El importante papel económico y social que desempeña la agricultura en la mayoría de países de la región de América Latina y Caribe y la alta concentración de vulnerabilidad en áreas rurales hacen que, según el IPCC1 , la producción de alimentos constituya uno de los riesgos identificados para la...

Millions of small-scale farmers and foresters will be able to better protect their lands from the impacts of climate change, and improve their livelihoods thanks to renewed global efforts announced today on the side-lines of World Forest Week (COFO24). The Forest and Farm Facility initiative - a partnership among FAO, IIED,...

More than 12 million small-scale farmers and their families in the risk-prone, dryland areas of the Western Sahel have become chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This growing crisis is due to a constellation of factors, including the collapse of soil fertility and climate change. Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6)...

This video describes the Integrated Country Approach, an FAO’s youth project in Uganda which provides strategic technical support to government of Uganda in developing youth inclusive National Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment in Agriculture. The project also supports evidence generation, dialogues and training. Through capacity building, the ability of...

Topic 9 focuses on the many delicious, nutritious and potentially profitable food products can be prepared from orange‐fleshed sweetpotato. The use of sweetpotato as animal feed is also discussed.

Governments and other stakeholders must place sustainable and productive agriculture front and centre in their attempts to reduce the impact of disasters and climate-related shocks in the world’s most disaster-prone region.

Ce numéro de la revue AGRIDAPE fait un focus sur des expériences qui rentrent dans le cadre général d’une stratégie locale d’adaptation aux changements climatiques s’appuyant sur les ressources du milieu naturel, en lieu et place d’un recours abusif à des intrants externes qui pourraient être nuisibles à l’environnement. Les contributeurs...

Farm Hack is a community-led approach to the development, modification and sharing of designs for farm tools, machinery and other innovations. It emphasizes a farmer-to-farmer approach to learning and creates platforms for farmers to come together to ‘hack’ and apply their collective ingenuity in the development of technologies appropriate for...

“Enhanced Rural Resilience in Yemen (ERRY)” Programme aims at enhancing the resilience and self-reliance of crisis-affected rural communities through support to livelihoods stabilization, food security, local governance, social cohesion and improved access to sustainable energy.

Marketing and entrepreneurship focuses on the concepts of marketing, market orientation, entrepreneurship, and the 5 pillars of marketing (product, price, place, promotion and people) are discussed in relation to fresh sweetpotato roots and sweetpotato products.  

La enseñanza experimental de las ciencias naturales es una actividad compleja que requiere de la utilización de distintos tipos de conocimientos relacionados con la propia ciencia y sus metodologías. En el laboratorio se aprende haciendo, dado que se logra interrelacionar la teoría con la práctica. Las actividades de laboratorio estimulan...

Discarding food appropriate for human consumption is a waste of resources that negatively impacts the climate and the environment. Yet, there is a set of proven solutions that could help tackle food waste – provided that all actors in the food supply chain are ready to get involved and that...

The ongoing and prolonged drought situation in several EU countries is affecting the production of arable crops and animal feed, which could have an impact on farmer income, increase their input costs and potentially give rise to an animal welfare issues, if there is a shortage of fodder later in...

This is the story of Ms Bouchan Huengvilay, a PGS-organic farmer in Lao PDR. She is part of one of the PGS groups formed and supported under the FAO Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) on "Small-scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Development through Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS)".

SEWA, AFA member and MTCP2 national implementing agency in India, conducted SRI training for women farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India. Two of the participants applied what they learned from the training despite the risks, and their efforts paid off when the yield of their paddy fields increased from their usual...

El cacao es uno de los principales commodities comercializados en el mundo para la producción de alimentos, bebidas y otros productos. En América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) posee una histórica trayectoria vinculada a millones de productores y es clave para la seguridad alimentaria. La capacidad de ALC para abastecer...

The soils cultivated with andean blackberry in Colombia are fertilized without considering the species nutritionals requirements. Fertilization is carried out without certainty of when applications are required depending of the phenological stage of the established crops. The aim of this study was to estimate the reference values of foliar concentration...

Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss,...

Young farmers in a number of EU countries have been severely affected by the dry weather conditions this spring and summer. In this press release from 30 August and following a CEJA working group during which delegates discussed the drought situation, CEJA urges the European Commission and national governments to...

En América Latina y el Caribe, el cultivo de algodón se remonta a hace más de 5 mil años y representa un legado cultural y económico muy importante: el 80% de las unidades productivas algodoneras son de la agricultura familiar. Las mujeres rurales dedicadas al algodón participan en todos los eslabones...