Visitar um contrato Ater Quilombolas, que também atende mulheres, e conhecer ações de organização produtiva e econômica executadas pela Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA) com agricultoras, são algumas das agendas da visita técnica da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) aos estados do Maranhão e do...

Este estudio señala, en primer lugar, cuáles son los factores determinantes para la adopción de tecnologías agrarias. En segundo lugar, identifica las zonas que un eventual programa de difusión de innovaciones debería priorizar para maximizar su impacto entre los pequeños agricultores. De este modo, ha sido posible determinar cuáles son...

Agri-environment measures provide payments to farmers who subscribe, on a voluntary basis, to environmental commitments related to the preservation of the environment and maintaining the countryside. Agri-environment measures are a key element for the integration of environmental concerns into the Common Agricultural Policy. They are designed to encourage farmers to protect...

Organized by the IsDB and the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) under the title “Youth engagement in agriculture production: Developing technologies that appeal to youth to make farming an attractive career option”, the seminar looked at the challenges and problems facing rural young people and what should be done...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs

The international community is committed to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition worldwide by 2030. While much progress has been made, conflict and human-induced and natural disasters are causing setbacks. This year’s The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World warns that the long-term declining trend in undernourishment seems...

This document analyzes the main changes that have taken place in agriculture and the rural milieu during the 2016-2017 period. It also considers the prospects and main trends in the region, in a context characterized by a slow and uneven global economic recovery in 2016, but with signs of an...

Coastal erosion and accretion are natural processes. However, such instances have becomeabnormally highdue to human activities and sea-level rise. 

Coffee farmers from various organisations in Southeast Asia gathered in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 19-21 July 2017 to showcase their produce, share their experiences in farming, and to exchange knowledge to improve the marketing of their products for the ASEAN Learning Series and Policy Engagement on Agricultural Cooperative (ALSPEAC). The coffee farmers...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs

Projet d'Autonomisation de 6000 femmes de la Région de la Marahoué. Mise à Disposition de semences certifiées de Maïs BEERA EV-8728-SR par la Fondation Lady Jeanne.

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is a specific right that pertains to indigenous peoples and is recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). FPIC allows indigenous peoples to give or withhold consent to any project that may affect them or their territories. Once...

A “Cartilha para Conselheiros do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar – PNAE”, tem por finalidade incentivar e aprimorar a atuação dos Conselhos de Alimentação Escolar (CAEs) no acompanhamento do Programa da Alimentação Escolar, que se estende a todo o território nacional. O orçamento do programa para 2016 foi de aproximadamente R$...

The European Rural Youth Forum (ERYF) is a non-profit international NGO designed to provide a platform for young people from rural areas to discuss issues that are crucial to their countries and region. These topics are addressed during an annual summer university (7-10 days), which is held in a different...

A Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (CONTAG) recebe os Coordenadores Nacionais da Reunião Especializada da Agricultura Familair (REAF) do Mercosul. No diálogo com a CONTAG e com a Confederación de Organizaciones de Productores Familiares del MERCOSUR (COPROFAM) reafirmou-se o papel da REAF nas políticas públicas para fortalecer a agricultua familiar...

El Centro Ceres es un Centro de investigación y desarrollo para la  innovación orientada a impulsar un modelo de desarrollo sostenible de la agricultura y de los territorios rurales, teniendo como pilares el enfoque sistémico y el desarrollo participativo de bienes públicos e innovaciones sociales para la región. El Centro Regional...

Smallholder farmers in Gambia are increasingly facing climate related induced disasters and vulnerabilities affecting their lives and livelihoods. During 2010-2012, farmers faced flash floods, periods of drought, disease infestation, saline intrusion, deforestation and massive erosion of their farmlands resulting in crop failure and reduced food security. ActionAid has introduced agroecological...

Agriculture is one of the most widespread activities in the world and has a crucial role in food production, environmental protection, landscape preservation, rural employment and food security. Agriculture is not uniform throughout, there are different elements. From a gender point of view, there are significant gaps between women and men....

In this article, we analyze opportunities and constraints for upgrading product quality in the dairy value chain in Ethiopia. Our analysis is based on an integrated understanding of supply chain performance both from producer and from consumer perspectives. We outline as main drivers for quality upgrading: (a) factors that influence...

In remote Kyaukphyu Township, members of local fishery groups are anxiously waiting to hear the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw’s decision on a draft law that could ensure the sustainable management of fisheries.