The percentage of smallholders with access to finance is equally difficult to quantify. According to estimates, even promising approaches to expanding smallholder lending, such as value chain finance, are reaching fewer than 10 percent of smallholders, primarily those in well-established value chains dedicated to higher value cash crops. International Finance...

Los sistemas de extensión son la estrategia básica para incrementar la productividad, disminuir los costos unitarios, diversificar la producción, agregar valor, diferenciar las producciones, adecuarse a los estándares de calidad exigidos por el mercado y disminuir la inseguridad alimentaria. Para enfrentar este desafío se establece el Sistema Nacional de Innovación...

The policy document describes the need for targeted support of HNV farming systems, and proposals for achieving them under the CAP post 2013

La malnutrition et les carences en nutriments, ainsi que le surpoids, autant de problèmes de santé liés au régime alimentaire qui entravent l’épanouissement des populations, les empêchant de jouer pleinement leur rôle dans le développement socioéconomique de leur pays. Aujourd’hui, la nutrition occupe une bonne place dans les stratégies et politiques...

The EU and FAO support rural communities in Southern Africa to lessen the impact of drought, floods and cyclones and to increase their resilience by introducing adapted crops and seeds and promoting good agricultural practices.Mitigating the impact of climate change.

Documento que reune los aspectos principales del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar y el papel del FIDA dentro de este.  

This paper investigates the ‘megatrends’ shaping African economic, political and social landscapes and asks which ones depend endogenously on processes that are within the realm of policy influence and which ones are indeed exogenous. Based on this analysis, it sketches four plausible scenarios for African food systems and discusses how...

El sector agropecuario es uno de los motores de crecimiento de la economía del país. El desempeño del sector depende de los bienes y servicios que se entregan a los productores y demás actores de las cadenas de valor que participan en los procesos de producción y agregación de valor....

El estudio sobre las Estrategias de reformas institucionales e inversiones para los sistemas de extensión  en  Costa  Rica  consiste  en  un  análisis  de  las características básicas de la agricultura familiar costarricense, su nivel socioeconómico y su aporte a la producción de alimentos. Por otro lado, el estudio analiza las transformaciones en...

Farmers in the region on Monday welcomed the attention being placed on family farming, but cautioned against the absence of women and youth, shifting goalposts and ignoring cultural elements in the development of policy for the sub-sector. The advice was provided from the floor at a seminar titled ‘Caribbean Agricultural Transformation:...

Agrodan dairy company in northern Slovakia wanted to modernize the milk production technology in order to increase its competitiveness. The regional office of Rural Development Network in Slovakia considered this project a useful tool for the implementation of actions aimed at strengthening local short supply chains between local food producers...

This paper examines the determinants of agricultural productivity and its link to poverty using nationally representative data from the Nigeria General Household Survey Panel, 2010/11. The findings indicate an elasticity of poverty reduction with respect to agricultural productivity of between 0.25 to 0.3 percent, implying that a 10 percent increase...

El riesgo que representan los efectos del cambio climático no sólo tiene que ver con pérdidas económicas. En lo particular y de manera muy alarmante, los efectos del cambio climático también tienen el potencial de agravar las desigualdades de género. Reconociendo este hecho y con el ánimo de brindar pautas...

This document presents the conceptual framework, including the justification, objectives, expected outputs and agenda of a Regional Seminar on Transforming Caribbean Agriculture Through Family Farming, to be held during the Caribbean Week of Agriculture in Suriname, which is scheduled for the 06-12 October, 2014. The Seminar is being presented in...

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) to recognize the importance of family farming in reducing poverty and improving global food security. The IYFF aims to promote new development policies, particularly at the national but also regional levels, that will help smallholder and family farmers...

Sub-Saharan African countries, through their regional organizations, have embarked on the harmonisation of plant variety protection (PVP) systems. These initiatives are largely modelled on the UPOV 1991 act, which claims to incentivize plant breeding and facilitate agricultural development. Civil Society Organisations (CSO), however, strongly criticise this process for being out...

The International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) is meant to drumbeat the issues of family farmers before policy makers and other stakeholders in the rural development community. But, it is not only that. It is also aimed at bringing back the dignity of farming by recognizing the contribution of family...

Este número de LEISA presenta experiencias que se refieren al valor de la pequeña escala de producción, desde lo ambiental –conservación de los recursos naturales– y lo nutricional, especialmente para el caso de aquellos países que son centros de origen de la agricultura y donde el conocimiento acumulado de siglos...

Marcela Villarreal, la directora de la Oficina de Comunicaciones, Asociaciones y Promoción de la FAO, nos explica porque la agricultura familiar es tan esencial para las comunidades por todo el mundo y los objetivos de FAO durante el año

The 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the ninth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go, with levels of hunger remaining “alarming” or “extremely alarming” in...