The combination of increasingly globalizing agricultural markets, rapidly modernizing local value chains, and urbanizing distribution channels presents African smallholders with considerably more complex challenges than those faced by Asian producers during the Green Revolution era. African smallholders today not only need to produce more efficiently but also need to contend with far more logistically...

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 eradicate hunger,...

El presente documento describe el plan para implementar la política nacional de desarrollo rural es un instrumento de planificación multisectorial encaminado a la consecución de resultados en el corto y mediano plazo, en un territorio geográficamente delimitado (priorización territorial) y definiendo las intervenciones estratégicas sectoriales y esenciales que se ejecutarán. Se...

Farm Life in Romania Countryside.

This report, and the events recorded in it, focus upon seven countries which are at various stages of active or potential candidature to join the European Union. Six of the countries are in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and...

Esta presentación, desarrollada por Ana Lucía Márquez de The Hunger Project México, describe el modelo seguido por The Hunger Project, sus aliados y recomendaciones.

La agricultura en Centroamérica, principalmente la que realizan los pequeños productores, tiene severas limitaciones por falta de tierras, escasos recursos y poco acceso a tecnologías de bajo costo, que puedan ayudar a reducir costos, riesgos y contribuyan al aumento de la productividad y calidad de su producción. La falta de...

Este documento es una versión sencilla y amigable del plan para implementar la política nacional de desarrollo rural integral (PNDRI), que es utilizado para socializarlo y promover, a nivel territorial, el involucramiento de la población en su ejecución.  En la página web http://pndri.scep.gob.gt/es/material-de-apoyo están disponibles las versiones de este documento en los...

The fishing community of the Sundarbans are the human group most at home in the mud-slush-water-forest environment of this famous mangrove estuary. Their skills, knowledge, and technique have developed in response to a challenging environment. Yet, of the countless studies on the various aspects of this eco-region, there are exceedingly...

This publication summarizes the conversation that took place at the “Family Forestry is Family Farming” event co-organized by the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) and the International Family Forestry Alliance (IFFA)on Thursday 26th June 2014, World Forest Week FAO, Rome. In the celebration of the International Year of Family Farming...

Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) has helped people address the challenges of food insecurity and environmental degradation while conserving wildlife and other natural resources. COMACO is one of the few programs that operate at the scale of an entire ecosystem—contributing to increased wildlife numbers, better protected habitats, improved food security,...

El objetivo del Programa Regional de Investigación e Innovación por Cadenas de Valor (PRIICA) es generar y validar respuestas tecnológicas en la cadena de valor con productores de yuca, papa, aguacate y tomate, para contribuir al acceso y a la disponibilidad de alimentos, respondiendo de manera directa a la seguridad...

Latvian agriculture is characterized by a large number of small farms – 95% of the total number of farms (79 130 farms in total numbers) are with the standard output less than 25 thousand EUR (CSB, 2011). These farms employ 79% of the total agricultural labour force (in annual work...

La presencia de espacios abiertos, no techados, anexos a la casa o incorporados en el interior de la misma puede rastrearse, asociada a los primeros asentamientos urbanos, en muy distintos ámbitos culturales a lo largo del mundo. Podría decirse que junto con la casa forman parte esencial de la vivienda,...

A Participatory Study of the Traditional Knowledge of Fishing Communities in the Gulf of Mannar, India' is the first in a series of case studies undertaken by the ICSF to document the traditional knowledge of fishing communities dependent on marine and coastal resources in protected and conserved areas in different...

A história em quadrinhos e a linguagem informal foram escolhidas pela sub-rede Mudanças Climáticas e Desenvolvimento Regional para apresentar a percepção de agricultores familiares do sertão nordestino sobre as alterações no clima e, também, como isso tem afetado as suas atividades produtivas. Com o objetivo de estabelecer um diálogo de saberes,...

Marine Protected Areas and Small-scale Fisheries in South Africa: Promoting Governance, Participation, Equity and Benefit Sharing' is a monograph about the progress achieved by conservation partners in South Africa on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Programme Element.  It explores the strategies and mechanisms used by different...

El  presente  estudio  pretende  hacer  una  evaluación  del  Plan  de  Agricultura  Familiar  y  de  su   presupuesto   asignado.   Intentaremos   mostrar,   la   situación   de   la   agricultura   familiar   campesina,  el  proceso  de  elaboración  y  ejecución  del  presupuesto  en  agricultura.  En  otras  ...

La presentación, desarrollada por Curt Bowen de "Semilla Nueva", Guatemala, describe a esta organización y su metodología de trabajo. 

Traditional fishworkers have long been forced to adapt to the forces of nature, and they are now confronted with the  new threats of climate change, global warming, sea-level rise and ocean acidification. What will be the potential impacts of climate change on the already vulnerable and marginalized small-scale fishing communities...