厄瓜多尔正在经历一场重大的营养转变。一个矛盾的观点表明生产食物的农村家庭通常就 是受营养不良影响最大的群体，加上这次转变，都体现出“现代”农业系统的讽刺意味。它也突出 了围绕家庭营养的，农村和城镇的连接的重要性，其正有助于解决此类矛盾。我们看到位于厄 瓜多尔北部的San Francisco Alto村和 Ambuqui村里有许多家庭正在经历这样的变化。他们采用各 种策略努力实现健康、多样化和富含营养的饮食。

The objective of the three-day workshop on mainstreaming biodiversity, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2013, was to review experience and lessons learned during a decade of investment in biodiversity mainstreaming projects in production landscapes and seascapes around the world. Experience was drawn principally from GEF...

El vídeo presenta el proceso de certificación de competencias como una oportunidad de cambio y desarrollo para los servicios de extensión rural en el Perú.

El presente estudio comparativo regional de asistencia técnica y extensión rural con perspectiva de género, convocado por el Programa Regional de Fortalecimiento Institucional de Políticas de Igualdad de Género en la Agricultura Familiar del MERCOSUR, se realizó entre los meses de octubre, noviembre y diciembre de 2013 y principios de...

Three women from Spain set up their own company in Galicia helping to preserve the tradition, particular to the area, of canning local fish and seafood in glass jars and selling their products in specialised gourmet shops.

From a bottom-up perspective, the field visits in Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro showed that rural entrepreneurs, and some rural communities, can make good things happen, and that in some cases they do so without much help from government. However, it was also clear that farmers...

Taking into account the challenges in agriculture, and the responsibility that agricultural researchers and other stakeholders should take to improve the impact of agricultural innovations, the urgency to strengthen the cooperation and innovation partnership, the members of CACAARI and its partners encouraged the initiative of transforming the Association into the...

The farm Veckūkuri, located in the Strenči County, Jērcēni Rural Municipality, Cālīši, is managed by Ilvija Jakovina, her husband Jānis, and their sons Robins Jānis and Ričards Dāvis. The herd consists of 75 Holstein Black and white cows. The best yield from the highest-yielding cow is 12 000 kg. The...

This paper examines perceptions of small-scale irrigation farmers (SSIFs) with regard to climate change and their adaptation strategies in terms of its effects. The The Multinomial Logit (MNL) and the Trade-Off Analysis models were applied. Farm-level data was collected from the entire population of 30 SSIFs at the Ndonga Linena...

Hoja informativa que transmite información sobre la agricultura familiar en Paraguay, su definición, estadísticas, situación actual, seguridad y soberanía alimentaria.

The role of different levels of governance is not fully clear. Action at village level is very limited. Mechanisms for connecting governments and stakeholders are emerging. Governments are committed to the further involvement of stakeholders. The groundwork for LEADER-type partnerships is being laid. Rural development networks are in place or...

76% of the world's poorest people live in rural areas of developing countries. Many, like Boru Gudo, depend on agriculture - and irregular rainfall - to survive. Boru explains how regular access to water has change his life.

In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors. These imperfections create the potential for farm assets to have direct dietary impacts on nutrition in addition to any indirect effects via income. We test this...

The new types of successful cooperative structures developed in European countries have stimulated a dialogue within Romania on the benefits and the opportunities brought by these structures. This subject is highly relevant for us taking into account that in a capitalized economy, agriculture is a simple and efficient response to...

This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in A2 Farms conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.    

Daiva and Arūnas have been running their farm since 2001. Their farm is situated in Kiršoniai village, Biržai district. The farm is a certified ecological farm. Farmers became national winners of international contest of environmentally-friendly farming – WWF Baltic Sea Farmer of the Year . The farm is located near...

Este trabajo presenta avances de una investigación grupal en la que se analizan políticas públicas que articulan agricultura familiar –AF– y seguridad y soberanía alimentaria –SSA– en Argentina a partir de la década de 2010. Desde esta temática se busca contribuir al conocimiento de la problemática del desarrollo y del...

This project, started in 2014 under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme, was developed to improve services for rural women by enhancing the capacity of institutions and of agricultural extension and rural advisory services staff in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The project’s ultimate objective was to promote rural women’s socio-economic integration and enhance...

Norup Farm is situated in Skåne, 20 km north of Kristianstad, in South Sweden. It is owned and cultivated by the Norup family and has been in the family since the beginning of the 20th century. The main crop is potato, but there is also a production of cereals, peas,...

The declining export competitiveness of farmers and fishers in the Pacific Islands, coupled with increased dietary dependence on imported food, has led public and private sector stakeholders in the Pacific to prioritize improving the capacity of their agricultural sectors to meet their domestic food needs. As a result, there is...