Adapting to climate change and reducing the risk of disaster are topics of intense interest for anyone involved in agriculture in Serbia. In cooperation with the European Union, Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection and local self-governments, FAO ran two training workshops on these issues earlier this month. Participants in...

Multifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy. In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network...

The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut announces a digital contest to collect stories related to food security through this hashtag: #AUBFoodSecurity on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The aim of the project “Precision Agriculture and the Future of Farming in Europe” is to identify implications for legislative pathways for precision agriculture in Europe by mapping areas of concern around future developments.

Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time. Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues. A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional...

Au Brésil comme au Maroc, le secteur agricole est marqué par des différences extrêmes en termes de tailles d'exploitation, de niveaux d'équipement, de capitalisation et de techniques de production. L'article compare les processus des politiques d'appui à l'agriculture familiale dans ces deux pays, au-delà de leurs grandes différences. Les politiques...

En marzo de 2015 se llevó a cabo la Tercera Conferencia Mundial de Naciones Unidas sobre la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, realizada en Sendai, Japón. En ella los Estados Miembros de las Naciones Unidas acordaron y adoptaron el Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres 2015-2030...

Con motivo de las actividades y debates promovidos por el Gobierno Federal en el Mes de la Mujer, el MDA llevó a cabo un mini documental. El video muestra el resultado de las políticas públicas para las mujeres rurales. En el interior del Río Grande del Norte, por ejemplo, los...

El Proyecto de Recuperación Productiva Post-Emergencia, llevado adelante en las provincias de la Patagonia, trabajó con el fin de fomentar la producción asociativa y comunitaria con el objetivo de mitigar la situación de los pobladores y pobladoras rurales afectadas por las cenizas del volcán Puyehue-Cordón Caulle. En la provincia de Chubut...

Convened by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Dutch development organisation Hivos, and led from Bolivia, the network set out to generate and integrate its own knowledge on smallholders and globalisation. Their work has also been complemented by a series of debates in Europe on some of the core...

This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in North America and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. The main objective of the study is to depict family farming’s diversity in the region. Furthermore, it examines the contribution of...

Access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources is a crucial but very complex, political and legalistic matter. Does the formal system work for family farmers? As we see in this special issue of Farming Matters, co-produced with Bioversity International, it poses many challenges. At the same time, farmers around...

La presente publicación recapitula los resúmenes expandidos de trabajos emanados de grupos de investigación pertenecientes a la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FaHCE) y Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales (FCAyF), UNLP y Universidad Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Brasil; en el marco del Seminario internacional TRANSFORMACIONES TERRITORIALES...

Urgenci committed to strengthening partnerships with the various initiatives around the Mediterranean Basin and setting up programmes for experience-sharing and exchange of practice. The end objective of this is to create a real Mediterranean network of local solidarity partnerships. Our proposal is included in the Mediterranean Positive Agenda as one...

Food production has multiple impacts both on and off the farm. These can often be negative, such as the pollution of rivers, the emission of greenhouse gases, the spread of antibiotic resistance, the degradation of soil, the rise of obesity and the spread of disease. Yet none of this damage...

This practice describes golden roles for dairy production, including; feeding milk cows, calf rearing, breeding adult cows, heat stress management, animal health, producing quality milk, and housing dairy stock.

Smallholder and family farmers face significant social, economic and environmental challenges in their everyday lives which demand timely access to information. Yet information and communication services are not always easy to access in rural areas. Numerous barriers exist, including illiteracy, speaking a minority language, inadequate or non-existent infrastructures, as well...

En toda la región del Cono Sur se ha vivido un intenso proceso de revitalización de la “Agricultura Familiar” (AF). En Argentina desde 2003, pero más fuertemente desde el año 2008, se ejecutan políticas para el sector. En este trabajo analizaremos la aparición pública de la AF en la esfera estatal como parte...

El artículo presenta un reflexión acerca de la ley ambiental, la relación entre ésta y el derecho a educación en el cual se incluye el derecho a la educación ambiental. Tema en torno al cual se establece la problematización que se presenta en el artículo.

Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the tropics. How to achieve sustainable intensification of food production systems in tropical regions that are challenged by ongoing climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity is a...