2018 was another record year for global organic agriculture. According to the latest FiBL survey on organic agriculture worldwide, organic farmland increased by 2.0 million hectares, and organic retail sales also continued to grow, reaching another all-time high, as shown by the data from 186 countries (data as of the...

Coming from a family with a long tradition in agriculture, Ljupco Angelovski, a young family farmer in the village of Egri, North Macedonia, wanted to modernise his farm when he took it over from his parents. His land, however, was fragmented into 15 tiny plots scattered in different locations. 

06/04/2020: Defining and implementing a regional observatory of agricultures within the Indian Ocean is one of the key projects of the PRéRAD-OI (Plateforme Régionale de Recherche en Agronomie pour le Développement dans l’Océan Indien – Regional platform of Agricultural Research for the Indian Ocean development). This project is supported by the Indian...

In a state of crisis, there is a tipping point which either breaks us or transforms us. It's the difference between surviving and thriving. There is perhaps no other time in our recent history where we have had a collective need to move towards resilience. Resilience is a skill we...

The Family Farming Initiative (FFI), developed under the UNDFF framework, builds on the premise that appropriate investment, policies and programmes are needed to support family farming as a concrete way to achieve national SDG targets and indicators. The FFI will help countries to: improve family farming policies, programmes and investments...

El Programa Integral de Nutrición Escolar (PINE-MINED) en conjunto con el programa en el marco de la Seguridad Alimentaria Nutricional Nacional (FAO/PESANN), Nicaragua, desde junio 2006, han validado la metodología de Huertos Escolares con enfoque educativo de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN), de los escolares y sus familias. Este material...

In Ghana, increased population pressure and the need to cultivate greater land area have resulted in reduced fallow periods. As a consequence, the restoration of soil fertility is insufficient to allow recovery of secondary forest and rejuvenation of exhausted soils. Fallows are of ecological, economic and social importance to rural...

Acute malnutrition rates among children under five are the highest ever recorded in parts of Yemen, with more than half a million cases in southern districts, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Acute Malnutrition analysis released today by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Mobiliser les efforts de recherche pour accélérer la transition agroécologique répond à une forte demande des pouvoirs publics, des professionnels et de la société, en France comme en Europe. Pour faire face à ce défi majeur, repenser la manière dont la recherche doit être conduite et développer une stratégie commune...

Les agriculteurs biologiques accordent la priorité absolue à la prévention de l'introduction et de la multiplication des mauvaises herbes. Les pratiques de gestion visent à garder la population de mauvaises herbes à un niveau qui n'entraîne pas une perte économique de la culture et ne nuit pas à sa qualité....

This practice was introduced from the Moluccas islands in Indonesia by indigenous people. Sago palms require only negligible maintenance, which makes sago plantations among the most productive systems that can be operated at almost no maintenance cost. Small-scale sago cultivation without drainage results in a high sago self-propagation rate, short...

High-quality cassava flour (HQCF) is an attractive alternative to cassava starch that can form the starting point for a cassava based industry. HQCF production is less capital intensive and requires lower levels of inputs for success, compared to cassava starch. HQCF can be used as an alternative to starch and...

La Subdirección Nacional de Pueblos Originarios del Servicio Nacional del Patrimonio Cultural del Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, presenta esta serie de recetas representativas de las tradiciones culturales de los pueblos indígenas y del pueblo tribal afrochileno. La cultura gastronómica indígena y afrochilena, en cuanto a...

El presente marco de recursos integral tiene por objeto aprovechar el potencial de la alimentación escolar para mitigar la pobreza rural mediante el apoyo al desarrollo de la alimentación escolar con productos locales (AEPL). El marco de recursos es un producto de conocimiento que armoniza los conocimientos y las herramientas...

This Unasylva issue aims at showcasing forest and landscape restoration (FLR) opportunities and recent developments that have the power to upscale restoration, in order to achieving the Bonn Challenge pledge and other national and international commitments (Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) Post-2020 Agenda, the United...

This technology describes the cultivation and cost-benefit analysis of straw mushroom cultivation in Laos. By diversifying agricultural livelihoods, the resilience of small-scale farmers to drought and flood risks is increased.

FAO has been working in Africa for over 50 years, providing technical and policy expertise to governments, partners and communities. Resilience is a critical part of our work in Africa as the region has been plagued with natural and human-made disaster. FAO has been supporting communities, particularly smallholder communities, to...

La lutte contre les parasites et les maladies consiste d'une gamme d’activités qui se soutiennent mutuellement. La plupart des pratiques de gestion sont à long terme des activités visant à empêcher les parasites et les maladies d’affecter une culture. La gestion est axée sur le maintien des populations de parasites...

The groundnut is widely grown in Uganda as a food and cash crop. It is one of the highest paying crops with fairly stable prices. It is grown in nearly all parts of the country but especially in eastern Uganda and Northern regions. Household consumption is quite high with preferences...

Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrate poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan’s (INBAR) priority is to give people, at all levels, the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Rattan is a natural material and...