This document reviews the status and trends in aquaculture development in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region. It updates the last Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) “Regional Review on Status and Trends in Aquaculture Development in the Near East and North Africa – 2010”...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

L'élevage est un secteur majeur pour l'économie des territoires et structure les paysages ruraux en Europe. Mais il fait aussi l'objet de controverses (dommages environnementaux, bien-être animal...). Un très riche travail de synthèse des connaissances a été conduit dans le cadre d'une expertise collective, dont une synthèse est ici présentée....

In 2009 the Italian Association for Organic Agriculture (AIAB) launched the first bio-district in Italy. A bio-district is a geographical area where farmers, citizens, tourist operators, associations and public authorities enter into an agreement for the sustainable management of local resources, based on organic principles and practices, aiming at the...

Dirty stable floors where manure is difficult to remove lead to increased emissions and is problematic for animal welfare as infection can spread quickly. A number of companies are working on improving existing building solutions to reduce emissions and improve animal welfare

In rural Rwanda, where roughly one in four people lack access to a safe water source, many communities rely on rivers and streams to drink, wash, clean, farm, and play. Conventional coffee farming methods and processing can poison water used by people downstream. Responsible coffee production, as demonstrated by this...

The forty-first session of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean as well as the eighth session of the Committee on Administration and Finance was attended by delegates of 22 contracting parties, as well as of three cooperating non-contracting parties and one non-contracting party. Representatives from 20 intergovernmental and non-governmental...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

O coco indaiá e o gergelim (foto), produzidos por quilombolas Kalungas, no estado de Goiás, serão catalogados no projeto “Alimentos bons, limpos e justos”. Nos dias 27 e 28 de maio, uma equipe do projeto, com representante da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), da Universidade de...

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the Sahel whose economy is highly dominated by agriculture and livestock husbandry, with more than 70% of the population living in rural areas. The prevailing farming system is smallholder agriculture based on cereal production, especially sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet...

This presentation will provide the policy background, then look at the current status of main South African stocks, followed by a discussion on the economic returns from small-scale fishing and what can and cannot be expected from implementation of the policy; concluding with recommendations on the way forward.

FAO’s first forecast of global wheat production in 2017 points to an above-average output, but down from the record high of 2016, mostly reflecting expectations of reduced crops in North America. COUNTRIES IN NEED OF EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE: FAO estimates that 37 countries, including 28 in Africa, are in need of...

The Neighborhood Women Association from Saschiz was established as a nonprofit association in November 2015, by a group of 23 women who live and/or work in the village: housewives, entrepreneurs, doctors, teachers, aiming to promote and support the common rights and interests of women and families in rural areas at micro-regional,...

Le paysage agraire libanais est caractérisé par l’existence d’une petite agriculture rassemblant une majorité de ménages ruraux, dont le fonctionnement, le rôle et la contribution au développement de l’agriculture sont encore mal connus. Ces raisons sont l’objet de cette étude. Cette étude traite 3 thèmes majeurs : i) de l’état...

The Expert Meeting on Climate Change Implications for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, was held at the GFCM, Rome, 4–6 December 2017, with the objective to provide technical support the development of an adaptation strategy to cope with the potential effects of climate change on fisheries, in the framework of...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

El Observatorio de Género y Equidad (OGE) es un fundación que promueve el debate, seguimiento, evaluación y reflexión colectiva respecto a la situación de las mujeres en Chile y las políticas dirigidas a la promoción, respeto y garantía de sus derechos. En él colaboran instituciones y organizaciones de mujeres de la sociedad...

Food supply for the growing world population significantly contributes to ecological and societal challenges. At the same time, there is a growing demand from policies, society and the food sector to improve sustainability in agriculture. Through operational management, farmers can contribute to an improvement of sustainability while adapting their farm...

MagosVölgy Ecological Farm was established in 2013 by Judit and Zoltán Dezsény, a young urban-to-rural migrant couple. MagosVölgy Ecological Farm is situated in North-Hungary, 85 km north to the capital of Budapest. MagosVölgy literally means Seeds Valley as well as Elevated Valley. Seed is the core symbol of life, representing the...

Non-timber forest products such as bamboo shoots are a very important food and source of income for farmers in rural areas of Laos. Sustainable management of bamboo is important for food security, and improvement of the bamboo value chain can help increase incomes for rural people. That is why the...