The Republic of Yemen is one of the driest, poorest and least developed countries in the world. Poverty and food insecurity are strongly linked with the depletion and degradation of land and water resources and it is one of the most water-stressed countries in the world. IFAD’s goal in Yemen...

The FAO project “Enhancing Rural Communication Services for Agricultural Development through Community Rural Radio” encouraged the participation of agricultural stakeholders in Bangladesh at the national, upazila and village level and spearheaded the establishment of Krishi Radio, the first community rural radio of the country. The project used the principles of Communication for Development and the Participatory Rural...

The study analyses the structure and economic performance of small-scale coastal fisheries (SSF) in Europe. Eighteen main clusters within SSF are identified and their distribution by NUTS-2 region is presented. The contribution of SSF in terms of income and employment to the economies of the NUTS-2 regions is also assessed....

Conservation Agriculture (CA) is increasingly promoted in Africa as an alternative for coping with the need to increase food production on the basis of more sustainable farming practices. CA is specifically seen as a way to address the problems of soil degradation resulting from agricultural practices that deplete the organic...

“La Juntada”, una publicación que se propone recopilar desde la experiencia misma, el relato de una historia que recién comienza a escribirse y pretende potenciar el desarrollo de nuevas propuestas de trabajo conjunto entre distintos organismos nacionales, en gestión asociada con las organizaciones del campo popular. Deseamos que este trabajo...

Le présent document présente le Programme national du secteur rural (PNSR) du Burkina Faso pour la période 2011-2015. Le PNSR est le cadre d’opérationnalisation de la Stratégie de développement rural (SDR) et ainsi du volet développement rural de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée et de développement durable (SCADD) pour la...

A global shift towards an agriculture that builds up organic matter in the soil would also put us on a path to removing some of the other major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.

Une étude typologique de l’élevage pastoral des petits ruminants dans les régions arides tunisiennes a permis d’illustrer les impacts des mutations socio économiques sur les structures et le fonctionnement technique du secteur. Les données issues de 180 enquêtes auprès des troupeaux de 4 gouvernorats du sud ont été analysées par...

El informe técnico “La quinua, cultivo milenario para contribuir a la seguridad alimentaria mundial” elaborado por PROINPA hace una recopilación actualizada y detallada sobre las bondades nutritivas, la versatilidad agronómica y la expansión del cultivo a otros continentes, mostrando que la quinua es un cultivo con alto potencial para contribuir...

Thanks to FAO efforts under the EU Food Facility, 138 Agricultural Business Centres have been established in Sierra Leone. This second video of a three-part series takes a close look at these one-stop shops providing small holder farmers with access to training, tools, labour-saving equipment and machinery, which will increase...

This video features the story of an agricultural worker from Sikkim (India) who participated in the From Farmer to Planner and Back workshop held in Rome. It documents her experience with gender-responsive participatory planning for small-scale livestock development.

El Plan Nacional de Comunicación para el Desarrollo de Bolivia nació el año 2007 como una iniciativa conjunta del Ministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Tierras del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (MDRyT) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), a través del proyecto Iniciativa...

On the Caribbean island of St Lucia, FAO’s farmer field school project has been helping communities grow healthy crops and develop beat off pests for a decade. The programme has been credited with helping local farmer reduce their reliance on pesticides.

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Este libro es el resultado de un esfuerzo colectivo de muchas mujeres de diversos lugares de América Latina, que desde sus distintas experiencias y capacidades han aportado para que el día de hoy usted tenga en sus manos un documento peculiar. Peculiar porque es la acumulación de reflexiones, aportes, visitas, discusiones...

Climate change and severe weather events such as temperature shocks and declining rainfall often strongly impede sustainable farming development, especially where agriculture is rain fed and when other external shocks such as poverty, poor access to inputs and credit are common. This is the context in which small scale farmers...

Maldives became a member of FAO in 1971 and was accredited to the FAO Representative’s office in Sri Lanka in 1979. The economy of Maldives has grown rapidly since 1975, making impressive socio-economic progress when measured by improvements in socio-economic indicators and poverty reduction. The government has played a central...

Small-scale coffee and tea production used to contribute considerably to household income of more than 6000 smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, including Mr. Duri up to the late 1990s. Since the year 2000 when Zimbabwe embarked on an unplanned land reform programme, the resulting economic instability brought the tea and coffee...

The purpose of this policy note is to contribute to an understanding of the factors that combine to constrain the development of smallholder agriculture in Swaziland. It seeks to shed light on why, despite being well-endowed in land and water resources, and despite having a climate that is generally favorable...

Worldwide, women make high contributions to household and national food security. This video explores the critical role played by women in agricultural production in Africa.