In the last 60 years, the livelihoods of agro-pastoral and pastoral families in the arid and semi-arid zones in North Africa and the Middle East have undergone major changes caused by significant incentives to adopt a sedentary lifestyle and the increasing intensity of drought events. Such changes have also been...

Over a period of 5 months, the Food Heritage Foundation (FHF) team worked on rehabilitating and equipping the foundation’s kitchen at Zico House – Spears, partnering with small producers in rural areas in order to secure a regular supply of high-quality raw ingredients to the kitchen and contacting women cooks...

Agriculture is an engine of growth for rural communities, particularly in the developing world. It has also proven to be an especially viable tool for women to lift themselves out of poverty. Women in developing countries rely heavily on the income they earn from agriculture-related activities to provide for their...

The goal of the WFAL 2016 is to organise a world forum in 2016 to address the major issues linked to unequal access to land, natural resources. Ten years after the World Forum on Agrarian Reforms (Valencia, Spain, 2004) and the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (Porto Alegre,...

CEBU, Philippines - Small food producers in the Philippines will soon take advantage of the over 600 million consumers in the ASEAN region, as the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) is currently crafting a program in coordination with key agencies to allow producers...

L’année 2014, retenue par les organisations internationales comme année de l’agriculture familiale, a été l’occasion pour plusieurs équipes françaises de recherche engagées sur ce thème de livrer une synthèse de leurs travaux et de réfléchir sur leur contribution à la compréhension, l’évaluation, la gouvernance de cette forme d’organisation agraire considérée,...

This first issue of The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries is a comprehensive review of the status and trends of fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. It includes eight chapters, separated in two parts: a first part on the status and trends of Mediterranean and Black Sea...

The EU livestock sector - especially pigs dairy, cattle, sheep & goats, poultry & eggs - is being hit by increasing challenges ranging from upcoming climate change policy, health issues, animal welfare constraints, trade issues, with a decline in EU meat consumption expected by 2025. Yet eating beef, veal, lamb,...

Just in time for spring sowing season, FAO delivered over 67 tonnes of maize, alfalfa and red clover seed to more than 4 500 farmers in 17 municipalities in eastern, central and western Serbia. Farmers received seeds and fertilizer during March and April and immediately got down to business –...

Fifty-four dairy cows were handed over to selected rural women in the Issyk-Kul province of Kyrgyzstan last week. Provision of the livestock – together with several units of agricultural machinery – was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Government of Switzerland.  The handover event was attended by representatives...

Indoor housing is a convenient practice for raising livestock. If stalls are constructed in an appropriate way, they can fulfill several functions. This practice describes in detail how to construct a goat shed and a feeding trough. The feeding trough is constructed outside the stall, making it easier to clean...

Traditional international agriculture exhibition “Ka pasesi… 2016” will take place at Aleksandras Stulginskis University (Akademija, Kaunas dist., Lithuania) on March 31 – April 2, 2016.

Workshop on Formation of Community Forestry Practitioners' Network (CFPN) in Myanmar

The Scandinavian kingdom has cut food waste by 25% in just five years, thanks to a new approach to damaged and out-of-date food. he Danes have successfully changed the way they look at out of date produce. In doing so, they have reduced the amount of food they throw away by...

The Colorado River irrigates 15 percent of the nation’s crops, making Western agriculture an issue that is crucial to the lives and dinner plates of all Americans. Conservation Generation is a new short film by the National Young Farmers Coalition that offers a look into the lives of four young...

Dans le cadre du renforcement de la résilience à travers l’amélioration des moyens d’existence des communautés pastorales, la FAO met en œuvre, depuis 2014, une activité de production locale et d’utilisation de Blocs Multi-nutritionnels (BMNs) dans ses zones d’intervention notamment dans les Wilayas du Trarza, Brakna, Gorgol et Assaba. Dans...

The French AMAP movement is 15 years old, and accounts for over 2,000 groups and 250,000 consumers nation-wide. Even with such a long background, the debates between “Amapians” are almost as passionate as they were when the first AMAP groups were founded in May 2001 in the Provence Region.

Este año, el Día Internacional de los Pueblos Indígenas está dedicado al derecho a la educación

Usually, there is a common practice to raise green manure as an intercrop in sugarcane and to incorporate it as mulch 45 to 50 days after sowing. The present practice, however, shows a modified method by introducing some practices based on close observations in a sugarcane production site in Tamil...

The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA) participated in the just concluded 6th global farmers’ forum held at the headquarters of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Rome, Italy on February 15-16, coinciding with its tenth anniversary. Farmer leaders, accompanied by technical staff, represented AFA as a...