La Red Regional de Sistemas Públicos de Abastecimiento y Comercialización de Alimentos (Red SPAA) tiene el objetivo de promover el diálogo e intercambio de experiencias, a fin de fortalecer las capacidades, facilitar el establecimiento de alianzas y desarrollar estrategias conjuntas de acción y proyectos de cooperación técnica entre instituciones públicas...

Several EU lawmakers from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee expressed their concerns on Wednesday (30 August) about the introduction of new technologies in farming, claiming that it might put smallholders at risk. MEPs discussed a report on precision agriculture conducted by the Scientific and Technological Options Assessment service (STOA), a...

The potential offered by social innovation to improve the livelihoods of remote forest-dependent communities will be at the centre of discussions during a special session of the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO), to be held in Freiburg, Germany, from the 18th to the...

Existen varios motivos para escribir un documento sobre empleo decente para jóvenes rurales. El primero es que el empleo decente (o digno) es especialmente escaso en las zonas rurales y, en particular, en el sector agrícola. El segundo es que casi todos los análisis sobre la inserción laboral de los...

FAO support to improving governance of tenure

Seventy percent of food worldwide is produced by smallholders, including family farms and private households. Connecting those small producers to processing facilities and markets can be a challenge but it is possible, as an international conference in Astana last week made clear. In Kazakhstan, the country’s 1.6 million private households and...

The digital revolution is now upon us and more and more technologies are available to the agricultural sector. Farmers in the UK, for example, can use Farmbench (farmbench.ahdb.org.uk). Farmbench collects and shares data from across the UK, providing farmers with useful indications on potential changes to their farm management practices which...

Gestión comunitaria del agua, noble labor que ejercen grupos de vecinos que se organizan de forma voluntaria para contribuir a la gestión del sistema de agua de su comunidad, además de la protección de sus fuentes y la sostenibilidad del recurso hídrico. Hacen un importante aporte para cerrar la brecha de acceso al...

The potential contribution of organic farming to the public goods, ‘Nature and Biodiversity’, ‘Environment’, ‘Energy and Climate’, ‘Human Health and Welfare’ and ‘Animal Health and Welfare’ in Denmark is guided and partly secured by the principles and specific requirements of the EU Organic Regulation. However, other factors, such as the...

Poder ver de perto diversas tecnologias e formas de produção aplicadas em diferentes partes do país é uma ótima opção para quem quer aprimorar os negócios da agricultura familiar. Há mais de 10 anos, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD), por meio da Subsecretaria de...

Urgenci was present at the “Oxford Real Farming Conference” (ORFC) in Britain, a conference that started as a small alternative conference to the “Oxford Farming Conference” (supported in 2017 by Bayer, BASF and others) but that now has overtaken the conventional farming conference in both the number of delegates and...

La Comunidad de Países de Lengua Portuguesa-CPLP (conformada por 9 estados) ha aprobado las Directrices de apoyo a la Agricultura Familiar en la II Reunión extraordinaria del Consejo de Seguridad Alimentaria celebrada el pasado 8 de junio en Brasilia (Brasil). Además, en la misma reunión se ratificó la decisión de conferir...

En el marco del proyecto de Fortalecimiento de Programas de Alimentación Escolar en América Latina y el Caribe, del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasi-FAO, se llevará a cabo del 3 al 5 de octubre, en Brasilia, Brasil, el Congreso Internacional de Alimentación Escolar: Construyendo caminos para la educación alimentaria y nutricional. El...

The present study reviews recent trends in rural finance and investment in general, and in the agricultural sector in particular, within the Asian region. The analysis of these trends aims to offer a critical perspective on some of the main constraints to achieving more inclusive rural financial systems in developing...

The Arab world is the largest food deficit region in the world due to the major challenges facing increasing food production despite the high potential to increase agriculture production in most Arab countries. In 2013 the Arab world imported 85.6 million tons of cereals compared to 65.3 million tons for...

The path to a healthy, sustainable and fair food consumption starts already during our early years of childhood and youth. For this reason the EAThink 2015 project has developed two interactive educational games targeting Primary and Secondary school students, in order to help them better understand the different mechanisms of...

A sustainable and holistic approach to agriculture and the environment is being promoted by FAO at this week’s global climate change event in Bonn, Germany. Together with the governments of Hungary and France, and with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), FAO is presenting “agroecology” as a way to produce...

Learning Journey on Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers in Lebanon, November 22-25, 2017. Urgenci, the international network of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers (LSPA) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...

Tajikistan’s roughly 3.8 million hectares of pasture – almost 29 percent of its total land area – feed the country’s meat-producing livestock. But these natural resources, particularly year-round pastures near villages, are being depleted and degraded. Since 2013, FAO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have been working with...

Un sistema alimentario reúne todos los elementos y actividades relacionados con la producción, elaboración, distribución, preparación y consumo de alimentos, así como los productos de estas actividades, incluidos los resultados socioeconómicos y ambientales (Grupo de alto nivel de expertos en seguridad alimentaria y nutrición – HLPE, 2014). Los sistemas alimentarios...