A unique, Africa-led fund to improve agriculture and food security across the continent has become a reality. Officially launched in June 2013 with funding totaling over US $ 40 million from Equatorial Guinea, Angola and group of civil society organizations in the Republic of Congo.

Court article relatant l'annonce  faite à Brazzaville par le Représentant de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) au Congo,  Dieudonné Koguiyagda.    

Al menos 400 mujeres campesinas migrantes de áreas rurales de Bolivia producen alimentos ecológicos en áreas periurbanas para la nutrición de sus familias y el abastecimiento alimentario de miles de hogares en la ciudad de Sucre, como resultado de la cooperación técnica entre autoridades del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia y...

Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a...

The Global Dialogue, a two-day event held at FAO headquarters in October 2014, put the spotlight on the consensus reached on the importance of family farming in addressing a number of challenges, from eradicating hunger and poverty to achieving sustainable systems of food production and consumption. This publication synthesizes the...

La Comisión de Mujeres de la Articulación Nacional Campesina (ANC) aprovechó la celebración del Día Internacional de la Mujeres Rurales para llamar la atención de las autoridades en el país sobre la situación de las mujeres dominicana, en especial de las mujeres del campo que se encuentra en desventajas e...

El Viceministro de Desarrollo Rural de Colombia, Juan Pablo Díaz Granados, en un Foro sobre “Asociatividad con Visión de Cadena”, señaló que uno de los objetivos en los que está trabajando el Ministerio es la creación de dos entidades: “una para la administración de tierras y otra para promover el desarrollo...

The diversity of agriculture in the world reflects the immense variety of societies and natural environments on the planet. Indeed, agricultural systems range from various types of shifting slash-and-burn practices – sometimes very similar to those of the first sedentary human groups – to quasi-automated agricultures in some regions of...

Au Rwanda, il devient de plus en plus difficile de prévoir le temps, et les agriculteurs perdent environ 40 % de leur production. Des centres d’activité aident maintenant les agriculteurs à s’adapter aux effets du changement climatique. Ils y stockent leurs récoltes en toute sécurité pour les mettre ensuite sur...

Au Mali, la plupart des jeunes ruraux quittent leurs villages pour essayer de trouver du travail en ville. Les seuls qui restent sont les personnes âgées et les enfants, qui ont bien du mal à produire suffisamment pour se nourrir. Aujourd'hui, des jeunes comme Diallo Haroun reviennent pour un nouveau...

We often hear ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation processes described as time-consuming and bureaucratic, undertaken without adequate information, real representation, or time to discuss and report back. Too often they are carried out as a formality with no chance of influencing well established mechanisms of non-transparent decision-making. We will argue here that...

Women participating at the V International Conference of Family Farming: Let’s Build a Future, Family Farming held in Derio on the 21st to 23rd of September 2015, as a result of the Women’s Seminar in Family Farming based on common challenges and goals to be achieved by women from every...

Este cuaderno de la Vía Campesina describe que "Como La Vía Campesina pensamos que en este momento de disputa por la agroecología, es importante compartir avances en nuestros procesos para identificar, documentar, sistematizar y compartir los éxitos de la agroecología campesina. Con este cuadernillo, ofrecemos una selección inicial, una primera...

Rural women in post-Soviet countries may live longer than men, but on average they earn less, work more hours per day, receive smaller pensions or none at all, and are very likely to spend their elder years in poverty. These are some of the findings in a recent FAO study of...

La Alianza por la Soberanía Alimentaria de los Pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe, en conjunto con la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), organizan el “Seminario de capacitación sobre monitoreo popular a la implementación de directrices de la tenencia de la tierra,...

Policy networks are usually seen as a ‘new mode of governance’ that allows more flexibility and more informal involvement of a wider set of stakeholders in policy design and implementation compared to more formal consultation processes. In this article, we examine the specific characteristics of the rural policy networks (National...

More than half a billion people live in the European Union. Every one of these EU citizens can benefit from rural development policy outcomes that produce better quality food, as well as a vibrant and healthy countryside where people can live, work and visit. Member States’ Rural Development Programmes (RDPs)...

This article investigates gender inequality in agricultural productivity, highlights its key determinants, and approximates the potential production, consumption, and poverty gains from reducing or closing the gender productivity gap. The analysis is performed on the basis of representative household survey datasets recently collected in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. In these...

Durante 2014, han sido muchos los esfuerzos para difundir socialmente la importancia de la Agricultura Familiar. En América Latina, la pequeña agricultura y el campesinado habían ido perdiendo espacio en las agendas políticas nacionales e internacionales. Sin embargo, recientes debates en torno a la pobreza rural y la malnutrición han...

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...