SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) is a four-year project (2016-2020) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme. It aims to advance understanding of social innovation and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development – and how to boost them – in marginalised rural areas across Europe...

O projeto Escola de Comer surgiu com o objetivo de melhorar da merenda servida na rede de ensino de Paraty, engajando chefs de cozinha e integrantes da comunidade escolar na capacitação de merendeiras, adoção de cardápios mais nutritivos e saudáveis nas escolas e também incorporando alimentos da agricultura familiar à merenda municipal. A...

Cooperative forms of collective action have a strong presence in agriculture worldwide, processing and/or commercializing one-half of the world’s food at some given stage of the value chain. In Morocco alone, there are about 10 000 registered cooperatives acting in the agriculture sector. The formal registration of such a large...

The programme aims to improve existing training and resources for CSA farmers, equipping them with the skills and tools to produce healthy sustainable food for local communities, and to encourage experience sharing with European countries where CSA is less established. The event took place over five days at Cascina Santa Brera,...

Growing populations and consumption patterns are squeezing forests – especially through industrial agriculture. But many of the 1.5 billion people who live within the world’s remaining forest landscapes are farmers too, albeit smallholders. Many grow and protect trees. Most also hunt and gather from the forest. Forests provide them with...

New research in southern India, conducted by the Fish4Food Project, reveals that small-scale traders play an important role in ensuring access to fish by the urban poor. By providing low income consumers with small pelagic fish, in particular, small-scale traders support food security as well as contribute to the livelihoods...

As fish in Kenya’s Lake Victoria region becomes increasingly scarce, women fish traders in the region turn to fish farming to boost incomes and find a way out of the pernicious practice of jaboya

O aquecimento global põe em risco toda a Floresta Amazônica. Escapamentos e chaminés domundo inteiro lançam na atmosfera bilhões de toneladas de dióxido de carbono, gerando temperaturas cada vez mais altas na Amazônia. Alguns estudos preveem que nas próximas décadas o aquecimento global também reduzirá a precipitação na região. Temperaturas mais altas...

The agriculture sector is one of the major income generating sectors in Sierra Leone and more than 70 percent of the population is engaged in subsistence farming. The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease caused a major disruption to farming activities, closing periodic markets, creating price volatility and worsening food...

O Acompanhamento do Mercado de Trabalho do Agronegócio realizado pelo Centro de Estudos Avançados em Economia Aplicada (CEPEA) aborda aspectos da conjuntura e da estrutura do mercado de trabalho do setor. O agronegócio, nesses estudos, é entendido como a soma de quatro segmentos: insumos para a agropecuária, produção agropecuária primária,...

Based on 25 case studies from the global comparative study ‘GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation’, this paper explores rural young women’s and men’s occupational aspirations and trajectories in India, Mali, Malawi, Morocco, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines. We draw upon qualitative data from 50 sex-segregated focus...

Improving Household Food and Nutrition Security in Egypt by Targeting Women and Youth is a project in which nutrition awareness is integrated with food production and income generating activities. It is designed to improve the food and nutrition security of the vulnerable by improving the skills of women and the...

Contract farming is often regarded as an inclusive business model because it engages small-scale producers with high-value agribusinesses. In principle, contract farming can improve family farmers' access to markets and boost their incomes while ensuring that agribusinesses have a stable supply of produce that meets their quality standards. However, there...

As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, achieving a world without hunger and malnutrition calls for urgent action to make agriculture more sustainable, productive and resilient. The impacts of climate change are further increasing uncertainties and vulnerabilities facing farmers and communities. Integrated, cross sectoral approaches like agroecology are...

O artigo assim se justifica pela importância de se discutir e refletir sobre as especificidades da condição de mulher pertencentes à comunidades rurais; pela relevância e particularidades do conceito de Feminismo Comunitário para o movimento feminista; e pela tentativa de reflexão e comparação das lutas de mulheres de comunidades rurais...

Realizado ao longo de 18 meses, o trabalho foi costurado com a participação de cerca de 370 colaboradores da estatal e de instituições parceiras A agricultura tem passado por profundas transformações de ordem econômica, cultural, social, tecnológica, ambiental e mercadológica que impactam o mundo rural. A inteligência estratégica é imprescindível para...

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...

A revolution paradigm was needed to establish the required knowledge systems to attain food sovereignty and agroecology. This concept entails the construction of technical and policy-related knowledge that is actively shaped by food producers and consumers, rather than through top-down research and the hegemony of scientism, the privatization of research,...

The use of agent-based modelling approaches in ex-post and ex-ante evaluations of agricultural policies has been progressively increasing over the last few years. There are now a sufficient number of models that it is worth taking stock of the way these models have been developed. Here, we review 20 agricultural...

L’agroécologie propose des techniques simples mêlant sciences agronomiques et écologiques. Toutes les techniques utilisées sont basées sur la connaissance de la vie du sol et des nombreuses interactions existantes. La fertilité naturelle du sol est liée à la vie qu’il abrite et les techniques employées se doivent de respecter cette...