30 June 2017 - Food Outlook is a biannual publication (May/June and November/December) focusing on developments affecting global food and feed markets. The sub-title "Global Market Analysis" reflects this focus on developments in international markets, with comprehensive assessments and forecasts on a commodity by commodity basis.

15 June 2017 - FAO hosted the 39th Annual Meeting of the Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED) in Rome from 13-15 June 2017. On this occasion, a Thematic Day explored the relevance of small and medium-sized agro-food companies (SMAEs) in poverty reduction and the transformation of rural development. Representatives of small and medium-sized ...

31 May 2017 - For smallholder agriculture to prosper and transform itself, access to rural services is essential. Rural services that enable smallholders to overcome constraints to increase their productivity, manage their farms as a sustainable business, link to inputs and outputs markets and act collectively to improve their livelihoods are a first line ...

31 May 2017 - Facilitated by FAO and delivered by Brazilian experts in May 2017 in Vientiane, this workshop aimed to illustrate to participants how to better organize their value chains through fair and efficient contract farming, both for the farmers and the agroindustry. Twenty some provincial and district agricultural officers and farmers attended ...

31 May 2017 - This brief has been produced by the African Roots and Tubers Project and is the result of the two-day sub-regional workshop on improving farmers’ access to quality seed potato organized in 2015 in Kigali, Rwanda. According to the document, options for policy actions include: stimulation of local commercial production of ...