Agriculture is vital to Zambia’s economic development and is a mainstay for the livelihoods of a large proportion of the population. Agricultural production is mainly dependent on rain-fed hoe cultivation with maize as the principal staple food crop. About 18 percent of national maize production comes from Zambia’s Southern province....

The Dihlmann family purchased a farm in the Altmark 15 years ago and converted it into an organic farm. Area-based payments for organic production, namely for ensuring traditional crop rotation, contributed to ensure the competitiveness of the farm. The members of the Dihlmann family have been farmers for more than 14...

Land is a main life support resource to third world countries. In Nigeria, a major limitation to sustainable land use resources planning, development and management is the unreliable assessment of t available stock and the level of utilization. In particular, the commonly adopted traditional techniques for the evaluation are as...

In Stockholm, local fishermen have long been isolated, dependent on long chain marketing and lacking opportunities to sell their fish locally. With the support of the FLAG, fishermen developed the Stockholm fish market: regular urban events where local fishermen can sell fresh, local and traceable seafood directly to urban customers,...

A travers divers témoinages d'agriculteurs et agricultrices camerounais , cette video montre comment l'agriculture familiale au Cameroun crée des emplois.

Smallholder farmers in Malawi account for over 80 percent of the population and if the country is to achieve food security, poverty reduction and sustainable development attention to agricultural extension is a sine qua non. Since 2000, Malawi introduced extension reforms to better serve the needs of smallholder farmers. Some...

La CLAC es la red latinoamericana que aglutina y representa a las organizaciones de pequeños productores y asociaciones de trabajadores del sistema Fairtrade International, así como otras organizaciones de pequeños productores de comercio justo del continente. La CLAC es la red latinoamericana que aglutina y representa a las organizaciones de pequeños...

Importantes aspectos económicos, técnicos y políticos subyacen a los actuales problemas agrícolas, sociales y de salud en las Américas. La modernización del sector agrícola se acompaña de una creciente concentración de la tierra en grandes unidades de producción que privilegian unos pocos productos básicos y los monocultivos - por ejemplo,...

In November 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) fielded an agriculture programme development mission to Jordan with the objectives of updating and expanding its “Agricultural Livelihoods and Food Security Impact Assessment and Response Plan for the Syria Crisis in the Neighbouring Countries of Egypt, Iraq,...

El primer cuaderno consolida los resultados de un grupo de investigaciones realizadas con el fin de describir y analizar el proceso Mercados Campesinos. Los estudios abordaron diversos actores que participan en el proceso: hogares campesinos, grupos locales (Comités Campesinos Municipales), promotores locales y coordinadores regionales, compradores de plazas de mercado y...

Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods. Innovation is a process through...

These Guidelines are the result of five years of participatory development, together with practitioners from civil society and private sector. The Guidelines are the result of an iterative process, built on the cross-comparisons of codes of practice, corporate reporting, standards, indicators and other technical protocols currently used by private sector,...

Popularly known as ‘the land of a thousand hills' – U Rwanda rw'imisozi igihumbi – Rwanda has a beautiful landscape made up of endless undulating hills and valleys stretching as far as the eye can see. The people who work the land are proud of its beauty. But the terrain poses a...

All seven Andalusian FLAGs participated in a cooperation project to foster women entrepreneurship across the region by studying the experiences of local women and promoting successful female entrepreneurs as role models to others to turn their business ideas into reality. High unemployment levels in Andalusia and a common objective in the...

The vast majority (70%) of the world’s population is fed and nourished by local, ecological systems of food production1. But these systems are severely threatened and undermined by industrial systems of agriculture that are controlled by corporations and promoted by governments. These industrial systems have exacerbated or even created the...

Riverland Diary Bio Farm is the success story of Mr. Vassilis Kiprianou who's name already belongs to the community of Cypriots products. After he graduated the A.T.E.i Thesalonikis Greece University he decided to return to Cyprus to follow his passion. Two years he spend locked inside the Government offices when...

El presente texto se divide en dos partes. La primera es un cuadro que resume las buenas prácticas y programas de agricultura familiar en la región y los compara con programas existentes en México, ellos con el objeto de contar con un trabajo que resuma y presente de forma simplificada...

This study summarizes experiences using Renewable Energy (RE) water pumping options as irrigation by smallholder farmers in developing countries. It includes an overview of conventional technologies (petrol and diesel pumpsets),along with an inventory of RE alternatives (wind pumps, solar Photo Voltaic (PV) pumps, solar thermal pumps and biogas) and compares,...

SOFI 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets

En este informe se presenta una caracterización de la cadena de valor de la chía en Argentina, ofreciendo: una descripción del cultivo y sus formas de conducción, una breve reseña de su introducción y desarrollo comercial en el país, la caracterización de los modelos productivos adoptados en diversas zonas agroecológicas...