Last year’s floods in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina serve as an example of how natural disasters can devastate the agricultural sector and farming-based livelihoods of millions of people.   In order to learn from the past and prepare for the future, a training workshop on disaster risk reduction and management was...

El Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego (Minagri) declaró hoy que junio de cada año será el “Mes de la Agricultura”, como reconocimiento a los pequeños y medianos productores por su contribución a la seguridad alimentaria como al desarrollo sostenible del país. A través de una resolución ministerial, que lleva la firma...

La presidenta de la República de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, anunció el lanzamiento del Plan Cosecha de Agricultura Familiar 2015-2016 que prevé la inversión de 28.900 millones de reales (9.436 millones de dólares) en ayuda a la agricultura. familiar para la próxima temporada "Con este plan garantizamos los recursos necesarios para atender...

Cafeicultura foi a principal fonte de receita da balança comercial brasileira no início do século passado, segundo dados da Organização das Nações Unidas para Agricultura e Alimentação (2013). Em meados do século 20 o Brasil era responsável por aproximadamente 50% da produção mundial de café. A produção mundial de café...

This document is a compendium of FAO Africa results in 2014. The results focus on FAO Africa Regional Initiatives which were implemented in alignment with the Organization’s Corporate Strategic Objectives and Country Programming Frameworks, namely eradicating hunger and malnutrition, promoting sustainable and productive agriculture, reducing rural poverty, enabling inclusive and...

In Albania all types of HNV farmlands are present, but there is very limited knowledge of the topic and the relevant inventories are not wholly dependable. The most common is Type 1 (semi-natural pastures and meadows). There are about 400,000 ha of natural pastures in Albania that account for 14.3%...

Con el apoyo de la FAO, el estado peruano diseñó y aprobó una Estrategia Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria 2013-2021, elaboró un proyecto de Ley que reconoce el Derecho a la Alimentación y el deber del Estado de protegerlo, y se concretó la creación del Frente Parlamentario contra el Hambre de...

The market was established in 2013 through collaboration between the Environment and Sustainable Development Unit of the American University of Beirut and The Food Heritage Foundation; and is supported by Waterfront City Cares.On average, 15 producers and farmers from across Lebanon regularly participate in Souk aal Souk, offering to the...

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

Cultivainnovación busca visibilizar la investigación, las ideas e innovaciones creativas que aporten al ahorro de energía, tiempo y recursos, a mejorar la producción, conservar la fertilidad de los suelos, recuperar y conservar semillas tradicionales, al manejo ecológico de plagas. Este concurso está dirigido a promover iniciativas en las regiones de la Sierra y...

El Centro de Formación para la Agricultura Familiar nace de un común acuerdo entre la Subsecretaría de Desarrollo Rural y Agricultura Familiar de la Nación (SSDRyAF), la Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (UNSE),  la ONG Asociación Santiagueña de Extensionistas Rurales (ASDER) y la Federación de la Agricultura Familiar de Santiago...

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...

Representatives from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean; from the public, private and academic sectors as well as integration organizations, will participate in the Regional Seminar on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean, to be held in Brasilia, Brazil.   The seminar is based on a regional as well...

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...