After two decades of radical political transition, strong structural reforms, the Albanian olive and olive oil industry is showing positive signs. The olive sector is becoming one of the most important sectors. Approximately one third of the farmers in Albania are involved in this sector.

La manifestation "Innover pour améliorer les performances de l'irrigation", organisée par l'Association Française pour l'Eau, l'Irrigation et le Drainage (AFEID) sous l'égide de la Commission Internationale des Irrigations et du Drainage (CIID) est la rencontre de plusieurs évènements mobilisant les acteurs mondiaux de l'irrigation dans leur grande diversité, pour faire de Montpellier, le temps...

Land and soil degradation, malnutrition in various forms, innovation in family farming, and social protection for rural people head the agenda of a two-day session of FAO’s European Commission on Agriculture, which opens in Budapest tomorrow. More than 30 countries from across Europe and Central Asia are expected to participate....

Given the links among soils, land use, climate change and food security, land degradation today is receiving increased attention. FAO member countries have made it a central topic for the forthcoming session of the European Commission on Agriculture (22-23 September, Budapest, Hungary). Soil degradation is defined by FAO as a change...

There are many challenges faced by small scale family farmers. In this region, smallscale farmers have difficulty accessing markets, and when they do they lack competitiveness on the European markets. These farms are less resilient to floods and droughts, hence there is a need to strengthen the adaptive capacity of...

Tajikistan is one of the centers of wheat diversity in Central Asia. From the beginning of the 1870s, a series of expeditions were conducted in Central Asia by Russian scientists to collect wheat landraces. Since that time, many landraces and, more recently, commercial wheat cultivars have been collected and used...

Ce séminaire, qui se tiendra le jeudi 29 octobre 2015 au Parc des Expositions du Kram à Tunis à l’occasion du Salon International de l’Agriculture, du Machinisme Agricole et de la Pêche, aura pour objectif de présenter et mettre en débat le nouveau Plan d’Action entre la Tunisie et l’UE...

Reducing children’s exposure to the toxic pesticides used in farming is the aim of a visual training guide, now adapted for use in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and translated to Russian language. Developed by FAO and the International Labour Organization, the guide is a tool for a wide...

Europe faces a moment of transformation. Europe 2020 Strategy puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities: - Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation - Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy - Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion   Seven flagship initiatives...

Carbon-conscious farmers in the UK work with nature not against it, concerned about the health of their soils for future generations. They use principles of ‘feeding the soil not the plant’, understanding and encouraging soil biology, and harvesting sunlight to maximum effect. These farmers understand that we must repair damaged...

The aim of the guidelines is to enhance restoration efforts in the world’s drylands. They provide specific guidance for policymakers and other decision-makers, and for practitioners. Well-informed policymakers and other higher-order decision-makers can be enablers in the design and implementation of effective restoration efforts by providing appropriate policies, governance mechanisms...

Ukraine agriculture has been evolving since the country achieved independence in 1991, following the breakup of the Soviet Union. The first round of farm reforms in 1992-93 initiated privatization of land through the distribution of paper shares to the rural population and mandated the transformation of former collective and state...

The present work takes guidance from the FAO  flagship publication, “The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2010-2011: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development” (FAO, 2011a). The SOFA report argues that, “despite the diversity in the roles and status of women in agriculture, the evidence...

A gathering of 240 people representing rural communities from 40 European countries, meeting at the second European Rural Parliament yesterday, approved an ambitious European Rural Manifesto. It called for full recognition of the right of rural communities to a quality of life and standard of living equal to that of...

Humans have always taken what they needed from the planet’s soils, but the time has come to pay back this debt to Nature. These words from Kyrgyz National Agrarian University rector Ryspek Nurgaziev capture well the essence of discussions at the international scientific conference on soils and food security in Bishkek,...

'New peasants’ – youth deciding to become farmers and choosing agroecological production methods – are a crucial response to the trend of rural outmigration. Sidney Ortun Flament and Bruno Macias see knowledge sharing and exchange as a means to support this movement.

This document describe strategic plan of the Ministry of afgriculturte of Croatia. The document also covers activities and priorities in regards to the family farms sector.  

The third European Forest Week will be held in conjunction with Silva2015, the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI); and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). It will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland in the alpine village of Engelberg from 2–6...

The food security of billions of people worldwide depends on how secure their tenure is over the land, forests and fisheries they own or manage. That’s why FAO is rolling out the internationally agreed “Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure” with a series of technical awareness-raising workshops across Europe...

Sustainable management of forests, which cover 33 percent of Europe’s land area, will come into focus this week at the joint session of the FAO European Forestry Commission and the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (Silva2015).