This video tells the story of Mehaou, an inspiring Nigerien farmer and grandmother who has overcome many challenges to provide for her family - including rearing, breeding and selling goats. FAO and the Africa Solidarity Trust Fund (ASTF) fund are supporting hundreds of farmers like Mehaou in Niger to diversify...

El  proyecto “Desarrollo y validación de una solución tecnológica, basada en una estrategia de manejo de arquitectura de la planta y uso de cultivos de cobertura, para permitir la polinización natural eficiente del chirimoyo” está orientado a contribuir al incremento territorial de la fruticultura mediante la transferencia de un nuevo...

Changes to public policy agendas in the National Committees for Family Farming in the Philippines, Honduras, Burkina Faso and Senegal will receive technical and financial support. The creation of a new Committee in Chad will be supported as well.

For the third time this regional event in Rudo gathered 130 local producers, entrepreneurs, NGO’s, public institutions, local authorities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia.The aim of this event is promotion and preservation of traditional products of the cross-border region “Drina-Tara” and other SWG ABD regions, support of the...

A short movie about angus organic farm - Full Story

En el marco de la celebración del día internacional de la mujer rural, presentamos este especial sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales de latinoamérica.Especial completo: http://bit.ly/2ypkKtQEl presente especial es resultado del trabajo de la Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra de la Coalición Internacional por...

Uso de la trampa pegante para controlar la mosca minadora en los campos de papa.

With the looming context of the fourth Greek bailout, the European Rural Sustainability Gathering 2017 kicked off in in Karditsa, Greece. The event saw the social economy, cooperatives and grassroots initiatives take centre stage, as tools and approaches to address the crisis. The location displayed the best of progressive rural...

Funding opportunities, EMFF, CLLD: transform your ideas into projets, LIFE will support you throughout the whole process!

This policy brief addresses the issue of limited farmer access to quality seed of Irish potato varieties in demand in local markets, which is a severe constraint for the potato sector in eastern Africa. It provides evidence in support of urgently needed action and presents options for practical decisions by...

La innovación y su relación a las transformaciones en los territorios, son concepciones que se relacionan desde la interpretación de las dinámicas que se encuentran en los mismos cuyo protagonismo está dado por los actores sociales. Se presenta una síntesis del trabajo Nuevas concepciones de los actores sociales en torno a...

The sixteenth meeting of the Stakeholder Group for the cross-border region of “Drina-Sava” was organized on the 2nd March in the City Hall Nijemci in Nijemci, Croatia. 

This book contributes to the discussion about territorial inequalities. Taking the cases of Chile, Mexico and Peru, it presents new evidence about patterns of development in our societies, with a degree of spatial breakdown that was previously unavailable. The authors study both the outcomes of these differentiated development dynamics, in...

Biodynamic principles were first introduced in the US after 1924, when Rudolf Steiner first delivered his agricultural lectures. In 1938, the Biodynamic Association was established, making it the oldest sustainable agriculture nonprofit organization in North America. Still, there are only about 300 certified biodynamic farms in the US today, compared...

With support from international organizations and projects, Ukraine is now in the final stages of preparing legislation that is expected to open the agricultural land market. As part of this process, FAO has been assisting with the introduction of land consolidation, and with the drafting of a land consolidation law....

As every year, the prospects for LIFE’s members, and the fate of the resources they depend on, hang on the discussions, negotiations, and decisions on setting catch levels and accompanying measures for Baltic fisheries in 2018. Our position, based on numerous discussions with our Members, is outlined below, a position...

El desarrollo rural, la producción familiar,la formación se ve cada vez más complejizada, a la vez que la tecnología aparentemente simplifica aspectos del hacer y accionar diario. Sin embargo, en términos del desarrollo agrario, la visualización de lo cotidiano es compleja. Este es un artículo que trata de aportar a...

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Delegates of La Via Campesina, representing our organizations and movements, are gathered in the Basque Country to celebrate our 7th International Conference from the 16th to the 24th of July of 2017. After four days of collective discussions and reflections on Food Sovereignty, peasant agroecology, autonomous training networks, migrant rights, trade, climate justice...

This Regional Gender Strategy is designed to enable FAO RNE officers and country officers in the region as well as development practitioners to respond to current regional priorities. As a complement to the FAO Gender Equality Policy, the regional gender strategy will promote coherence and improve efficiency of gender-sensitive programming....