More than 55 percent of adults in Europe and Central Asia are overweight or obese. Millions are anaemic, or suffer from iodine, zinc and Vitamin A deficiencies. In children, malnourishment persists at alarming rates in many countries, leading to stunted growth and other problems. An FAO paper published in advance of...

No steps for the identification and mapping of HNV farming have so far been taken in B&H. Nevertheless Type 1 HNV farmland would be expected to predominate. The county is characterised by very different soil and climate conditions, thus there are many different types of grassland. According to the literature...

La actual sequía –extensa, prolongada y cálida- ha tenido impactos perjudiciales a lo largo de Chile central, pero ofrece una lección reveladora para enfrentar el clima futuro, más cálido y seco, e incrementar nuestra resiliencia frente a las fluctuaciones climáticas naturales y antrópicas.

Fundación Heifer Ecuador es una Organización No Gubernamental ecuatoriana de desarrollo rural, sin fines de lucro, vinculada a Heifer International. En Ecuador, Heifer Internacional tiene una presencia desde 1954 y desde 1993 está presente como Fundación Heifer Ecuador. La organización fue reconocida legalmente en Ecuador, desde el 08 de julio de...

Family farming employs over 40% of the global working population and produces 80% of the global food supply. But what exaclty is family farming and under which conditions can family farmers meet the challenges of tomorrow? Forty young agronomists explored these questions throughout this 52 minute long documentary where they...

This article resumes the meeting of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and family smallholders during the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban this week, and their voice was heard. Representing many millions of those who live in and live off the forest, they shared their views at a weekend-long pre-Congress meeting,...

El principal conductor del MUCECH, el líder mapuche, Manuel Llao, recuerda que hace mucho tiempo  su pueblo, viene llamando la atención reiteradamente ante las autoridades políticas sobre la necesidad de tener una  visión estratégica de largo alcance para proteger los recursos naturales que producen el alimento de los chilenos. Después...

20,000 families in 13 districts of Uganda are now imagining their lives differently. . By creating a shared vision, husbands and wives are not only finding ways to break out of their poverty, but they are discovering the value of equality in their homes.

Purchase from Africans for Africa (PAA Africa) – a pilot project inspired by the Brazilian learning on institutional food procurement – recently released a report on the lessons learned from the first phase of implementation. This report details the joint efforts in five countries to increase smallholder farmers’ access to...

En este documento se discute acerca de la alta variabilidad del clima que ha caracterizado a los ecosistemas de montaña incluso antes de que surgiera la preocupación por el cambio climático. Las culturas indígenas de los Andes y América Central han vivido en estos entornos impredecibles durante siglos, por lo...

Las Mesas Técnicas Agroclimáticas (MTA) son una innovadora iniciativa que busca integrar actores del sector agropecuario a nivel local para informar, especialmente a los pequeños productores, sobre los cambios esperados en el clima de su región; cómo estos pueden afectar sus cultivos y qué pueden hacer para reducir los impactos...

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

PRISMA (Programa Salvadoreño de Investigación sobre Desarrollo y Medio Ambiente) es un centro no gubernamental sin fines de lucro de investigación, interlocución e incidencia regional. Fundación PRISMA lleva a cabo investigaciones, realiza publicaciones y  promueve diálogos sobre políticas públicas. PRISMA está comprometida a crear espacios de diálogo entre diferentes actores y...

La manifestation "Innover pour améliorer les performances de l'irrigation", organisée par l'Association Française pour l'Eau, l'Irrigation et le Drainage (AFEID) sous l'égide de la Commission Internationale des Irrigations et du Drainage (CIID) est la rencontre de plusieurs évènements mobilisant les acteurs mondiaux de l'irrigation dans leur grande diversité, pour faire de Montpellier, le temps...

Agriculture is at the heart of our lives. Much of what we consume and use every day comes originally from a farm, whether it be our milk, bread, meat, vegetables, wine, cut flowers or, indeed, the clothes that we wear. Farmers play a unique role. They produce high-quality, safe agricultural...

In Africa, most development strategies include efforts to improve the productivity of staple crops grown on smallholder farms. An underlying premise is that small farms are productive in the African context and that smallholders do not forgo economies of scale—a premise supported by the often observed phenomenon that staple cereal...

“Eating is an agricultural act” as the American novelist, farmer and poet Wendell Berry stated in his 1989 essay ‘On the pleasures of eating’. But what does this actually mean? According to Berry: “Most people think of food as an agricultural product, but they do not think of themselves as...

The Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics statistical book provides a selection of topical data. Information is presented for the European Union (EU) and its Member States, and is supplemented (when available) with data for EFTA members and for the acceding and candidate countries to the EU. This publication aims to...

In collaboration with the International MBA in Agribusiness Network (AGRIMBA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will hold a workshop on “Enhancing efficiency and inclusiveness of agri-food chains in Eastern Europe and Central Asia”. The workshop will be implemented as part of the programme of the...

The Greek position is that the expenditure for agriculture should remain at the present level, at least up to 2013. It is argued that European agriculture can play a multi-functional role. Agriculture is very important - in economic, social as well as environmental terms - for the sustainable development of...