This promo video emphasizes Africa’s booming economies and determination to invest in its own potential; we also meet beneficiaries of projects funded by the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Uganda and see how their lives have been turned around. African leaders have pledged to end hunger...

Child labour hampers children’s education, and quite often has adverse effects on their health, safety and morals. However, not all tasks performed by children are considered child labour. Some activities may help children acquire important livelihood skills and contribute to their survival and food security. But much of the work...

In this book we focus mainly on innovation opportunities for small farmers, with a particular emphasis on marginalized small farm communities. The first chapter elaborates on the concept of the ‘small farm’ and offers a synthesis of the findings of all the chapters in this volume. The contributions have reconfirmed that...

Este documento registra un proceso de innovación, a partir de un colectivo de trabajo, donde participaron diversos grupos de productores de cerdos (con diversas lógicas productivas), técnicos de los sistemas de extensión e investigadores vinculados a la temática. La decisión de traducirlo en un Paso a Paso intenta situar la...

Presentación a través de la cual se realiza una revisión de la innovación para el DRS y como los mecanismos institucionales juegan un rol innovador para el desarrollo de la agricultura familiar.

In this video Nepalese farmers explain how they learned, after an FAO training course, to use bio-pesticides instead of the chemical ones.

El proyecto se origina como un proyecto de Extensión universitaria que se propone fortalecer la producción porcina para productores/productoras de la zona de influencia de la Facultad de Ciencias. Estos son fundamentalmente productores cuya organización es familiar. La creación con diversas instituciones como el Instituto Nacional de tecnología (INTA sede...

Two huge data analysis papers from CGIAR centres and assorted partners came out recently. As far as I can see, the work was done independently of each other, and the teams looked at distinct, though related, aspects of smallholder agriculture in Africa. But, intriguingly, the results pointed in the same...

The Polyculture Market Garden Study is one of the programs currently running at Balkan Ecology Project and is a multiyear study of a 0.5 acre (2000 m2) market garden growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nuts in polycultures. The project’s mission is to develop and promote practices that provide...

A Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária (CRA) aprovou, nesta quarta-feira (30), o projeto que cria a Política Nacional de Combate ao Desperdício e à Perda de Alimentos (PLS 738/2015). Entre as novidades estão o incentivo à realização de campanhas educativas e diretrizes para a doação de alimentos sem condições...

This educational video presents Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) through practical examples and theory. It is illustrated by 4 PGS initiatives: “Nature et Progres” in France, “Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia” in Brazil, “Bryanston Organic and Natural Market” in South Africa and “Sabeto Organic Producers Association” in Fiji. The video is structured...

Le Portail de la Sécurité Alimentaire pour l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara présente des informations actuelles sur l’agriculture, la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition en Afrique au Sud du Sahara, aussi bien que des informations sur les développements dynamiques dans le système alimentaire de la région. Il est facilité par...

Small and medium-sized enterprises are a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the EU. The European Commission considers SMEs and entrepreneurship as key to ensuring economic growth, innovation, job creation and social integration, writes Franc Bogovič.

Rocrops is a smallholder farm established in 1990 in Trinidad. It is owned and managed by the husband and wife Ramgopaul and Beena Roop. The Rocrops farm is comprised of 1.29 ha. (3ac) of former degraded and acidic (3.5pH) sugar cane lands. The development of the farm has emphasized a...

Cash-for-work interventions implemented by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization are providing an income lifeline to communities affected by the ongoing drought in northern Somalia. While putting much needed cash in people’s pockets to buy food, the work is empowering communities to rebuild vital infrastructure with their own hands. ...

Cette fiche présente un modèle de ruche à barrettes fabriqué par la Plateforme des Apiculteurs des Cataractes, en RDC. Vous y trouverez des schémas bien détaillés, des photos et conseils permettant à tous de se lancer dans des essais de fabrication de ce modèle de ruches à barrettes utilisées par...

Farmers’ organizations welcomed the plan of the Ministry of Agricultural and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) the Republic of Indonesia to create a Presidential Decree (Decree) of Agrarian Reform as part of the political promises contained in the Nawa Cita. Actually, we think this is a...

Después de un año de trabajo colaborativo entre el Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias de Ecuador (INIAP) y el Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), ambas instituciones concluyeron que Ecuador reúne las condiciones idóneas para abordar una estrategia nacional orientada al impulso de una agricultura más productiva...

How smallholders may contribute to food and nutrition security remains a key challenge in many developing countries. Despite being the main rural actors, smallholders are frequently the most food insecure, given an array of biophysical and socioeconomic challenges that were addressed during the workshop. These proceedings discuss the potential role...

A video about the management of open landscapes by extensive livestock farmers in the French Causses-Cévennes