With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of...

The assumption underlying this hypothesis is that farmers lack the knowledge, resources, or both to adequately prevent, anticipate, prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks. Extension and advisory services may be able to rectify this information asymmetry, or knowledge inequality, by providing or facilitating access to a variety of...

The well-known deregulation of New Zealand agriculture prompted the growth of dairy farming, particularly in the region of Southland. The formation of the giant cooperative Fonterra only exacerbated the conversion of sheep farms into dairy farms that challenged both farmers’ and the region’s traditional identity as a sheep country. Interviews...

This Infographic illustrates the interconnection of the forest and farm in one landscape, and the services and benefits together they provide to people. It also highlights the advantages that producer organizations give to the forest and farm producers.

Family farming represents the social base for most developing countries and constitutes the main form of agricultural organisation worldwide. It contributes to both domestic and international markets. Family farming thus accounts for almost 80% of global food production, 98% of food production in Sub-Saharan Africa and almost all cotton, cocoa...

The Soil Association was formed in 1946 to create a better world – one where we farm responsibly, eat healthily and live in balance with the environment. We support farmers and growers to research and tackle the most serious food and farming challenges, through projects such as Innovative Farmers. And we...

Los sistemas de extensión agrícola de la región de América Latina y el Caribe han experimentado un proceso evolutivo en los últimos años. Esta transformación ha generado cambios en la forma de “aprender y adaptarse” al entorno con el fin de prosperar. Lo que en algún momento fuera un proceso...

Interviewed onsite at The Economist Feeding the World Summit 2014, Rose Akaki tells Farming First the key challenges faced by female farmers in Uganda and offers her recommendations for improving agriculture in her country.

Globally, agriculture is facing enormous pressure to produce more food for growing population while it is increasingly getting affected by shrinking cultivable land area, water availability and climate change. With impressive economic growth, homogeneity of diets across countries has increased in the last 50 years and is pushing more and...

Promoting renewable energy sources is a central theme on the European level and stimulating the purchase of equipment for producing renewable energy mainly for ensuring the energy demand in farms was a priority for the Rural Development Programs during 2007-2013, inserted in 2009, through the European Economic Recovery Plan. This...

As part of our larger strategy to adapt smallholders in drylands to climate change, ICARDA’s science has sharpened its focus on producing more with less in irrigated and agropastoral systems, and sustainably intensifying cereal-based rain-fed production systems through research platforms in Egypt, Ethiopia and Morocco.

El Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), con el apoyo técnico de la FAO, formuló el Programa de la Agricultura Familiar para el Fortalecimiento de la Economía Campesina, iniciativa basada en el Plan para Activar y Adecuar la Política Nacional de Desarrollo Rural Integral (PNDRI). La PNDRI toma como...

Organisational leaders, Dr John R Deep Ford (FAO) and Dr Michael Hailu, CTA director, are urging increased attention, investment and policy interventions to improve the economic capacity of family farmers in the Caribbean who they say have largely been neglected by policymakers.

Este librillo contiene información resumida sobre la REAF y su importancia.

Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Trade liberalization and foreign investments have contributed to rapid economic, human capital and agricultural growth, and decreased price distortions. However, the benefits have been unevenly shared among and within countries and between men and women. Export-oriented policies...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which sustainable intensification interventions often overlook fundamental social dynamics in rural landscapes. We provide evidence of the underlying social, political and environmental contexts that affect farmers’ land-use decisions. While there are numerous initiatives to promote a Green Revolution for Africa, many...

Esta publicación y el portal web asociado a ella [http://www. formacionygestion.org] son el resultado de varios años de trabajo colectivo en formación de capacidades para la gestión del desarrollo de los territorios rurales en los planos regional, nacional y territorial, en apoyo a la ejecución de la Estrategia Centroamericana para...

La Convención en Diversidad Biológica resalta la importancia de los polinizadores y el establecimiento de una iniciativa internacional para la conservación y el uso sostenible de los polinizadores. Dentro de este contexto, la FAO estableció el Plan de Acción Global en Servicios de Polinización para una Agricultura Sostenible como guía...

Este estudio se planteó con el objetivo general de analizar la trayectoria de una muestra de subproyectos financiados y evaluados en el marco de la ejecución de Programas o Proyectos de Desarrollo Rural con financiamiento total o parcialmente externo, que habían sido oportunamente considerados innovadores en su implementación. Al momento de...

Family farming is vital in ensuring food security, says the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development on the occasion of World Food Day. Joining the ministry in celebrating the occasion which falls annually on 16 October are two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the...