The 'Global Peasants' Rights' congress sheds light on the situation of small scale farmers and the rural population around the world, draws public attention to the importance of peasants for sustainable local and regional production of food in agro ecological quality and emphasizes the need to protect their rights and...

La ola invernal ocurrida en el país entre el 2010 y 2011 arrojo perdidas al sector cacaotero del departamento del Huila de $9.965 millones (equivalente al 1.2% del PIB departamental). Tal evento climático evidenció debilidades en la capacidad adaptativa al cambio climático y la mejora en competitividad del sector. Motivado...

Forum Synergies’ rural sustainability gatherings are a lively exchange of practical knowledge and experiences between local actors, social organizations and policy makers from across Europe. During this three-day meetings we bring together people from all walks of life to learn on the spot from each other about sustainable practices in...

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. 

El uso de organismos genéticamente modificados (OMG) ha generado grandes expectativas en el desarrollo de agrocultivos. Sin embargo, se originan incertidumbres sobre efectos causales sobre la artropofauna benéfica asociada al cultivo de algodón. En el presente estudio se evaluó la diversidad de la artropofauna asociada al agroecosistema algodón Bt y...

En el presente folleto se explica como se identifica la variedad Corpoica V-159, luego de la evaluación de variedades tolerantes a sequía como medio de estabilizar productividad y disminuir el daño por micotoxinas como consecuencia del cambio climático, convirtiéndose así, en un genotipo comercial aprobado por el ICA en el...

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.

En el presente libro el lector encontrará información y fotografías de las plagas de los cítricos, sus daños y los insectos benéficos que ayudan a mantener las plagas bajo control. Se listan una gran variedad de enemigos naturales, entre ellos parasitoides, depredadores y entomopatógenos. Se hace énfasis en el área...

El presente folleto da a conocer el procedimiento para la toma de muestras y análisis de fertilidad de suelos, para evitar la poca rentabilidad de un cultivo y determinar las necesidades de adición de fertilizantes o enmiendas para suplir dichas necesidades y corregir las condiciones adversas, sirviendo como herramienta de...

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$...