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...

Les ruralités aux Suds sont marquées par une augmentation des flux de personnes et de biens et par des systèmes de mobilités diverses et complexes. Rappelant les raisons qui ont contribué à négliger les mobilités et la pluriactivité dans de nombreux travaux de recherche sur les ruralités aux Suds, l’article...

Legacy of IYFF 2014 and the way forward as agreed by the International Steering Committee (ISC) of the IYFF 2014 on 13 November 2014, and endorsed at the Closing Event in the Philippines on 27 November 2014.

Soutenu par le gouvernement du Sénégal, ce programme appelé « Achat par les Africains pour les Africains », lancé en 2012,  renforce  la sécurité alimentaire et le développement économique et social des communautés rurales. Dans 200 cantines des écoles de la région de Kédougou au Sénégal, les enfants mangent désormais...

How do you make a convincing ‘business case’ for biodiversity? This guide is for environment officials, interest groups and policymakers to develop the key elements of a case for integrating biodiversity into government and business decisions. The case must appeal to stakeholders in the public and private sectors as well...

This research examines the relationship between household wellbeing and the use of conservation agriculture (CA) by smallholder farmers in Mozambique. Wellbeing indicators are regressed on household demographic attributes, farm management practices, and a variable indicating farmer adoption of CA. Findings suggest that households using CA have higher wellbeing index scores...

Over the ages, agriculture has been an important area of activity for Estonian population, with one of the main objectives of continually providing the inhabitants with food. In addition to yielding agricultural products, farmers also share the task of keeping the environment clean, applying the principle of economy while using...

PISA (Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire), un chantier de la FAO.

The aim of the paper is to characterise Polish individual farms in terms of compliance of their characteristics with definition of the family farm that is used in socio-economic sciences. The main source of the analysed data were surveys conducted in intervals of several years (most recently in 2011) in...

Programme Italien pour la sécurité alimentaire (PISA), appui aux transformatrices de produits halieutiques au Sénégal.

Farms throughout Asia are predominantly small and family-based. In the past, small farms in tropical Asia achieved significant improvement in the yield of cereal crops, such as rice and wheat, which is dubbed the Green Revolution. As a result, grain production increased much faster than population growth, thereby contributing to...

Este documento aborda las pautas de trabajo que permite alcanzar el objetivo de eficiencia productiva.  

A family is pioneering a project that brings 21st century farming methods to a Russian backwater, and they are reaping the rewards of their efforts. Far away in the Kaluga Oblast, about a hundred miles from Moscow, retired armed forces captain Andrey Davydov has built his own village. At its center...

Etat des lieux du secteur agricole de la République Démocratique du Congo, qui a toujours été considéré comme une perspective de développement intéressante susceptible de contribuer au décollage économique du pays. Les agriculteurs et les agricultrices restent  le groupe cible le plus important dans la lutte contre la pauvreté en...

Today more than ever smallholders and rural communities require access to information and communication to make their voices heard and change their lives for the better. Communication for Development facilitates dialogue and collaborative action, combining participatory methods with communication tools ranging from community media to ICTs. The Communication for Rural...

L’objet de ce projet est d’étudier l’impact d’actions ciblées d’appui aux exploitations familiales. Ce projet est issu d’une demande de l’IFPRI adressée au Gret afin de mettre en application au Sénégal des leçons tirées du projet Fomento au Brésil. Le GRET a s'associe à la FONGS  pour la mise en...

La presente publicación está dirigida a personas interesadas en conocer en mayor detalle la metodología, módulos avanzados y factores a tener en cuenta para la provisión de servicios turísticos en localidades rurales. Se espera que esta cartilla contribuya a fortalecer los conocimientos impartidos y por consecuencia se reafirmen los procesos...

La quinua es un cultivo tradicional de origen milenario que en los últimos años ha sido revalorizado por ciertos sectores de las sociedades más ricas del mundo debido a las propiedades nutricionales que contiene. Este hecho queda evidenciado en la evolución del comercio mundial. La demanda en el año 2012...

In this technology description the use of animal traction and single-axle tractors for direct seeding is explained. In particular different instruments or implements for direct seeding are described and Illustrated with a range of Pictures. The main working elements of the direct seeders are: (1) a disc to cut through the...

Los contenidos del libro que tienen ante ustedes son parte de los productos de este proyecto birregional. Los capítulos se basan principalmente en los documentos de trabajo producidos durante la primera fase del proyecto. De esta manera, el primer capítulo “Hacia un desarrollo de la bioeconomía en América Latina y...