Video que da cuenta de las propuestas de esta nueva expo que se realizará del 4 al 6 de septiembre en Pocito, San Juan.

This report presents the case of demonstration farms that operate within a cooperation network. The purpose of the study was to present the advisory opportunities in the process of linking education and the needs of farmers, with regard to innovative knowledge. In this process the advisory role was shown through...

El simposio “Adaptación de la Agricultura Familiar al Cambio Climático en América Latina y el Caribe” tuvo como objetivo principal analizar con especialistas, decisores e investigadores de América Latina y el Caribe y España, los desafíos del cambio climático y en particular las oportunidades para la cooperación orientada a la...

Abhijit Mohanty brings us the story of certain tribal villages in Koraput district of southern Odisha that have successfully overcome the challenges posed by denudation and inadequate irrigation and have etched out a path towards food security and well-being.

During a support partnership with the Royal Agriculture University, AVSF conducted in May 1992 in Cambodia, a study showing how high animals’ morbidity and mortality rates were in the villages. Traditional farming practices, sometimes not really adapted, were an important factor, but beyond, the main reason for such a situation...

The smallholder farmers' dataportrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. It generates an image on how small family farmers in developing and emerging countries live their lives. It is about putting in numbers, the constraints they face, and the...

Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

In the past 50 years, about a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land has been lost, threatening food production, cultural landscapes and biodiversity. One of Japan’s most valued cultural landscapes includes rice terraces. In order to prevent them from abandonment, an innovative concept known as the Ownership System, was devised almost...

El ministro de Agricultura y Riego, Juan Manuel Benites, manifestó su confianza en que la exportación de productos no tradicionales, especialmente los agrícolas, crezcan hasta en 20% el 2015. “Eso nos está permitiendo tener un ritmo de crecimiento de las exportaciones agrícolas, principalmente de frutas y hortalizas que son nuestros rubros más...

10 March 2015, Rome - An innovative partnership spanning five African countries is providing important lessons on how governments can procure food for public institutions, such as schools, directly from small-scale family farmers. Modelled on Brazil's achievements in fighting hunger and poverty, the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA...

Esta guía está dirigida a organizaciones sociales, con el fin de fortalecer prácticas de comunicación a lo interno. Lo anterior permitirá trabajar de mejor manera para transformar más ampliamente nuestras realidades. Esta propuesta puede servir también a las personas involucradas en la planificación de objetivos y tareas a realizar en...

Desde hace 25 años, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria –INTA– y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, a través del Plan Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria, llevan a cabo el Pro Huerta. Con el foco puesto en mejorar la alimentación de la población que habita las áreas urbanas, periurbanas y rurales,...

In September 2015, not only agri-food exports but also imports to the EU went up compared to the previous month (EUR +388 million; +4.5%). In particular, values of oilseeds other than soybeans, coffee and tea, and cocoa beans were at a higher level in September compared to August 2015. EU...

This technical guide elaborates on specific aspects of the VGGT relating to agricultural investments by providing detailed guidance to government authorities and others on actions they can take to help them to create an enabling environment for responsible and sustainable investments. In following this guidance and applying the principles of...

This document describe strategic plan of the Ministry of afgriculturte of Croatia. The document also covers activities and priorities in regards to the family farms sector.  

El albergue ecológico Chalalán ubicado en la Amazonía boliviana, es uno de los casos más exitosos de eco turismo comunitario e indígena en el mundo, y ha sido nominado por la revista National Geographic, entre los ochenta destinos turísticos principales del planeta. El eco albergue pertenece al pueblo indígena Uchupiamonas,...

Participatory guarantee systems support farmers’ access to markets, and provide an alternative to often prohibitively expensive third-party certification. They also bring together networks of farmers and urban citizens who are redefining food production standards from the bottom up. In the past two years, the number of participatory guarantee systems across...

Un grupo de investigadores del Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), en conjunto con el Consejo de Pueblos Atacameños (CPA), desarrollan una iniciativa que busca poner en valor la Quínoa local mediante su caracterización funcional, la introducción de productos de alta calidad y el fortalecimiento de capacidades para...

La Confederación Nacional de Pescadores Artesanales de Chile, Conapach, se constituyó en Valparaíso el 7 de agosto de 1990 por los sindicatos de pescadores artesanales de todo el país, reiniciando una larga historia sindical que se remonta a la creación de los primeros sindicatos de pescadores artesanales hacia 1.920 en...

This publication is about the work of FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and its decades-long struggle to eradicate hunger throughout the region. For more than 60 years RAP has cooperated with member countries to help them produce enough safe and nutritious food for people living in...