The following are stories about farmers and farmer organizations in the Pacific. They reflect some of the impacts of a five-year funding programme (2014-2018) that has changed the way farmer organizations operate in the Pacific Islands. Stories like these have become common in farmer organizations across the region. What follows...

Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) provide a dependable substitute for conventional supply chains, as their food reflects the characteristics of “local”, “natural”, “healthy” and “reliable”. For the family farmer, the short chains constitute anexcellent way ofdiversifying their produce, gaining higher added value and thus warranting steadier revenues. This paper thus aims to discern the...

Creating Entrepreneurs in Food aims to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in rural communities. The project is led by the project coordinator Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland working in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire in the UK, CEJA in Belgium and the Polish Beef Association, Poland. The project will examine short...

El informe, conocido abreviadamente como Panorama, cumple una década analizando los desafíos de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en la Región, y se ha consolidado como la principal publicación regional en la materia. El informe es una fuente de información y de propuestas en materia de políticas. El mismo brinda...

A 5 min stop-motion animation exploring agroecology in Africa and its contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The 2 billion people working in rural areas are claiming their rights to dignity and our right to healthy diets. A UN declaration on their rights is the most powerful legal instrument against abuses like landgrabs, biopiracy and labour exploitation. It would be the solid foundation in defence of healthy,...

Os problemas enfrentados para produzir e vender sozinho são os mesmos da maioria dos agricultores familiares do país. Segundo a presidente do Conselho Regional da Associação Brasileira do Agronegócio (Abag) em Ribeirão Preto Mônika Bergamaschi, uma das organizadoras da Agrishow, o caminho para reduzir esses impactos está justamente no cooperativismo. “Hoje,...

In Sierra Leone, the livelihoods of many people depend on having secure and equitable access to and control over natural resources. However, increased pressure on land, forestry and fisheries compounded by weak tenure governance has led to ownership disputes. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land,...

In this publication, the authors share the results of this process. They begin with an introduction to the context of the region and the principles that guide us. They then present the methodological practices they used to build rural women’s autonomy and agroecology.

The "Joint Resilience Building" Project aims at increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities against droughts and floods to improve maternal and child health while enhancing the adaptive capacity to manage climatic shocks and risks in four selected localities (Aroma, Hammashkoreb, North Delta and Telkok) in Kassala State, Sudan.

La convocatoria 10 Iniciativas innovadoras y escalables para el desarrollo rural sostenible de América Latina y el Caribe – 2018, recibió un total de 242 postulaciones, de las cuales 202 cumplieron los criterios de elegibilidad descritos en las bases. Tales iniciativas fueron evaluadas con un puntaje entre 1 y 100. Tras la...

Only shared interest and mutual will—nationally, regionally, locally—among fishers and social partners can help achieve sustainable fisheries

EU Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development Phil Hogan today (April 20th) stated that his top priority in the ongoing EU budget negotiation is "protecting the small and medium sized farmer who remains the backbone of Europe's food production and rural communities".

Turkey is moving closer to having its Bursa black figs and Bursa peaches protected and promoted through geographical indications (GI) – a move that could raise producers’ incomes and open up market opportunities.

The Norwegian experience shows that learning about sustainable small-scale fisheries development should not be a one-way traffic from the North to the South

Food supply chains differ in size and number of operators but are rarely to the advantage of the farmers. Their negotiating power is usually weaker than bigger elements of the chain, such as retailers, and this can result in the value throughout the supply chain not being adequately distributed.  With about...

Biodiversity loss is one of the areas where humanity is operating furthest outside the planet’s environmental limits. This discussion paper prepared by Seth Cook of IIED as part of the Sustainable Diets for All project explores the roots of this situation and asks how to reorient food systems towards greater diversity, health,...

Formal recognition of marine tenure provides an incentive for small-scale fishers to form and support the overarching structure for responsible governance

Through training, facilitation, demonstration gardens, role modeling, and counseling for sustainable living, a nationally registered environmental service provider, Matthews Shaba Mpofu is able to train rural women and youth, who are in majority in Malawi but are mostly grappled with poverty and high unemployment levels, the basics of permaculture. His...

Fisherfolk use their social networks to navigate formal and informal rules in accessing the fisheries of Lake Victoria