Gender inequality presents a significant barrier to increasing agricultural production and food security in Ethiopia. The lack of nationally representative sex-disaggregated data and analysis has hindered the development and implementation of evidence-based policies. This report aims to contribute to filling this gap by presenting a gender analysis of the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency’s Agricultural...

Este número de Enlace, correspondiente al periodo febrero-marzo de 2015, incluye: Realizan evento estatal del Programa de Producción de Maíz (Pepma) ciclo agrícola 2014 Realizan Feria de Agricultura Familiar y Campesina en México Clausura de la Asamblea General Ordinaria del CNA y entrega del Premio Nacional Agroalimentario 2014 AMSAC y CIMMYT colaboran para impulsar...

The Kerala State provides a different picture of the success of women in farming. Collective power of women groups, integration of local self governments and proactive credit schemes have enabled landless women to emerge as commercial organic farmers in Kerala. Women are now visible as major farmers in the State,...

Agroecologia da América Latina e Caribe, ocorrido em junho de 2015, em Brasília-DF, contou com a participação de gestores públicos, de acadêmicos e de representantes de organizações e movimentos sociais de 21 países da região.3 Os conteúdos-chave debatidos no seminário são apresentados na sequência por meio da reprodução de intervenções...

People who rely on natural resources for their livelihoods are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and are often limited in their capacity to adapt to the changes. Vulnerability to climate change is exacerbated when individuals’ asset base is limited or insecure. Because control over assets is highly...

Organised into a collective, 30-odd women farmers in a remote tribal hamlet in West Bengal have not only gained necessary skills on agriculture, but have also learned leadership qualities. Gradually, these women are discovering themselves as decision makers not only in their respective families, but also in their villages.

América Latina es la subregión que mayores avances ha hecho, logrando tanto la meta del Objetivo de Desarrollo del Milenio, al disminuir su prevalencia de subalimentación de 14.4% en 1990/92 a 5.1%% en 2012/14, como también la meta más ambiciosa de la Cumbre Mundial de la Alimentación (CMA) de 1996,...

Présentation de la "Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes du Congo" (CNOP – Congo), aboutissement d’un processus de structuration des OP du Congo, et composée des cadres de Concertations des Organisations Paysannes et Producteurs Agricoles. Elle se veut un espace où les organisations paysannes, les paysans et producteurs en zone rurale,...

A unique, Africa-led fund to improve agriculture and food security across the continent has become a reality. Officially launched in June 2013 with funding totaling over US $ 40 million from Equatorial Guinea, Angola and group of civil society organizations in the Republic of Congo.

Court article relatant l'annonce  faite à Brazzaville par le Représentant de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) au Congo,  Dieudonné Koguiyagda.    

Al menos 400 mujeres campesinas migrantes de áreas rurales de Bolivia producen alimentos ecológicos en áreas periurbanas para la nutrición de sus familias y el abastecimiento alimentario de miles de hogares en la ciudad de Sucre, como resultado de la cooperación técnica entre autoridades del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia y...

Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a...

The Global Dialogue, a two-day event held at FAO headquarters in October 2014, put the spotlight on the consensus reached on the importance of family farming in addressing a number of challenges, from eradicating hunger and poverty to achieving sustainable systems of food production and consumption. This publication synthesizes the...

La Comisión de Mujeres de la Articulación Nacional Campesina (ANC) aprovechó la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujeres Rurales para llamar la atención de las autoridades en el país sobre la situación de las mujeres dominicana, en especial de las mujeres del campo que se encuentra en desventajas e...

El Viceministro de Desarrollo Rural de Colombia, Juan Pablo Díaz Granados, en un Foro sobre “Asociatividad con Visión de Cadena”, señaló que uno de los objetivos en los que está trabajando el Ministerio es la creación de dos entidades: “una para la administración de tierras y otra para promover el desarrollo...

The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of...

Au Rwanda, il devient de plus en plus difficile de prévoir le temps, et les agriculteurs perdent environ 40 % de leur production. Des centres d’activité aident maintenant les agriculteurs à s’adapter aux effets du changement climatique. Ils y stockent leurs récoltes en toute sécurité pour les mettre ensuite sur...

Au Mali, la plupart des jeunes ruraux quittent leurs villages pour essayer de trouver du travail en ville. Les seuls qui restent sont les personnes âgées et les enfants, qui ont bien du mal à produire suffisamment pour se nourrir. Aujourd'hui, des jeunes comme Diallo Haroun reviennent pour un nouveau...

We often hear ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation processes described as time-consuming and bureaucratic, undertaken without adequate information, real representation, or time to discuss and report back. Too often they are carried out as a formality with no chance of influencing well established mechanisms of non-transparent decision-making. We will argue here that...

Este cuaderno de la Vía Campesina describe que "Como La Vía Campesina pensamos que en este momento de disputa por la agroecología, es importante compartir avances en nuestros procesos para identificar, documentar, sistematizar y compartir los éxitos de la agroecología campesina. Con este cuadernillo, ofrecemos una selección inicial, una primera...