Vegetable growing - specialization of family farms in Stolin district of Belarus.  About 5,000 family farms grow vegetables in the Stolin district (about 50% of family farms) in Belarus Agricultural lands in family farms – 500 ha of greenhouses and 3000 ha of open fields Family farms are very small –greenhouses...

Le présent rapport rend compte de cette semaine des AF, en combinant le regard des organisateurs, et le regard libre de deux grands témoins invités. Après une première partie revenant brièvement sur le concept de l’agriculture familiale et sur ses dynamiques à Madagascar et dans le monde, il résume, dans...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

The Earl Quaak Farm has been in the family for three generations. It was purchased and re-organised by the Grandparents of the current managers of the farm after the Second World War. The legal structure of the holding is three-part. The land is held within a ‘Société Agricole à Responsabilité...

Dans le cadre de la diversification des cultures visant à promouvoir une agriculture et une consommation durables, le fonio, céréale à petits grains, cultivée et consommée dans la région sub-sahélienne d'Afrique de l'Ouest, du Sénégal au lac Tchad, est prometteuse. La culture du fonio est le plus souvent limitée aux champs...

This chapter explores the sustainable-livelihoods framework to conceptualize the capacity needs of resilience-focused extension and advisory services. It indicates where to move the policy and research agenda forward with regard to the role of extension and advisory services in building resilience.

IFAD and the International Centre for Rural Development, (IDRC) joined hands to use networking to improve the performance of their agriculture and rural development projects in a programme called the Knowledge Access in Rural Interconnected Areas Network, or KariaNet. The KariaNet approach, including collaborative research and capacity building, takes a page from...

Le présent document porte sur le compostage à la ferme

La Metodología LINK se gestó como parte del Proyecto de Nuevos Modelos Empresariales para las Relaciones de Comercio Sostenible, dirigido por el Sustainable Food Lab, en colaboración con CRS, el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), el IIED y Rainforest Alliance. Dicho proyecto fue apoyado por una subvención de la...

More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding agro-biodiversity, and sustaining communities and cultures. However, family farming faces numerous challenges including insecure land rights, and limited access to...

The Statistical Yearbook of Food, Agriculture and Forestry is an extensive database for an overview about the agricultural sector. Reliable and well-founded data and facts are extremely valuable for business, society, scientific research and politics. They reflect the prevailing conditions and underlying developments, thereby providing an indispensable bedrock for economic...

When focussing on indicators used in different agri-environmental indicator frameworks we can conclude that there is no EU wide indicator for ecologically valuable grassland available. However, there are several indicators that do have a strong link as they include (among others) EVG areas or are based on species monitoring data...

A fines del año 2012, la Coordinación General de Redes Comerciales del Ministerio ecuatoriano de agricultura, solicitó AVSF para la realización de un estudio sobre sellos de calidad en Ecuador para la agricultura familiar campesina, con énfasis en los sistemas participativos de garantía. La presente publicación recoge los principales hallazgos...

The Market Access and Growth Intensification Project will operate in the six dzongkhags (districts) of the eastern region, where some 30 per cent of the population of the country lives. The overall goal of the project is to reduce poverty and improve food security and the standards of living of...

UCAR - MAGyP: Este video corresponde a la serie "Mujeres Rurales" que se emite por la TV Pública: mujeres que trabajan, producen, deciden y sostienen.

Se informan los principales resultados obtenidos en el Instituto de Ciencia Animal, desde su fundación hasta 2014, en investigaciones acerca de la utilización de recursos locales destinados a la alimentación porcina. Se refieren los avances logrados en el empleo de la caña de azúcar y sus derivados, productos obtenidos por vía...

Esta ficha presenta las etapas y los primeros resultados de una cooperación implementada por AVSF en Ecuador en apoyo a gobiernos locales, ONGs y organizaciones campesinas del Austro ecuatoriano. Desde hace quince años, estos actores decidieron por una parte, promover juntos una agricultura más sostenible, basada en prácticas de agroecología y, por...

A Vegetable Garden for All is a self-instruction manual in family horticultural production, prepared originally by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, in support of the Technical Cooperation Network for Food Production.The objective of this manual is to present...

Jujube is a unique fruit species native to China. Located in the Jinshaan Canyon at the middle reach of the Yellow River, the Jia Count is recognized as the place with the longest history of jujube cultivation. It boasts a large over-one-thousand-year-old jujube community. The community presents the whole domestication...

Agriculture plays an important role in the economics of Belarus with 7.9 % of GDP and 8.1 % of population employed in agricultural sector (Agriculture of Republic of Belarus, 2013). Intensive agricultural production is the major direction of agriculture development in Belarus. It demands significant subsides and provides negative consequences...