The world’s food systems face two immense challenges today. One, to produce enough food to nourish a global population of seven billion people without harming the environment. Two, to make sure food systems deliver nutrition to everyone, particularly the world’s poorest, many of whom suffer from chronic under-nutrition. This Report...

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This programme is designed to improve living conditions for rural people in mountain zones, where climate change has caused erosion and desertification. It has two components: Agricultural value chain development and value addition Sustainable nature resource management, climate change adaptation and diversification. The programme area includes 32 rural communes in the provinces of...

De un momento a otro, pueden perderlo todo: los pequeños productores son un sector fundamental para la agricultura y la alimentación de América Latina y el Caribe, pero viven en constante riesgo de desastres. Una sequía severa, un huracán o una inundación pueden diezmar por completo su producción y afectar severamente...

This Smallholder Country Factsheet developed by the ESA Small Family Farm Team examines the strengths and weaknesses of smallholders in Viet Nam. Viet Nam's remarkable transformation to a low middle-income country within the past decade was strongly driven by an increasing productivity of the agricultural sector. Still, 89 percent of...

La innovación consiste en la implementación de un sistema integrado que contempla la utilización de tecnologías y técnicas agroecológicas para la producción de hortalizas por parte de mujeres campesinas. Este sistema fue implementado a través del proyecto “Producción Hortícola Sostenible PY-212”, ejecutado por Tierra Nueva y financiado por la Fundación...

O conceito de mercado não deve ficar restrito à interação entre demanda e oferta.  Ele vai muito além do processo de compra e venda, compreendendo aspectos de interações sociais, culturais e cognitivas. Normalmente vistos como espaços onde ocorrem trocas, conversações e negociações para uma transação comercial entre as partes envolvidas – como...

Fresh fruits and vegetables contribute significantly to food and nutrition security, poverty reduction and to economic development in the countries belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Smallholders who make little use of post-harvest (PH) technologies produce most of the fresh fruits and vegetables supplied to mass...

This Smallholder Country Factsheet developed by the ESA Small Family Farm Team takes a closer look at the livelihood of smallholders in Indonesia. Agriculture still accounts as the major employer before industry and services, with rice production as an important mainstay of the Indonesian economy. A striking high share of...

This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure looks at how resource efficiency is being supported in rural Europe. Resource efficiency means using natural resources in a sustainable way. It also means minimising the impact of human activities on the environment. The concept of resource efficiency is encapsulated in the idea...

This How To Do Note (HTDN) in this toolkit on Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems tackles the complexities of seed systems, setting out a process to support national agricultural policy decision makers, national and international development agencies and IFAD Country Programme Managers (CPMs) in the design and supervision of seed-related projects....

“Seeds are the basis of life. Human life, your life, is dependent on plants. The qualities of the seed go beyond beauty to sustaining us nutritionally and medicinally. Seed is the foundation of human diets across the world.” The National Seed Dialogue and Celebration honoured the role of smallholder farmers in...

Singur, located in Hooghly district of West Bengal, came into the limelight for its peasants’ movement in 2006. The government acquired 1,253 acres (500 hectares) of multi cropping agricultural land and leased it at a highly subsidized rate to MNC Tata through the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (a state...

La diversité des contributions fournies par les systèmes d’élevage s’appuyant sur des races locales, au côté de la production de biens alimentaires et non alimentaires, est rarement abordée de front, bien qu’elle soit essentielle pour comprendre les modalités de gestion de ces races. Ce travail de recherche fait le point...

  The XI European Mountain Convention will be organized on 25-27 September 2018 in Vatra Dornei, Romania, by Euromontana in collaboration with the Agency for Mountain Areas (AZM, Romania). It will focus on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage in mountain areas and on how this strategic resource, inherited from the past,...

Este video resume el trabajo de El Futuro està en el Monte, movimiento que impulsa en la región del Gran Chaco modelos de negocios que promuevan un desarrollo sustentable, competitivo e inclusivo, a través de la puesta en valor del capital natural y cultural, combinando la innovación con los saberes...

Los fitopatógenos foliares representan una grave amenaza para la seguridad alimentaria mundial. El control biológico se considera ecológicamente amigable y una alternativa clave en el manejo de las enfermedades producidas por estos. Además, se ha demostrado que varios microorganismos son efectivos en el control de muchas de estas enfermedades. En...

As part of the publication “Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas: obstacles and opportunities” (September 2018) and the conference “Women4Mediterranean Conference 2018 – Women build inclusive societies” (Lisbon, Portugal, 10- 11 October 2018), during which the “Empowering Women in Rural and Agriculture Areas” (UM-CIHEAM) workshop will...

La agricultura familiar abarca a un grupo grande de personas que tienen distintos orígenes y una amplia diversidad cultural, pero que mantienen en común la producción de alimentos como forma de vida. La hidroponia o cultivo sin suelo es una técnica cuya importancia reside en su alta producción por metro cuadrado,...

This brief 3-minute video reportage highlights the International Treaty’s first field visit with a high-level donor representative, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Agriculture & Food, into rural Northern Malawi to visit a Benefit-sharing Fund project. It explains the problem and how the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund is supporting farmers...