Policies affect every dimension of the institutional and legal context in which poor rural people pursue their livelihoods. They shape the world they live in and the economic opportunities open to them. This means that supportive policies can go a long way towards providing the conditions in which people can...

El presente documento describe el momento en que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos, Proalimentos, participó en el ‘Primer diálogo regional sobre oportunidades y desafíos de colaboración entre la agricultura familiar y los sistemas públicos de abastecimiento y compras de alimentos en América Latina y el Caribe’, que se desarrolló...

Most of the poor in the developing countries are smallholder farmers. Improving their productivity is essential for reducing poverty. Despite small landholdings, a high degree of land fragmentation, and rising labor costs, agricultural production in China has steadily increased. If one treats the farm household as the unit of analysis,...

A unique, Africa-led fund to improve agriculture and food security across the continent has become a reality. Officially launched in June 2013 with funding totaling over US $ 40 million from Equatorial Guinea, Angola and group of civil society organizations in the Republic of Congo.

A national level review and scoping study on climate change policies, programs, projects and activities on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) in Kenya was conducted through a literature review and consultations with stakeholders. A national assessment based on the review of secondary data and results of existing studies was conducted to provide...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the emerging entrepreneurial practices and the underlying logic of family farms in two agrarian reform cooperatives in Morocco. These practices can be explained by the constant negotiation of multiple and sometimes even antagonistic logics (peasant, entrepreneurial, proletarian, capitalistic) within these farms in...

Africa has managed to maintain a favorable environment for growth and poverty reduction in the face of the series of global economic crises in the past couple decades. Part of this is due to Africa’s level of isolation from the global economy, but it is also testament to the resilience...

Le changement climatique a pour conséquence directe la fragilisation des petites exploitations familiales, notamment sur le plan de l’irrigation. Pourtant, leurs pratiques traditionnelles sont considérées comme les mieux adaptées. Dans le Sahel, l’agriculture familiale s’avère d’autant plus importante qu’elle est centrée sur les cultures vivrières, dont dépend largement la sécurité...

The purpose of this paper is to characterize nine coffee agroecosystems from the Colombian Andes with an agroecological approach. Attributes and indicators evaluated are grouped under three dimensions: economic, social and technical-productive. Indicators are sensitive to agroecosystem conditions and can be easily understood by farmers. Low productivity of coffee plantations...

Esta noticia da cuenta que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos, Proalimentos, firmó un contrato de compra de fresas con 53 familias agricultoras por un monto de 16.681 dólares. La fruta formará parte de la dieta escolar de 4.533 niños y niñas de Azuay. Los alumnos de 21 unidades educativas consumirán porciones de 75 gramos...

En el año 2008 se comenzó a trabajar junto a los productores queseros de Tandil a través del proyecto “Construcción participativa de los quesos de Tandil”. Dicho proyecto, perteneciente al Programa Institucional de Alimentos de la Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, fue ejecutado a través...

Agriculture plays an important role in Zimbabwe where 70 percent of the population is dependent on farming for their livelihood, yet post-harvest losses remain a major challenge to many smallholder farmers countrywide. About 30 percent of the harvested grain is lost due to lack of appropriate storage facilities, a situation...

The project aimed to re-activate cross-border trade of local agricultural products, through joint marketing and the integration of traditional marketplaces on which local farmers from the border area in past times sold their own agricultural products. EU accession led to the withdrawal of former barriers, which once separated Italy from...

The analysis of organic-product consumer behavior deals primarily with preferences. There is a need to better understand the predictors that determine consumer choices when purchasing organic products. Metropolitan Lima was chosen as the study location. The structured questionnaire involved interviews with 547 organic consumers of the metropolitan area of Lima,...

El presente documento aborda cómo en las últimas dos décadas, la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional se ha instalado con fuerza en la agenda de América Latina y el Caribe convirtiendo a la erradicación del hambre y la malnutrición en un objetivo regional de desarrollo. ALC fue pionera en proponer la erradicación...

Court article relatant l'annonce  faite à Brazzaville par le Représentant de l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) au Congo,  Dieudonné Koguiyagda.    

Al menos 400 mujeres campesinas migrantes de áreas rurales de Bolivia producen alimentos ecológicos en áreas periurbanas para la nutrición de sus familias y el abastecimiento alimentario de miles de hogares en la ciudad de Sucre, como resultado de la cooperación técnica entre autoridades del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia y...

The potential for success in ensuring that agriculture is both competitive and viable under the new Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) will depend particularly on engagement with farmers, foresters and land managers, as well as their representative bodies and advisors. In this article, we consider the relevance of rural development objectives...

Rural advisory services (RAS) can play an important role in addressing gender inequalities. However, RAS programmes have often fallen short of expectations to design and implement relevant services to help rural women and men achieve food security and generate more income. This paper is based on an examination of a...

Summer pasture farming i Norway, short introduction