Video sobre la experiencia en Agricultura Familiar en Alajuela, Costa Rica. Producido por el Ministerio de Agricultura de Costa Rica y la oficina nacional de la FAO.

The agriculture sector is the largest employer in developing countries of Asia and in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Smallholders, landless and marginal farmers and their families, who comprise the main category of the rural self-employed in the sector, face a large number of economic, demographic, social and technical constraints. Strengthening...

What is successful access and benefit sharing’ for smallholder family farmers? This contribution argues it is not about legal contracts or mechanisms that regulate the international transfer of plant genetic resources. It is about farmers’ access to seed diversity and the ability to share in the benefits of the continuing...

Ministers of Agriculture from OECD countries and partner economies around the world will meet at OECD headquarters in Paris on 7-8 April 2016, to discuss Better Policies to Achieve a Productive, Sustainable and Resilient Global Food System. Ministers will explore the new policies needed to achieve this widely shared interest,...

Este número de Mundo Rural incluye artículos sobre: alcances de la nueva institucionalidad indígena, vigencia y futuro de las organizaciones campesinas, INDAP abre primera tienda Mundo Rural, 2016 año internacional de las legumbres, entre otros artículos de interés.  

This special issue of Farming Matters magazine has explored the ways in which access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources can work for family farmers. On one hand it presents cases that demonstrate the limited extent to which family farmers have been able to benefit from the ‘formal’ ABS...

Descripción y análisis de dos hechos que para el autor, resultan muy relevantes para el agro en Colombia: el Paro Nacional Agrario, Campesino, Étnico y Popular que se realizó entre el 30 de mayo y el 12 de junio de 2016 y la firma del acuerdo sobre cese al fuego...

De acuerdo al Programa de Gobierno y los Lineamientos Estratégicos Institucionales 2014-2018, a nivel nacional se trabajó el área de Medio Ambiente, en donde la Región de Antofagasta ha sido la primera en recoger el guante, desarrollando así un Seminario de Agroecología, impulsando un nuevo camino en la mirada agroambiental....

Access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources is a crucial but very complex, political and legalistic matter. Does the formal system work for family farmers? As we see in this special issue of Farming Matters, co-produced with Bioversity International, it poses many challenges. At the same time, farmers around...

A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with...

Life of Nomadic pastoralists from Mongolia

Um dos maiores programas para fomentar o acesso às sementes crioulas do mundo está sendo implementado pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) na região Nordeste do Brasil. Um Termo de Execução Descentralizada foi assinado pela Sead com a rede de Articulação Semiárida Brasileira (Asa). O convênio...

Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is...

This guide is intended to serve as the basis for the implementation of the Innovative Agro-ecology component of the GEF Small Grants Programme in its 6th Operational phase, and to provide guidance for the agro-ecosystem outcome of the COMDEKS landscape approach. In particular, this guidance aims to enable communities to...

For the indigenous peoples of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the ‘fi sh province’ of the Russian Federation, fi ghting for their rights to access fi shing resources is crucial

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (“the Committee”) acknowledges the vital contributions of rural women and the urgent need to improve recognition and protection of their human rights. Through its previous Concluding Observations and General Recommendations, the Committee has identified various ways in which rural women continue...

Este es el testimonio de Nené Soneira, quien dedicó toda su vida a trabajar los derechos de aquellos olvidados. Trabajó para construir ese puente necesario entre las comunidades originarias del Impenetrable chaqueño y el Estado e impulsó la creación del municipio El Sauzalito. En 1985 se convirtió en la primera...

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida.   Para llamar la atención sobre la complejidad de la actual crisis alimentaria,...

To conduct a non-monetary valuation of ecosystem services, this study explored combining data on the use of ecosystem resources with measuring the effort expended on agricultural activities in three communities of the lower Caqueta, Colombian Amazon. By measuring the energy expended by people during their principal subsistence activities, a measure...

Ce guide est conçu comme un outil d’accompagnement des techniciens et paysans engagés dans des actions de promotion et de développement de l’agroécologie. Il fait suite à un premier guide technique réalisé en 2014 en République démocratique du Congo dans le cadre du projet Defiv, projet de sécurité alimentaire mis...