their agricultural skills with local farmers. The South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme, which has been fully funded by the Government of Nigeria and facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
Nigeria
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Upper Egypt rural development project supervision report

Main report and appendices
The UERDP constitutes a USD 20 million development investment financed by Government (almost USD 3.7 million) and IFAD (loan of USD 15 million and grant of USD 1 million). The project is contributing to reducing poverty and improving livelihoods of the rural poor in Qena and Assiut governorates of Upper...
Egypt
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Video
Las Mujeres de Amak: Justicia para las Sobrevivientes de Violencia Basada en Género en Áreas Rurales

Esta es la historia de las valientes mujeres, de la comunidad de Amak, situada en el corazón de Alto Wangki y Bocay, Nicaragua, quienes se han convertido en un ejemplo como sobrevivientes de violencia basada en género. A través del nuevo sistema de los wihtas, o Jueces Comunitarios, se les ha...
Nicaragua
2014 - UNFPA América Latina y el Caribe

Article
营养源于创新 美味来自废物

就营养不良普遍的情况而言,随着家庭菜园的不断扩大,对许多尼泊尔人来说常年吃上 新鲜蔬菜已成为现实。但是,他们的故事表明家庭菜园的好处不仅仅局限于提高每家每户的 营养。家庭菜园还能帮助赋予妇女权利,保护生物多样性,广义上说,这对提高家庭和社区 营养都很有必要。
Nepal
2014 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge

Magazine article
Characterization of peasant family farming, Cayes-Jacmel Commune, Haiti

Small-scale agriculture is a topic that has drawn the attention of many State agencies, local, regional and international during the last few years, due to their importance in the food production and poverty reduction in rural communities of the world. In this context, the present investigation had as its objective...
Haiti
2014 - Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh)

Working paper
Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture

Principles and approaches
Agriculture is facing an unprecedented confluence of pressures that urges for profound changes in our food and agriculture (crops, livestock, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture) systems. Building on extensive work that promotes sustainability in various production systems, FAO proposes to integrate these into a single Sustainable Food and Agriculture approach. This approach...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Video
Fiji: Under the Sleeping Giant

A group of twenty young Fijian farmers dream of earning enough money to support their siblings. Their plan? To farm papaya organically and to access the premium price that the organic market pays. But they can only do this if their product is certified organic. With the prohibitively high cost...
Fiji
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development

Book
Féminin-masculin

Genre et agricultures familiales
Les Nations unies reconnaissent officiellement que parvenir à l'égalité hommes-femmes, en termes d'accès aux ressources de production et à leur contrôle (en particulier la terre et les services agricoles), aurait un effet positif sur la productivité agricole, la sécurité alimentaire et la pauvreté. Pourtant, quelle est la situation actuelle des...
2014 - CTA

Website
All Nepal Peasants' Federation

All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPF) is an umbrella association of entire Nepali peasants fighting against feudalism, imperialism and neo-liberalism. It is fighting for the agrarian reform and peasants rights for last 6 decades since its inception in 1951 AD. In the new context of democratic republic of Nepal with the...
Nepal
2014 - All Nepal Peasants Federation (ANPF)

Newsletter
F@rmletter The E-magazine of the World’s Farmers

On the occasion of the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), this number drew attention to the important role of family farming and the key challenges and priorities for the future. Find out the differences, and the different programs and activities on family farming all over the world. This and much...
2014 - World Farmers' Organisation

Case study
Acceso a tierra y estrategias de vida de los jóvenes rurales

Estudio comparativo
Los territorios rurales atraviesan procesos de envejecimiento y una de las causas principales es la emigración de los jóvenes a los centros urbanos. Las razones para dejar el campo y la agricultura son en parte las barreras que enfrentan al insertarse social y productivamente en sus comunidades y el acceso...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Colombia - Guatemala - Nicaragua - Peru
2014 - Corporación PROCASUR

Video
Increasing the resilience of family farmers to threats and crises

FAO is working towards increasing the resilience of people and their livelihoods to natural hazards, human-induced disasters and protracted crises that impact agriculture, nutrition, food security and food safety.
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Website
Instituto de Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (IDMA-Perú)

El Instituto de Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente IDMA es una organización no gubernamental, sin fines de lucro, fundada el 13 de marzo de 1984, con la finalidad de aportar desde los ámbitos locales y regionales al desarrollo nacional; hacia la consecución de un modelo de desarrollo sostenible que permita mejorar...
Peru
2014 - Instituto de Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente (IDMA-Perú)

Report
Fulfilling the promise of African agriculture

IFAD in Africa
Agriculture plays a significant role in Africa, accounting for about 30 per cent of GDP south of the Sahara, as well as a significant proportion of export value. Not surprisingly, in most African countries, 60 per cent or more of employees work in agriculture. Yet this barely scrapes the surface...
Kenya - Madagascar - Morocco - Nigeria
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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