El concepto de cadena agroalimentaria se utiliza para describir un sistema que agrupa actores económicos y sociales interrelacionados, y que participan articuladamente en actividades que agregan valor a un bien o servicio, desde su producción hasta que este llega a los consumidores, incluidos los proveedores de insumos y servicios, transformación,...

Reliable, comprehensive statistics take the guesswork out of decision-making, and nowhere is this truer than in the agricultural sector. Beginning today, national statistical experts from 20 countries of the region are in Budapest for a week-long roundtable introducing FAO’s new guidelines and data-collection methodologies for the World Programme for the...

Due to the mountainous topography of the Basque Country, livestock breeders often lose a lot of time by going to seek their herd in the mountains every day, which is especially stressful for part time farmers. Thus, the livestock breeders expressed a need for change in the livestock management. This...

A national association of cheese eaters and producers established to support the development of solidarity between urban and rural people, and to encourage the settlement of small farmers and artisans in rural Lithuania. Viva sol has started a farmers’ market in Vilnius, a box scheme, environmental training and activities to support...

El presente documento incluye los estudios-país del estado de situación del uso del buceo en la pesca y acuicultura en los países seleccionados - México, Honduras, Colombia y Chile; así como los resultados del taller referido, con recomendaciones legislativas, de política y operativas para mejorar la seguridad ocupacional en aras...

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences data show large family farms generally outperform corporates in terms of operating returns. ABARES compared the rate of return of corporate and family farms earning more than $1 million for five years to 2015-16. The analysis included capital appreciation of assets —...

The digitisation of agriculture could help Europe address food security and environmental issues at the same time. But realising this vision will require e-skills, proper broadband infrastructure and big data management, experts warn.

According to the United Nation's world food security report, 815 million people faced serious hunger in 2016 – that is more than one and a half times the entire population of the European Union. There are numerous reasons why so many millions are affected by this issue, from conflict to...

There is evidence that the impacts of social protection programmes and agricultural interventions can mutually reinforce each other when they are implemented jointly. Nevertheless, they often operate in isolation. A recent article by Cirillo et al. (2017) discusses how an alignment of their targeting mechanisms can help boost programme coordination...

Une estimation récente avance le chiffre de 120 millions d’éleveurs et agropasteurs dans le monde. Quelques 50 millions d’entre eux se situent en Afrique subsaharienne, où le pastoralisme est une pratique largement utilisée dans une zone allant du Sénégal à la Somalie. Les communautés pastorales africaines sont aussi nombreuses dans...

The European Commission Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development has recently published the Cork 2.0 Action Plan.  This Action Plan outlines planned and completed activities across the EU to implement each of the ten policy orientations of the Cork 2.0 Declaration concerning rural communities and possible policy responses. This Action Plan...

A new case study of our case study series on Access to land has just been released. It is entitled "Andalusia: a recent history of land issues and struggles. From unproductive latifundio to workers’ cooperatives on public land".

El desarrollo tecnológico de la agroindustria generó modelos basados en economías de gran escala productiva, fomentando un marginamiento de los modelos tradicionales de producción. Sin embargo, en Argentina, la necesidad de implementar tecnologías alternativas de desarrollo para el sector semi-intensivo o familiar aumentó en la implementación y la divulgación de...

The first report of the REGIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ROPPA (OFF/ROPPA) FAMILY FARMS deals with four questions that delivers successively (i) a farmer reading of the behavior of the West African family farms during the last two farming seasons; (ii) a status of the proximity support and extension from which these...

Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...

In a study of women and their roles in rural areas adopted by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee and Women’s Committee (28 February), EU lawmakers called for an enhanced role for women in the EU farming sector. Faced with a number of severe challenges ranging from growing urbanisation to an ageing...

El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...

Blue growth is considered a miracle cure for stagnating economic growth. It will cure overexploited fish stocks, dwindling resources and feed a growing world population. In the absence of a Planet B it gives a glimmer of hope. Blue economy is a collective term for hopes of creating sustainable blue...

There is global recognition that forests are not only about trees but also about the people who live in and around them. Empirical evidence on the role of forests in food security, poverty reduction through income and employment generation, and addressing the challenges of climate change is increasingly being generated...

Beirut, 30 March 2017 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) coordinated a technical meeting to promote and build government capacity for rural poverty reduction through social protection policymaking in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.