O Brasil é o primeiro país a assumir formalmente as metas para a Década de Ação em Nutrição da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), durante a Assembleia Mundial da Saúde, realizada pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), em Genebra (Suíça). As metas assumidas têm relação com obesidade e hábitos alimentares dos brasileiros. A...

Future Farmers in the Spotlight is an initiative that aims to inspire and encourage the next generation of sustainable farmers. It shares inspiring stories about young farmers who have – despite the many difficulties – managed to set up farming initiatives which are innovative, viable and sustainable!

For the past two years, FAO has been working with Moldova to develop a national programme on Integrated Pest Management, or IPM. With more than 6 000 small-scale farmers now trained in techniques for minimizing pesticide use, project results were presented here today at a final workshop. Entitled "Support for adaptation...

Webinar: Impactful Innovations. Lessons from Family Agriculture on Adaptation to Climate Change in LAC and the Caribbean (OUT-24862) Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Time: 3:00 pm (EST), Washington, DC Organizer: FONTAGRO Join WebEx meeting: https://iadb-knl.webex.com/iadb-knl/j.php?MTID=m09523c5dc929c02de56ac1712ccc3554 Join by phone1-650-479-3208 Call-in toll number (US/Canada)Access code: 732 810 943   To download the publication: https://publications.iadb.org/handle/11319/7802

The Women’s Worlds Congress was organized with the aim of providing a forum for global debate beyond the North-South perspective. Held from 31 July to 4 August 2017, in the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) at Florianópolis, Brazil, the Congress featured an interesting session on ‘Transformations, Connections, Displacements of...

Este es un análisis de coyuntura presentado en el marco de la 3ra Escuela Internacional de Posgrado y Campesina organizada por la Universidad de Costa Rica, La Red de Posgrado de CLACSO y el Grupo de  Trabajo: Estudios Críticos al Desarrollo.  

Intensification durable de la production du maïs chez les petits producteurs des départements de l’Alibori et du Borgou au Bénin Secteur d’intervention: Agriculture, Nutrition, Transformation agroalimentaire, Renforcement des Capacités Impact : amélioration durable de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle des populations du Borgou et de l’Alibori ainsi que leurs conditions...

The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) has joined forces with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to pilot a novel leadership program for Arab women scientists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.This pilot training course represents a significant milestone  to support Arab women scientists to become...

Legumes, arroz, feijão, leite. Uma variedade de produtos que podem ser a garantia de renda para o agricultor familiar. A diversificação é uma forma de se precaver de prejuízos causados por pragas, mudanças climáticas e queda de preços. Para garantir a renda e ficar menos vulneráveis aos imprevistos, agricultores familiares...

The round table was organized by Saad Aangan, a Goa-based gender resource group, in collaboration with the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (Trust) and was attended by thirty-four participants, all (except one fish farmer) women. The workshop was conducted in Konkani, the language of Goa. The programme commenced with...

A recent publication by the European Parliament’s Think Tank examines structural change in EU farming, seeking to answer the question “How can the CAP support a 21st century European model of agriculture?”. The study explores farm structural change separately in Western and in Central and Eastern Europe, and goes on to...

The Women’s Major Group (WMG) was created at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Since then, the Group has been recognized by the United Nations (UN) in its deliberations on Sustainable Development, and since 1996 in the United Nations Environment Programme. With over 1300 member organizations...

A few kilometres from Chirala in Andhra Pradesh, right on the sea shore, is the tiny village of Vadarevu. Usually idyllic, this village is now as tumultuous as the sea, thanks to the threat of eviction that the fisherfolk face. On Monday, the local police tried and failed to evict nearly...

Smallholder farmers particularly in climate vulnerable developing countries such as Myanmar face challenges related to food security and climate change. Research has increasingly pointed toward agro-ecology as a movement with the science and approach suitable to building the resilience of smallholder farmers. Since 2014, the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development...

Members of an Irish discussion group recently travelled to France to study the way farmers co-operate and pool resources there.

Small-scale fisheries, which catch two-thirds of the fish consumed by humans, often struggle with regulatory frameworks tailored to large commercial fleets, according to a new UN agriculture agency book urging policy coherence.

Developing agriculture, forestry and natural resource management to enhance rural development are important components of a four-year cooperation agreement signed here today between Belarus and FAO. The FAO Country Programming Framework for the Republic of Belarus was signed in a ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture by Deputy Minister of Agriculture...

La REDSIAL México se distingue por la vocación de sus miembros de estudiar la acción social y las instituciones en torno a los alimentos originarios, típicos o artesanales de calidad como una alternativa para sustentar propuestas de solución a la pobreza rural y a los problemas de la seguridad alimentaria...

El actual modelo de los agronegocios se caracteriza por la concentración económica, la expansión monoproductivista, el acceso a una mayor cantidad de tierras para capitales foráneos de carácter especulativo. En consecuencia, se produce el desarraigo de miles de pequeños y medianos agricultores, que aún están afianzados a su terreno, con...

No Brasil, assim como no restante do mundo, os bancos de germoplasma, unidades que armazenam recursos genéticos de plantas, não constituem instrumentos de conservação da agrobiodiversidade se não estiverem associados a outras ações de preservação que levem em conta o papel das populações tradicionais e os seus sistemas de cultivo. Os...