Molina de Aragón is located at the heart of the biggest European demographic desert. Re-named as ‘Serranía Celtibérica’, this desert unites rural territories from different Spanish provinces, such as Saragossa, Teruel, Cuenca, Soria or Guadalajara. Having an area double that of Belgium, this desert hosts only 487,417 inhabitants at a...

La serie de documentales “Hacemos Agua”, realizados por nuestro contribuidor permanente Universidad Nacional del Rosario (UNR), a través de UNICANAL, el cual aborda la problemática del agua: un requisito básico para la vida de las personas y un derecho humano. Investigadores y expertos analizan distintos aspectos del elemento esencial y...

For decades food insecurity has been a challenge in Cameroon's Far North region, mainly due to extreme weather and weak land legislation. Now the problem is escalating. The current humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in over 87,000 refugees and 340,000 internally displaced people in the region....

Unlike intensive agriculture, sustainable farming has a great potential for benefiting the environment and preserving natural resources. There are more methods that overlap in many principles that are sustainable in the long-run and may be 100 percent organic or at least from the biggest part. The following ten sustainable farming...

Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives. These examples help to deconstruct the myth that large-scale, industrial agriculture is "feeding the world", and that it is compatible with other...

10 training courses on sustainable management of natural resources in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Ukraine to provide aid in achieving neutral level of land degradation The problem of land degradation is crucial for Ukraine, as it affects 20 percent of the country’s arable land, or 6.5 million ha in...

What is the state of play for rural Europe? Are rural places still lagging behind – forgotten, disadvantaged and in need of extra supports? Or is there a rural renaissance of sorts occurring, from smart villages to innovation hubs? Life is becoming increasingly unaffordable and, in many ways, unbearable in cities...

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks. Representatives from China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as delegates from FAO, the World Organisation for...

A one-week training course will be organised in the framework of the H2020 EU-funded project Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) (www.simra-h2020.eu) at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM) on 18-22 November 2019 to address the importance of social innovation in less-favoured rural areas. Social innovation has been...

Este compendio se compone de diferentes partes: – Una introducción general. – Una primera parte, relativa a los principios metodológicos generales, a saber: • los principios y desafíos de la evaluación,  • las diferentes situaciones de uso y los distintos objetivos de la evaluación, • los efectos y los criterios de evaluación propuestos en el...

The SEMA II project on multifunctional agriculture gathers case studies and training material on how farmers can divserify their activities. It is accessible to everyone and the information is posted as video clips to make it more engaging.

The Government of Myanmar and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today signed a multi-year framework agreement that will create an enabling environment to improve nutrition and food security in Myanmar, while safeguarding and sustainably managing the use of natural resources. The Country Programming Framework (CPF) was signed by U...

Spring is in the air, and a seed is germinating and fighting to grow. On its own, it begins to make its way, breaking earth, little by little, following the rhythms of the sun, it will go on growing. But it needs water to sprout and grow. And if the...

Women in fisheries and aquaculture are witnessing a curious paradox today. While on the one hand, women’s lack of visibility, capacity and resource access is being discussed increasingly and in ever-widening spaces, there is arguably little evidence that the response of national and international policy is in any way proportionate...

The Pilot Project on Smart Eco-Social Villages, initiated by the European Parliament, has been carried out by a consortium consisting of Ecorys, Origin for Sustainability and R.E.D. under the responsibility of the European Commission (Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development). The potential effect of this Pilot Project is to shape...

  Más de 250 participantes de 66 países del mundo, representantes de gobiernos, organismos internacionales como la FAO, FIDA e ILC, asociaciones agrarias y de desarrollo rural, centros de investigación, cooperativas, sindicatos y otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil se dieron cita durante la VI Conferencia Global de la Agricultura Familiar,...

Según Calzada et at., 2018 el 70% del stock de porcinos se localiza en la región Centro de Argentina. Es en este contexto que a partir del 2015 y en el marco de los proyectos presentados en la 8va, 9na y 10ma convocatoria se comenzó un trabajo de identificación, reconocimiento...

Women in fisheries and aquaculture are witnessing a curious paradox today. While on the one hand, women’s lack of visibility, capacity and resource access is being discussed increasingly and in ever-widening spaces, there is arguably little evidence that the response of national and international policy is in any way proportionate...

In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). The year is a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.

A recently-concluded meeting of the Women in Fisheries Network-Fiji calls for sex-disaggregated data on the participation of women in the fisheries sector