The strongest El Niño weather episode in the last several decades has caused repeated crop failure, decimated livestock herds and driven some 10.2 million people across Ethiopia into food insecurity, FAO reported as it presented its emergency response plan to urgently protect livestock and rebuild crop production in the Horn...

The Khalifa International Date Palm Award was established under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE. The inauguration ceremony attracted both regional and international attention to the date palm tree and the strategic future of dates as a balanced food product, and highlighted...

Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania is a landscape stewardship NGO, registered as a charity in 2004 in Romania and in the UK. ADEPT has been working for 10 years to protect the nature-rich, farmed landscapes of Transylvania, and to support the traditional farming communities who have created them over centuries and who...

Para promover a inclusão produtiva e levar diretamente ao agricultor tecnologias nas cadeias de caprinos e ovinos e de sementes agroecológicas, a Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) implementará o Programa de Apoio à Inovação Social e ao Desenvolvimento Territorial Sustentável (InovaSocial), com financiamento de R$ 30 milhões do Banco...

The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of India and the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD are co-organizing a national round-table workshop - in collaboration with IFAD’s Asia and the Pacific Division ¬ to discuss the main issues emerging from the evaluation of IFAD’s country programme in India, as...

Civil society has urged governments and public institutions to support the declaration on the Decade of Family Farming and to put in place the appropriate tools required to promote Family Farming in their countries.

El Niño has had an extremely heavy impact on livestock and agriculture in Ethiopia. Shukri Ahmed gives dramatic figures on the consequences of the drought. He also illustrates FAO Response Plan 2016, underlining the need for urgent action and the importance of building resilience.

Крупное исследование Grand View Research, Inc. Observes, показало, что рынок органических продуктов питания и напитков будет расти ежегодно в среднем на 15.5 % в течение 2016-2020 годов. Общий объем рынка органических продуктов составит по прогнозам около $ 212 млрд. к 2020 году.

O Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), uma das seis instituições de pesquisa da Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, está lançando a publicação “Turismo Rural, Indicação Geográfica, Gastronomia e Sustentabilidade”. O turismo rural é hoje uma realidade nos espaços rurais do Brasil. A agricultura moderna do século...

To answer this question, I would like to recall Alexander Wezel’s definition of agroecology. Our French colleague defined it, first, as a science. This is obvious, since agroecology generates scientific knowledge in the strictest sense. However, agroecology, like many other hybrid disciplines (for example, political ecology, environmental history, and ecological...

تشكل الفلاحة العائلية النشاط الرئيسي في القرى والمداشر والتجمعات السكانية الثانوية بولاية سوق أهراس، انطلاقا من الجهة الغربية على مستوى أكبر سهول الولاية بكل من دائرة سدراتة ومداوروش إلى غاية الحدود المتاخمة لولاية أم البواقي، على مستوى بئر بوحوش وأم العظائم، وهي تعطي مردودا وفيرا من الحبوب الجافة والبقوليات على...

Почти 80% крайне бедных и голодающих людей проживают в сельской местности. Большинство из них — это семейные фермерские хозяйства, которые не могут произвести достаточное количество продуктов, чтобы избежать голода или крайней нищеты. В то же время такие хозяйства производят самую большую долю потребляемой пищи во всём мире: они являются «основными действующими лицами...

From our field visits to Ndian Town, Fabe, Meangwe II and Ikondo-Kondo resettlement, we witnessed and heard about the tactics and strategies used by oil palm companies. The devastating impacts that plantations have had in other countries are more or less reflected in this part of Cameroon. We witnessed how...

Soil loss in Ethiopia is an expensive problem, adding up to more than US$100 million every year. The country is locked in a cycle of land degradation and poverty, costing it not just money, but soil and crop harvests as well.

The first days of summer show Moldova at its best. Dramatic skies, seemingly endless rolling hills, fruit trees and field crops growing vigorously. The national palette contains every shade of green. On a recent road trip, photographer Dorin Goian captured these seasonal moments for the United Nations Food and Agriculture...

Eritrea is a hot desert strip along the red sea coast with its mountains rising into the central highlands. The western plains extend to the border with Sudan, a vast arid area that receives little rainfall. The IFAD and GEF supported Catchment and Landscape Management Project (CLMP) is working in...

People enjoy cashew nuts, whereas cashew apples are less valued. Leaving cashew apples on the land is an enormous loss of money. However, cashew apples can be processed into a nutritious juice which can be consumed throughout the year.

For the European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC), present at this meeting, this is the perfect opportunity for the European Union to finally acknowledge the true value of the invaluable expertise of sheep farmers in our countries, whether in polyculture farming in lowland areas or in more difficult mountain or island...

Georgia is one of the major centres of origin of the vine and wheat. Georgia natural genetic diversity is the foundation of folk selection through the creation of local, diverse and environmental conditions of adapted varieties, which the man is still proud of 

The establishment of REDD/ REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation programme), in 2010, as a key strategy to combat climate change, has been applauded by world leaders. In practice, REDD entails sinking carbon in standing stocks of trees, and raising new plantations, often on indigenous territories. From previous...