Dr Tamara Kaunda, 27, a medical doctor who studied in China, made a fairly dramatic career change when she switched from medicine to the farming of seedlings.

The trend of shrinking genetic diversity of reared animals creates risk in the face of climate change. By narrowing down diversity, we are decreasing the capability of our animal production systems to cope with unpredictable weather events.A critical step to tackling this challenge is to make sure our food production...

A campanha #mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos foi apresentada na assembleia legislativa do Espirito Santo. Na ocasião, a agricultora e embaixadora da campanha na região Sudeste, Selene Tesch, de 53 anos, foi homenageada pelo papel que desempenha como mulher rural e seu protagonismo na campanha.

O governo informou nesta quarta-feira (31) que vai destinar R$ 30 bilhões para crédito a agricultores familiares dentro do Plano Safra 2017/2018. O valor é o mesmo liberado no ano passado, ainda no governo da ex-presidente Dilma Rousseff. Os recursos estarão disponíveis para empréstimos a partir de julho, quando começa a safra...

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) has been known for some decades but is often used and understood in different ways by different people. In other words, all available control options (e.g. cultural, physical, biological, chemical) should be considered and applied reasonably by farmers. Nevertheless, IPM is not simply a toolbox and integration...

Uma pesquisa do Centro de Apoio e Promoção da Agroecologia (Capa), instituição executora de contrato de assistência técnica e extensão rural (Ater) da Sead, apontou que houve ampliação da diversificação entre agricultores familiares produtores de tabaco. “Havendo segurança de que outro sistema produtivo possui maior viabilidade, troca-se de sistema”, conclui o levantamento,...

Malnutrition, including over- and under-nutrition and micro-nutrient deficiencies, is the top contributor to the global disease burden. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, 2 billion are overweight or obese and 2 billion are micronutrient deficient. The vast majority of the world’s hungry live in developing countries. Southern Asia faces the greatest...

The solution to these global challenges rests upon unlocking the full potential of women in the world of work. Did you know that 52% of Zimbabweans are women, and yet there are fewer women being represented in parliament (32%), local Authority (16.7%) and in managerial positions in the private sector...

Senegal is one of the poorest countries in the world but thanks to its political and social stability has experienced a higher economic growth compared to its neighboring countries. Senegalese population strongly relies on agriculture and livestock rearing activities: 46 percent of the workforce is employed in the agricultural sector,...

Productores de 14 países demandaron políticas concretas para potenciar la producción ecológica y la alimentación saludable al cierre del VII Encuentro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Agricultura Ecológica y Orgánica que tuvo lugar en Rurrenabaque, Beni. Más de 200 productores reunidos en el municipio beniano reclamaron a los gobiernos de la región...

El Proyecto Insignia Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar para la Economía Rural y la Seguridad Alimentaria del IICA presenta un instrumento de apoyo para los servicios de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural, cuyo fin es servir de base para realizar una autoevaluación sobre el desempeño institucional, delinear una...

La conférence a pour objectif de Montrer l’importance de l’agriculture familiale dans un contexte d’émergence de l’agri- business en Afrique Centrale, en vue d’un soutien plus accru des gouvernements et des partenaires en faveur des organisations paysannes, en particulier des jeunes entrepreneurs agricoles. Analyser les politiques publiques nationales et régionales en matière...

O governo do Estado de Mato grosso do Sul decretou a criação de dois programas de apoio de incentivo a agricultura familiar e indígena: o Programa de Apoio às Comunidades Indígenas (Procacin) e o Projeto Quintal Produtivo. O Proacin é destinado a apoiar os agricultores familiares das comunidades indígenas para o...

Seabirds forage in highly productive areas of the ocean, which are also targeted by commercial fishing vessels. This overlap can cause them to be accidentally caught on hooks, or entangled in nets. For small-scale low impact fishers, such incidental by-catches of seabirds represent a potential danger to life and limb....

More than 40 percent of economically active women in Armenia are employed in agriculture, compared to about 30 percent of men. The vast majority of those women are informal workers on family farms however, and this fact has major implications for rural livelihoods and wellbeing, according to a report just...

Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity is a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. Farmers often have limited access to genetic resources. Not only do they need greater access to the genetic material in research stations and gene banks, they also need to collaborate with scientists who are willing...

Le mardi 12 septembre 2017, Monsieur le Ministre de l’Agriculture, du Développement rural et de la pêche a procédé à l’ouverture officielle de l’atelier de démarrage de projet «Promotion du Développement inclusif des chaines de valeurs dans la région de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche Orient «NENA»  au niveau de...

Video que muestra la relevancia de recolección de aguas lluvia, a través de cisternas, en territorios con escasez hídrica como en el semiárido brasileño. La recolección les permite disponer del recurso y regar sus plantaciones todo el año.

A Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) assinou, no final de dezembro, o primeiro contrato de compra de alimentos orgânicos de agricultores familiares do Amazonas, por meio do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). O projeto, da Associação dos Produtores Orgânicos do Estado do Amazonas (Apoam), prevê o fornecimento de 12,36...

LIFE strongly urges MEPs of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) to vote against the lifting of restrictions to pulse fishing.