Public lecture: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming. Today, a billion people live in hunger. Peak oil and environmental degradation threaten the food security of billions more, particularly with half the world's population living in urban environments where they are dependent on industrially produced and imported...

This report presents findings and recommendations from a five-year national project – Mapping Local Food Webs – to engage local volunteers across England to research their local food ‘webs’: the network of links between people who buy, sell, produce and supply food sourced locally.

This project offers an example of utilizing fisheries by-products by supporting an aquaculture company to produce its own fishmeal from local fish waste. The aquaculture company, Salinas del Astur, which breeds and commercializes sea bass and guilthead, saw a business opportunity in the discards and fish waste produced by the local...

A journey in "Le Conche", farm of the young Calabrian farmer Vincenzo Sposato: his passion for the job, the relationship with the family, friendship and his future plans. The story focuses on the innovations brought by Vincenzo who having inherited a traditional olive trees farm,  in a few years turned...

Esta publicación tiene como objetivo reunir la investigación desarrollada en Brasil, específicamente en el estado de Bahía y en el Magdalena Medio colombiano, para avanzar en la búsqueda del mejoramiento de la productividad del sector cauchero. El cultivo de caucho (Hevea brasiliensis) en Colombia ha tenido un crecimiento vertiginoso en...

En el marco del Plan Estratégico 2010-2012 de la CLAC, que incluye el tema del cambio climático, en abril del año en curso la CLAC desarrolló en Quito, Ecuador un evento de capacitación sobre cambio climático para los pequeños productores (PP) y organizaciones de pequeños productores (OPP) del comercio justo (CJ)...

Afin d'atteindre l'objectif du projet SIPAM au niveau national, la FAO et l'ASM Gafsa avec l'appui des Organisations Non Gouvernementales et les Organisations Gouvernementales ont proposé de promouvoir la reconnaissance des oasis historiques de la Tunisie comme patrimoine agricole national en partenariat avec toutes les ONG opérant dans les oasis,...

Behind the current scramble for land in Africa is a global struggle for a commodity increasingly seen as more precious than gold or oil - water Food cannot be grown without water.  In Africa, one in three people suffer from water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building...

Rural extension plays a significant and irreplaceable role in an innovation system that creates, designs, validates, and promotes new ideas, solutions, technologies, and forms of management focused on the resolution of problems and satisfaction of the needs of farmers and rural inhabitants and the organizations that represent them. In view of...

CALIDER define cada concepto como: Alianza: Es un conjunto de organizaciones del sector rural, de distintas regiones, de diversa naturaleza y tendencias, comprometidas con los problemas y desafíos del sector rural y dispuestos a trabajar en conjunto. Innovación: La innovación trasciende lo meramente productivo; la innovación es el desafío propio del sector...

Cascina Barosi is a farm completely run by women. Cascina Barosi is a journey backwards, from big cities to the countryside. Benedetta, from Milan, managed a farm near Cremona. The film recounts his relationship with technology, enabling her to remotely control to the work on the farm, succeeding so to...

Esta publicación recoge el análisis del proceso de estructuración del Programa Nacional de Agrobioprospección, el análisis de las capacidades tecnológicas para el desarrollo del programa y los proyectos piloto para su implementación. Estos avances se lograron en el marco del convenio 069 de 2011, establecido entre el Ministerio de Agricultura...

En 2009, le gouvernement argentin élevait au statut de ministère son secrétariat à l’Agriculture et créait en son sein le secrétariat de l’Agriculture familiale et du Développement rural, augurant ainsi de la reconnaissance officielle d’un nouvel acteur du secteur agricole et d’une transformation de la politique publique afférente. Cet évènement...

When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in...

El tema central de la revista Nº 23 de umbrales, Los Desafíos de la Agricultura en el contexto actual y la Ley de Revolución Productiva Agropecuaria Comunitaria, del Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA), plantea un conjunto de reflexiones y temas que deberían...

El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), el Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) y el Consorcio de Pequeños Productores de Papa (CONPAPA), como parte del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de semilla de papa nativa en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú” se complacen en presentar la publicación Produzcamos nuestra...

The film tells the special relationship of Matteo Bolognesi with agriculture: original, organic and biodynamic, but without giving up technology. With small investments from the Rural Development Programme of his region, has created a niche market in which he is producing essential oils, lavender, rosemary, spices for the well-being and...

This manual on Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) is based primarily on the direct experience derived from several years of implementing PPB programmes in a number of countries and on a number of crops, and secondly, from a number of training courses (China, Ethiopia, Jordan, Australia, South Africa) and when necessary,...

Este proyecto constituye una iniciativa enmarcada en el esfuerzo por desarrollar capacidades y acciones de prevención para el manejo y gestión de riesgos en un contexto de adaptación al cambio climático. Se busca generar un proceso de desarrollo rural andino sostenible, que colabore en la disminución de los indicadores de...

In Zambia, more than 1 million rural households can benefit from Agriculture Water Management solutions. Food security, the ability to diversify their crops and increased income are among the potential benefits. For this to happen, support to smallholders should be part of an integrated approach in which all aspects of...