Pesticidal plants, also referred to as botanical pesticides, have been used for centuries for pest management. Evidence of their use in agriculture dates back to Greek, Roman and Egyptian empires. They were the main method of crop pest management in modern times until the development of synthetic pesticides in the...

À l’échelle mondiale, un tiers des superficies irriguées pour l’agriculture est basé sur l’exploitation des ressources souterraines, grâce au développement fulgurant des puits et des forages. En sécurisant l’irrigation, l’accès à l’eau souterraine permet d’augmenter les rendements et les volumes de production. Il s’accompagne également d’un changement des assolements avec...

Copa and Cogeca : the voice of European Farmers & Agri-cooperatives talk about producing food for a growing Europe

Les exploitations familiales des pays du Sud, au foncier cultivable souvent limité, doivent pouvoir entretenir la fertilité de leurs terres si elles veulent améliorer leur productivité. L’agriculture de conservation et le semis direct sans travail du sol constituent des pratiques pouvant répondre à cet enjeu. Mais on constate qu’elles sont...

This study analyses the seed, feed, energy, fertilizer, and plant protection agents farm input sectors from two perspectives: the demand side and the supply side. Average input shares in the EU-27 for seeds and fertilizers declined while they increased for feeds. Market concentration is the largest in the plant protection...

Este artículo informa que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos (Proalimentos), entidad adscrita al Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca, adquirió 2.159 gavetas de naranja proveniente de noventa y seis productores de la provincia de Loja. La fruta, adquirida por 19.427,85 dólares, será incluida en la alimentación escolar de 14.391...

The Netherlands and FAO are expanding their collaboration in the area of water management with a $7 million donation by the Dutch government to support the use of remote sensing technology in helping water-scarce countries in the Near East and Africa monitor and improve the way they use water for crop...

Central Asia is one of the oldest areas of human civilization. Uzbekistan is home to several sites of ancient irrigated agriculture. Archaeological data indicate that by the end of the 2nd millennium BCE in the delta region of the Amu Darya river, the agricultural civilization of ancient Khorezm already had...

A large proportion of Ethiopians derive their livelihoods from smallholder agriculture. This has provided the impetus for the smallholder agriculture-focused policies that have guided agricultural development efforts in Ethiopia over the past two decades. In this study, we investigate the productivity of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia, since this is...

15th September 2015, Addis Ababa– The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched today the East Africa Consultation Workshop on improving small-scale fisheries (SSF) in the context of food security and poverty eradication. This event is organized by the FAO Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (SFE) in...

Este 15 de octubre se celebra el Día de la Mujer Rural. Según la resolución de las Naciones Unidas este día se reconoce «la función y contribución decisivas de la mujer rural, incluida la mujer indígena, en la promoción del desarrollo agrícola y rural, la mejora de la seguridad alimentaria...

Esta noticia informa que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos, Proalimentos, realizó la firma de contrato con ciento once pequeños productores de orito y naranja por un monto de 264.743 dólares. El orito será consumido por 41.184 niñas y niños de educación general básica, mientras que la mandarina será consumida por 47.570.  A...

Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of Malawi’s economy. Its importance for livelihoods cannot be overstated. 94 percent of rural residents and 38 percent of urban residents engage in agriculture to some extent (Jones, Shrinivas, and Bezner-Kerr 2014), the vast majority as smallholder farmers with landholdings of less than one hectare....

El año 2014 fue declarado oficialmente por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas como “Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar” (AIAF), para poner de relieve el papel primordial que juegan los agricultores familiares en la mitigación del hambre y la pobreza, su contribución a la seguridad alimentaria y a...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit...

This Policy Brief has been issued in conjunction with and partly as a summary of "Towards effective national forest funds", Forestry Paper no. 174. It aims to give a quick overview of the mechanism of financing sustainable forest management projects through national forest funds (NFFs) and on how this financing...

This six-minute video shows how the FAO Dimitra Clubs in Niger have been crucial to ensure women’s access to land and water, while contributing to nutrition, food security and gender equality, thereby reducing rural poverty. The transformative approach of the Dimitra Clubs induces behavioral changes in various aspects of daily...

La agricultura familiar y la ecológica se muestran como claves para la adaptación al cambio climático y para poner fin al hambre en Honduras, donde la sequía afecta a unas 80.000 familias pobres y el sector productivo pide que se decrete una emergencia. La sequía que golpea a Honduras es “un...

L’histoire tunisienne a produit ce qui est perçu comme un fort dualisme entre petite et grande agriculture. Après avoir été longtemps marginalisée par des politiques agricoles productivistes, la petite agriculture est aujourd’hui encouragée, notamment suite à la révolution de 2011. Face à la paupérisation du monde rural, à l’exode et...