Small towns are an essential but often-neglected element of rural landscapes and food systems. They perform a number of essential functions, from market nodes to providers of services and goods and non-farm employment to their own population as well as that of the wider surrounding region.  In demographic terms, they...

Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...

Farmers in Kazakhstan have been increasing the land area devoted to growing oilseed and pulse crops – and it makes good sense from several viewpoints. An FAO-organized seminar on “Pulses and oilseeds: prospects for development” was held here today, one of many forward-looking events on offer this year at Astana...

A partir de la decisión institucional de avanzar en el fomento de la agroecología, INDAP organiza el Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar. Su principal propósito es promover la práctica agroecológica como un modelo de producción sustentable para la Agricultura Familiar Campesina (AFC) de Chile, generando una...

Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...

All the information from the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Ecological Focus Areas at a glance

The report reviews the history and construction of the National Policy on Agroecology and Organic Production in Brazil (Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica no Brasil, Pnapo), a policy that originated from the claims and initiatives from the sovil society and was collectively built. Thanks to the newly created spaces...

Progress towards gender equality is key to meeting global goals of eradicating poverty and eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Women make important contributions to agriculture and rural livelihoods and play a vital role in the care and reproduction of households and communities. However, persistent gender inequalities, such as unequal access to...

The 4th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas began in Geneva.  With this, the bottom up process to strengthen the legitimacy of the demands of rural peoples around the world has reached a crucial...

Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...

The main objective of the Guidelines is to provide a non-binding complement to other guidelines and offer advice to RDP evaluation stakeholders on how to carry out the evaluation activities for answering the common evaluation questions related to innovation. Since the RDP’s effects on innovation in rural areas can be...

The book is the first step in the process of creating such an index, which can measure agricultural biodiversity across different dimensions. The concept grew from the observation – based on a scientific paper on levels of crop diversity produced compared to levels of crop diversity imported – that juxtaposing...

Foi lançado neste mês de janeiro (2017) o edital nº 21/2016 destinará R$ 10,7 milhões aos melhores projetos voltados para a construção e socialização de conhecimentos e técnicas relacionados à agroecologia e à produção orgânica, bem como à promoção dos sistemas orgânicos de produção. Os projetos enviados devem estar inseridos em...

Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...

Esta é a sexta edição do Anuário Brasileiro da Agricultura Familiar, trabalho que se consolidou como fonte de pesquisa, consulta e diagnóstico do setor em todo o país. Além da versão on line, foram impressos cem mil exemplares com distribuição gratuita em todo o território nacional. A cada publicação, novos assuntos...

The EU's farm sector and rural areas are major players in terms of the Union's well-being and its future. EU agriculture is one of the world's leading producers of food, and guarantees food security for over 500 million European citizens. The EU's farmers are also the first stewards of the...

Em meio ao sertão da Paraíba, que enfrenta uma seca histórica de cinco anos, Marlene Pereira, 46, sustenta sua família com o que planta em seu terreno de menos de meio hectare, menor que um campo de futebol, em Lagoa Seca, a 142 quilômetros de João Pessoa. A água vem das...

As mulheres brasileiras marcaram presença no Concurso Boas Práticas em Agricultura Familiar, organizado pela Reunião Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar do Mercosul (Reaf) e pelo Programa Fundo Internacional de Desenvolvimento Agrícola da Organização das Nações Unidas (Fida). Nessa segunda edição, dos oito projetos premiados, três foram de brasileiras.   Essas são três...

Many inspiring stories are waiting to be discovered in the field of Agroecology. Since 2010, Towards Organic Asia has been working to promote young organic farmers and successfully build up the network of over 80 alumni from 25 organizations. Here is the testimony of a young organic farmer in Thailand...

Por meio do Bolsa Família, o governo federal ajuda com dinheiro 13,8 milhões  de famílias pobres no Brasil, metade delas no Nordeste. A Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA) é uma rede de três mil organizações sociais que promove a coleta de água de chuva, bem como técnicas e conhecimentos para uma...