As cities continue to expand and ever more people migrate to urban areas, current unsustainable patterns of urbanisation and ineffective policies are no longer acceptable. The typical approaches that maintain the separation between rural and urban neglect all of the ways that connect both worlds. And nowhere else are rural...

Farmers who are trying to build up healthy soil on their land can find it a particularly prolonged process. Work with local community organisation in Nicaragua, however, shows that results can be seen relatively quickly and achieved on a broad scale, with a long-term farmer-led strategy. From its origins in...

The brochure provides an overview of sustainable land management and climate change Adaptation in Central Asia and how they relate to the partnership between ADB and ICARDA.

Del 14 al 17 de abril de 2015, en el Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba se realizó la Convención Internacional Agroforestal  que integró los eventos: 6to Congreso Forestal de Cuba II Congreso Internacional de Café y Cacao VI Encuentro Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores Durante cuatro días investigadores, académicos, empresarios, productores, comunicadores, entre otros...

This fact sheet offers an overview of small farmers'main constraints and on IFAD's main operations in the country. Poverty is essentially a rural phenomenon in Morocco. About three quarters of poor people in the country live in rural areas. Under an ambitious poverty reduction programme called the National Initiative for...

En esta publicación se muestra una descripción de los principales métodos de producción y manejo de la semilla de caña de azúcar, igualmente se resalta que cada uno de ellos es viable tanto técnica como económicamente, dependiendo de las necesidades de cada usuario y uso que se pretenda dar al...

La obra es una compilación de 14 de los trabajos producidos por Manuel Chiriboga Vega entre 1997 y 2011, donde identifica y analiza profundamente los factores y políticas que afectan al agro y al sector rural, de manera especial a la agricultura familiar campesina, y plantea remover esos factores de...

This paper explores aspects of promoting rural women’s leadership in producers’ organizations (POs). Despite the vast amount of work that women perform in the agriculture sector, their role remains largely unrecognized. The concerns and issues of women farmers are scarcely heard at the local, national and global levels. One reason...

The dragonfly Erpetogomphus sabaleticus Williamson, 1918 (Odonata: Anisoptera: Gomphidae) is for the first time reported preying on Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Liviidae). A compiled list of more than 63 species distributed in seven orders and seventeen families of arthropod (insects and spiders) natural enemies of D. citri is provided. La libélula...

El sistema productivo de arracacha no dispone de semilla con calidad física, genética, fisiológica ni sanitaria. La semilla se obtiene de cultivos comerciales caracterizados por mezcla de variedades regionales, con diferentes periodos de desarrollo por resiembras, originadas por pérdida de semillas de mala calidad, variabilidad en el estado sanitario, ataques...

Biowatch advocates for agroecology as a proven, multi-faceted approach to creating a sustainable, diverse, just food system that applies ecological principles and methods to farming, while addressing wider environmental, economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions in order to transform the industrialised food system.

There is a wide consensus among scholars and policy makers that knowledge is a key resource to support European agriculture in meeting new challenges such as e.g. international competition, food safety, health or environmental issues. Organisations delivering farm advice are targeted by different EU policies, such as the “Farm Advisory...

This technical note proposes a framework for understanding the contribution of social protection to rural women’s empowerment, particularly how different social protection schemes contribute to this goal and what gaps need to be addressed by other rural services and livelihood interventions to achieve women’s economic empowerment in rural areas. The...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

Se evaluó el efecto a nivel de invernadero de un biofertilizante integrado en soporte orgánico mineral, en un cultivo de lechuga, var. Batavia, en la Sabana de Bogotá. Se evaluaron cinco tratamientos cada uno con 22 plantas así, compost + biofertilizante (T1), biofertilizante en soporte orgánico mineral (T2), biofertilizante común...

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

La actividad se desarrolló en Quito, Ecuador, con presencia de productores familiares, campesinos y funcionarios de los gobiernos participantes de la REAF.

Sometidos a procesos ambientales, económicos, sociales y productivos los horticultores deben adaptarse a cambios en los aspectos productivos como comerciales. En este sentido, un conjunto de productores hortícolas, ubicados en la localidad de Open Door, distrito de Lujan han iniciado un proceso de transición hacia la agroecología. El objetivo de...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...

The third European Forest Week will be held in conjunction with Silva2015, the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI); and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). It will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland in the alpine village of Engelberg from 2–6...