The newsletter of June 2017 includes: LIFE lands on the beautiful island of Cyprus, Top Chefs Association from Poland strengthens cooperation with LIFE, Other news from around the EU, News from our members, Press review

Europe and Central Asia is a vibrant region of nearly one billion people, living in more than 50 countries across 13 time zones, and speaking more than 300 languages. Chronic hunger has been all but eradicated from this part of the world, but pockets of food insecurity continue to exist,...

De acordo com o senso agropecuário de 2006, a agricultura familiar constitui a base econômica de 90% dos municípios brasileiros com até 20 mil habitantes. A agricultura familiar tem características diferentes da agricultura empresarial e representa 36% de toda a riqueza produzida pelo campo. Nela, a gestão da propriedade é feita...

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is a non-governmental international organization with UNESCO associate status, established in 1967. We currently bring together 587 research centers and graduate schools in the field of the social sciences and humanities in 46 Latin American countries, the United States, Canada, Germany, Spain, France and...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Forests are essential to life on earth: more than 1.6 billion people rely on them for their livelihoods, they’re critical in the fight against climate change, they maintain biodiversity, and protect land and water. Yet the threats against them continue to multiply. Around the world forests are being plundered for...

Whilst many challenges facing Farming First’s supporters can vary from region to region, we also stand to gain much from sharing our common experiences, to identify relevant solutions. With this in mind, we recently interviewed farmers from opposite ends of the world, to find out which concerns and interventions – if...

A Expointer chega a sua 40º edição e começa no sábado dia 26 de agosto e vai até o dia 03 de setembro. A feira teve origem em 1901 e hoje é reconhecida como um dos maiores eventos do mundo no gênero e considerada a maior feira a céu aberto...

This report is the result of the Focus Group (FG) on Organic Farming, Optimising Arable Yields which was launched under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability'. The Focus Group brought together 20 experts with different backgrounds and experiences (scientists, farmers, advisers…) to make recommendations on transferable innovative...

A marketing application for small holder farmers in Zimbabwe. This video serves the purposes of educating the user on the value proposition of the application.

A partir de la década del ´70 comenzó a producirse en amplias regiones del país un cambio del modelo agropecuario mixto (agricultura y ganadería) hacia uno de agricultura permanente, que incluyó el doble cultivo trigo-soja y el monocultivo de soja. Este proceso se debió principalmente a los buenos precios agrícolas y...

The UA Magazine tries to provide insight into the questions: “What is ‘urban agroecology’,exactly? Is it a type of ecological or organic agriculture in the city or if not, what else or what more?”. As we will see from the contributions in this Magazine, definitions differ and tend to reflect...

Agricultural labour productivity and decent employment are interlinked. Data show that in countries with higher agricultural productivity, the agricultural workforce faces a lower probability to be unemployed, poor or in vulnerable employment. This indicates that decent work gaps in agriculture can be addressed by increasing labour productivity. To do so,...

reventing animal disease and plant pest outbreaks and food safety incidents before they occur is essential to protecting the food chain. Most food chain crises are preventable with timely actions and the right investments. The Food Chain Crisis - Emergency Prevention System, known as FCC-EMPRES, is FAO’s approach to pursuing...

This publication offers facilitators technical guidance to manage field farm schools to support local famers in all aspects of rice crop management. Technical knowledge gained by farmers will revitalize the rice industry in Fiji and assist food security by alleviating dependence on rice imports.

Alimento saudável, sem agrotóxicos e com garantia de qualidade. São produtos frescos, cultivados em hortas, indo direto para a mesa das famílias brasileiras. Essa é a ideia de agricultores familiares da região de Campo Grande (MS), que, preocupados com a saúde da população, investiram em agricultura orgânica e aumentaram suas...

While it may sound old-fashioned, home milling could have the potential to redefine one of the world’s oldest processed foods—bread. The grain revolution is sparking the revival and innovation of traditional and new local wheat varieties, home milling tools, and unique recipes that are creating healthier alternatives to today’s highly...

El artículo se propone mostrar la evolución reciente de los modelos de sucesión hereditaria de las unidades agropecuarias en un área llamada «zona núcleo» de la región pampeana argentina, que durante la década pasada y buena parte de la actual, atraviesa por un período de auge económico impulsado por el...

2 October 2017. Meeting in Hamburg Germany, around 30 small-scale, low impact fishers from Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, and Netherlands, shared experiences and lessons learned from their engagement with the Advisory Councils (ACs). They were joined by technical experts and academics from the Baltic region, and supported by LIFE staff. Under discussion were...

In Ethiopia, smallholder farmers’ commercialization and integration into the market has been one of the policy directions to ensure households’ progress out of poverty and maintain the sustainable development trajectory. A lot of progress has been made in this endeavor over the past couple of decades. However, market participation and...