While India was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties only 50 years ago, today more than 80% of the area dedicated to grow rice is planted with hybrid varities. Thanks to the efforts of about 1,400 farmers in the Koraput region (Odisha state), traditional varieties of "desi dhaan", as they...

La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO), han diseñado una estrategia de trabajo conjunto para fortalecer la educación alimentaria y nutricional y promover su integración en las políticas públicas...

The course presents an approach for improved mapping and differentiating spatial-temporal facts at country-level (agro-environmental stratification), using the best remotely sensed data and most modern interpretation/analysis methods.

ECTAD’s work in the Asia-Pacific region mainly focuses on emerging pandemic threats like H7N9 

Dans les années 60, les politiques publiques ont cherché à faire diminuer drastiquement le nombre de petites exploitations agricoles (EA). Et pourtant, aujourd’hui elles, sont toujours présentes dans le paysage agricole européen et français. La persistance des petites EA questionne : ces EA ont-elles développé des stratégies économiques qui les...

El Foro Taller: “Innovaciones Sociales para la Agricultura Familiar” busca promover un espacio teórico – práctico con el compartir de las experiencias de diferentes organizaciones agrarias de la Agricultura Familiar junto a universidades, centros de investigación, redes de sustentabilidad y comunidades sociales del país en procesos como Agroecología, Bio-construcción, Circuitos...

Research shows that in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) climate variability already influences water availability, ecosystem services, and agricultural production. According to downscaled climate projections, the risks of climate-induced hazards such as floods, landslides, and droughts are projected to increase significantly by 2050. To an increasing degree, rural women in...

Em apoio à campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos, Viva Maria continua querendo animar nossas Marias a participarem dessa importante iniciativa. Silene, trabalhadora rural da região Serrana do Espírito Santo, compartilha sua história e pede que outras mulheres façam o mesmo. Silene se dedica à agricultura orgânica e articula uma rede de...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples are the three bodies that focus on indigenous peoples in the UN system.

The objectives of this paper are to understand the evolution of family farming in a mountainous area of Southern Albania after the fall of communism in 1991 and to identify the socio-economic developments that characterize this territory in very last years. According to primary or secondary historical data, there is...

La Red Regional de Sistemas Públicos de Abastecimiento y Comercialización de Alimentos (Red SPAA) tiene el objetivo de promover el diálogo e intercambio de experiencias, a fin de fortalecer las capacidades, facilitar el establecimiento de alianzas y desarrollar estrategias conjuntas de acción y proyectos de cooperación técnica entre instituciones públicas...

Several EU lawmakers from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee expressed their concerns on Wednesday (30 August) about the introduction of new technologies in farming, claiming that it might put smallholders at risk. MEPs discussed a report on precision agriculture conducted by the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment service (STOA), a...

The potential offered by social innovation to improve the livelihoods of remote forest-dependent communities will be at the centre of discussions during a special session of the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), to be held in Freiburg, Germany, from the 18th to the...

Existen varios motivos para escribir un documento sobre empleo decente para jóvenes rurales. El primero es que el empleo decente (o digno) es especialmente escaso en las zonas rurales y, en particular, en el sector agrícola. El segundo es que casi todos los análisis sobre la inserción laboral de los...

FAO support to improving governance of tenure

Seventy percent of food worldwide is produced by smallholders, including family farms and private households. Connecting those small producers to processing facilities and markets can be a challenge but it is possible, as an international conference in Astana last week made clear. In Kazakhstan, the country’s 1.6 million private households and...

The digital revolution is now upon us and more and more technologies are available to the agricultural sector. Farmers in the UK, for example, can use Farmbench (farmbench.ahdb.org.uk). Farmbench collects and shares data from across the UK, providing farmers with useful indications on potential changes to their farm management practices which...

Gestión comunitaria del agua, noble labor que ejercen grupos de vecinos que se organizan de forma voluntaria para contribuir a la gestión del sistema de agua de su comunidad, además de la protección de sus fuentes y la sostenibilidad del recurso hídrico. Hacen un importante aporte para cerrar la brecha de acceso al...

The potential contribution of organic farming to the public goods, ‘Nature and Biodiversity’, ‘Environment’, ‘Energy and Climate’, ‘Human Health and Welfare’ and ‘Animal Health and Welfare’ in Denmark is guided and partly secured by the principles and specific requirements of the EU Organic Regulation. However, other factors, such as the...

Poder ver de perto diversas tecnologias e formas de produção aplicadas em diferentes partes do país é uma ótima opção para quem quer aprimorar os negócios da agricultura familiar. Há mais de 10 anos, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD), por meio da Subsecretaria de...