More than 40 percent of economically active women in Armenia are employed in agriculture, compared to about 30 percent of men. The vast majority of those women are informal workers on family farms however, and this fact has major implications for rural livelihoods and wellbeing, according to a report just...

Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity is a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. Farmers often have limited access to genetic resources. Not only do they need greater access to the genetic material in research stations and gene banks, they also need to collaborate with scientists who are willing...

Le mardi 12 septembre 2017, Monsieur le Ministre de l’Agriculture, du Développement rural et de la pêche a procédé à l’ouverture officielle de l’atelier de démarrage de projet «Promotion du Développement inclusif des chaines de valeurs dans la région de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche Orient «NENA»  au niveau de...

Video que muestra la relevancia de recolección de aguas lluvia, a través de cisternas, en territorios con escasez hídrica como en el semiárido brasileño. La recolección les permite disponer del recurso y regar sus plantaciones todo el año.

A Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) assinou, no final de dezembro, o primeiro contrato de compra de alimentos orgânicos de agricultores familiares do Amazonas, por meio do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). O projeto, da Associação dos Produtores Orgânicos do Estado do Amazonas (Apoam), prevê o fornecimento de 12,36...

LIFE strongly urges MEPs of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) to vote against the lifting of restrictions to pulse fishing.

The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) are the first international instrument dedicated entirely to the immensely important – but until now often neglected – small-scale fisheries sector. The SSF Guidelines represent a global consensus on principles and guidance...

Effective management of water resources on irrigated lands, monitoring of irrigated and arid pastures, water conservation in irrigated agriculture, and the influence of agroforestry and protective afforestation on water conservation were the focus of the roundtable held here today at Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Co-organized by the FAO Liaison Office with the...

For more than a decade, Main Street Project has been working to create new possibilities for the growing numbers of rural Latino immigrantsstranded in low-wage farming and food industry jobs with no benefits and no future. In 2010, Main Street Project set out to create a new regional food system...

Copa and Cogeca launch new #EUFarmRecipes book, each recipe with a story to tell, to show consumers that farmers and their cooperatives are the first producers of food

Forests are among the most threatened ecosystems in Armenia, with degradation accelerating. But the country is committed to achieving sustainability in forest management, and a three-day workshop opening here today will help move things in the right direction. Organized by the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Food and...

Con el propósito de construir una agenda de trabajo para las juventudes rurales en la región, se reúnen en Panamá más de 70 representantes de organizaciones de jóvenes rurales, de los Ministerios de Agricultura y organismos internacionales y de integración regional de América Latina y el Caribe. De acuerdo con la...

Kenya is withholding approval for field trials of genetically modified (GM) maize because some officials argue that a ban on GM imports applies to controlled growing tests as well, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. Talks involving representatives from the health and environment ministries and the Kenya’s...

Georgia has all of the ideal conditions for dairy farming. And demand for milk, cheese and other dairy products – many of which are produced only here – continues to grow. Recognizing that potential, FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have been supporting Georgian commercial dairy farmers...

The North American CSA community, taking a clue from the rapid growth of CSAs in new areas of the world (France, UK, all of Europe, China), is proposing the adoption of a CSA Charter that provides a definition of what CSA is all about. Together, regional networks and independent CSAs will launch...

Las producciones agropecuarias familiares en Argentina siguen asumiendo un rol preponderante como proveedoras de alimentos en la economía nacional. En este sentido, se destaca la producción porcina que, según datos del SENASA (2016), el 96% de los productores porcinos tiene menos de 50 madres a nivel nacional. Esta situación se...

To complement the skills development process, a tailor–made guide material on how best to facilitate learning was developed. The said guide material is actually this manual which is a product of an initially tested training design (run in May 2013) and enriched with feedback from the training management team and...

La Campaña se enmarca en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y se basa en las reflexiones de Ia Conferencia de la Mujer Rural en América Latina y el Caribe (Brasilia, 2014) y la XIII Conferencia Regional de la Mujer (Montevideo, 2016), así como en la experiencia de dos campañas...

More than a thousand smallholder farmers from predominantly tribal Sundargarh district have been supported to adopt or extend locally appropriate, low-cost, sustainable farming practices to improve food and nutritional security and increase income.  The Centre for Integrated Rural and Tribal Development (CIRTD), a long term partner of ActionAid India in Sundargarh...

This guide aims to clarify the role of co-operation activities under LEADER in the rural development programmes 2014-2020. This guide should be regarded as an indicative reference document and does not create any new legislative rules. In any event, interpretation of Community law is ultimately the role of the European...