Small farms have always been a cornerstone of agriculture in the EU. They play a significant role in supporting rural employment, contributing to territorial development. They are important for production, particularly in the form of local specialist products and provide important social, cultural and environmental services.  The last enlargements in 2004...

En 2014, Année Internationale de l'Agriculture Familiale , les organisations paysannes et les organisations d'appui, en République Démocratique du Congo, ont mis en place le Comité National de l'Année Internationale de l'Agriculture Familiale, CN-AIAF qui avait pour mission principale de plaider en faveur de la promotion et la protection de l'agriculture familiale...

Pourquoi faut-il s’occuper de l’agriculture familiale ? Pourquoi un « changement de paradigme » est-il nécessaire ? Quelles nouvelles visions, politiques et coopérations trans-méditerranéennes et transsahariennes se donner ? Comment s’organiser, accéder aux marchés et créer de la richesse en milieu rural ? Comment assurer l’accès de l’agriculture familiale au financement ? Les questions abordées par...

L’Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale a été lancée dans le cadre d’une campagne mondiale visant à rehausser l’image de l’agriculture familiale et à soutenir les petits exploitants agricoles du monde entier. L’action de la société civile, en particulier du Forum Rural Mondial, a contribué à mettre l’accent sur l’importance de...

Les îles de São Tomé et de Principe orientent leur développement sur les cultures vivrières mais aussi en grande partie sur la promotion de filières agricoles d’exportation de produits agricoles de qualité (cacao, café et poivre). Dans ce contexte, l’objectif est de promouvoir, avec 300 planteurs, une production durable de...

This report is based on the main lessons and recommendations from three case studies analysing the strategies, aspirations and constraints of the various types of farmers living around the dams of Bagré (Burkina Faso), Sélingué (Mali) and Niandouba/Confluent (Senegal). The research, initiated by the Global Water Initiative (GWI) and funded by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, aims to contribute to...

Nutrition has become one of the buzz words of the year, like resilience, and landscapes. What they have in common is that they refer to complex situations, where economic and political forces override the needs and aspirations of rural and urban communities. However, the nutrition challenge remains clear, with a...

The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the EU’s oldest policies, and is a cornerstone of European cooperation. After more than a decade of post-World War II food shortages and hunger, CAP was originally intended to increase agricultural production, ensure food security, protect farmers’ quality of life...

La presente ponencia tiene como principal objetivo determinar los factores, condiciones, cambios y proyecciones que han permitido que el «Proyecto Escuela de Kamayoq» , — una de las iniciativas desarrolladas por la ONG Soluciones Prácticas — sea considerada una innovación matriz. En las próximas líneas, buscaremos destacar su relevancia en...

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, as manifested in the tradition of collective farming practice, has changed. Collective rice farming persisted for decades, irrespective of critical events that challenged its continuation, due to two key factors: the high need for...

Les pays en développement qui manquent de ressources pétrolières, et notamment ceux de l’Afrique de l’Ouest, s’intéressent aux agrocarburants issus de plantes oléagineuses comme le Jatropha. Toutefois, son introduction et sa promotion au niveau des exploitations agricoles restent encore méconnues et controversées. Dans ce contexte, le réseau JatroREF a organisé...

The video is describing the importance of family poultry production in particular for smallholders and how to consider influences of season and gender roles in promoting better husbandry and improved management practices. Examples are given how to prepare and design appropriate extension messages that are clear and could be easily...

En el periodo comprendido entre julio de 2011 y mayo de 2014, Soluciones Prácticas implementó, con el apoyo financiero de Christian Aid, el proyecto “Fortaleciendo redes de gestión de riesgo para influir en los medios de vida en comunidades nativas de San Martín- Perú Proyecto PPA”. El proyecto se ejecutó...

Smallholder and family farming has come to dominate agriculture in the lower and middle-income countries of Europe and Central Asia as a result of the land reforms implemented in the 1990s. Food security in the region is under threat as many of the small farm units are presently not economically...

Factors influencing the competitiveness of 21 agricultural extension projects were identified and measured. The data used are from a total of 21 extension services projects carried out by Project INCAGRO in the regions of Amazonas, San Martín, Loreto and Ucayali. The factors that explain the variability of the competitiveness with...

FAO has a long history of cooperation with Vanuatu, a Pacific Island Country which joined the Organization in 1983 and, as of 2014, hosts a country office. Over the past three decades, FAO cooperation with Vanuatu has focused on agricultural data collection, strengthening capacities for local food production, developing market...

Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the six founding countries of the European Union implemented a common agricultural policy (CAP) with a view to increasing productivity, ensuring a fair standard of living for the agricultural community, stabilising markets, guaranteeing food supply and ensuring reasonable prices for consumers....

The video outlines three case studies of farmers utilizing agroecological practices in their farming systems. It focuses on complex adaptive rice systems in the Easter part of the island of Java, Indonesia; on a large-scale farm in the Netherlands applying sustainable soil management practices; and on social aspects of agroecology...

L'agriculture itinérante reste un système de production partagé par une grande majorité de groupes ethnolinguistiques au Gabon. Elle s'exprime généralement dans un rayon de cinq kilomètres autour de l'unité de résidence. Au Gabon, cette zone est précisément celle destinée à accueillir depuis fin 2013 les premières forêts communautaires. Les préceptes...

 Smallholder farmers in rural Nigeria face farm labour shortages and the need to find ways of dealing with this problem is therefore apt for food security and socioeconomic improvement. In an attempt to deal with this problem, Nigerians rural farmers constitute themselves into farmers’ labour groups in other to meet...