Red pepper is the most important type of produce for the Macedonian food industry, with some 70 000 tonnes processed every year. Ajvar is usually prepared in late summer and early autumn. It is a regular element of the winter menu because the ingredients are available in abundance, and it...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en muchas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.  En Guatemala, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) impulsan la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises, una práctica que permite filtrar el agua...

Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia has as its purposes: i) to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of Neglected and Underutilized species (NUS) and their potential contribution to achieving Zero Hunger; ii) to identify promising NUS that are nutrition-dense, climate-resilient, economically-viable...

Due to land grabbing, native forests and local biodiversity are being lost, people are being evicted from their homes and forced to give up their lands, along with all the other problems linked to the large-scale use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Some individual cases are reported in the booklet “Let’s...

Les 17 et 18 mai 2018, le CNCR à travers le Groupe de Dialogue Social et Politique (GSDP et le Comité National de l’Agriculture Familiale (CNAF) a organisé à Dakar, avec l’appui du Forum Rural Mondial un atelier méthodologique pour l’élaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de...

Urgenci's Newsletter - The International Network ofCommunity Supported Agriculture. Urgenci's newsletter has been named TEIKEI,«cooperation» in Japanese, as a tribute to the pioneering role of the Japanese organic agriculturemovement in setting up the first Community -supported Agriculture models. It is also a tribute to the victims ofthe March 2011 Earthquake and...

The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 on 20 December 2017 in order to improve the position of family farmers in all five (5) continents. The declaration of the Decade ensures the continuity of the successful IYFF-2014 process by advancing the implementation of public policies...

El Simposio reconoció el papel central de los agricultores familiares en la innovación agrícola. Con este aspecto clave en mente, los resultados principales que extraigo de este Simposio se resumen como sigue: Elementos fundamentales de la innovación agrícola sostenible 1. La innovación requiere un compromiso a largo plazo por parte de diferentes...

Cada año se celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural el 15 de octubre, fecha establecida en el 2007 por la Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas para reconocer a la “la función y contribución decisivas de la mujer rural, incluida la mujer indígena, en la promoción del desarrollo agrícola y rural,...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are playing an increasing role in addressing problems faced by agriculture. The challenges faced by agriculture from climate change alone are enormous and the need for the farming communities to adapt and become resilient is key to feeding the world’s growing population. Harnessing the growth...

Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to capture impact of an agro-ecological system. Measuring the impacts of agro ecology over several parameters of different kind has encouraged farmers in...

In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...

Family farmers have been innovating since the dawn of agriculture. Fostering the capacity of the millions of family farmers to innovate is especially crucial today as they face unprecedented challenges that affect their livelihoods as well as the sustainability of the world’s food and agriculture systems.

The “Train the trainer event” was an important milestone of the CSact! Project team, as one of the main activity of the project is the adaptation of the Be part of CSA! Training programme to local contexts. 18 international participants from 7 European countries met in Vác (a small city...

There will be a full schedule of presentations, discussions and activities. Some of the highlights of the Conference include a Ministerial Roundtable on Zero Hunger, a Roundtable on "Imagining future healthy and inclusive food systems in Asia and the Pacific,” an Exhibition honoring the achievements and progress of the 10 Regional...

One of the main issues of the commercialization of agriculture is the lack of storage capacity for the farmers’ organizations (FOs) especially those that produce fresh vegetables. Without effective storage system, farmers cannot consolidate their produce and manage demand-supply opportunities properly. That is why oftentimes, there is too much supply...

The Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP): Main phase (2013 - 2018) is a continental programme which strengthens the institutional capacities, policy engagement and engagement of value chains of African farmers’ organizations (FOs). The programme supports the 5 regional networks of African FOs (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU and UMNAGRI),...

La Política de Agricultura Familiar campesina, indígena y afrodescendiente PAFCIA, es un instrumento estratégico, con visión de futuro para la toma de decisiones y para dar marco a los procesos de dialogo e incidencia política y técnica, así como para desarrollar y consolidar un modelo productivo diversificado, incluyente y territorializado.  La...

  On October 18th, 2018, an important meeting of the World Coordination Committee of the IYFF + 10 (WCC), the International Committee that led the civil society campaign for the declaration of the Decade of Family Farming, took place in Rome. The WCC is composed by representatives of the organizations ROPPA,...