En octubre de 2011, el Comité de Seguridad Alimentaria Mundial (CSA) solicitó al Grupo de alto nivel de expertos que llevase a cabo “un estudio comparativo de los obstáculos a la inversión de los pequeños productores en la agricultura en diferentes contextos con opciones en materia de políticas para abordar...

The Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) is the approach suggested by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) through the sub Saharan Africa Challenge Programme (SSA CP) to address the acknowledged shortcoming of African Agricultural Research and Development’s (ARD) failure to achieve impact on the farmer’s field. The...

This video highlights how a pastoralist community in Mandera, Kenya applied knowledge gained in a pastoral field school to improve their livelihood through fodder production.

The Sustainability and Organic Livestock model (SOL-m) is a project (see Concept Note) of the FAO Natural Resources and Management Department that has been commissioned to the Research Institute of Organic Farming (FiBL) in Frick, Switzerland. This summary report presents the preliminary results of the SOL-model. Currently, plausibility checks are...

En años recientes, una confluencia de tendencias, a nivel regional, nacional e internacional, ha llevado al surgimiento de un entorno de políticas que, aunque lejos de ser favorables a la agricultura familiar, brindan más oportunidades para la incidencia de lo que parecía posible hace una década. Se proponen cuatro factores que...

Viability differences in smallholder dairy farming are a result of differences in access to markets and services. It is hypothesized that innovations that improve productivity and market linkages also improve returns and viability. The viability of smallholder dairying in Wedza was characterised by interviewing 52 households using semi-structured questionnaires. Information...

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

Parler d’agroécologie est équivoque et oppose souvent deux camps. Tantôt présentée comme remède à tous les problèmes, tantôt accusée de mystification ou d’archaïsme, l’agroécologie réellement pratiquée dans le monde ne mérite certainement pas cet excès d’honneur ou cette indignité. Tout simplement, elle existe, et ceci depuis longtemps et de manière...

A young farmer from Lithuania talks about her funding support from the Rural Development Programme and what difference this assistance has made to her business.

The area of the City of Zagreb is the only Croatian region (NUTS 3), which is defined as an urban area. Fourteen of the twenty counties are classified as exceptionally rural, and six of them are classified as rural areas. Because of this division, the inhabitants of the rural areas...

Being the most common operational farming model, family farming has ensured the growth of Europe’s agricultural sector for centuries. Today’s ambitious European Union (EU) policy  framework is designed to take account of the different models of agriculture existing in the EU, including the diverse types of family farming. It focuses...

Some may view indigenous communities as being conservative and backwards. However, the Kabekwa in Costa Rica show that such communities can be adaptable and innovative. In response to changing circumstances, this community has been adapting its farming practices constantly, benefiting from it in multiple ways.

Depuis 2009, l'Union des groupements pour la commercialisation des produits agricoles de la Boucle du Mouhoun, au Burkina Faso, soutenue par ses partenaires techniques et financiers, a mis en place un service de conseil à l'exploitation familiale (CEF) pour ses membres. Ce service a pour objectif de favoriser l'apprentissage et...

To understand how is the process of local development in Terenos, located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, we used a theoretical territorialist. Since the 1920s the fi rst family agricultures of European origin were settled in place and your organization gave rise to the Old Colony and...

Overall objective To strengthen the voice of civil sector in shaping, monitoring and evaluating sustainable development policies on local, national and international level through networking, cross-sectorial partnership and capacity building. Specific objectives To strengthen capacity and influence of the national civil society networks to make them recognized partners to the public sector in...

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...

Por invitación del Gobierno de Brasil, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en colaboración con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), impulsó una reflexión regional sobre cómo avanzar en el mejoramiento de las condiciones de las mujeres rurales de...

Representantes oficiales de 38 países miembros y asociados de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) de las Naciones Unidas aprobaron hoy el Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo, documento que contiene una serie de acuerdos para reforzar la implementación de los asuntos de población y desarrollo...

Cette année, le rapport de situation s’intéresse aux exploitations paysannes familiales, lesquelles constituent encore et toujours la forme d’exploitation habituelle même si elles sont confrontées à divers problèmes. C’est pourquoi l’ONU a déclaré 2014 «Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale». Les petites et moyennes exploitations familiales produisent 70% de toutes les...

After three years of recovery, the EU-28 real agricultural income per labour unit decreased in 2013 by 1.3% year-on-year driven by declines in both factor income and agricultural labour force (-2.1% and -0.9%, respectively). The agricultural income varies significantly across the European Union: the highest increases are estimated in the...