Este libro muestra cómo diferentes actores del sistema cubano de innovación formal e informal responden al desafío que presenta la crisis del sistema alimentario mundial. Desde una visión concertada, presenta los resultados del proyecto ""Desarrollo de sistemas descentralizados y participativos de garantías ambientales en Cuba"". El texto propone un acercamiento al...

In 2005, The International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM) developed four new ethical principles of organic agriculture to guide its future development: the principles of health, ecology, care, and fairness. The key distinctive concept of animal welfare in organic agriculture combines naturalness and human care, and can be linked...

El CECTEC es una organización civil, sin fines de lucro, que orienta su acción formativa a productores campesinos, a sus familias y comunidades. Las líneas de trabajo del CECTEC intentan responder a problemas concretos que afectan a la unidad familiar campesina y, en particular, a la juventud.

Less than one year away from the next United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled for June 2012 in Rio (Rio+20), the international community is mobilizing to ensure that tomorrow’s major challenges are on the agenda. Among these subjects, the issue of global food security and new challenges governing current...

Less than one year away from the next United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled for June 2012 inRio (Rio+20), the international community is mobilizing to ensure that tomorrow’s major challenges are on the agenda. Amongthese subjects, the issue of global food security and new challenges governing current and future...

Este trabajo brinda insumos para la discusión de una nueva institucionalidad para la extensión como una de las prioridades de la Red Latinoamericana de Servicios de Extensión Rural (RELASER), y su vínculo con el Foro Global para los Servicios de Asesoría Rural (GFRAS). Se hace una breve descripción de los...

 En Afrique de l'Ouest des dispositifs de conseil à l'exploitation agricole familiale ont été développés pour mieux répondre aux nouvelles attentes des producteurs. L'objectif de l'article est de montrer que ces dispositifs pluri-institutionnels peuvent être appréhendés comme des systèmes complexes dont le fonctionnement est fortement contraint par le mode de...

In the past decade, both worldwide and in Croatia, there has been an increased interest in the production of organic products. This is the result of several factors. The most important elements of the organic food industry are linking agriculture and tourism, improving overall tourism, increasing consumer concerns for health,...

In recent years Italy has seen a vital, if spontaneous and rather piecemeal, growth in short food supply chains at the local level. Such a phenomenon is of considerable interest since it responds to a number of needs and opportunities, both of farmers and consumers. Short supply food chains in...

Action plan describes planned activities and important steps in development of organic production in Croatia. Most organic producersa in Croatia are small and medium farmers that can signifficantly y improve their financial position through this type of production.

This first video of a three-part series observes how FAO has used EU funding to provide 44,000 farmers with training, machinery and other inputs as part of an initiative to increase agricultural production and productivity in Sierra Leone, in partnership with the Government and other humanitarian organizations. 44,000 small holder...

El presente estudio tiene como objetivo principal la identificación de problemas y proponer medidas que faciliten la inserción de la agricultura familiar en los procesos de comercialización agrícola/agroindustrial. Cuatro objetivos específicos orientan este estudio: 1) Analizar las estructuras de comercialización dominantes en la agricultura familiar e identificar los principales conflictos...

“La Juntada”, una publicación que se propone recopilar desde la experiencia misma, el relato de una historia que recién comienza a escribirse y pretende potenciar el desarrollo de nuevas propuestas de trabajo conjunto entre distintos organismos nacionales, en gestión asociada con las organizaciones del campo popular. Deseamos que este trabajo...

Thanks to FAO efforts under the EU Food Facility, 138 Agricultural Business Centres have been established in Sierra Leone. This second video of a three-part series takes a close look at these one-stop shops providing small holder farmers with access to training, tools, labour-saving equipment and machinery, which will increase...

Maldives became a member of FAO in 1971 and was accredited to the FAO Representative’s office in Sri Lanka in 1979. The economy of Maldives has grown rapidly since 1975, making impressive socio-economic progress when measured by improvements in socio-economic indicators and poverty reduction. The government has played a central...

This dissertation covers the social reproduction of family farmers in the community of Praia Grande, Southern region of Santa Catarina, facing the trade expansion of family agriculture and the  socioeconomic  transformations  derived.  Focus  is  given  on  the fall  in  income  and agricultural employment, shaped mainly from mid-1980 on, within the...

Sustainability and food security are the major challenges faced by third world countries for the past several decades. Most of the third world countries are also facing problems of climate change, increasing population, overexploitation of natural resources and resource degradation associated with rapid economic growth. Among the scientific and policy...

This paper provides an overview of what we call ‘agroecological revolution’ in Latin America. As the expansion of agroexports and biofuels continues unfolding in Latin America and warming the planet, the concepts of food sovereignty and agroecology-based agricultural production gain increasing attention. New approaches and technologies involving the application of blended...

In this brochure seven farmers are explaining how they protect our environment with their agriculture and preserve it for future generations. The Austrian farmers have already been working for centuries with the natural bases of life water, soil, air and biodiversity. By means of their near-natural management they have succeeded...

Sierra Leonean farmers benefit from new business skills. This final video of a three-part series shows how FAO has used EU Food Facility funding to train farmers on how to better market their produce.