The outbreak of African swine fever in China, first detected last month by authorities there, is accelerating and will almost certainly emerge in other countries in Asia, a regional emergency meeting convened by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) heard today. African Swine Fever (ASF) was first detected in Asia...

In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Brazil, Senegal and Thailand. These meetings brought together stakeholders from academia, policy and civil society to...

The "International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in China" was organized in August 2016 by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), FAO, and Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS), with the support of the Government of France. The symposium Gathered 221 participants from 25 countries (representing...

China is a large country with diverse agro-ecosystems and numerous different agricultural production systems. These agricultural systems are managed by more than 200 million households who provide agricultural products to meet the needs of almost a fifth of mankind. Agriculture plays numerous key functions, including not only the provision of food...

「良食大学」是互联网第一个简体中文的食物议题知识库。我们的目标是希望向大众普及食物生产和消费的知识，让大家了解食物背后的真实代价，并且重新认识并定义健康、温和、良善而多元的「良食」。 "Good Food University" is the first knowledge base of food issues in Chinese on the Internet. Our goal is to spread the knowledge of food production and consumption to the general public so that we can understand the true cost behind food and re-understand and define a healthy, gentle, good...

The Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD (IOE) undertook a project performance assessment (PPA) of the Environment Conservation and Poverty Reduction Programme in Ningxia and Shanxi (ECPRPNS) in the People’s Republic of China with the objectives of: (a) assessing the results of the programme; and (b) generating findings and recommendations...

Only a small number of governments have established meaningful and effective farmer-centred measures for the implementation of access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. One reason is the highly complex nature of the international regulatory system. This special issue of Farming Matters magazine presents practical ways in which access and...

How 25 women farmers are working to reduce pesticides use and shift to agroecology

This contribution discusses access and benefit sharing within the context of participatory plant breeding. It presents how Chinese farmers and breeders interact in relation to crop improvement and on-farm maintenance of plant genetic resources. Based on more than a decade of action research, a number of institutional changes were accomplished...

The 8th Steering Committee meeting of the China-CABI Joint Laboratory was held successfully in Beijing, China on 4 March 2016. Steering Committee members and other key delegates were delighted with the Joint Laboratory’s achievements and progress in 2015, and agreed its plans for 2016. The Joint Laboratory is now regarded...

家庭农场是2016年农村经济新亮点，那么2016年国家对家庭农场扶持政策有哪些呢?据资料显示，各省对家庭农场的扶持力度都很大，如四川省就出台了8项扶持政策，涉及登记服务、示范创建、土地流转、财政扶持、金融支持、用水用电用地、社会化服务和人才培养等方面，对四川家庭农场主或有意涉足者来说，无疑是多重利好。

Food crops represent one third of Rwanda’s GDP, but the supply remains fragile due to soil pests such as white grubs, cut worm and bean fly which damage vegetable and root crops. Options for control are limited. A team from China, Africa, the UK and Switzerland is working with the...

Farming has long been seen as an overworked and underpaid job. Many people, especially the youth in the countryside, choose to leave the fields. Now, the stereotype is changing. A pilot family farm scheme in Shanghai's Songjiang District has made farming a career with a decent income. In 2015, the average...

This special issue of Farming Matters magazine has explored the ways in which access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources can work for family farmers. On one hand it presents cases that demonstrate the limited extent to which family farmers have been able to benefit from the ‘formal’ ABS...

上海市松江区推出的“种粮+养猪”相结合的家庭农场模式，符合条件并有意愿的家庭农场主可申请代养松林肉猪，猪棚由松林公司按统一标准建造，虽然提高了农民的收入，但是猪棚的建造是否改变了耕地用途，如果是的话，需要加以取缔和制止，这根弦一定要绷紧。家庭农场，是近些年我国农业生产经营中出现的一种新型经营主体，它以农户家庭为基本生产单位，增加技术、资本等要素投入，实行农业专业化生产、规模化经营，提高农业产出率和农产品商品率，提高农业生产机械化和农业经营集约化水平。2013年中央一号文件提出，鼓励和支持承包土地向专业大户、家庭农场、农民合作社流转，成为近年来农业发展的亮点之一，一时间，更是成为媒体关注的热词之一。

In order to meet the world’s sustainable development goals of defeating hunger and poverty by 2030, governments and the private sector need to reenergize their agricultural science and technology research capacities, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization announced today at a meeting of the world’s top agricultural scientists. That will require...

China is a large country with diverse agro-ecosystems and numerous different agricultural production systems. These agricultural systems are managed by more than 200 million households who provide agricultural products to meet the needs of almost a fifth of mankind. Agriculture plays numerous key functions, including not only the provision of...

After decades of successful collaboration, China and FAO have agreed to broaden the scope of their cooperation, building on their achievements to further promote rural development worldwide.

The International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems has been jointly organized by FAO and CAAS, and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province of China, with the support of the Government of France. In his message from the Director General of FAO, Ren Wang, Assistant Director-General stressed that:...

This book on Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement provides with valuable knowledge and information both at the global, regional, and national levels on the costs of land degradation and benefits of taking action against land degradation. A key advantage of this book is that it goes beyond the conventional...