FAO Sub-Regional Office for East Africa and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have signed a partnership agreement to coordinate cross-border efforts on animal health, trade and natural resources management coordination.  The programme will address community engagement on policy and investment as well as cross cutting areas of work such...

Le lait cru du Niger n’est que très faiblement valorisé, du fait de la très forte saisonnalité de la production et d’un réseau de commercialisation peu développé, alors que les besoins urbains sont importants et en constante augmentation. Le projet Nariindu a permis de développer une solution innovante de centre...

In this report, agriculture is interpreted in the narrower sense of crops and livestock. Fisheries and aquaculture were treated in a dedicated HLPE report in 2014, while forestry will be covered in a report to be released in 2017. Livestock is used to designate domesticated terrestrial animals raised for food...

Europe’s farmers face a tall order. Long tasked with providing us with safe and affordable food, they are now expected to help generate jobs and economic growth as well. This priority was at the heart of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the European Union speech earlier this month....

Esta guía ha sido elaborada con el propósito de promover y favorecer la conservación de la diversidad biológica y cultural en territorios de alto valor por la biodiversidad que alojan, especialmente en áreas de soporte (es decir, paisajes de conservación, corredores biológicos y zonas de amortiguación), áreas protegidas e iniciativas de conservación privadas...

This Technical Guidance Document addresses the need for mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services into agriculture, at the national level. More specifically, it is aimed to assist countries in developing and implementing their National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (NBSA Ps), to consider ecosystem services – and opportunities for their management...

Between the 20th and 24th of September 2016, 85 participants from 25 countries met in Sighisoara in Southern Transylvania for the 13th annual conference of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group. In contrast to the previous 12 “EDGM, European Dry Grassland Meetings”, this year it was decided to change the name...

High Nature Value (HNV) farming is a relatively new concept that has been developed since the early 1990s as a policy tool to describe those farming systems in Europe which are of greatest biodiversity value. Instead of focusing only upon the maintenance of rare or endangered species and habitats on...

En Tunisie centrale, l’élevage ovin reste très présent, malgré les nombreuses perturbations auxquelles il fait face depuis les années 1970 : aléas climatiques, évolutions socio-économiques et culturelles, développement des cultures. Ces évolutions entraînent une diminution des ressources issues des parcours. Il s’agit de comprendre comment des familles maintiennent une activité d’élevage...

Dairy farming is one of the leading agricultural activities in almost all parts of the world including Eritrea. Dairying in Eritrea is highly subsistence and major contributions come from small scale producers who owns have almost 90 per cent of dairy animal. There is high a demand for milk and...

The action contributes to the EU Trust Fund objectives (1) creating greater economic and employment opportunities; and (2) strengthening resilience of communities and in particular the most vulnerable, as well as refugees and displaced people. The action is also aligned with the Valletta Action Plan priority domain (1) development benefits...

Last transhumance describes in photography and film the extinction of a millennial way of life. Last Transhumance is an artistic, ethnographic and sociological project totalling 8 years, 6 countries, more than 50,000 km travelled, 100,000 photos, 70 hours of footage and 100 hours audio recordings.

The 2016 Eurasian Grassland Conference will take place from the 20th to the 24th September 2016 in the historic town of Sighişoara in central Romania. This is the 13th annual meeting of the EDGG (formerly known as European Dry Grassland Meetings, EDGM), which aims to promote exchange and collaboration between...

The EU livestock sector - especially pigs dairy, cattle, sheep & goats, poultry & eggs - is being hit by increasing challenges ranging from upcoming climate change policy, health issues, animal welfare constraints, trade issues, with a decline in EU meat consumption expected by 2025. Yet eating beef, veal, lamb,...

Dans le cadre du renforcement de la résilience à travers l’amélioration des moyens d’existence des communautés pastorales, la FAO met en œuvre, depuis 2014, une activité de production locale et d’utilisation de Blocs Multi-nutritionnels (BMNs) dans ses zones d’intervention notamment dans les Wilayas du Trarza, Brakna, Gorgol et Assaba. Dans...

For the past half century agricultural innovation has denied a voice to the many groups who work outside the profession of science – farmers, food providers, women and the urban poor. The value of their expertise gained through practical experience must be recognised in the production and validation of knowledge....

Pastoralism in Africa faces new challenges in an era of climate change, despite some improvements in policy and legislative frameworks as well as sporadic investment in pastoral development. There are concerns that pastoralism will not be sustainable in a climate-affected world, and this is seeing the return of policies to settle...

Mediterranean grasslands (including rangelands, pastures, meadows, fodder crops) are important resources covering up to 48% of the whole region. Although these ecosystems are a key element in the production of high quality animal products and in the livelihoods of producers, they provide a range of ecosystem services besides forage production,...

Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a...

Le projet porte sur les voies à explorer pour retrouver des équilibres entre les usages pour l’élevage et la capacité des végétations steppiques à se renouveler. La transformation des sociétés basées sur l’élevage avait été appelée la "Révolution silencieuse" du pastoralisme au Maghreb dès les années 1990. Elle s’expliquait par...