South-South and triangular cooperation has an enormous potential role in agriculture and rural development in developing countries, both in unlocking diverse experiences and lessons and in providing solutions to pressing development challenges. From the cases that follow, a number of common lessons emerge. First, it is important to create a...

Almost half of the world's agricultural workers are women - but in Africa, less than 15% of them own land. Rice farmer Awa Jagne explains what it means to her to own her own land and produce food for her family.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Serbia has been going through profound economic and institutional shifts, with significant consequences for structural changes in the agricultural sector, its output and productivity, as well as agricultural policy. By the early 1980s Serbia had experienced significant growth in agricultural production, which stagnated in the...

A agricultura familiar necessita de tecnologias apropriadas para melhorar os processos produtivos, aumentar os níveis de produtividade e se tornar mais competitiva. Predominantemente, os agricultores ainda têm pouco acesso às técnicas necessárias à produção sustentável. No entanto, existem várias tecnologias disponíveis para adoção imediata e incorporação em diferentes arranjos produtivos. Várias...

Viçosa市坐落于巴西米纳斯吉拉斯洲带 达马塔地区，由群山和贫瘠的土地围绕。这 里更适合家庭耕作而不适于机械化生产。

In Africa and in particular, Sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that there are more than 45,000 species of plants, of which about 1,000 can be eaten as green leafy vegetables. Most of the latter fall within the category of African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs). ALVs are also known to be rich...

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest almost EUR 45 billion in Spain's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Spain to adapt both...

Mountain agriculture today represents 16% of utilized agricultural area (UAA) in the 27 member European Union states (EU-27) and 34% in Spain (European Commission 2013). Mountain areas are defined by their unfavorable topography, typically described by elevation and/or slope, remoteness, and more extreme climate, but this can vary significantly between...

Soil degradation is a major threat to Southern Africa's agricultural production. Crops show generally weak responses to mineral fertilizers on degraded soils. A three-year study was conducted between 2009 and 2012 on smallholder farms in eastern Zimbabwe to explore entry points for rehabilitating degraded croplands using principles of integrated soil...

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest around EUR 37.5 billion in Italy's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Italy to adapt both...

Bilan à la fin de l'année 2013 du Projet sénégalais d'appui aux filières agricoles (PAFA), qui affiche de bons résultats. Avec 90% de taux d'exécution et 87% taux de décaissement pour le compte de l'exercice 2013, le projet, prévu jusqu'en 2017, maintient la dynamique qui lui a permis  d'améliorer le sort de 17 834...

Le présent travail est le fruit de la capitalisation de 8 expériences qui illustrent de façon très concrète les liens entre développement local et agriculture familiale. Il ne vise, en aucun cas, à traiter de manière exhaustive toutes les problématiques liées à l’agriculture familiale. Beaucoup d’ouvrages, documents ont été écrits...

Esta exposición de Roberto Rendón, del Centro de Investigaciones Económicas, Sociales y Tecnológicas de la Agroindustria y la Agricultura Mundial (CIESTAAM) de la Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo, describe el extensionismo en México.

In the past decade or so, food corporations have been taking over a bigger and bigger slice of the retail pie, with major implications for the entire food chain. Corporate supermarkets are expanding faster in Asia than anywhere else on the planet. And as supermarkets and their procurement chains expand,...

This publication provides real life examples on how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how tailor-made educational programmes can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. Many of the initiatives and approaches reported in this study originate...

This work is the result of a collaborative effort and fieldwork in Upper Egypt, with the goal of highlighting the challenges faced by communities and livelihoods that are often overlooked in mainstream development projects. This field study draws attention to the context and challenges that are unique to fishers and...

Esta es una publicación de relevante interés para los investigadores, los gestores de políticas públicas en seguridad con soberanía alimentaria, así como los militantes de los movimientos sociales: sindicales e indígena originaria campesinos que luchan por la construcción de un sistema agroalimentario global para el bien común de la humanidad. El...

Over the past fifty years, the food system has become increasingly globalised and heavily dependent on cheap raw materials, chemical inputs and mechanisation. In short, the global food system is broken increasingly controlled by a handful of multinationals. This film demonstrates how people across Europe are re-organising their food supply...

WFP marks the International day of Co-operatives and commits to invest in capacity building of small-holder farmers through local purchases to achieve sustainable food security.

Today at the Food and Agriculture Organization Headquarters in Rome, countries endorsed a set of wide-reaching guidelines that will boost the already vital role of small-scale fishers in contributing to global food security, nutrition and poverty eradication. Small-scale fisheries account for more than 90 percent of the world’s capture fishers...