Malawi has the potential to reorient its smallholder agriculture away from being primarily directed towards assuring household subsistence and self-sufficiency to increased commercial production, including of soyabean. This shift would reduce the country’s reliance on tobacco and diversify its agricultural production and exports. As a legume, furthermore, soyabean would also...

Declaración del Primer Encuentro de los Frentes Parlamentarios de Sudamérica, rumbo al séptimo Foro Regional del FHP, acontecido en asunción del 19 al 21 de septiembre en Asunción 2016.

In fact, onions can be stored for many months, if they are: • of a good variety, • fertilised properly, • harvested, dried, and stored the right way.

Odxel, Cacra, Nauxi, Bambolim and Siridao are small fishing villages running from north to south along the western coast of Tiswadi taluka (an administrative district for taxation purposes) of the Indian state of Goa. They lie on the banks of the Zuari river, which, at 92 km in length, is...

Folleto que describe brevemente cómo la FAO contribuye a los esfuerzos para la erradicación del hambre y la pobreza en diez países de Sudamérica: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela. Se presentan las prioridades identificadas para el programa de trabajo de la FAO en apoyo...

Social enterprise is a dynamic and inspiring way of doing business. Social enterprises are innovative, independent businesses that exist to deliver a specific social and/or environmental mission; they form a diverse community and their approach, which seeks more-than-profit, is adopted by a huge range of organisations of every size, operating...

Over the last few months I’ve been out and about with my camera profiling some of the small independent farmers and foodmakers who supply Farmdrop – a local food business on a mission to fix the food chain. In the first of the series I meet chicken farmers Nick Ball...

An overhaul of food systems – production, distribution and consumption – to make them more sustainable, will be needed to meet the food needs of a growing and ever more urban world population. That will mean attacking food waste, which is especially high in urban areas.

As the Coordinator of the H2020 project “Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas” (SIMRA), I am very pleased to share the news that the 1st Workshop of the H2020  SIMRA Social Innovation Think Tank (SITT) that took place on October 26th – 28th 2016 in Bratislava and was endorsed by...

Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer, y con el fin de proveer información específica sobre las brechas de género en áreas rurales, la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) junto a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura en Argentina (FAO) lleva adelante en...

Small-scale fishing communities in South Africa have to cope with unequal power relations as they seek effective means for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines

La presente guía de cultivo busca mostrar en forma sencilla y clara los diversos pasos a seguir en el cultivo de la quinua, dando en primer lugar información sobre el medio ambiente en que se desarrolla la zona productora de quinua, la morfología de la planta y la fenología o...

Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The worker bees produce wax to use it for comb structural stability, to form cells for honey-storage and larval and pupal comfort and protection within the bee hive. Beeswax offers the opportunity to the beekeeper to generate...

El 17 de junio se realizó el Seminario Equidad de Género para el Desarrollo Territorial en la Cineteca del Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda en el que, frente a más de 100 personas, se presentaron dos documentos: el Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad 2015: Género y Territorio, elaborado por...

El V seminario regional “Agricultura y cambio climático: agrobiodiversidad, agricultura familiar y cambio climático”, se realizó el 20 y 21 de agosto de 2014 en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en Santiago de Chile. El seminario tuvo como objetivo general “promover el...

Integral to achieving the SSF Guidelines goal of targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized persons and eliminating discrimination is the need to have adequate understanding of the power relations and intersectionalities that shape access to and control over marine and other resources according to gender, age, race, ethnicity, labour and...

Fish is a unique source of micronutrients. However, many parts of larger fish, such as the head and the bones, are discarded during fish processing despite the high levels of nutrients, and particularly micro-nutrients found in these parts. Thus, the promotion and use of fish byproducts to create low-cost, high-quality...

Farms and communities in Turkey’s Anatolian steppe will soon have help in coping with the damaging impacts of climate change. A two-year, $3 million FAO project – co-financed by the European Union and Turkey – aims to restore healthy ecosystems, promote environmentally friendly agricultural practices, and raise levels of knowledge...

Smallholder farmers continue to dominate African agriculture although some countries--for example, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia--are experiencing a rise of medium-scale farms of between five and 100 hectares as part of the region’s broader economic transformation. Smallholder farmers still control the largest areas for production.  They employ 70% of the work...

A first required step to improving the integration of refugees and migrants s to increase understanding between host communities and new arrivals. Such approaches aim to ‘change the narrative’ around migration, increasing the likelihood of more positive outcomes for all.