This community-friendly animation video explains the concepts and mechanisms of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) through a story of interaction between indigenous peoples and people requesting their consent for new development. Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a core principle of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous...

This publication, Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability, demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts.The work presented in this volume stems from the conference on...

YAAY busca posicionarse como una marca de objetos artesanales, contemporáneos y accesibles comercialmente y desarrolla colecciones de productos como accesorios u objetos utilitarios y trabaja bajo pedido de acuerdo a la necesidad de los clientes. Para este fin el área de desarrollo de marcas comunitarias trabaja con grupos de mujeres artesanas ayudándoles...

A number of partners, including UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, the GEF Small Grants Programme, the Government of Norway, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and the ICCA Consortium, worked closely to develop this toolkit for governing and managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). The purpose of the toolkit...

In surveys conducted by the Organisation for Rural Development (ORUDE) from 2010 - 2012, maize stood out as the second most important food and cash crop in Busoga after sweet potatoes. Due to climate change, farmers desired to have drought-tolerant seed varieties, However, lack of formalized maize seed supply systems...

The UN-REDD Programme recently launched the UN-REDD Programme Guidelines on Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the associated Legal Companion, which outlines related existing international law and emerging State practice affirming that indigenous peoples have the right to effective participation in the decisions, policies and initiatives that affect them...

De manera creciente, en varios sectores políticos y académicos, la agricultura  familiar  está  siendo  considerada como «parte de la solución». ¿Solución de qué? De todo: de la inseguridad alimentaria (de la falta de soberanía alimentaria); de la crisis energética; de la mala relación con la naturaleza; de la persistencia de...

Ankole Longhorn cattle can survive in extremely harsh, dry conditions such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa – which is becoming drier and hotter. In a context where herders are strongly encouraged to keep exotic and hybrid cattle, the innovative LIFE approach led Ugandan herders to revalue the Longhorns for their...

The countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in the First Senior Officials Meeting on Family Farming, on 5th and 6th November 2013, in Brasilia.

El Plan Nacional Indígena Originario de Comunicación que se desarrolla desde 1996/97 en Bolivia por impulso de las Confederaciones Nacionales Indígenas Originarias Campesinas, ha dado lugar en un proceso progresivo a la estucturación de un Sistema Plurinacional de Comunicación Indígena Originario Campesino Intercultural. En mas de 12 años se ha...

The FAO Governance of Tenure Technical Guides are part of FAO’s initiative to help develop capacities to improve tenure governance and thereby assist countries in applying the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security. The FAO Governance...

The FAO-Finland Programme is supporting Tanzania in its efforts towards developing and implementing national efforts on integrated fire management as a key factor to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. All stakeholders1 see the fire situation in Tanzania as complex, difficult, widespread and of significant concern. The detail of the fire...

In this book you will find an inspiring array of methods, processes and activities that can mobilize leaders and their communities. The book will assist them in understanding their ecosystems and, whenever and however possible, using their local food to experience the benefits it gives to cultural expression, food security...

El presente trabajo tiene el modesto propósito de mostrar la situación de los derechos territoriales (de propiedad y posesión colectivos) de los pueblos indígenas sobre sus tierras, considerando el marco jurídico que ha ido evolucionando desde la entrada en vigencia de la Constitución de la República, pasando por la adhesión...

El Distrito de Riego del Triángulo del Tolima (DRTT) se constituye en el nuevo marco de potencialidades y retos para la agricultura en el Sur del Tolima. Este proyecto de irrigación en gran escala del Ministerio de Agricultura está siendo construido entre los municipios de Natagaima, Coyaima y Purificación, zona...

The Art of Dar combines the highest quality Transylvanian foods and crafts. It has successfully used a news story, provoking media interest, to raise the profile of Transylvanian products in general and it was created as an innovative way of found raising.  The product line was launched at the SIAL global...

Some may view indigenous communities as being conservative and backwards. However, the Kabekwa in Costa Rica show that such communities can be adaptable and innovative. In response to changing circumstances, this community has been adapting its farming practices constantly, benefiting from it in multiple ways.

El presente trabajo tematiza la expansión del monocultivo de la caña de azúcar en las tierras bajas del litoral pacífico de Suchitepéquez en territorios ancestralmente tz’utujiles, que incluyen el altiplano de Sololá. Para poder enfatizar en la territorialidad maya tz’utujil frente a las actividades agro-extractivas cañeras, la investigación da cuenta...

Garden cultivation of Xuanhua milk grapes, with a long history of 1,300 years of cultivation in the local area, and which mainly includes the traditional technology of funnel frames and polyclonal hole-planting methods, has extremely important historical value and cultural connotations. The plantations are mainly distributed in Guanhou village, Penyao...

Este número de Mundos Rurales incluye artículos sobre: A 60 años de la Reforma Agraria en Bolivia: cambio y continuidad. Situación de las mujeres y los jóvenes en el acceso a la tierra en altiplano y valles. El agrarismo y el territorio indígena. Mujeres: tierra, educación y participación política. Reforma agraria y la reconfiguración de...