In Chacore, about 200 kilometers east of Asunción, Paraguay’s capital, Ceferina Guerrero, 68, walks by shelves of carefully-labelled plastic bottles and metal drums. Each contains a native seed variety essential to the diets of rural communities. Their labels list seed names in Guarani, an indigenous language and Paraguay’s second official language,...

Esta publicación es la segunda de la serie cambio climático y seguridad alimentaria y nutricional América Latina y el Caribe elaborada por la Oficina Regional de FAO para América Latina y el Caribe. El documento aborda temas necesarios de considerar en las estrategias de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional, en el...

The region of Karamoja, located in the northeast of Uganda, is the poorest and least developed region in the country. Historically, Karamoja has been a pastoral area; crop production, which is less reliable there, has recently emerged as an important source of household food and income in some areas. Although...

Green protein from clover-grass or alfalfa is considered a valuable protein source for poultry and pigs. By concentrating the protein fraction from grass clover crops grown locally in Denmark, and by using biorefining technology, one expects to obtain a vegetable protein and amino acid source that can optimize feed formulation...

Les agricultures familiales sont les formes d’agricultures les plus répandues à travers le monde. Loin d’être passéistes, elles s’adaptent et répondent aux évolutions de l’environnement. Le Baromètre qui leur est consacré par SOS Faim, Îles de Paix et Autre Terre analyse les enjeux actuels qui les façonnent et les transforment....

Millions of small-scale farmers and foresters will be able to better protect their lands from the impacts of climate change, and improve their livelihoods thanks to renewed global efforts announced today on the side-lines of World Forest Week (COFO24). The Forest and Farm Facility initiative - a partnership among FAO, IIED,...

More than 12 million small-scale farmers and their families in the risk-prone, dryland areas of the Western Sahel have become chronically vulnerable to food and nutrition insecurity. This growing crisis is due to a constellation of factors, including the collapse of soil fertility and climate change. Agroecology Plus Six (AE+6)...

This video describes the Integrated Country Approach, an FAO’s youth project in Uganda which provides strategic technical support to government of Uganda in developing youth inclusive National Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment in Agriculture. The project also supports evidence generation, dialogues and training. Through capacity building, the ability of...

Governments and other stakeholders must place sustainable and productive agriculture front and centre in their attempts to reduce the impact of disasters and climate-related shocks in the world’s most disaster-prone region.

Ce numéro de la revue AGRIDAPE fait un focus sur des expériences qui rentrent dans le cadre général d’une stratégie locale d’adaptation aux changements climatiques s’appuyant sur les ressources du milieu naturel, en lieu et place d’un recours abusif à des intrants externes qui pourraient être nuisibles à l’environnement. Les contributeurs...

Farm Hack is a community-led approach to the development, modification and sharing of designs for farm tools, machinery and other innovations. It emphasizes a farmer-to-farmer approach to learning and creates platforms for farmers to come together to ‘hack’ and apply their collective ingenuity in the development of technologies appropriate for...

La enseñanza experimental de las ciencias naturales es una actividad compleja que requiere de la utilización de distintos tipos de conocimientos relacionados con la propia ciencia y sus metodologías. En el laboratorio se aprende haciendo, dado que se logra interrelacionar la teoría con la práctica. Las actividades de laboratorio estimulan...

Discarding food appropriate for human consumption is a waste of resources that negatively impacts the climate and the environment. Yet, there is a set of proven solutions that could help tackle food waste – provided that all actors in the food supply chain are ready to get involved and that...

The ongoing and prolonged drought situation in several EU countries is affecting the production of arable crops and animal feed, which could have an impact on farmer income, increase their input costs and potentially give rise to an animal welfare issues, if there is a shortage of fodder later in...

This is the story of Ms Bouchan Huengvilay, a PGS-organic farmer in Lao PDR. She is part of one of the PGS groups formed and supported under the FAO Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) on "Small-scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Development through Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS)".

SEWA, AFA member and MTCP2 national implementing agency in India, conducted SRI training for women farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India. Two of the participants applied what they learned from the training despite the risks, and their efforts paid off when the yield of their paddy fields increased from their usual...

El cacao es uno de los principales commodities comercializados en el mundo para la producción de alimentos, bebidas y otros productos. En América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) posee una histórica trayectoria vinculada a millones de productores y es clave para la seguridad alimentaria. La capacidad de ALC para abastecer...

Food and agriculture stand today at a crossroads. Looking back, major improvements in agricultural productivity have been recorded over recent decades to satisfy the food demand of a growing global population. But progress has often come with social and environmental costs, including water scarcity, soil degradation, ecosystem stress, biodiversity loss,...

Young farmers in a number of EU countries have been severely affected by the dry weather conditions this spring and summer. In this press release from 30 August and following a CEJA working group during which delegates discussed the drought situation, CEJA urges the European Commission and national governments to...

En América Latina y el Caribe, el cultivo de algodón se remonta a hace más de 5 mil años y representa un legado cultural y económico muy importante: el 80% de las unidades productivas algodoneras son de la agricultura familiar. Las mujeres rurales dedicadas al algodón participan en todos los eslabones...