Actively involving indigenous peoples and local communities in wildlife conservation is key to maintaining biodiversity and ensuring sustainable rural livelihoods.The urgent challenges that the world faces in maintaining biodiversity worldwide requires that indigenous peoples are empowered to act at the national level with assistance from the international community.Sheila Wertz, FAO...

Delegates of La Via Campesina, representing our organizations and movements, are gathered in the Basque Country to celebrate our 7th International Conference from the 16th to the 24th of July of 2017. After four days of collective discussions and reflections on Food Sovereignty, peasant agroecology, autonomous training networks, migrant rights, trade, climate justice...

Desde 2014, y con el apoyo de la ILC un grupo organizaciones en el país colaboran en la elaboración e implementación de una Estrategia Nacional de Involucramiento (ENI) para el acceso democrático a la tierra en Nicaragua. La ENI es un esfuerzo colectivo de articulación y de diálogo entre actores...

Los hongos extraídos de su medio natural representan una fuente de alimento e integran parte de los usos, costumbres y estrategias de sustento de los pueblos que los utilizan. La domesticación de este recurso fortalece su valor ecológico, impulsa un aprovechamiento sostenible y favorece la conservación del medio ambiente. En...

We are women and men, farmers, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) activists, agronomists, agro-ecologists, agro-ecology trainers, Food Sovereignty activists, Civil Society actors from 7 different countries in West Africa. We come from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Senegal and Togo. Over and above the current extraordinary social and economic...

Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a critical look at attempts to improve the dialogue between...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and...

his year for the 17th time the Fair of dry-cured meet prosciutto or popular as “Prsutijada 2017″ was organized from February 10th till 12th in the village Mackat, Serbia. More than 10.000 domestic and international visitors visited this event. The aim of this event was to promote traditional processing of meat products from...

FAO has issued a set of calls for expression of interest for internship positions, specifically encouraging applicants from the Global South and Indigenous Peoples.

La calidad de nuestra alimentación y nuestra soberanía alimentaria dependen de las decisiones que tomamos todos los días. En la CONABIO colaboramos con muchas instituciones para conocer la diversidad de plantas domesticadas, sus parientes silvestres, los procesos que les han dado origen a través de la selección continua que hacen los...

This booklet has been written by the European Access to Land network in cooperation with Urgenci, the network for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), based on CSA members’ stories from across Europe. Land and communities – new building stones for European food and agriculture. In the last 10 years alone, Europe has...

La investigación y su sistematización en este documento fue posible gracias al fnanciamiento proveniente de la Unión Europea a través de los proyectos “Fortalecimiento a organizaciones andinas para la incidencia en política pública sobre seguridad alimentaria en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú” y “Democratización, derechos y diálogo intercultural para la inclusión...

Os antropólogos que vão aos Krahô só pesquisam os homens. Eles não pesquisam as mulheres. Neste ensaio, a pesquisadora busca alcançar o entendimento do seu povo, os Krahô, ouvindo as mulheres. Após o contato com os não indígenas, passamos a sofrer para aprender a cultura dos Cupen. O mesmo parece não acontecer...

Chiapas, Mexico is one of several coffee-growing areas that has been hit hard by coffee’s biggest enemy — coffee rust. This devastating fungus attacks the leaves of a coffee tree. It causes them to fall off, stops photosynthesis and ultimately kills the tree. 

O coco indaiá e o gergelim (foto), produzidos por quilombolas Kalungas, no estado de Goiás, serão catalogados no projeto “Alimentos bons, limpos e justos”. Nos dias 27 e 28 de maio, uma equipe do projeto, com representante da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), da Universidade de...

Non-timber forest products such as bamboo shoots are a very important food and source of income for farmers in rural areas of Laos. Sustainable management of bamboo is important for food security, and improvement of the bamboo value chain can help increase incomes for rural people. That is why the...

he Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIWG) on a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas meets again this week in Geneva. Negotiations are expected to get even more challenging this time, as discussions will touch upon “contentious” issues, such as the right to...

In 2015, 119 million European citizens, representing almost a quarter of the EU population, were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Statistics show that the average poverty rate is slightly higher in rural areas, with very contrasting situations across the Union as some countries display a huge poverty gap...

Model Sheep Fold is a good example of how traditional farming methods are supported by technical exper-tise to ensure that the traditional way of life in Romanian villages may be maintained. Solar panels supply the shepherds with electricity for light and for charging their cell phones. This enables the shepards...

Progress towards gender equality is key to meeting global goals of eradicating poverty and eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Women make important contributions to agriculture and rural livelihoods and play a vital role in the care and reproduction of households and communities. However, persistent gender inequalities, such as unequal access to...