The present study reviews recent trends in rural finance and investment in general, and in the agricultural sector in particular, within the Asian region. The analysis of these trends aims to offer a critical perspective on some of the main constraints to achieving more inclusive rural financial systems in developing...

The Arab world is the largest food deficit region in the world due to the major challenges facing increasing food production despite the high potential to increase agriculture production in most Arab countries. In 2013 the Arab world imported 85.6 million tons of cereals compared to 65.3 million tons for...

The path to a healthy, sustainable and fair food consumption starts already during our early years of childhood and youth. For this reason the EAThink 2015 project has developed two interactive educational games targeting Primary and Secondary school students, in order to help them better understand the different mechanisms of...

A sustainable and holistic approach to agriculture and the environment is being promoted by FAO at this week’s global climate change event in Bonn, Germany. Together with the governments of Hungary and France, and with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), FAO is presenting “agroecology” as a way to produce...

Learning Journey on Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers in Lebanon, November 22-25, 2017. Urgenci, the international network of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers (LSPA) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Tajikistan’s roughly 3.8 million hectares of pasture – almost 29 percent of its total land area – feed the country’s meat-producing livestock. But these natural resources, particularly year-round pastures near villages, are being depleted and degraded. Since 2013, FAO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have been working with...

Un sistema alimentario reúne todos los elementos y actividades relacionados con la producción, elaboración, distribución, preparación y consumo de alimentos, así como los productos de estas actividades, incluidos los resultados socioeconómicos y ambientales (Grupo de alto nivel de expertos en seguridad alimentaria y nutrición – HLPE, 2014). Los sistemas alimentarios...

En este sitio web se encuentra información del "Foro INNOVAGRO" en su versión 2017, en el que se analiza a fondo las consecuencias del cambio climático para la agricultura. En esta ocación, el seminario se realizara en Valparaíso el 21 de agosto, en Coquimbo el 23 de agosto  y en Biobío el...

In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address...

The report underlines the important role played by policies and actions that make human mobility a pillar of sustainable food systems and inclusive territorial development. This would also be a way to mainstream complex migration dynamics into interventions targeting FNS. Such policies and actions necessarily imply a focus on inclusive...

La REAF (Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur), ha dado un importante paso hacia la elaboración de las Directrices Regionales de apoyo a la Agricultura Familiar a través de la ratificación del compromiso político de los estados participantes durante los eventos celebrados entre el 19 y 23 de junio...

La Gestión Comunitaria del Agua y Saneamiento en Latinoamérica y el Caribe ha venidojugando un rol preponderante para lograr que millones de personas tengan acceso al agua para consumo humano en las zonas rurales, periurbanas y en algunos casos urbanas en la región de las Américas. Investigaciones recientes, realizadas por AVINA y la...

New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today. While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...

Many European rural areas are locked into a “circle of decline” by two mutually reinforcing trends–firstly, a shortage of jobs and sustainable business activity and secondly, inadequate and declining services. Over the last two years the ENRD has carried out work to look at the first of these challenges by...

Esta reunión busca crear un escenario que permita abordar los desafíos referentes a la gobernanza de la tenencia en la región, por medio del compromiso político y técnico de los agentes públicos, privados y de la sociedad civil involucrados. Junto a ello, la reunión busca promover una reflexión frente a...

Following the first workshop on this topic in December 2016, FAO is convening a broader circle of countries to discuss agriculture’s place in the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development. The overall objective of the event is to help member countries nationalize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to raise awareness amongst...

This seminar is dedicated to exploring and sharing the existing experiences with implementing the EIP-AGRI via Rural Development Programmes support. This event will be held with the support of the Greek RDP Managing Authority – Network Support Unit of the National Rural Network. With over 230 Operational Groups (OGs) already...

“Gestionar las contradicciones y trabajar nuestras diferencia desde un espacio de conversación política, hombro con hombro, para favorecer la cohesión de la Agricultura Familiar Campesina de la región”, fue la premisa que definió la jornada inaugural de la Primera Conferencia de la Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur Ampliado, que se realiza...

El artículo se focaliza en los conflictos que se producen en la localidad de Roldán provincia de Santa Fe, a partir de la regulación de aplicación de productos agroquímicos. Aplicaciones que se mantienen de forma sostenida desde el proceso de agriculturización que vive la región y los cuestionamientos que se...

La seguridad alimentaria es el mejor camino para la paz, señalaron los asistentes del Foro internacional para la Paz realizado en Colombia, en el marco de las celebraciones del Día Mundial de la Alimentación 2017. El foro convocó a ministros de la región, miembros del gobierno colombiano, organismos internacionales, el sector privado y...