The book is the first step in the process of creating such an index, which can measure agricultural biodiversity across different dimensions. The concept grew from the observation – based on a scientific paper on levels of crop diversity produced compared to levels of crop diversity imported – that juxtaposing...

Pastoralism is a rational and viable economic land-use system able to generate significant returns in the dryland areas of Eastern Africa. Widespread misunderstanding about pastoralism has left it often under-protected, undervalued and an unintended victim of uninformed policies. However, this traditional livelihood system, which evolved as an adaptive strategy for...

Peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, indigenous people and rural workers gathered together once again in Geneva from 15 – 19 May, 2017, to claim their rights and to have them recognised in the human rights law framework through a United Nations declaration. The right to land, to seeds, to food sovereignty, to...

Em vários países, incluindo o Brasil, os projetos para a proteção da Floresta Tropical da Amazônia envolvem esforços custosos de monitoramento, fiscalização e punição de responsáveis pelo desmatamento, mas existe uma forma muito mais simples e barata: dar às comunidades indígenas o título de terras. De acordo com um estudo...

Este Informe País aporta datos fundamentales para tener en cuenta en cualquier tipo de discusión, proyecto o iniciativa que implique a las mujeres rurales de México, a la vez que propone recomendaciones puntuales para la garantía de sus derechos. Los Informes País sobre la situación de las mujeres rurales son una...

The Family Agriculture Yearbook in Spain has become a referenceFor all the professionals who follow the agrarian activity in Spain. The theme that is developed in the 2017 edition, "Agriculture, development and innovation in rural territories. The risks of depopulation: Where there is agriculture, there is life ", has a...

The High Level Panel of Experts for Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) is the science-policy interface of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is, at the global level, the foremost inclusive and evidence-based international and intergovernmental platform for food security and nutrition (FSN). The HLPE reports serve as...

The Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) for relations with the CFS is the largest international space of civil society organizations (CSOs) working to eradicate food insecurity and malnutrition. The purpose of the CSM is to autonomously facilitate civil society participation in policy processes of the CFS. During the reporting period, the...

En este documento argumentamos que la participación de las mujeres mayangna y miskitu de seis comunidades indígenas del Caribe Norte de Nicaragua, en el manejo de los bosques no ha sido equitativa con respecto a los hombres, debido a la forma en que se establecen las relaciones de género en...

At organic market in Odisha, middle-class consumers get to interact with the producers of their food and appreciate traditional knowledge systems

Ecologistas en Acción finally published the e-book : Compartiendo la cosecha: Agricultura Apoyada por la Comunidad, una guía ciudadana, a Spanish version of Sharing the Harvest, by Elizabeth Henderson y Robyn Van En. In this Spanish translation of the thoroughly revised and expanded classic, Elizabeth Henderson provides us with valuable...

El foro tendrá por objetivo hacer recomendaciones de políticas públicas con un enfoque de derechos que (i) promuevan la igualdad de género y el respeto de los derechos de las mujeres indígenas; (ii) fortalezcan la toma de decisiones de las mujeres indígenas; y (iii) reduzcan la brecha de pobreza y...

O Centro de Monitoramento Remoto (CMR) da Funai é um portal na web desenvolvido para monitorar as ocorrências de desmatamento e degradação nas terras indígenas e acompanhar as mudanças de uso e ocupação do solo. O CMR utiliza imagens de satélite (Landsat-8) para gerar informações diárias das terras indígenas localizadas...

El informe de investigación Kuña ha yvy. Desigualdades de género en el acceso de la tierra en Paraguay expone las principales brechas que afectan a mujeres rurales, campesinas e indígenas cuando buscan acceder a la tierra y a otros recursos productivos. “Entre 1940 y 2008, las mujeres apenas recibieron el 13,6%...

El presente documento se hace eco, en una primera parte, de las Recomendaciones Generales emitidas por el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer que abordan temas y áreas de interés específico sobre las mujeres indígenas y/o afrodescendientes. Se incluye un breve resumen sobre la necesidad de...

Farmers are experiencing the need to adapt to climate change, and are developing different strategies. This article contributes to the understanding of farmers’ adaptation choices, their determinants and their implications, in relation to the household income. In 2014, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) and 220 household surveys were carried out with...

Transnational supply chains are networks of locally-based enterprises that supply the demands of transnational corporations, mostly for raw materials and parts of manufactured goods. Transnational corporations set the terms of exchange within this supply chain: quality, prices, quantities and deadlines, leaving the supplying enterprises to determine working conditions, safety and...

On the 5 – 8 of April, FAO hosted for the first time a meeting with the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC), with fifteen participants across seven world regions visiting its headquarters in Rome to discuss partnerships between FAO and indigenous youth worldwide. By the end of the meeting, the indigenous...

Today peasants, indigenous peoples, farm workers, landless peasants, fisherfolk, consumers, women and young people worldwide are faced with difficult challenges. Increasingly, in the four corners of the planet, people are feeling the effect of the growing imposition of financial and market paradigms on every facet of their lives. Subjugation to...

O governo do Estado de Mato grosso do Sul decretou a criação de dois programas de apoio de incentivo a agricultura familiar e indígena: o Programa de Apoio às Comunidades Indígenas (Procacin) e o Projeto Quintal Produtivo. O Proacin é destinado a apoiar os agricultores familiares das comunidades indígenas para o...