Este compendio de documentos ha sido organizado y editado para ayudar a mantener la memoria, en una sociedad que suele tener una frágil recordación histórica que conlleva a creer que todo gobierno de turno debe comenzar de cero. Esta publicación está dirigida a líderes agrarios, líderes comunales, promotores de organizaciones...

The data revolution must address three major challenges in order to contribute to sustainable development: increasing the quantity and quality of data; making the data usable; and ensuring their use by decision-makers. This infographic shows how the data revolution can be mobilized, with an example from the livestock sector. In collaboration...

The Green Report delivers information on current conditions in agriculture and the food industry in Slovakia and around the world, changes over the past year in development, production and the market, the economic and financial situation facing enterprise, rural development, regional development and the standing of agriculture and the food...

Con la Participación de cinco delegados del Comité Nacional de Agricultura Familiar Campesina y Comunitaria del Ecuador junto a algunas organizaciones miembro de los Comités Departamentales del Cauca y Nariño del CIN-AF se llevó a cabo el Primer Encuentro Binacional de los Comités de Agricultura Familiar de Colombia y Ecuador...

More than half a billion people live in the European Union. Every one of these EU citizens can benefit from rural development policy outcomes that produce better quality food, as well as a vibrant and healthy countryside where people can live, work and visit. Member States’ Rural Development Programmes (RDPs)...

This article investigates gender inequality in agricultural productivity, highlights its key determinants, and approximates the potential production, consumption, and poverty gains from reducing or closing the gender productivity gap. The analysis is performed on the basis of representative household survey datasets recently collected in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. In these...

Durante 2014, han sido muchos los esfuerzos para difundir socialmente la importancia de la Agricultura Familiar. En América Latina, la pequeña agricultura y el campesinado habían ido perdiendo espacio en las agendas políticas nacionales e internacionales. Sin embargo, recientes debates en torno a la pobreza rural y la malnutrición han...

La presidenta brasileña, Dilma Rousseff, anunció hoy que su Gobierno ofrecerá créditos por 28.900 millones de reales (unos 9.633 millones de dólares) a la agricultura familiar, responsable por cerca del 70 % de los alimentos que produce el país. Al presentar el plan de apoyo a la agricultura familiar, Rousseff destacó...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Agroecology in the region has been carried out in practice for decades; by social movements of small-holder farmers, rural groups, traditional communities, indigenous peoples, artisanal fisher folk, herders, and gatherers. It has a strong scientific base and is increasingly receiving support from governments through new public policies. The practices and...

Con la finalidad de determinar la sustentabilidad de la caficultura orgánica en La Convención-Cusco se evaluó de forma comparativa la sostenibilidad de la producción de café arábico a nivel social, ambiental y económico del sistema orgánico y convencional, mediante indicadores estratégicos. La zona de estudio se encuentra en la ceja...

The €128 million Rural Renaissance call is about opportunities for sustainable rural growth, looked at through integrated approaches, cutting across sectors and taking a territorial perspective. It has the ambition to modernise policies and governance, and foster new business developments. The projects should boost innovation, advising and demonstration approaches in...

More and more people are moving towards urban areas for various reasons. This has also increased the demand for food while putting pressure on scarce resources. Urban life styles and food preferences also influence the type of food grown and the way it is grown to meet the growing urban...

A través de esta mesa se reglamentarán los artículos del decreto y sus modificaciones. Entre ellas se destaca que podrán participar como proveedores del almuerzo escolar productores de alimentos, individuales o asociados en cooperativas, además de recibir asistencia técnica del MAG. La mesa técnica está conformada por la Secretaría Técnica de...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

AGRIREGIONIEUROPA has the twofold aim  to foster dialogue between scientific research and land in agriculture, agribusiness and rural development, and to combine the regional and national dimension with the international and European Union in particular. This issue of the journal is entirely devoted to family farming,  with a geographical focus...

El recetario de saberes y sabores de nuestra tierra nace en el marco del proyecto “Saberes y Sabores: mejoramiento de productividad y nutrición de familias campesinas/indígenas de las provincias de la Sierra centro del Ecuador” cuyo fin es enfrentar la malnutrición de los sectores campesinos y urbano marginales. Paradójicamente, quienes producen...

Desde el año 2002, la Secretaria de Hacienda y Crédito Público (SHCP) ha publicado el Presupuesto de Gastos Fiscales (PGF), con la finalidad de dar a conocer los ingresos que el Gobierno Federal deja de percibir por concepto de tasas diferenciadas en los distintos impuestos, exenciones, subsidios y créditos fiscales,...

This e-learning course, entitled Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) - version 2.0, provides an overview of IPC approach. The goal of this course is to provide guidance on how to use IPC tools and procedures specifically focused on acute food insecurity.

Approximately 38% of the EU budget (equivalent to 0.4% of the Union’s GDP) is spent on agriculture and rural development. This pooling of resources at EU level ensures efficient and effective spending that avoids distorting the internal market and delivers a wide range of public goods. It is much more...