This short video describes the approach taken by FAO’s Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) to mitigate the impact of 2016/17 drought on pastoralist livelihoods and food security in Kenya. The benefits of acting early against drought in Kenya are illustrated through beneficiary stories and return on investment figures.

Gender gaps in agriculture in Africa are holding back progress towards ending hunger and must be urgently addressed. The findings and recommendations of the AU-FAO study The Regional Outlook on Gender and Agrifood Systems came from an extensive review of existing statistics, gender audits of 38 National Agricultural Investment Plans and in-depth country...

The case stories details farmers' lived experiences in state led contract farming in maize production in Zimbabwe particulalry rural women farmers.

Emanuele La Barbera and Alessandra Rabittiis, organic farmers in Umbria, Italy, have found a natural way of reducing the number of parasites causing suffering to their goats. Emanuele and Alessandra herd 70 camosciata delle alpi goats and produce milk and dairy products. Most of their farmland is dedicated to pasture,...

he Seeds of Hope project improves climate change resilience, food security and sovereignty and autonomy of small farmer communities in North India. It relies on the recognition of women’s traditional knowledge. The project is led in partnership with the association Navdanya, founded by Dr Vandana Shiva. Direct beneficiaries include 745...

Agriculture remains the most important sector in Albania’s economy and provides the income base for the majority of the population. Among Albania's farmers 74 percent are small family farmers with very limited size of holdings averaging not more than 0.5 hectare, but accounting for the highest share of agricultural production. This...

The endorsement of the National School Feeding Programme (Projecto de Alimentação Escolar—PRONAE) by the Mozambican Council of Ministers in 2013 represented a key stage in the institutionalization of school feeding and local food purchases in the country’s education system. This publication presents analysis on the divide between policy change and...

Convocatoria de Fontagro ​(Mecanismo de Cooperación entre países de América Latina y el Caribe y España), que desde el pasado 1 de Marzo y hasta el 30 de Abril de 2018 está abierta, denominada “Escalamiento de Innovaciones para el mejoramiento de la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe”....

Libro resumen de la 1era Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores en Políticas Públicas de la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur. La presente publicación, representa la consolidación del trabajo iniciado en Posadas, y busca seguir estrechando lazos y comenzar a materializar el desarrollo de investigación de carácter regional, además...

Interview with Nadjirou Sall at the World Agricultures Watch International Workshop “Understanding Farming Diversity for Better Policy-making and Project Targeting” 19-20 December 2017, IFAD Headquarters, Rome ,Italy

The food and agriculture sector is faced with a critical global challenge: to ensure access to safe, healthy, and nutritious food for a growing world population, while at the same time using natural resources more sustainably and making an effective contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Through this annual...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy and contributes over 45 percent of government revenue. The agricultural sector is the largest employer, representing 60 percent of total employment. Overall, approximately 80 percent of rural women are employed in agriculture. However, the percentage of agricultural land held by women remains...

A youth group called Mwelekeo Mpya, Kiswahili for New Direction, is indeed pushing young people in Nyamala village, Kilifi County, in a new direction. Here, youth are discovering that farming is not an outdated way of life. Amos Mkare and Dominic Mzungu are both 22 and high school graduates. They are...

Although only 5 percent of Tajikistan's land area is farmable due to the country's mountainous geography, agriculture accounts for 53 percent of total employment. Among those households that engage in agriculture, almost 90 percent can be classified as small family farms. With 0.2 hectares on average, Tajikistan's smallholders operate on...

A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou a criação do sistema nacional de certificação da produção da agricultura familiar. O projeto também prevê a criação do selo de produção da agricultura familiar, que identifica os alimentos que vêm deste segmento da economia rural. O projeto de lei, do deputado Assis do Couto,...

The right to food is a fundamental pillar to the right to life. Yet it is also arguably the most violated human right globally. Today, hundreds of millions of individuals – some 821 million – remain food insecure. They lack consistent physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious...

Awra Amba is an intentional community of around 500 people founded in northern Ethiopia to combat poverty, exploitation and gender inequality. At the heart of this magnanimous project is a simple question: why should any one human being exploit another? This is the question that the founder of Awra Amba, Zumra...

El desarrollo rural requiere de emprendimientos que inviertan en ciencia y tecnología para brindar nuevas herramientas al sector agrícola y ganadero. En la zona Andina de América Latina, hombres y mujeres han tenido un limitado acceso a nuevas tecnologías, limitaciones que se acrecientan si son las mujeres quienes buscan su...

L’analyse et la quantification des performances de la petite agriculture familiale (PAF) constituent un enjeu au regard de la transition agroécologique. Cet article utilise une méthode combinant enquêtes auprès d’agriculteurs de la PAF de Guadeloupe, typologie et évaluation, à l’échelle de l’exploitation, des avantages qu’ils tirent de pratiques agroécologiques en...

The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world’s food has been a linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent empirical attempts to reinvestigate this number have lacked raw data on how much food smallholders produce, and have relied on model assumptions with unknown biases and with...