Europe’s farmers face a tall order. Long tasked with providing us with safe and affordable food, they are now expected to help generate jobs and economic growth as well. This priority was at the heart of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the European Union speech earlier this month....

In 2011, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government launched the Food Production, Processing, and Marketing project—which aimed to raise incomes and improve food security in the target areas by improving agricultural productivity, market efficiency, and the capacity of producers...

During the period 1980-1990, many rural microfinance institutions (MFIs) were created by international donors as experiments in new or alternative financing to combat financial exclusion. The development of these MFIs, as well as the extent of their contribution to other initiatives, has led to efforts to sustain their operations. In...

Building an enterprise takes many different tasks, from stepping into the shoes of potential customers to designing products or services, to running a marketing campaign. This was one of the key messages for women farmers at SACAU’s Agro-preneurship training in Johannesburg this month. The three-day training from 27th – 29th September...

On 15th to 16th Nov 2016, African National Committees for Family farming conference was held in Kampala to discuss critical issues affecting Agriculture. This was the first IYFF+10 Global Action for Family farming conference in Kampala Uganda. The two day conference drew participants all over the global for the detail...

Food Africa programme produces videos to support advisory services in the agricultural field. In Senegal, Western Africa, the first monitoring study of its kind on milk yield was been carried out, seeking to shed light on the effect of different cattle breeds and husbandry methods on milk production. Join a Senegalese veterinarian to visit...

The Indian Society of Plant Genetic Resources (ISPGR) and Bioversity International, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Right Authority (PPV&FRA) (Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare), National Biodiversity Authority (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change), Trust for Advancement of...

FAO is one of the leading organizations for its expertise in natural resources management, including food systems. Given the inextricable relationship which exists between nature and indigenous peoples’ livelihoods, FAO plays an important role in protecting the environment and those who depend on it for survival. Many FAO projects relate...

Feeding a rapidly increasing global population means that we will need to produce more food in a more efficient and sustainable manner. Fewer inputs must be used to achieve greater yields. The real challenge is not just in producing more, but in doing so against a backdrop of climate change...

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Desde FAO Argentina trabajamos junto a la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) dependiente del Ministerio de Agroindustria de la Nación, para sensibilizar sobre la importancia del empoderamiento de las mujeres rurales y visibilizar sus problemáticas y necesidades. En esta nota entrevistamos a la técnica especialista en género del equipo de la...

One of the projects of The Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture (ASPAB) is called ‘Domestication and improvement of tree species in the department of Thiès’. The aim of the project was to train farmers in the technical skills needed for the cultivation of orchard fruit tree species,...

El 27 de octubre se liberaron los clones fe cacao fino de aroma de alto rendimiento, cuya demanda es principalmente para la elaboración de chocolate a nivel nacional e internacional, adaptado a las zonas agroecológicas del Ecuador y adecuado para rehabilitar huertas tradicionales de los productores que realizan agricultura familiar...

Urban agriculture is a hidden champion. It has been neglected for decades by both, urban and agricultural policies. City planners treated the agricultural land as potential building ground, agricultural policies focussed on the rural areas. But due to worldwide challenges as urbanisation, food security and the need for a sustainable...

This report examines the position of farmers in the supply chain and makes recommendations as to how to improve that position. It is the result of the deliberations of the Agricultural Markets Task Force (Task Force), which was set up in January 2016 as a European Commission expert group at...

Established in 2006, the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme (FTPP) focuses on achieving food security and combatting rural poverty in countries of the Caucasus and in the Central Asia subregion through projects operated at the national, multi-country and subregional level. The programme has supported countries in the areas of food security, food safety,...

Starting in June 2016, and each year until 2024, Member States shall submit to the Commission an Annual Implementation Report (AIR). The AIR provides information about the implementation of the rural development programme (RDP), as well as the evaluation plan. The AIR submitted in 2017 (hereinafter: AIR 2017) shall also...

Despite the potential of the agricultural sector, many regions of Uganda still suffer from hunger. As everywhere, the serious problem of hunger is linked to climate change, unequal resource allocation, illiteracy, attitude towards farming and poor policy implementation. One of the root causes is also the uneven access of women...

Durante las últimas décadas la producción láctea argentina ha sufrido modificaciones relevantes, ligadas a fuertes procesos de cambio tecnológico y concentración de la producción, que han llevado a una reestructuración de la actividad, con profundos impactos negativos sobre los estratos más pequeños de la producción. Al respecto, una de las...

The total organic area in the EU-28 (i.e. the fully converted area and the area under conversion) was more than 10 million ha in 2013 and accounted for 5.8% of the total UAA. The size of the organic area differs substantially among Member States. In absolute terms 4 Member States...