Georgia has all of the ideal conditions for dairy farming. And demand for milk, cheese and other dairy products – many of which are produced only here – continues to grow. Recognizing that potential, FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have been supporting Georgian commercial dairy farmers...

The North American CSA community, taking a clue from the rapid growth of CSAs in new areas of the world (France, UK, all of Europe, China), is proposing the adoption of a CSA Charter that provides a definition of what CSA is all about. Together, regional networks and independent CSAs will launch...

Las producciones agropecuarias familiares en Argentina siguen asumiendo un rol preponderante como proveedoras de alimentos en la economía nacional. En este sentido, se destaca la producción porcina que, según datos del SENASA (2016), el 96% de los productores porcinos tiene menos de 50 madres a nivel nacional. Esta situación se...

To complement the skills development process, a tailor–made guide material on how best to facilitate learning was developed. The said guide material is actually this manual which is a product of an initially tested training design (run in May 2013) and enriched with feedback from the training management team and...

La Campaña se enmarca en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y se basa en las reflexiones de Ia Conferencia de la Mujer Rural en América Latina y el Caribe (Brasilia, 2014) y la XIII Conferencia Regional de la Mujer (Montevideo, 2016), así como en la experiencia de dos campañas...

More than a thousand smallholder farmers from predominantly tribal Sundargarh district have been supported to adopt or extend locally appropriate, low-cost, sustainable farming practices to improve food and nutritional security and increase income.  The Centre for Integrated Rural and Tribal Development (CIRTD), a long term partner of ActionAid India in Sundargarh...

This guide aims to clarify the role of co-operation activities under LEADER in the rural development programmes 2014-2020. This guide should be regarded as an indicative reference document and does not create any new legislative rules. In any event, interpretation of Community law is ultimately the role of the European...

Está aberto o edital de seleção pública nº 2017/030 Ecoforte Redes, que tem como objetivo a seleção e o apoio a projetos territoriais de redes de agroecologia, extrativismo e produção orgânica, voltados à intensificação das práticas de manejo sustentável de produtos da sociobiodiversidade e de sistemas produtivos orgânicos e de...

A Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) declarou 2017 como o Ano Internacional do Turismo Sustentável para o Desenvolvimento. Segundo a instituição, será uma ótima oportunidade para promover o papel do turismo no crescimento econômico, inclusivo e sustentável e na defesa dos valores culturais. Da parte que nos cabe, é fácil...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ethiopian Ministry for Livestock and Fishery to hold the first Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 (ASL2050) Technical Consultation on the 21st and 23rd of February 2017 and the ASL2050...

Agriculture in Senegal is predominantly rain-fed and so erratic weather patterns present an everincreasing risk to smallholder farmers across the country. Late onset of rain can lead to a reduced growing season; unexpected torrential rain and flash-flooding can lead to farmers losing scarce resources of seed, other farm inputs and...

The socio-economic value of the role of small family farmers in developing countries is a long debated issue. Conventional thinking, points at the social role of small farmers mainly as absorbers of excess labor in rural areas and suppliers of food. In economic terms the relative production efficiency advantage, is...

For farmers’ organization (FOs) in India, one of the key areas of emphasis in the recent years has been the use of technology by grassroots women to increase efficiency and cost effectiveness of last mile operations and to improve delivery.

A identificação será efetivada a partir de uma alteração na Portaria Nº 7, de 13 de janeiro de 2012, por meio da Subsecretaria de Agricultura Familiar (SAF), vinculada a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead). A novidade permitirá que produtos feitos por mulheres rurais tenham uma...

Esta publicación es parte de una serie de estudios que tiene como objetivo identificar, sistematizar y difundir las prácticas y conocimientos pertinentes a la agricultura familiar del sector algodonero en América Latina y el Caribe. Su objetivo es componer un conjunto de contribuciones técnicas y didácticas que valoran y dan...

Movilizar los sectores productivos y ambientales, y potenciar el diálogo intersectorial, es fundamental para cumplir las metas de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), sostuvieron los países de la región reunidos en la 30ª reunión de la Comisión Forestal para América Latina y el Caribe (COFLAC), realizada en Honduras, del 25...

In its final newsletter of 2016, FAO-Rwanda shares valuable updates and inspiring success stories from our One UN nutrition project to reduce stunting and our Rural Women's Economic Empowerment project. This issue also includes highlights from World Food Day and information on the emergency relief work FAO is supporting to...

Agricultores quilombolas estão utilizando a internet para comercializar a produção, gerar renda, incentivar o protagonismo dos trabalhadores rurais nos meios digitais e dar visibilidade às tradições de 15 comunidades remanescentes de quilombolas do Norte e do Noroeste do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Através do site da Rede Produtiva Quilombola eles fecharam contratos...

13 February 2017, Dubai/Rome - Failure to act now to make our food systems more resilient to climate change will "seriously compromise" food production in many regions and could doom to failure international efforts to end hunger and extreme poverty by 2030, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva warned today. "Agriculture...

Smallholder farmers in Gambia are increasingly facing climate related induced disasters and vulnerabilities affecting their lives and livelihoods. During 2010-2012, farmers faced flash floods, periods of drought, disease infestation, saline intrusion, deforestation and massive erosion of their farmlands resulting in crop failure and reduced food security. ActionAid has introduced agroecological...