A three-day technical meeting has come to a close for the Regional Conference for the Near East and North Africa (NERC32). During the conference, government ministers and senior officials from countries across the region reviewed the overall state of food and agriculture. They also discussed urgent issues facing countries, including...

Federal Minister Christian Schmidt visits a family farm.

Fishing is a human activity that has gone on for millennia. Nowadays, it remains one of the very few large scale economic activities that is still based on the ‘hunting and gathering’ of wild biological resources, contrary to agriculture or animal farming, where a few productive species and races were...

El Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural y la Organización para la Agricultura y la Alimentación de Naciones Unidas de Colombia quieren aportar a los cuidadores de familia y a los distribuidores de pescado colombianos este manual de elementos básicos para la compra, almacenamiento y preparación de pescado producido en...

lthough the role of agriculture in the national economy of Lebanon is declining in relative terms, it continues to play an important role in the rural economy and has a significant impact on rural livelihoods. In the areas most affected by the Syria crisis – northern Lebanon and the Bekaa...

Esta investigación trata sobre familias bolivianas migrantes que practican horticultura diversificada en localidades del Alto Valle del Río Negro. Los actores sociales que se estudian en esta investigación, desde hace dos décadas están protagonizando un proceso de uso de tierras rurales con fines y modalidades diferenciados a la producción frutícola...

Improving the situation of family farmers is a burning need. And as they produce an estimated 70% of the world’s food, it is an issue that affects us all. The 2014 International Year of Family Farming aimed to create a better understanding of family farming and support the development of...

The booming world fish trade is generating more wealth than ever before, but countries must help small-scale fishers and fish farmers to benefit too, FAO said today. Global fishery production from wild capture fisheries and aquaculture is expected to set a new record in 2013 at 160 million tonnes, up...

Groundnut is among the most important crops for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, providing both food and income for households. Groundnut is a nutritious source of fats, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals for human consumption and parts of the crop can be used for livestock feed. This study identified factors which...

The objective of the preparation and implementation of the Estonian Rural Development Plan (ERDP) for 2014–2020 is to support Estonian rural development in a manner that is complementary to other measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (for example, direct supports and market organisation measures), cohesion policy and the...

The study conducted in Southern Zambia investigated smallholder farmers’ use of indigenous knowledge to respond to rainfall variations and soil fertility problems. Farmer and key informant interviews and observations were employed to collect data. A total of 60 smallholder farmers and 6 key informants were interviewed. Chipepo lies in the...

El objetivo central de este libro es estudiar las características de la agricultura familiar en ocho países de América Latina y elaborar una tipología que permitiera comprender mejor la contribución de las actividades de este sector al conjunto de la economía rural. Se desarrollaron los elementos teóricos y la metodología...

I am a family farmer. I know my soil, my climate and how to make things grow, says Joan Brady. And as farmers, especially women and youth, we will deliver answers from our passions, our expertise and our resilience.

El evento buscó contribuir al acercamiento de actores y actoras sociales y políticas en Colombia, en El Salvador y en Guatemala en temas de gobernanza ambiental, transformación de conflictos y participación política de las mujeres. Los procesos de paz de El Salvador, Guatemala y de Colombia tienen diferencias y similitudes,...

Extended analyses and latest results of the Horticulture Network you find in the Horticulture Report 2014.

Se demostró que es viable una relación concreta entre la agricultura y la nutrición en la presentación de avances del proyecto IssAndes. El evento titulado “Agricultura, Nutrición y Seguridad Alimentaria: Un Enfoque Diferente” se llevó a cabo el 26 de noviembre a las 5:30pm en el Hotel Sol de Oro...

This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post-2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline is now close. Today, the post-2015 Development Agenda...

Field schools in Mali that have been training farmers on alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in reducing the use of toxic pesticides by participating cotton farmers in the country. These reductions are a staggering 92 percent, according to a new FAO study published today by the London-based Royal...

This issue highlights experiences of development approaches that are helping in the fight against poverty in rural areas. Reducing rural poverty is one of FAO’s strategic objectives for the coming years, to which the Dimitra project is making a special contribution. Innovative methodologies have been developed which seek to place...

USAID program for helping Tajik Family Farmers to manage the water scarcity