In order to face this development challenge, IFAD’s Livestock and Horticulture Development Project, focusing mainly on women (who are the main producers and managers of rice, vegetables and small ruminants) and the youth, aims to help small-scale rural producers to increase their incomes by improving the yield and quality of...

Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders;...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is stepping up support for the legal timber trade in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic with the official launch of two new projects that will strengthen the roles of civil society and the private sector in improving forest law enforcement,...

El Sello Manos Campesinas® es un sistema de acreditación que respalda atributos de productos y servicios generados por pequeños productores a lo largo de todo el territorio nacional. La sola presencia de este sello, asegura el cumplimiento de sus estándares, además de fomentar el desarrollo económico local de familias campesinas. El...

El libro sistematiza experiencias de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) en Colombia, productivas y de gestión, desarrolladas por FAO y otras instituciones, en múltiples proyectos de fortalecimiento de comunidades y organizaciones de agricultura familiar. Estos esfuerzos fueron dirigidos a promover la seguridad alimentaria, el autoconsumo, los medios de...

Continued armed conflict and related instability have inflicted enormous losses on the agricultural sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Yet, as the rest of the economy declines subsistence farming has taken on new importance. It could even become a driver of the local economy, according to a report released...

O processamento de produtos agropecuários para autoconsumo no âmbito das pequenas propriedades rurais é uma atividade tradicional, realizada pelos agricultores familiares. Certos processamentos podem ser feitos durante todo o ano, como é o caso da fabricação de queijo, enquanto outros ocorrem em épocas específicas, de acordo com a disponibilidade da...

The geographical isolation of islands makes them highly dependent on the resources available within their localities, especially fisheries resources. The right to fish, and to access fishery resources are prerequisite to the prosperity and very survival of such island communities.

Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity...

Esta publicación analiza la realidad actual y plantea las perspectivas a futuro de la Agricultura Familiar en Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay y Venezuela. En el documento se sugieren orientaciones para las acciones a desarrollar en los próximos años, al formularse e implementarse políticas enfocadas en los distintos...

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The livestock subsector has contributed little to the remarkable economic growth recorded in Ethiopia in the last decade. In an effort to stimulate livestock production, the Ethiopian government has recently recognized livestock as an important strategic subsector in which to invest. Unlike most studies that focus purely on aspects of...

Since the start of the FAO program in 2015 in Kenya, more than 26,000 farmers adopted conservation agriculture in the eight counties; 3,500 of them have now market linkages with contracts and are developing cottage industries.

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Conheça a história de Bruna Dariva, de Erechim, no Rio Grande do Sul, embaixadora da Região Sul da campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. Ela atua na fabricação de queijos e defende que é possível as mulheres assumirem a liderança da agroindústia, sem deixar de lado a produção de orgânicos. Se...

El Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP), constantemente desarrolla diversas actividades con el fin de aportar en la mejora de la actividad agropecuaria nacional basada en suelos sanos, una gestión eficaz del agua, el uso de semillas de alta calidad y de alto rendimiento, el manejo integrado de plagas y...

DPR Korea’s crop production for 2017, including staple rice, maize, potatoes and soybean, has been severely damaged by prolonged dry weather conditions, threatening food security for a large part of its population, according to a new FAO update prepared in collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.   Rainfall from April...

In the global moment of uncertainty we need to both guarantee our fisheries’ sustainability and the continuation of our specific cultural traditions and ways of fishing. Narratives of doom and gloom need to be met, addressed and learned from, but central to the survival of European small-scale fisheries will be...

What is the optimal size and composition of Rural Financial Cooperatives (RFCs)? With this broad question in mind, we characterize alternative formation of RFCs and their implications in improving the access of rural households to financial services, including savings, credit, and insurance services. We find that some features of RFCs...

In the framework of the project “Adapting small-scale irrigation to climate change in West and Central Africa”, farmers from Gambia talk about the devastating impacts of climate change on their farming activities and crops, leading to crop failure and food insecurity. They also describe the measures they adopted to build...