O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores(as) propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com este segmento da população. O Programa visa o desenvolvimento de ações educativas que busquem a construção coletiva de estratégias para o enfrentamento da...

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores(as) propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com este segmento da população. O Programa visa o desenvolvimento de ações educativas que busquem a construção coletiva de estratégias para o enfrentamento da...

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa (NAFSN) launched in May 2012 under the auspices of the G8 aims to create the conditions that will allow the African countries concerned to improve agricultural productivity and develop their agrifood sector by attracting more private investment in agriculture. The...

La Delegación de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa) ejerce este año a través del Componente Agricultura Familiar, Periurbana y de Traspatio, seis millones 100 mil pesos para instalar mil 220 proyectos en apoyo a personas que viven en colonas marginadas, explicó el titular de...

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental elaborado especialmente para o público envolvido com a agricultura familiar1. Por meio do desenvolvimento de ações educativas, buscase a construção coletiva de estratégias para o enfrentamento da problemática socioambiental rural. Sua implementação se dá por meio do conjunto de instituições governamentais e...

Este material, además de compartir algunos elementos claves para comprender la propuesta de la soberanía alimentaria, sistematiza la visión y las experiencias que tienen sobre la soberanía alimentaria las organizaciones paraguayas que en la actualidad son integrantes y se encuentran activas en la Vía Campesina-Paraguay: la Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres...

In the past 50 years, around 5,2 million Colombian farmers have been displaced from their lands, and about 8 million hectares of farmland were taken from their owners due to Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The war and neoliberal policies caused suffering, especially for women farmers. In order to overcome this...

In Latin America and the Caribbean, domestic workers make up 18% of the female labour force. Migrating from rural areas to work in the city, many maintain both rural and urban identities. With strong connections to their family’s farm on one hand, and playing a key role in buying and...

A bocage is a balanced environment, created to combine trees, crops and livestock. The concept of a bocage perimeter is created to solve the problems associated with extensive agriculture (overgrazing, erosion, fires etc.). A bocage perimeter is the result of land consolidation at the request of owners of a site....

Más alla de la creciente cobertura de la protección social entre los más pobres en América Latina y el Caribe, ésta no ha logrado alcanzar a las y los trabajadores de la agricultura familiar y en el ámbito rural en general. Es en el marco de estos esfuerzos, la FAO...

Milk and dairy products are crucial for the daily food security and income generation of Afghan families, and women play an important role in the related activities. Since 2005, FAO is implementing the Integrated Dairy Schemes (IDS) Project, with financial support of the Afghan, German and Italian Governments and IFAD....

The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

Esta guía está dirigida a organizaciones sociales, con el fin de fortalecer prácticas de comunicación a lo interno. Lo anterior permitirá trabajar de mejor manera para transformar más ampliamente nuestras realidades. Esta propuesta puede servir también a las personas involucradas en la planificación de objetivos y tareas a realizar en...

This publication is about the work of FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and its decades-long struggle to eradicate hunger throughout the region. For more than 60 years RAP has cooperated with member countries to help them produce enough safe and nutritious food for people living in...

This paper explores aspects of promoting rural women’s leadership in producers’ organizations (POs). Despite the vast amount of work that women perform in the agriculture sector, their role remains largely unrecognized. The concerns and issues of women farmers are scarcely heard at the local, national and global levels. One reason...

This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions to achieve women’s economic empowerment in rural areas. The...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...