FAO’s water and income diversification projects have become instrumental to tackle the negative impacts of El Niño induced drought for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Afar Region of north eastern Ethiopia. FAO supports the Afar regional government’s effort to improve the livelihood of pastoral and semi-pastoral households through animal...

Ten Farmers from Liberia are currently in The Gambia for a 6-day exchange visit of smallholders and community-based forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) on multi-stakeholder policy platforms, on community forest management.

La production agricole de la province du Katanga est en baisse et ne permet pas de subvenir aux besoins alimentaires de sa population de 9,6 Millions d'habitants (2009) dont 70,2% vivent en milieu rural. Les besoins en maïs pour satisfaire la demande sont estimés à 860 633 tonnes (plan quinquennal...

Farm Mechanization and Conservation Agriculture: Illustrating the use of two wheel tractor in smallholder farming

With the intensification of the crisis, food insecurity and poverty have drastically increased across all of Syria. At the same time, the crisis continues to affect the national economic and social balance in countries neighbouring Syria. The massive influx of refugees is exerting unprecedented pressure on host countries and communities, which...

De poco vale poseer grandes conocimientos técnicos si no poseemos habilidades para relacionarnos con nuestros destinatarios. Las personas buscan agruparse para producir cambios que mejoren su calidad de vida. El rol del coordinador es ayudar a que cada uno encuentre la manera de hacerlo. Para eso hay que poner mucho empeño...

El evento tiene por objetivo general generar un espacio de discusión y acuerdos que contribuya al establecimiento, promoción y difusión de políticas y mecanismos institucionales para el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de innovación ligados a la agricultura familiar, bajo un marco de acción de desarrollo sostenible, tanto a nivel nacional...

The 33rd session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) will convene in Putrajaya, Malaysia, from 7 to 11 March 2016, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture & Agro-Based Industry, Malaysia. The conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges in the region and priority areas of...

Mechanization covers all levels of farming and processing technologies, from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated and motorized equipment. It eases and reduces hard labour, relieves labour shortages, improves productivity and timeliness of agricultural operations, improves the efficient use of resources, enhances market access and contributes to mitigating...

América Latina y el Caribe constituye un amplio muestrario de casos exitosos y lecciones aprendidas en tal sentido, y es que ha sabido introducir una visión integradora en su determinación por concebir a la agricultura familiar como un ente transformador y no como un sujeto de beneficencia. En los últimos años...

The co-creation of knowledge about agricultural biodiversity is an essential part of peasant strategies for survival and autonomy. Facing the threats of the industrial model of production and consumption, peasants and social movements are defending agroecology and their dynamic management of agricultural biodiversity. Together with others, they are building collective...

After centuries of deforestation and degradation, during the last 200 years Europe's forests have been recovering to cover some 40 per cent of the EU today. They are currently getting growing attention as a provider of wood for the bioeconomy and for energy generation. But they offer many more services...

In the last 60 years, the livelihoods of agro-pastoral and pastoral families in the arid and semi-arid zones in North Africa and the Middle East have undergone major changes caused by significant incentives to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and the increasing intensity of drought events. Such changes have also been...

Over a period of 5 months, the Food Heritage Foundation (FHF) team worked on rehabilitating and equipping the foundation’s kitchen at Zico House – Spears, partnering with small producers in rural areas in order to secure a regular supply of high-quality raw ingredients to the kitchen and contacting women cooks...

Agriculture is an engine of growth for rural communities, particularly in the developing world. It has also proven to be an especially viable tool for women to lift themselves out of poverty. Women in developing countries rely heavily on the income they earn from agriculture-related activities to provide for their...

The goal of the WFAL 2016 is to organise a world forum in 2016 to address the major issues linked to unequal access to land, natural resources. Ten years after the World Forum on Agrarian Reforms (Valencia, Spain, 2004) and the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (Porto Alegre,...

CEBU, Philippines - Small food producers in the Philippines will soon take advantage of the over 600 million consumers in the ASEAN region, as the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is currently crafting a program in coordination with key agencies to allow producers...

L’année 2014, retenue par les organisations internationales comme année de l’agriculture familiale, a été l’occasion pour plusieurs équipes françaises de recherche engagées sur ce thème de livrer une synthèse de leurs travaux et de réfléchir sur leur contribution à la compréhension, l’évaluation, la gouvernance de cette forme d’organisation agraire considérée,...

This first issue of The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries is a comprehensive review of the status and trends of fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It includes eight chapters, separated in two parts: a first part on the status and trends of Mediterranean and Black Sea...

The EU livestock sector - especially pigs dairy, cattle, sheep & goats, poultry & eggs - is being hit by increasing challenges ranging from upcoming climate change policy, health issues, animal welfare constraints, trade issues, with a decline in EU meat consumption expected by 2025. Yet eating beef, veal, lamb,...