The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.

Este trabalho apresenta alguns resultados e discussões sobre pesquisa concluída que se desenvolve em torno das relações entre agricultores-feirantes e consumidores, referente ao processo de comercialização e às demais interações possíveis, em dois municípios do Oeste do Paraná: Marechal Cândido Rondon e Medianeira. Os objetivos: analisar o significado e a...

The workshop was organised by the ASEAN Foundation, in coordination with the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN Centre for the Development of Agricultural Cooperatives (ACEDAC) Secretariat, and with support from the AFOSP-MTCP2 Programme.

The geography, histories, and cultures of the Pacific island region, and its 14 small island developing states represent unique challenges and opportunities

As support for agroecology grows around the world, an urgent question spanning our field’sscientific, practical, and movement dimensions is how agroecology can “scale” to includemorepeople in more places in fair, sustainable food systems. Our challenge is to seize this opportunitywhile pushing back against the tendency to strip agroecology of its...

O MOBI (Mulheres Organizadas Buscando Independência), é iniciativa criada em 2006 dentro de uma cooperativa de agricultores familiares a Coopfam (Cooperativa de Agricultores Familiares de Poço Fundo). O Café Feminino da Coopfam é resultado do encontro e da luta de mulheres que acreditaram em seu potencial. Como na época nenhuma mulher tinha direito...

This third annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2019) marks another major collaborative effort between numerous agencies in the international humanitarian and development community to share their data, analysis, knowledge and expertise regarding people facing food crises. Producing this report is a complex and iterative process, which is coordinated...

The intensive production of livestock, poultry, fish and crops, is environmentally damaging. This is because industrial farming can affect the soil, water and climate. The answer lies in promoting less intensive farming methods, known as agroecology. In this week’s episode, Rachel Wynberg the bio-economy research chair at the University of Cape...

Livelihoods support interventions play a critical role within the humanitarian response; safeguarding and rapidly scaling up food production and therefore increasing food availability among the most vulnerable.

At a European policy level, the ‘EU Action for Smart Villages’ was officially launched in the European Parliament during the Spring of 2017 by the EU Commissioners for Agriculture (Phil Hogan), Regional Development (Corina Creţu) and Mobility (Violeta Bulc). It has received major support from the EU Parliament which promoted...

Suzana Dimitrievska is an organic farmer in North Macedonia. Coming from a line of strong, well-educated women, she has always been comfortable embracing new technology. She is using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to increase the efficiency of her family farm. Several years ago, she bought a farm management software that enabled...

This article traces how ‘agroecology’ is co-produced as a global socio-technical object. The site of co-production, the Global Dialogue on Agroecology, was convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in different cities around the world between 2014 and 2018 (Rome 2014; Brasilia, Dakar, Bangkok 2015;...

In the brave new world of fisheries control, all catch reporting to be electronic

Dutch dairy farmer Matté Eikelenboom explores crop diversification in his grazing land, to stimulate soil life and improve the health of his cows. His mixed pastures show promising results for the quality of his feed and the health of his animals. The variety of species also helps increase organic matter...

This new edition of the State of Mediterranean Forests aims to demonstrate the importance of Mediterranean forests to implementing solutions to tackle global issues such as climate change and population increase. The report is divided into five parts. After an introduction, the second part highlights the importance of Mediterranean forests...

Su bisabuelo, Esteban Butiuk, llegó de Ucrania en 1902 a la Argentina para radicarse en la provincia de Misiones. En 1920, empezó a plantar yerba mate y comenzó un emprendimiento que hoy, casi 100 años después, continúa su bisnieto, Jorge, junto a su mujer y sus hijas. Con esfuerzo y...

Promoting the development of farming systems towards more sustainable forms, in particular maintaining production without harming the environment, means being able to analyse these systems in their complexity and dynamic, at the same time providing the means to assess their ecological intensification. The approaches to these livestock systems have to...

O objetivo geral foi apresentar a relação entre os Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS’s), o Desenvolvimento Alternativo e a Agroindústria familiar rural de polpa de fruta Fonte de Sabor como fruto da união de mulheres agricultoras familiares do Assentamento São João II que localiza-se no espaço rural de Pombal, território...

“A terra é uma mãe, aquela que ampara seu filho”. É assim que a agricultora familiar Maria Luzinete, de 63 anos, descreve sua relação com a natureza. Moradora do povoado Lagoa da Volta, no município de Porto da Folha, em Sergipe, Netinha, como é conhecida na comunidade, vive do preparo...

Suzana Dimitrievska is an organic farmer in North Macedonia. Coming from a line of strong, well-educated women, she has always been comfortable embracing new technology. She is using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to increase the efficiency of her family farm.