Family farming remains the predominant form of agriculture in Asia and the Pacific. There are more than 570 million farms in the world of which over 500 million are family-owned. They are responsible for at least 56 percent of agricultural production. These smallholder resource-poor farmers are confronted by many challenges...

El presente documento es un conjunto de estudios realizados en 2015 en ocho países y es complementario al ya publicado en 2014 y reeditado/actualizado por el IICA en 2016 con el título “Políticas públicas y Agriculturas familiares en América Latina y el Caribe: balance, desafíos y perspectivas” Este nuevo material...

Transmission of farms within the family - this is the main theme of the European project Farm Success, in which the Association of Private Agriculture in the Czech Republic is also involved . As part of our case studies, we have farms stories  from several European countries and we think it...

Family farmers in the West Bank are growing high value crops such as almonds and apricots on once-barren hillsides, seeing their incomes rise by 80 per cent or more. About 36,000 people have taken part in an IFAD-funded natural resource management programme, which prioritized terracing, fencing, irrigation, rock removal and...

A Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) levantou indicadores ambientais e financeiros para quem pretende fazer a transição agroecológica. A pesquisa faz parte do projeto Transição Produtiva e Serviços Ambientais, que teve início em 2013, e é feita em conjunto com agricultores familiares e médios produtores dos quatro biomas brasileiros:...

O Governo Federal lançou o Programa Nacional de Regularização Fundiária para solucionar o caos fundiário histórico no país e, principalmente, na região Amazônica. Entre as novas ações, a Lei n°13.465/17 contempla o Terra Legal, transformando a execução do programa em uma política permanente. Tal direcionamento pretende fortalecer a agricultura familiar na Amazônia Legal, já que...

El modelo de acumulación impulsado desde el Estado revitaliza la matriz primario exportadora, en la cual productos como el banano, cacao, flores o palma africana vienen a jugar un papel fundamental en la generación de empleo y de ingresos no petroleros para el país. Tal modelo vulnera nuestra soberanía y...

Lançado o Concurso Vozes, Imagens, Histórias e Experiências das Mulheres Rurais, é tempo de ouvirmos nossas Marias Quarqué.  Com vocês, Kennya Silva, a trabalhadora rural de Xinguara (Pará) que inspirou-se em sua própria história de vida para escrever um poema que tem tudo para ser agraciado por esse concurso que vai...

The Landworkers Alliance is a grassroots union of farmers, growers and land-based workers from across the whole of the U.K. They are a member led organisation campaigning for the rights of small-scale producers and a better food system for everyone.

Representatives from farmer organizations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia and the Pacific, international partners, and civil society organizations gathered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 6-10 October 2017 for the Expanded 3rd MTCP2 Regional Steering Committee Meeting. The RSC opened with an interfaith prayer delivered by Self Employed Women’s Association...

Órgãos da administração pública devem investir R$ 260 milhões na compra de alimentos da agricultura familiar em 2017. O valor corresponde ao crescimento de 430%, comparado ao valor investido em 2016, de R$ 61 milhões. As aquisições serão feitas por meio da modalidade Compra Institucional do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today announced that it has successfully delivered emergency assistance to more than six thousand rural households across Rakhine State, a region of Myanmar where nearly half the population is engaged in the agriculture sector. In order to avoid food insecurity and improve self-sufficiency, following...

Adriana Tambaco, una pequeña agricultora ecuatoriana, nos habla de cómo sus alimentos frescos aportan al desarrollo de su comunidad y de niñas y niños en la provincia de Imbabura.

This film is about Duncan Leaney, a conventional tenant farmer near Taunton in Somerset who realised his farm was no longer viable due to the increasing costs of inputs such as chemical fertilisers and pesticides. At the same time his profit from cereal crops was not going up resulting in...

This video highlights the FAO Dimitra Clubs approach, its implementation, functioning modalities and keys features. “FAO-Dimitra Clubs: Stepping stones for rural development” is part of a series that illustrates the impact of FAO-Dimitra Clubs, a successful gender-transformative approach developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)....

Recently established organic regions aim to be model regions of sustainability. In the frame of this article we understand organic regions as territories that aim at the sustainable management of local resources, based on the principles of organic farming and agroecology. The contribution focuses especially on the role and configurations...

Around 90 women farmers and representatives of rural women from 14 countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific regions came up with a declaration at the end of the three-day Asia-Pacific Women Farmers Forum (APWFF) held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India on 4-6 October 2017. Aimed to make appreciation for...

Several governments in the region have implemented a set of interventions aimed at complementing large-scale cash transfer programmes. This has led to significant progress in the provision of protection to vulnerable women and strengthening their economic autonomy. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, cash transfer programmes have been complemented by other...

This film is about a farm that boldly bucks the trend. While the general direction of agriculture is to increase in size, specialise and mechanise, Ragman’s Lane is just 60 acres, has a whole host of enterprises and is expert in low-tech solutions. At a time when agriculture employs ever...

Sok Houn and her husband, Tep Sok, live in Trok village, in the Svay Rieng province of Cambodia, with their four children. They used to raise chickens through traditional practices, and as a result many chickens died early. In 2014, MTCP2 reached the village of Trok, facilitating training for local farmers...