Small, family farmers in Africa purchase more than half of their seeds every year through local markets and other informal sources--neglected outlets that present a major opportunity for improving access to better crop varieties crucial to dealing with climate, nutrition, and other production challenges in a region where food security...

O governo brasileiro lançou a Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica (Pnapo), com a edição do decreto 7.794, de 20 de agosto de 2012. Foi um importante passo para a ampliação e efetivação de ações de promoção do desenvolvimento rural sustentável, impulsionado pelas crescentes preocupações das organizações sociais do campo e...

Presentación que aborda un análisis crítico sobre los sistemas de innovación para un desarrollo sostenible de los territorios y sus actores realizada por FIA Chile.

This course provides an overview of the Communication for Development (ComDev) approach that aims to address the knowledge and information needs of rural stakeholders and to facilitate their active involvement in development initiatives. ComDev has proven to be a key element in improving the effectiveness and sustainability of development initiatives.The...

The two studies in this report explore these issues further using empirical quantitative surveys as well as qualitative fieldwork from a cross-section of developing economies in South and SouthEast Asia. The first study is an empirical investigation of the digital gender divide amongst the poor (broadly called the Bottom of...

Ouricuri (PE) – Araripe em tupi guarani significa “onde o dia começa primeiro”, traduz a altitude da serra, mas hoje em dia o grande significado no sertão é a conscientização de agricultores e agricultoras, a disseminação do conhecimento da agricultura camponesa e a capacidade de enfrentar a seca, com a...

Voici le modèle de ruche à barrettes « la Grande » fabriqué en palmier raphia. Ce modèle est fabriqué en bois par la Plateforme des Associations des Apiculteurs des Cataractes (PLAAC), en République Démocratique du Congo (voir la technologie TECA «Comment fabriquer une ruche a barrettes « la grande » »). Le palmier...

Este artículo da cuenta de un reciente taller realizado sobre prácticas de gestión de los bancos de germoplasma en reservas comunitarias de semillas, el cual tuvo lugar en el CIMMYT y estuvo a cargo de la doctora Denise Costich, responsable del Banco de Germoplasma. El objetivo del evento fue realizar...

When water is scarce, irrigation scheduling and irrigation efficiency are especially important. New, innovative ways of obtaining real time feedback on irrigation management are currently being developed including digitally connected fruit measuring tools and online precise irrigation-scheduling algorithms.

It takes a few minutes for a fruit fly to find a suitable spot on the mango and inject her eggs under the skin of the fruit. But even in that short time, the weaver ants will have either chased her away or have captured her. Their scent also helps....

A short video about Technical Exchange Workshop on sustainable agriculture in Lao

El presente trabajo se corresponde con una reflexión realizada desde la praxis, no de la teoría o de la mera especulación; es decir, deriva de mi participación profesional en el diseño de programas y proyectos de desarrollo, desarrollo e inversión agroindustrial-agroalimentario, en países de la región, como es el caso...

FSIS/FSIN is a national platform to strengthen and improve food security information generation, management, dissemination, sharing and exchange for policy-makers, senior managers and national and states stakeholder groups working in support of food security improvement and sustainable agricultural development.  FSIS/FSIN of Sudan has been developed (http://FSIS.sudanagriculture.net/) as an integral component in...

The landscape in Sierra de Gredos was modelled largely by the livestock that traditionally grazed in mountain pastures in the summer and descended to the valleys when the snow came. In this video, one of the few goat farmers left in this Natura 2000 site explains their pastoral management and...

Burkina Faso ranks as the sixth poorest country in the world according to the 2015 UN Human Development Report. Recent studies estimate that 46.4% of the population in the Eastern Region lives below the poverty line. These people are caught in a vicious cycle of degrading natural resources, declining soil...

Presentación realizada sobre nuevos enfoques y conceptos sobre innovación para el desarrollo rural sostenible Arilson Favareto Universidade Federal do ABC e Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento – Brasil, realizada en el II Foro Sistemas de Innovación para el Desarrollo Rural Sostenible FAO, en Santiago de Chile – Octubre /2016...

There is huge potential for an increase in urban forests, trees and green areas to counteract the negative effects of rapid urbanization and improve livelihoods in the major cities of Asia and the Pacific, a regional meeting on urban forestry heard today. The First Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting is co-convened by...

This promo video emphasizes Africa’s booming economies and determination to invest in its own potential; we also meet beneficiaries of projects funded by the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Uganda and see how their lives have been turned around. African leaders have pledged to end hunger...

Child labour hampers children’s education, and quite often has adverse effects on their health, safety and morals. However, not all tasks performed by children are considered child labour. Some activities may help children acquire important livelihood skills and contribute to their survival and food security. But much of the work...

In this book we focus mainly on innovation opportunities for small farmers, with a particular emphasis on marginalized small farm communities. The first chapter elaborates on the concept of the ‘small farm’ and offers a synthesis of the findings of all the chapters in this volume. The contributions have reconfirmed that...