A Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária (CRA) aprovou, nesta quarta-feira (30), o projeto que cria a Política Nacional de Combate ao Desperdício e à Perda de Alimentos (PLS 738/2015). Entre as novidades estão o incentivo à realização de campanhas educativas e diretrizes para a doação de alimentos sem condições...

This educational video presents Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) through practical examples and theory. It is illustrated by 4 PGS initiatives: “Nature et Progres” in France, “Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia” in Brazil, “Bryanston Organic and Natural Market” in South Africa and “Sabeto Organic Producers Association” in Fiji. The video is structured...

Le Portail de la Sécurité Alimentaire pour l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara présente des informations actuelles sur l’agriculture, la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition en Afrique au Sud du Sahara, aussi bien que des informations sur les développements dynamiques dans le système alimentaire de la région. Il est facilité par...

Small and medium-sized enterprises are a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the EU. The European Commission considers SMEs and entrepreneurship as key to ensuring economic growth, innovation, job creation and social integration, writes Franc Bogovič.

Rocrops is a smallholder farm established in 1990 in Trinidad. It is owned and managed by the husband and wife Ramgopaul and Beena Roop. The Rocrops farm is comprised of 1.29 ha. (3ac) of former degraded and acidic (3.5pH) sugar cane lands. The development of the farm has emphasized a...

Cash-for-work interventions implemented by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization are providing an income lifeline to communities affected by the ongoing drought in northern Somalia. While putting much needed cash in people’s pockets to buy food, the work is empowering communities to rebuild vital infrastructure with their own hands. ...

Cette fiche présente un modèle de ruche à barrettes fabriqué par la Plateforme des Apiculteurs des Cataractes, en RDC. Vous y trouverez des schémas bien détaillés, des photos et conseils permettant à tous de se lancer dans des essais de fabrication de ce modèle de ruches à barrettes utilisées par...

Farmers’ organizations welcomed the plan of the Ministry of Agricultural and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) the Republic of Indonesia to create a Presidential Decree (Decree) of Agrarian Reform as part of the political promises contained in the Nawa Cita. Actually, we think this is a...

Después de un año de trabajo colaborativo entre el Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias de Ecuador (INIAP) y el Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), ambas instituciones concluyeron que Ecuador reúne las condiciones idóneas para abordar una estrategia nacional orientada al impulso de una agricultura más productiva...

How smallholders may contribute to food and nutrition security remains a key challenge in many developing countries. Despite being the main rural actors, smallholders are frequently the most food insecure, given an array of biophysical and socioeconomic challenges that were addressed during the workshop. These proceedings discuss the potential role...

A video about the management of open landscapes by extensive livestock farmers in the French Causses-Cévennes

A piscicultura faz parte de um projeto de sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento econômico nas comunidades indígenas de Roraima. O projeto é de suma importância não só para os indígenas, envolvidos diretamente, como também ao Estado, por receber e consumir peixe de qualidade.  A economia da comunidade foi favorecida com o recebimento do projeto,...

While Bangladesh is more advanced in terms of agricultural mechanization, Ethiopia and Kenya can repeat the same success. Indeed, Ethiopia is one step ahead of Bangladesh in that it has developed an agricultural mechanization strategy – something Bangladesh has not done. This strategy is now being used to address the...

On June 2, 2016 the delegates, gathered for the Georgian Farmers’ II Congress held in Tbilisi and discussed problems related to the following three main issues: 1. Market access for smallholder farmers and cooperatives; 2. Smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives’ access to investment funds and financial resources; 3. Effects of...

Family farming is the predominant form of food production in Asia and the Pacific which is home to 70 percent of the world’s family farmers. Family farmers produce 80 percent of the region’s food, 1 working on 85 percent of the total arable land2 and largely relying on the contribution...

Slovak Minister of Agriculture Gabriela Matečná said that the bioeconomy is a necessity. But Central and Eastern Europe is still lagging behind in its uptake, but the key to the transition may be in the regions.

In recent years, social protection has emerged worldwide as a major new focus in efforts to reduce poverty and vulnerability. Since the early 2000s, conditional and unconditional cash transfer programmes have gained significance as key elements of social safety nets throughout Africa. The UN-supported Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) has...

The petition for a Referendum on National Farming in Colombia is intended to collect signatures backing a referendum to amend articles 64, 65, 66 and 100 of the Constitution, thus requiring Colombia to adopt special protection measures for national agri-food production, to guarantee credit, and to protect the work and...

Using the outcomes of a technical consultation meeting organized by FAO in December 2014 in Dakar, Senegal, with the support of CIRAD, and building on past studies conducted by FAO and other partners, the report presents an analysis of the impact of the EVD outbreak on agricultural market chains. Seven...

Esta publicación es una herramienta valiosa para mejorar el intercambio de las prácticas, sobre todo, en el marco de la cooperación Sur-Sur. Al reunir por primera vez, de una manera didáctica e informativa, las políticas de éxito comprobadas en el campo de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, da un nuevo...