In this collective work, twelve authors share their personal stories of bringing together local communities, farmers, foresters, environmentalists, and political decision makers so as to facilitate the transition towards a more sustainable and inclusive rural Europe. Together the authors explore twenty-five years of experiences of Forum Synergies throughout Europe. From Portugal...

Agtube is a new social media platform for rural people in developing countries, and all those with an interest in sustainable agriculture around the world. It is a place where you can upload and share your video clips in any language. Agtube is an initiative of Access Agriculture, an international NGO...

To meet the Sustainable Development Goals' (SDGs') aim of leaving no one behind, governments must ensure vulnerable groups have access to social and cultural services. Many of these services are central to people's wellbeing, empowerment and sustainable development — particularly for women. In remote forest landscapes, state service provision can...

This paper presents a global assessment on how food value chains and the agri-food sector havebeen considered in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Building on FAO’s globalstudy of the agriculture sectors in the NDCs, the analysis provides an overview of where valuechain interventions and references have been included and outlines...

Este informe presenta las recomendaciones, conclusiones y plan de acción resultantes del Diálogo Regional de Alto Nivel sobre la Integración de la Biodiversidad en la Agricultura, Silvicultura y Pesca (DRANIBA) en América Latina y el Caribe, organizado por la FAO y el Gobierno de México en octubre de 2018, en...

El presente trabajo se concentra en los resultados del Censo 2017 para los hogares rurales integrados por algún joven y para la población joven rural. Es un trabajo descriptivo que aspira a mostrar, a grandes rasgos, la situación actual de la juventud rural, tanto las dificultades que enfrentan como las...

In this Teikei Newsletter #51: The CSA Movement Part of the Struggle for an alternative #CAP, #CSAct, Back from the #CSM in Rome, and an interview with a #CSAFarmer from the Basque Country

Takeo, Cambodia – With both hands handicapped, Than Ponlok, a resident of Trapeang Roung Village, Udom Soriya Commune, Tramkak District, Takeo Province, says, “I do farming to the extent possible with my disability, such as raising chickens. I can do everything except building the chicken pen so I hire others...

Según un nuevo informe presentado hoy por el Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA), los proyectos de desarrollo que integran las inversiones en los pueblos indígenas rurales, los jóvenes y las mujeres con medidas para adaptarse al cambio climático tienen más probabilidades de tener éxito en América Latina y el...

El objetivo de este artículo es análizar las estrategias económicas que las poblaciones rurales del Departamento Cruz del Eje, del noroeste de la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina, desarrollan y que les permiten garantizar la superviviencia cotidiana de sus miembros.

A pig disease originating from Southeast Africa, never before seen in Europe and Central Asia, hit the news in 2007 when it was first detected in Georgia. Since then, African swine fever has spread throughout Eastern Europe, entering the European Union in 2014. Everywhere it has emerged, African swine fever has caused the...

“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...

La Red PP-Al organiza un seminario tematico al año o una escuela de verano en los cuales los miembros de la Red y los estudiantes involucrados en los proyectos colaborativas participan y refuerzan sus capacidades de analisis de las políticas públicas. Durante el año 2019, el seminario se llamó: Repensar las políticas...

The crisis in the industrial food system is impossible to ignore. For over a decade, study after study has validated the assertion of the Food Sovereignty movement in 2007 - that the corporate food system destroys life. Now Governments are anxious to find ‘innovations’ in agriculture that can overcome this....

ISSD Africa, a successful Community of Practice (CoP) on seed sector development hosted by Wageningen University & Research is looking for new investment partners before April 15. Partners are asked to invest in the CoP and/or nine well-defined action topics, ranging from seed, agrobiodiversity & climate change to gender &...

The Asia-Pacific region is taking important preparatory steps to strengthen the governance of aquaculture for sustainable development and future food security, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today. Following four decades of advancements, aquaculture has surpassed capture fisheries to become the major source of fish for human consumption...

Battambang, Cambodia – The Sangha Phal Agricultural Cooperative was established and registered officially at Battambang Agricultural Department in February 2004. The agricultural cooperative, located in Prey Sangha Village, Khnach Romeas Commune, Bavel District, Battambang, was established initially with 48 members of whom 15 were female with a total capital of...

E as mulheres sempre estiveram presentes na pesca. É o que Siri Gerrard (2018) destaca sobre o livro de Margaret Wilson “Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge”, baseado em narrativas islandesas sobre mulheres pescadoras e trabalhadoras no mar desde os anos 1700. É o caso de Thurídur Einarsdóttir, capitã...

En razón de la naturaleza de los sistemas pecuarios en manos de pequeños y medianos prodEn razón de la naturaleza de los sistemas pecuarios en manos de pequeños y medianos productores, es prioritario que las actividades de extensión universitaria para el desarrollo de pymes porcinas posean una absoluta seriedad y...

El documento presenta una descripción de la estructura del ámbito rural, la demografía, la oferta de bienes y servicios, las principales desigualdades, niveles de pobreza, importancia y rol de la agricultura familiar y de otras actividades económicas (diversificación), principales características de la sociedad rural y la presencia del sector privado....