This paper explores aspects of promoting rural women’s leadership in producers’ organizations (POs). Despite the vast amount of work that women perform in the agriculture sector, their role remains largely unrecognized. The concerns and issues of women farmers are scarcely heard at the local, national and global levels. One reason...

Biowatch advocates for agroecology as a proven, multi-faceted approach to creating a sustainable, diverse, just food system that applies ecological principles and methods to farming, while addressing wider environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions in order to transform the industrialised food system.

There is a wide consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is a key resource to support European agriculture in meeting new challenges such as e.g. international competition, food safety, health or environmental issues. Organisations delivering farm advice are targeted by different EU policies, such as the “Farm Advisory...

This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions to achieve women’s economic empowerment in rural areas. The...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

Se evaluó el efecto a nivel de invernadero de un biofertilizante integrado en soporte orgánico mineral, en un cultivo de lechuga, var. Batavia, en la Sabana de Bogotá. Se evaluaron cinco tratamientos cada uno con 22 plantas así, compost + biofertilizante (T1), biofertilizante en soporte orgánico mineral (T2), biofertilizante común...

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

La actividad se desarrolló en Quito, Ecuador, con presencia de productores familiares, campesinos y funcionarios de los gobiernos participantes de la REAF.

Sometidos a procesos ambientales, económicos, sociales y productivos los horticultores deben adaptarse a cambios en los aspectos productivos como comerciales. En este sentido, un conjunto de productores hortícolas, ubicados en la localidad de Open Door, distrito de Lujan han iniciado un proceso de transición hacia la agroecología. El objetivo de...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...

The third European Forest Week will be held in conjunction with Silva2015, the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI); and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). It will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland in the alpine village of Engelberg from 2–6...

The planned Symposium is one of the activities initiated by FAO in the last three decades. It is expected that this event will constitute a neutral forum for discussion and dissemination of scientific knowledge on forest biotechnology. The event is organized in cooperation with EMBRAPA, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (www.embrapa.br), one...

Farms are the basic organisational unit for agricultural production. How many farms are there in the EU and how has their number changed in recent years? Are they becoming bigger and more specialised? And what about the farmers who take production decisions and receive CAP payments – what do we...

Young farmers are now at the heart of Europe’s common agricultural policy. This is one of the greatest achievements of the reform which was adopted in 2013. The European Union has put in place a strong tool — a modern and forward-looking agricultural policy — which will apply all across...

What happens when small holder farmers from different parts of the developing world share their knowledge and experience? In 2007, four farmer couples, (husbands and wives), from oases in Morocco spent six months living with oasis farmers in Mauritania who were struggling to survive. This short video looks at what...

Las mujeres rurales son responsables por más de la mitad de la producción de alimentos a nivel mundial, pero en América Latina y el Caribe continúan viviendo en una situación de desigualdad social y política, la cual se expresa fuertemente en su acceso y propiedad sobre la tierra, señaló hoy...

The total organic area in the EU-28 (i.e. the area fully converted to organic production and area under conversion) was 10.3 million hectares (ha) in 2014 and continues to show an upward trend. The increase in area between 2013 and 2014 was 2.3 %, compared with +0.2 % between 2012...

Le Saïss au Maroc voit le développement d’une agriculture arboricole et maraîchère intensive mise en œuvre par des investisseurs, basée sur l’exploitation de l’eau souterraine, à côté d’autres formes d’agriculture plus diversifiées. Ces mutations interrogent le devenir agricole de la zone et interpellent les jeunes agriculteurs qui sont actifs à...

Este video muestra el resultado exitoso de un proyecto de adaptación al cambio climatico en el Cono Sur, denominado "Evaluación de los cambios en la productividad del agua". Este video fue financiado por el Fondo Coreano para la Reduccion de la Pobreza (KPR) Subtitulado al inglés.

La humanidad se encuentra en una encrucijada; la de producir alimentos para un número creciente de seres humanos junto a la de preservar los bienes comunes naturales. La agricultura moderna basada en monocultivos y el uso de insumos sintéticos determina un importante impacto ambiental incluido el cambio climático. La agroecología a partir de...