The Fifth GEF Assembly comes at a critical but exciting juncture of the Facility. In two decades, the GEF partnership has made demonstrable contributions to delivering global environmental benefits (GEBs) in accord with its mandate as the financial mechanism for the Rio Conventions. Yet threats to the global commons continue...

Family farming is the predominant business model in European agriculture. The key challenges faced by family farms are considered in this briefing note and the effectiveness of policy measures in the EU, both the current measures and those agreed for the 2014 to 2020 period, in tackling these challenges is...

This paper presents a critical approach to the New Rurality and the Rural Territorial Development (RTD) perspectives, which nowadays are hegemonic for governmental organizations and Latin American academies. RTD’s core requirements, which are functional for neoliberal policies resulting in the loss of food sovereignty, the globalization of agribusinesses, and migration...

To encourage young people to manage the planet wisely, we have to give them the means to become agents of change. FAO’s Discovering forests teaching and learning guides are part of an FAO initiative to inspire and engage young people, in this case 10-13 year-olds, and tie in with the theme of this year’s International...

En el marco del proyecto Mercados campesinos, AVSF apoyó la realización de trabajos de investigación sobre la problemática agraria, soberanía alimentaria y comercialización campesina. Desde el trabajo doctoral de un colega ecuatoriano, la presente publicación “Los andes carchenses: nuevas dinámicas productivas entre haciendas y campesinos” analiza en particular el proceso...

Este libro presenta ocho estudios de caso que se cuestionan sobre un particular asunto: qué elementos caracterizan a las dinámicas económicas y políticas en los territorios donde se observa un crecimiento económico y buenos resultados sociales, esto es, una disminución de la pobreza y de la desigualdad. 

El presente documento corresponde al Marco de Salvaguardas Ambientales y Sociales del Proyecto de Inclusión Socio-económica en Áreas Rurales (PISEAR) que está siendo formulado en el Ámbito del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca de la Nación. El objetivo de este documento es establecer los mecanismos tendientes a maximizar los efectos...

El segundo congreso de la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indigenas (ANAMURI), se realizó los días 28, 29 y 30 de Noviembre del año 2014, en la comuna de San Miguel, en la región Metropolitana y reunió a mujeres de Arica a Coyhaique que debatieron problemas de importancia nacional...

La CNA viene ha implementado el proyecto financiado por la Fundación Ford, “Llipinchis yupasunchis” Todos/as contamos: Visibilización de los Pueblos indígenas del Perú”; con este proyecto propone iniciar un proceso de construcción participativa de propuestas de conceptos y metodología para integrar el componente étnico y de diversidad cultural en la...

In the municipality of Tibu, a process of strategic alliances was started for small- and medium-sized oil palm producers with the support of a private company, the International Agency for Development (USAID), and the national government, incentivizing the creation of small-producer associations. This project has performed well in the region,...

A Reunião Especializada da Agricultura Familiar (REAF) é um fórum formado por representantes de governo e da sociedade civil vinculados aos países do Mercosul (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguai, Uruguai e Venezuela) e Mercosul Ampliado (Bolívia, Chile, Peru e Equador). Criada em 2004, com protagonismo da iniciativa brasileira, em 2014 esta arena...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

This course provides guidance on how to design and implement agriculture policies and programmes that are gender-responsive, sustainable, contributing to gender equality, and therefore able to improve food and nutrition security. 

In Swaziland, the marketing initiative of the Swaziland Agricultural Development Programme, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping farmers gain access to finance and markets.  

The Vikizijula community in Swaziland talks about bees as the 'insect of hope'. This refers to the way beekeeping and producing honey has transformed their lives. Parents are now able to send their children to proper schools, and some have also been able to construct larger houses. Bees have been...

La política pública para el sector rural es interpelada en razón de múltiples conflictos e intereses contrapuestos, y su sentido último, así como su sostenibilidad en el tiempo, depende en gran medida del contexto social y político. En Argentina, el período abierto luego de la crisis de 2001-2002 planteó el...

Keeping its tradition of exploring major emerging issues, Nature & Faune has chosen to dedicate this edition to looking at the implications of this rapid urbanization and its implications for urban food and nutrition security, focusing on the specific roles of sustainable management and utilization of natural resources in Africa‘s...

The emergence of social movements: Community Supported Agriculture, between Food Sovereignty and Solidarity Economy. The end of the 20th century can be characterised by the emergence of both extreme forms of globalisation of trade and of social movements. The spaces in which the latter emerged were not only the World...

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.

Smallholder irrigated vegetable production in the Central Rift Valley region of Ethiopia is instrumental in ensuring the year-round availability of fresh vegetables in the local market in the country. However, a number of problems constrain irrigated vegetable production in the region. Therefore, asurvey was conducted with the objectives of assessing...