The Soil Association was formed in 1946 to create a better world – one where we farm responsibly, eat healthily and live in balance with the environment. We support farmers and growers to research and tackle the most serious food and farming challenges, through projects such as Innovative Farmers. And we...

Los sistemas de extensión agrícola de la región de América Latina y el Caribe han experimentado un proceso evolutivo en los últimos años. Esta transformación ha generado cambios en la forma de “aprender y adaptarse” al entorno con el fin de prosperar. Lo que en algún momento fuera un proceso...

Interviewed onsite at The Economist Feeding the World Summit 2014, Rose Akaki tells Farming First the key challenges faced by female farmers in Uganda and offers her recommendations for improving agriculture in her country.

Globally, agriculture is facing enormous pressure to produce more food for growing population while it is increasingly getting affected by shrinking cultivable land area, water availability and climate change. With impressive economic growth, homogeneity of diets across countries has increased in the last 50 years and is pushing more and...

Promoting renewable energy sources is a central theme on the European level and stimulating the purchase of equipment for producing renewable energy mainly for ensuring the energy demand in farms was a priority for the Rural Development Programs during 2007-2013, inserted in 2009, through the European Economic Recovery Plan. This...

As part of our larger strategy to adapt smallholders in drylands to climate change, ICARDA’s science has sharpened its focus on producing more with less in irrigated and agropastoral systems, and sustainably intensifying cereal-based rain-fed production systems through research platforms in Egypt, Ethiopia and Morocco.

El Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), con el apoyo técnico de la FAO, formuló el Programa de la Agricultura Familiar para el Fortalecimiento de la Economía Campesina, iniciativa basada en el Plan para Activar y Adecuar la Política Nacional de Desarrollo Rural Integral (PNDRI). La PNDRI toma como...

Organisational leaders, Dr John R Deep Ford (FAO) and Dr Michael Hailu, CTA director, are urging increased attention, investment and policy interventions to improve the economic capacity of family farmers in the Caribbean who they say have largely been neglected by policymakers.

Este librillo contiene información resumida sobre la REAF y su importancia.

Asia and the Pacific is a very socially, culturally and economically diverse region. Trade liberalization and foreign investments have contributed to rapid economic, human capital and agricultural growth, and decreased price distortions. However, the benefits have been unevenly shared among and within countries and between men and women. Export-oriented policies...

In this paper, we will explore the ways in which sustainable intensification interventions often overlook fundamental social dynamics in rural landscapes. We provide evidence of the underlying social, political and environmental contexts that affect farmers’ land-use decisions. While there are numerous initiatives to promote a Green Revolution for Africa, many...

Esta publicación y el portal web asociado a ella [http://www. formacionygestion.org] son el resultado de varios años de trabajo colectivo en formación de capacidades para la gestión del desarrollo de los territorios rurales en los planos regional, nacional y territorial, en apoyo a la ejecución de la Estrategia Centroamericana para...

La Convención en Diversidad Biológica resalta la importancia de los polinizadores y el establecimiento de una iniciativa internacional para la conservación y el uso sostenible de los polinizadores. Dentro de este contexto, la FAO estableció el Plan de Acción Global en Servicios de Polinización para una Agricultura Sostenible como guía...

Este estudio se planteó con el objetivo general de analizar la trayectoria de una muestra de subproyectos financiados y evaluados en el marco de la ejecución de Programas o Proyectos de Desarrollo Rural con financiamiento total o parcialmente externo, que habían sido oportunamente considerados innovadores en su implementación. Al momento de...

Family farming is vital in ensuring food security, says the Ministry of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development on the occasion of World Food Day. Joining the ministry in celebrating the occasion which falls annually on 16 October are two United Nations agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the...

Documento recopilatorio de la reunión "Invertir en los pequeños agricultores familiares para conseguir el futuro que queremos" Reconociendo que no puede haber seguridad alimentaria y nutricional para los 2 000 millones de personas que dependen de la agricultura familiar en pequeña escala sin un desarrollo rural inclusivo, los círculos influyentes,...

The Asia-Pacific region is the world leader in total aquaculture production. In 2012 the region produced 58.5 million tonnes of aquaculture products (excluding aquatic plants), accounting for 89 percent of the global aquaculture production of 66.7 million tonnes. More than any other region, the review of aquaculture production by species,...

The percentage of smallholders with access to finance is equally difficult to quantify. According to estimates, even promising approaches to expanding smallholder lending, such as value chain finance, are reaching fewer than 10 percent of smallholders, primarily those in well-established value chains dedicated to higher value cash crops. International Finance...

Los sistemas de extensión son la estrategia básica para incrementar la productividad, disminuir los costos unitarios, diversificar la producción, agregar valor, diferenciar las producciones, adecuarse a los estándares de calidad exigidos por el mercado y disminuir la inseguridad alimentaria. Para enfrentar este desafío se establece el Sistema Nacional de Innovación...

The policy document describes the need for targeted support of HNV farming systems, and proposals for achieving them under the CAP post 2013