Organization development (OD) is an important area of capacity development practice to improve food and nutrition security, reduce poverty and promote sustainable development. OD is a powerful instrument that helps to analyse and engage in complex situations or contexts and [...]

As part of the FAO ArtFiMed project ( http://www.faoartfimed.org/ ), a group of small-scale fishers organized a cooperative at Dikky, near the Gibraltar Strait in the Tangier province of Morocco. After training in the artisanal production of honey, they formed [...]

Today 70 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas and rely on agriculture as their main source of income. Their subsistence is seriously threatened by growing food demands, the degradation of natural resources and the severe effects of climate [...]

A project aimed at the socio-economic empowerment of rural communities, especially women, has been launched in the West Gonja District of the Northern Region. The project known as Dimitra, is an initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and Ghana [...]

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