Fifteen participants from four development agencies in the Philippines took part recently in a two-week training course to learn the essential skills required to develop high-quality farmer-to-farmer training videos that adhere to Access Agriculture’s strict standards for quality, content and format.

Family farmers in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) are known to be subsistence or labor based farming families, most of whom are residing in rural areas. They are often held back by poor or limited access to arable land and water. They also experience structural food shortages, primarily...

Le second numéro du bulletin réalisé dans le cadre du Programme Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest (PAE) mis en œuvre par AVSF, l’Iram et Inades Formation est disponible. Il contient notamment desarticles sur les acquis et enseignements du projet, ainsi que les der-nières publications réalisées.

Good public policies can ensure producers really benefit from Short Food Supply Chains Producers within Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) often achieve higher economic benefits and better social relations, while reducing negative impacts on the environment. Yet, the use of SFSCs does not guarantee better economic performance per se, as...

Representatives of eight countries and partners contributing to the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), Regional Cluster in Southern Africa will meet in Harare this week to accelerate the programme’s implementation at country level, develop skills and plan next steps of this major initiative supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The...

This virtual issue comprises papers that address diversification for providing sustainable solutions at different scales from cropping and grassland to food systems. The authors investigated processes in case studies at the landscape scale where synergies and trade-offs between social and environmental objectives become the most tangible. Contributions from all continents...

Land ownership in The Gambia is a complicated issue. It lives at the intersection of traditional customs, legal processes, competing needs, and momentum from the public sector and local NGOs towards more equitable governance.  Many women face significant disadvantages in owning land due to long-standing customs that govern land distribution within...

La Ley de Agricultura Familiar de Guatemala constituye uno de los avances más significativos de orden social en el país en los últimos 20 años. Se trata de un instrumento normativo con incidencia en la seguridad alimentaria, la nutrición, la salud y el bienestar de la población infantil, que además...

The proceedings of the second meeting of the International Network of Salt-Affected Soils (INSAS) contain the abstracts of the papers presented during the workshop in Tashkent (22–26 May, 2023). The papers provide the up-to-date scientific knowledge and practical solutions for four topics: (1) mapping, assessing and monitoring of salt-affected soils;...

Access Agriculture’s innovative model of working with young Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) to help scale agroecology knowledge among smallholder farmers has been recognised by several international awards. At a recent workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, Ezra Masolaki, Access Agriculture Entrepreneur coach for East Africa, was invited to throw light...

In the 1500s, when men on sailing ships were casually spreading crop plants from one continent to the next, maize came to Africa. Fortunately, many of the maize pests stayed behind, in the Americas. But slowly, trade and travel are re-uniting maize with its pests. A caterpillar called the fall...

CONTEXT: Integration of farms into markets with adoption of maize as a cash crop can significantly increase income of farms of the developing world. However, in some cases, the income generated may still be very low and maize production may also have strong negative environmental and social impacts. OBJECTIVE: Maize...

Austrian Operational Group looking for alternative, environmentally friendly control methods. Wireworms, the larvae of click beetles, cause major losses in potato production across Europe. The situation in recent years seems to be worsening due to climate change as Johannes Mayer, Austrian potato farmer explains: “Wireworm damage is more significant in drier...

FIAN International is a human rights organisation committed to the struggle of grassroots social movements around the globe to defend and protect the Right to Food and Nutrition and induce a paradigm shift sustained by food sovereignty principles. European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) is a confederation of unions and organisations...

In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years caused by climate change has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping cattle. A group of Maasai women have turned to producing honey from beehives in the forest to generate additional income. This has enabled them to pay for...

It’s a beautiful day. You take a step outside. You hear the rustling of the leaves and feel the slight brush of wind across your skin. You are surrounded by nature and the trees are making their presence known.   They stand tall, unassuming and often go unnoticed in the background....

Esta cartilla producida en el marco del proyecto +Algodón tiene como objetivo compartir información básica sobre el manejo del suelo para el cultivo del algodón, desde una perspectiva de producción agrícola basada en un enfoque ecosistémico que preserva la salud de las tierras agrícolas. Es una importante contribución del proyecto...

This course explores how to assist migratory fish populations impacted by irrigation infrastructure. The course details migratory fish ecology and how river development such as dams and weirs impact fish, biodiversity and food security. It also looks at practical solutions to modernize irrigation through policy and engineering tools that can mitigate the...

Les populations des pays du G5 Sahel connaissent une croissance rapide. Par conséquent, la plupart de la population y est jeune. Compte tenu de ces vastes cohortes de jeunes gens, au cours des cinq prochaines années, 11,4 millions de ces jeunes atteindront l’âge de 16 ans, et la plupart d’entre...

In 2013, then Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Corazon Juliano Soliman and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes went on a study tour in Brazil organized by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). They understood Brazil’s 1 Zero Hunger...