A Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) levantou indicadores ambientais e financeiros para quem pretende fazer a transição agroecológica. A pesquisa faz parte do projeto Transição Produtiva e Serviços Ambientais, que teve início em 2013, e é feita em conjunto com agricultores familiares e médios produtores dos quatro biomas brasileiros:...

This report presents the findings of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group (FG) on 'Agroforestry: Integrating woody crops into specialised crop and livestock systems'. Agroforestry, here defined as the practice of integrating woody vegetation with crops and/or livestock systems, is a historical approach to farming that is being re-discovered. Agroforestry practices have...

O Governo Federal lançou o Programa Nacional de Regularização Fundiária para solucionar o caos fundiário histórico no país e, principalmente, na região Amazônica. Entre as novas ações, a Lei n°13.465/17 contempla o Terra Legal, transformando a execução do programa em uma política permanente. Tal direcionamento pretende fortalecer a agricultura familiar na Amazônia Legal, já que...

Around the world, knowledge about ecological impacts of fishing, especially in the smallscalesector, is generally poor, impeding thus the implementation of an ecosystem approach tofisheries (EAF). The same condition exists in Thailand where fisheries sustainability is a majorconcern. As a first step towards EAF, we conducted a comprehensive literature review...

The FAO Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming has just concluded the first ever e-learning series on social protection and agriculture for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, aimed at continuing the sensitization and practical capacity development of governments in the region to effectively adopt social protection policies that...

The European Union (EU) is continuing to work strategically to achieve its commitments to help reduce the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7 million by 2025 and to allocate EUR 3.5 billion (2014–2020) to improve nutrition. Preliminary results for 2016 indicate a three-fold increase...

2nd Prize winner of ALiSEA and Luang Prabang Film Festival short film contest about Youth & Agroecology. What did you learn about the testimony of an organic farmer in Laos and his message to the younger generation...

Daqui a 15 dias, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) vai lançar a campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos 2017. Realizada entre março e outubro, a campanha vai valorizar a agricultora como protagonista do desenvolvimento sustentável no meio rural, mostrando a força e a importância da mulher do...

Social farming, or care farming as it is also called, defines short or long-term activities that use agricultural resources such as animals and plants to promote and generate social services in rural areas. Examples of these services include rehabilitation, therapy, sheltered employment, life-long education and other activities that contribute to...

El modelo de acumulación impulsado desde el Estado revitaliza la matriz primario exportadora, en la cual productos como el banano, cacao, flores o palma africana vienen a jugar un papel fundamental en la generación de empleo y de ingresos no petroleros para el país. Tal modelo vulnera nuestra soberanía y...

The specialisation and intensification of European farming systems increased productivity but also led to serious consequences on the environment. These consequences include water pollution due to an excess of manure and slurries in certain areas and high reliance on external mineral and feed inputs, loss of biodiversity and lower resilience...

Lançado o Concurso Vozes, Imagens, Histórias e Experiências das Mulheres Rurais, é tempo de ouvirmos nossas Marias Quarqué.  Com vocês, Kennya Silva, a trabalhadora rural de Xinguara (Pará) que inspirou-se em sua própria história de vida para escrever um poema que tem tudo para ser agraciado por esse concurso que vai...

The Landworkers Alliance is a grassroots union of farmers, growers and land-based workers from across the whole of the U.K. They are a member led organisation campaigning for the rights of small-scale producers and a better food system for everyone.

Water managers, farmers and those living in rural areas will relate how they are experiencing today the impacts of a drier, hotter and more extreme climate in the MENA region. Yet there is little published research and analysis of these changes and their impacts. In two recently completed projects, climate...

This short film is part of the short films that have been received in the framework of the short film contest organized by ALiSEA and the Luang Prabang Film festival about Youth & Agroecology. Agreencam is a project created by Khmer students to promote a greener agriculture in Cambodia through...

A importância do enfoque de gênero para a gestão de riscos de desastres ambientais e mudanças climáticas esteve em foco nas estratégias discutidas durante uma reunião técnica que aconteceu dias 22 e 23 de fevereiro, no escritório regional da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO)...

The Jangokoro Food Security Project was developed afer a 3-year no-funding phase. The project design process involved partcipatory methods that did not provide a strong baseline status of the various drivers and efects of livelihood insecurity. This baseline study was therefore conducted primarily to determine the baseline status for the...

Alimentar as crianças com peixe pode parecer uma tarefa difícil, mas o Projeto Inclusão do Pescado na Alimentação Escolar no Município de Itanhaém mostra que é possível e descomplicado. Além de melhorar a qualidade nutricional das crianças, através do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar (Pnae), o projeto contribui para a...

Aragon is an autonomous region located in northeastern Spain. It holds reservoirs and rivers of great interest for sports activities. Many of those reservoirs and rivers are in rural areas whose towns have suffered large depopulation processes, as their lands have been flooded to build reservoirs and activities such as...

Droughts in the Horn of Africa have been increasing in severity and frequency, and aggravated by desertification, land degradation and climate change. With multiple consecutive years of poor rains, dry spells and drought, including the El Niño-induced drought in 2015/16, there has been little to no recovery among affected households...