This study presents the concepts and methods of farm certification schemes and provides information on the main existing schemes in the EU and in third countries. It analyses how these schemes can help the EU reach its sustainability objectives in the farming sector and be instrumental in the implementation and...

El trailer del documental "Detrás del humo”aborda indaga sobre las causas de los incendios que se intensificaron en 2020 y dejaron más de 400 mil hectáreas destruidas, y más de 900 especies animales afectadas.

The species Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp), commonly known as cowpea, is a multi-purpose legume that has been selected into three subspecies that are divided into grain, fodder and pod (yardlong bean) types. However, genetic bases for distinctions are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to apply genotyping-by-sequencing...

In Cuba, food security is still a challenge after years of wars to fight against colonialism, imperialism and climate change. Yet, the island is far beyond the European Green Deal objectives, having largely achieved most of the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity targets that the EU aspires to attain by 2030....

Las mujeres rurales juegan un rol transformador en el desarrollo agrícola y rural, así como en garantizar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. Sin embargo, las mujeres tienen menos acceso a los Servicios de Asistencia Técnica y Extensión Rural (SAR), que los hombres e incluso, cuando logran tener acceso, la información,...

 About 30 percent (12.6 million people) of Ukraine’s population lives in rural areas (as of January 2021). Agriculture plays an increasingly important role in the Ukrainian economy, with its share of GDP (including forestry and fishery) rising from 6.3 percent in 2007 to 9.3 percent in 2020.  When upstream and downstream industries...

The world’s oceans can no longer sustain the ever-rising demand for fish. Aquaculture offers an alternative approach – if production is sustainable and high quality. INRAE, the Aqualande group and its selective breeding company Les Sources de l’Avance, and the French Poultry and Aquaculture Breeders Technical Center (SYSAAF) reviewed data...

Este estudio examina el efecto de la propiedad efectiva de tierras por parte de la mujer sobre el empoderamiento femenino y la seguridad alimentaria del hogar, en el contexto de la agricultura familiar peruana. Utilizando un enfoque de variable instrumental, exploramos si la propiedad informal autodeclarada de parcelas dota a...

Sustainable agriculture and agroecology are now essential to the discussion on agricultural models in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study develops a typology of farms with different levels of agroecology, from none to advanced adoption and the findings provide a better understanding of agroecology’s development in dynamic rural contexts such as the Niayes....

Food systems require urgent and profound transformation to become sustainable, both in Europe and worldwide. Social innovation plays a pivotal role in transforming today’s food systems into ones that are economically and socially feasible, and sustainable within planetary boundaries. This briefing presents the results of a systematic examination of emerging...

Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) son herramientas utilizadas en diferentes sectores productivos, incluyendo el sector agropecuario. Teniendo en cuenta su uso tanto en zonas rurales como urbanas, se constituyen en una alternativa para la difusión de información, la transferencia de tecnología y la gestión del conocimiento....

Ireland’s agricultural sector has specialised towards the export of dairy products and beef, mainly to the UK and the EU. At the same time, domestic consumers are now reliant on food imports. Recent global events have nonetheless raised the question of whether Ireland should be producing more foods for the domestic...

La alimentación suministrada en el actual modelo hegemónico de producción de alimentos de origen animal, con un enfoque agroindustrial y con el confinamiento de los animales en pequeñas superficies (granjas avícolas destinadas a la producción intensiva de huevos y carne, sistemas estabulados de producción de leche, granjas porcinas, feedlot), se...

El Sistema Integrado de Producciones Agroecológicas (SIPA) de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario fue creado en el año 2017 con el objetivo de generar prácticas agropecuarias alternativas que amplíen y mejoren el perfil profesional. Al tiempo que el SIPA comenzaba a funcionar, la institución...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Worldwide, extension and advisory service (EAS) systems have undergone reforms since the 1990s. However, the reforms of the last two decades in many countries have largely failed, as there has not been significant increase in accountability, efficiency, empowerment or impact. To fill this gap, this document, based on a systematic...

Where there is water, there is life. A reliable source of clean water is necessary to grow nutritious food and to lead a healthy life. But climate change is wreaking havoc on rainfall patterns and causing surface water to be lost to evaporation. Sometimes there is not enough water, and other...

In the coastal region of Niayes, close to Senegal’s capital Dakar, Binta Ba is training her fellow growers in agroecology, an integrated approach applying ecological and social concepts to sustainable agriculture, which turns a lot of conventional farming wisdom on its head. As the implementation of the global Voluntary Guidelines on the...

Publication scientifique, sur l'effet de la fertilisation organique de type "engrais vert" sur la culture des tomates en irrigué.

Carbon farming refers to sequestering and storing carbon and/or reducing greenhouse gas emissions at farm level. It offers significant but uncertain mitigation potential in the EU, can deliver co-benefits to farmers and society, but also carries risks that need to be managed. The report identifies opportunities and constraints for carbon...