With the ambitious target to have 1.2 million hectares of farmland in the Philippines converted to organic by 2022, Hon. Mayor Rommel C. Arnado, President of LOAMCP, welcomed the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) with Access Agriculture as a very timely event.

With pitcher irrigation, round porous clay pots are buried into the soil near the crop and filled with water. The water seeps out slowly through the porous walls of the pot and reaches the roots of the plants. As the plants consume the water, more water will seep out from...

Mike Abaka-Edu, President of the Western Region branch of the Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC), makes a compelling case for banning ‘saiko’ fishing in this interview with Peter Adjei, a Member of ICSF. The Ghana National Canoe Fishermen Council (GNCFC) was formed in 1982 with the objective of promoting the...

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, so the saying goes. FAO, jointly with Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and other local partners, is helping to ensure Turkish consumers get their daily apple free of both pests and pesticides. Sustainable and safe fruit production that fosters economic, social, and...

Malawi’s many smallholders rely heavily on rainfed, low-input subsistence farming to meet their food needs. Yet for most rural Malawian households, subsistence agriculture cannot consistently produce enough food to ward off hunger. Nor can they rely on the country’s weak markets to buy additional food they may require or to...

Through a mix of downplaying, intransparency and undertesting, the largest archipelago nation in the world paid little heed to its vulnerable fishers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Edy, a fisherman on Indonesia’s Pari island said: “For almost three months we did not travel outside the island. Earlier, we got additional income from...

Rural Romania news - NSU Newsletter #59- 6/2021 . Topics include: AgriFish Council of 28-29 June 2021&agreement on CAP; Bulgaria-Romania meeting on LEADER;Survey on small farms and youth in mountain areas;LTVRA Communication; Marginimea Sibiului mountain area cooperative opens first store&many more topics from EU and national level.

Con el uso de sombra en el cultivo de cacao se protegen las plantas contra las radiaciones solares y se evita también la mortalidad de las mismas. Esta tecnología ofrece beneficios económicos, sociales y ambientales.

Many people worldwide lack adequate access to clean water to meet basic needs, and many important economic activities, such as energy production and agriculture, also require water. Climate change is likely to aggravate water stress. As temperatures rise, ecosystems and the human, plant, and animal communities that depend on them...

En América Latina, el así llamado ‘sector informal’ asociado a la agricultura familiar y los movimientos agroecológicos fue fundamental para enfrentar y adaptarse a los desafíos de la pandemia de COVID-19. A los pocos meses de iniciada la pandemia organizamos un proceso de investigación para evaluar la naturaleza y alcance...

A collective of organisations, coming together under the banner of the Nyéléni Europe Food Sovereignty Movement have just released a new report : “Roots of Resilience : Land Policy for an Agroecological Transition in Europe”. The report argues for an approach to land policy in Europe based on a model of land...

In this LIVESEED video, Riccardo Bocci from Rete Semi Rurali (IT) explains how to organise a field day. LIVESEED is a EU Horizon 2020-funded project that runs from 2017 to 2021. LIVESEEED aims to improve transparency and competitiveness of the organic seed and breeding sector, encouraging greater use of organic...

Digital technologies have been part of agriculture since well before the COVID-19 pandemic began, but the current crisis has given further impetus to finding new applications for technology in food production. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today carried out a webinar – focusing on Europe...

Much of the tomato diversity is found in cherry-type populations. There are promising wild cherry tomato species with good behavior in terms of yield and quality that can be produced with a minimum of agro-inputs. The genetic expression of genotypes is influenced by the optimal environment they can develop in....

Unemployment rates for youth are three times higher than for adults in all world regions, and a vast majority of unemployed youth are young women. Among people who do have jobs, youth have a higher incidence of working poverty and vulnerable employment than adults. Youth also face serious barriers in...

Este vídeo, produzido com apoio da FAO, explica quais os materiais necessários e o passo a passo para a construção das cisternas de placas. Ele pode ser usado sozinho ou junto ao vídeo “Formação”, que fala sobre o processo de formação e mobilização desenvolvidos pela ASA. O vídeo está disponível...

El ensilado de montón es uno de los métodos más fáciles para ensilar ya que el nailon sería lo único que tendría que comprar el productor para tapar el silo. Mediante la utilización de silos de montón se incrementa la producción de leche y se contribuye a mantener el estado...

The main aim of the research was to attempt to better understand agripreneurship and agripreneurs’ characteristics in small-scale farming in Iraq. This involved researching the small-scale farm as an enterprise as well as focusing on a common farm enterprise: agricultural mechanization hire service enterprises. The nature of the research taken...

El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.

On 30 November and 1 December, the Organic Innovation Days 2021 entitled “Better inputs for organic agriculture” took place online. This public event was organised in collaboration with the two Horizon 2020- funded EU projects RELACS and Organic-PLUS. Both projects aim to reduce the use of controversial inputs in organic...