For 20 years, SOS Faim has been supporting territorial development initiatives, particularly in rural areas. Why is that? Within a given territory, there is huge potential for a consolidation of the civil society, with the perspective of giving more power, opportunities and resources to citizens, by using socio-economic and political leverage....

A better use of crop genetic diversity is recognized as an essential leverage for agroecology, as it promotes various ecosystem services, in a context of increasing environmental stochasticity caused by global change. Increasing within field diversity through the use of cultivar mixtures is a timely option, as testified by past...

This report is a compilation, which captures the experiences of the Project Team during their engagement with their respective governments and various organizations over the 5 years of project implementation. Such experiences were compiled for, shared, and discussed at a workshop specifically organised by the FAO FPAM project and held...

This report analyses the land markets’ functioning in the Western Balkans and small farm households’ access to land. For that purpose, survey questionnaires, focus groups, and desk research for each of the targeted Western Balkan countries/territories (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo∗, Montenegro and Serbia), were used. Based on...

Agriculture and food industry sectors have a major importance for the Moldovan economy. The Republic of Moldova has one of the highest share of rural population among the countries in Europe and Central Asia, and its agriculture sector significantly contributes to the country’s gross domestic product. The Food and Agriculture...

Priorities highlighted in the agreement are closely aligned with the country’s own priorities in the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2014–2020, aiming to support progressive alignment of the country’s agriculture and rural development with European Union accession requirements and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Rakhmanin said. “The agreement matches...

The flyer about FAO's Country Programming Framework in Egypt aims at giving a summarized brief about the priority programming areas for Egypt that FAO will focus on during the period from 2017-2022; the amount of funds required to implement these programmes; and the expected outputs of each programme area.

Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...

The study summarizes the results emerging from the 2017 update of the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) indicators for the 2005-2016 period for 14 sub-Saharan African countries. These indicators - comparable across commodities, countries and years - are commonly used to assess the extent of policy support...

O presente trabalho, objetiva por abordagem decolonial apresentar práticas e vivências da agroecologia, alinhadas à economia solidária que resgatam modos alternativos das relações econômicas, na chamada economia feminista por meio do feminismo comunitário. Para isto, a pesquisa qualitativa trará como sujeitas as mulheres do Sistema Participativo de Garantia da Qualidade...

This brief summarizes the findings of the research report "Drivers and patterns of rural youth migration and its impact on food security and rural livelihoods in Tunisia", developed in the framework of the "Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty" (RYM) project. It provides an overview of the drivers, patterns...

High water consumption and specifc soil requirements warrant a long-term planning for date palm cultivation. Hence, this study presents a detailed procedure to calculate water and land balances that assess the suitability for date palm cultivation in three districts of the West Bank. It applies crop response functions to relate...

The agricultural holdings without legal status, largely overlapping the rural population’s households and providing content to the individual households, namely the peasant households, preserve the continuity of the vernacular village in terms of the community land and in demographic terms, through the families living in the villages, whose main occupation...

This book was prepared under the framework of TCP/UZB/3501: Institutional capacity building to develop organic agriculture and to promote good agriculture practices in Uzbekistan to provide guidance to the stakeholders. This book brings together the status of organic agriculture in Uzbekistan including, market, legal standards, methods, experiences and useful methods...

Provides an overview of Agroecology in Europe and central Asia countries, also how agroecology can support the SDGs achievement and how countries in the region can implement agroecology at national level.

Uno de los aspectos que ha evolucionado mucho técnico e industrialmente han sido las instalaciones, referido a diseños y equipamientos – En este marco, la evolución mundial de la robótica, la ingeniería industrial, la ingeniería electrónica, la ingeniería hidráulica, la aparición de sensores, la existencia de chips y poder contar...

SIMRA has just released its third brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas in the Balkan peninsula. The focus of the SIMRA project is on the European Union and the Mediterranean area, including the Balkan Peninsula in South-East Europe which includes both countries which are Member States of...

The opening chapters of this book examine something that never occurred but was widely believed to have existed—the late 20th century desertification crisis in the Sahel. Recent advances in climatology and changing weather patterns have effectively terminated further scientific debate about the existence of widespread Sahelian desertification, providing us with...

The benefits of cooperation and opportunities for small- and medium-sized dairy enterprises topped the agenda of the Second Caucasus Dairy Congress held in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, today. The event, supported by the European Union and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture, was the latest effort by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...

FAO’s Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018 (Regional SOFI 2018 in ECA) describes the current situation vis-à-vis SDG 2 in countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It focuses in particular on the countries’ status in relation to SDG Target 2.1...