In poor households in Bangladesh, women participate in aquaculture much less than men. To increase women’s involvement, the USAID-funded Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition project has introduced gill nets, which enable women to quickly and easily harvest small fish from their household pond. This has helped increase households' access to...

Small-scale fisheries make an important contribution to nutrition, food security, sustainable livelihoods and poverty alleviation of coastal areas. This paper deals with the integration of small-scale fisheries in coastal communities, their contribution to sustainable development, and some methodological approaches that can be used to carry out this kind of analysis....

El presente documento se hace eco, en una primera parte, de las Recomendaciones Generales emitidas por el Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación contra la Mujer que abordan temas y áreas de interés específico sobre las mujeres indígenas y/o afrodescendientes. Se incluye un breve resumen sobre la necesidad de...

Los lineamientos de INDAP buscan poner en el centro de interés a los pequeños agricultores. Para concretarlos, el acompañamiento directo a los campesinos y campesinas del país juega un rol esencial. En esa perspectiva, es destacable la evolución programática que ha experimentado INDAP a lo largo de los años, que...

O III Encontro de Produtores de Informação Visando à Agenda 2030 reuniu cerca de 300 técnicos de instituições do governo federal para avançar na elaboração dos indicadores globais para acompanhar os 17 Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS) no Brasil. O evento, organizado pelo IBGE em parceria com a Secretaria de...

In Ghana 70 per cent of the population are smallholder farmers who depend on the land for their basic needs. Growing competition for this resource is having significant impacts on rural livelihoods and governance as land changes hands. This study highlights the key drivers of pressure on rural land and...

This edition of the ENRD’s EU Rural Review focuses on re-imagining the opportunities for rural business development and change. Without seeking to ignore the many challenges facing Europe’s rural areas, we explore some of the latest thinking and practice in how rural entrepreneurship can be supported to take advantage of...

El proyecto regional Apoyo a las Estrategias Nacionales y Subregionales de SAN y de Superación de la Pobreza en ALC, en el marco del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO, el Frente Parlamentario Contra el Hambre y la Representación de FAO en Colombia, con apoyo de la Alcaldía de Bogotá y Organizaciones Solidarias, llevan...

Cette édition de la revue AGRIDAPE fait un focus sur les différents enjeux de la souveraineté alimentaire en Afrique. Agitée pour la première fois en 1996 par La Via Campesina, cette notion est définie comme « le droit des peuples, des communautés et des pays de définir, dans les domaines de...

Esta publicación ofrece una pequeña contextualización de la situación de las mujeres en Paraguay y de algunas experiencias a tener en cuenta si se pretende impulsar un abordaje más profundo del desarrollo territorial con enfoque de género. También del papel que las instituciones públicas pueden tener y de los roles...

Lydia Kamba, from Kabiru village, Turima Tweru, Ngondi, Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya, started practicing conservation agriculture in 2015. Increased incomes from agriculture activities have helped building their house and paying school fees.Since the start of the FAO program in 2015 in Kenya, more than 26,000 farmers adopted conservation agriculture in...

Pour évaluer les pratiques phytosanitaires des maraîchers du Burkina Faso, des enquêtes ont été réalisées en 2015 et 2016 auprès de 316 producteurs dans les zones Ouest et Nord du pays. Seuls 9 % d’entre eux ont reçu une formation en protection des végétaux. Quatre-vingt-dix pour cent des pesticides utilisés...

Ghana’s work to promote the legal timber trade, in partnership with the European Union (EU), strongly emphasizes involving local communities who live in or near forests. Yet many farmers and communities don’t understand their rights, which means that illegal activity by loggers has gone unchecked in Ghana’s off-reserve forests. The...

O IBGE lançou nesta terça-feira (24), no III Encontro de Produtores de Informações Visando à Agenda 2030, a Plataforma Digital dos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (Plataforma ODS). Nela está o primeiro conjunto de indicadores globais do Brasil para o acompanhamento desses objetivos, com fichas metodológicas, tabelas, gráficos e mapas. A plataforma apresenta...

En Colombia se ha reactivado la Mesa Técnica de Agricultura Familiar que promueve la participación de diversos actores en un espacio para la formulación de políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar y la economía campesina. El Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural -MADR-, la FAO y el Comité de Impulso...

Parasites in goats are common. They can have varying effects on the animals, but sometimes can be a serious problem. An organic farmer in Italy has found a natural way of reducing the effect of these – bringing in black laying hens to live alongside the goats. These hens help...

The project focuses on the development of agendas for Food and Nutritional Security (FNS) between the various political and social actors involved, governments and civil society; promoting the institutionalization of multisectoral policies; in other words, stimulating spaces and mechanisms for governance for private-public action in the fight against poverty and...

Omar Bessaoud traite de la problématique des réformes agraires dans trois pays du Maghreb: le Maroc, la Tunisie et l’Algérie. Après avoir rappelé la situation de chacun d’entre eux au lendemain des indépendances politiques, il décrit le contenu de chacune des réformes agraires mises en œuvre dans les années 1960-70...

Os números da reforma agrária denunciam um dos grandes gargalos do país: a regularização fundiária. Mais de 1 milhão de famílias vivem em 9.332 assentamentos espalhados pelo Brasil. A maioria, cerca de 85%, ainda não tem nenhum documento que comprove a posse da terra. Ter acesso à terra é um importante passo,...

While much of the production of food in Europe depends on migrant workers, most people are not aware of the terrible working and living conditions that most of them have to endure. At the same time, the plight of small scale producers who must deal with the low prices imposed...