The report summarizes the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. It calls for a renewed focus on middle-income countries, which are home to the majority of the world’s hungry and malnourished and covers other issues that are integral to achieving...

La Legislatura jujeña aprobó por unanimidad la adhesión a la Ley Nacional 27.118 de Reparación Histórica de la Agricultura Familiar, con el fin de construir una nueva ruralidad en la Argentina.  Con la presencia de asociaciones de pequeños productores, agricultores familiares y funcionarios, se aprobó por unanimidad en la legislatura provincial...

This document was produced as a result of the “International Encounters on Family Farming and Research“ held in Montpellier, June 1-3, 2014. The conference brought together three hundred participants from the different continents representing family farmers, policy makers, the private sector, as well as teachers and researchers. Research agendas relating...

A presente iniciativa buscou reunir uma gama de temas gerais que fossem importantes para toda e qualquer área temática da cooperação internacional, sem se esquecer de dedicar uma parte á agricultura, tema central da ação do IICA. A Parte II, com foco na cooperação voltada á agricultura e ao desenvolvimento...

La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico. Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...

By prioritising human and non-human life over economic profit, and cooperation over competition, citizens of the city of Cordoba have been able to transform their food system into a thriving network of local food producers and consumers. Women have been at the forefront of this movement.

Many environmental factors constrain the production of major food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. At the same time, these food production systems themselves have a range of negative impacts on the environment. In this paper we review the published literature and assess the depth of recent research (since...

El artículo informa que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos (Proalimentos), entidad adscrita al Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca del Ecuador, ha implementado un nuevo modelo de rueda de negocios  para fortalecer la inclusión de micro, pequeños y medianos productores. El propósito es brindar a los agricultores un mercado...

For several years, insuring harvests against the climate hazards that regularly destroy farmers’ crops in developing countries has for several years been a major tool in the fight against poverty, mainly in Africa and Asia, where between 400 and 500 million farmers survive on very low incomes. This system, which...

Significance Some recognize organic agriculture as being important for future global food security, whereas others project it to become irrelevant. Although organic agriculture is rapidly growing, it currently occupies only 1% of global cropland. Whether organic agriculture can continue to expand will likely be determined by whether it is economically competitive...

Frente al reto de contar con políticas e instituciones acordes para enfrentar las tendencias, desafíos y oportunidades del futuro, es oportuno establecer un mecanismo de diálogo entre los países miembros del IICA para conocer, analizar e identificar lecciones que puedan ser aplicadas a las distintas condiciones de cada uno de...

El Niño is a periodic climate phenomenon defined by anomalously warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean which affect local weather worldwide and generally leads to increased drought risk at global level. In 2015, since July a strong El Niño is being observed with increasing...

Lo cierto es que el conocimiento tradicional indígena es reconocido y conservado de manera desigual y heterogénea. En algunos países, especialmente donde estos pueblos son mayoritarios, ha sido incluido en sus principales instrumentos jurídicos. Y es ahí donde podrían ser incorporados en los proyectos de conservación ambiental que se desarrollen. Es...

Land as a common is an exploration of Terre de liens, an original organisation of the contemporary rural world. Through testimonies of various people involved in Terre de liens - farmers, board members, volunteers, staff members-, we discover an innovation in-the-making. Throughout the film, the farmers deliver their own vision...

De 3,8 millones de hectáreas agrícolas existentes en el país al menos 152.000 que representa el 4% cuentan con la certificación de que es ecológica porque no se usa químicos o semillas transgénicas, reconoció el director general de Seguridad Alimentaria, Lucio Tito. La certificación fue realizada por el Consejo Nacional de...

When the seasonal rains came to some regions of south-eastern Senegal, the flooding used to cut off the inhabitants from the rest of the country. But that has changed with the IFAD-supported project known as PADAER – Projet d’Appui au Développement Agricole et à l’Entreprenariat Rural. Thanks to the projects’...

Agriculture sector employs about 31% of the labour force and generates 14% of GDP in Egypt. Yet many challenges hinder the development of this vital sector including weak role of extension and advisory services (EAS). The present paper aims at analysing the contribution of public EAS to agriculture development in...

This website has been created to help smallholders gain access to formal markets and improve the effectiveness of outgrower schemes. Formal markets can increase the number of potential buyers for smallholder produce but these markets require traceability and compliance to food safety standards; something which has traditionally been challenging and...

Esta noticia cubre la apertura de la Reunión de Comisiones de este órgano regional legislativo, celebrada el 25 de Septiembre de 2015 en la ciudad de México.

Este Manual puede considerarse una segunda edición del Manual de Producción de Semilla de Papa de Calidad usando Aeroponía1 . Los cambios más importantes, con referencia a esa primera edición, son por un lado, que esta vez, el Manual fue elaborado por un equipo de investigadores que han trabajado en...