This FFS Guidance Document focuses on the process and critical decisions that are necessary when starting a new FFS programme, and guides the reader through the essential steps required to establish a solid basis for such programmes, in tune with the specific local conditions. It also defines the essential elements...

The December issue of Farming Matters aims to inform pastoralist communities, practitioners, researchers, civil society, policy makers and others about the practices and policies best fitted to strengthen pastoralist societies. Articles should be submitted before September 1. Pastoralist communities provide meat, hide, dairy, and manure fuel, supporting about 200 million households...

Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.1 Digital Green’s approach has the potential to transform extension in Ethiopia via a fairly simple impact pathway. By providing a cost-effective ap-proach to information dissemination, video-based...

This joint evaluation synthesis analyses the results of FAO's and IFAD's support to pastoral development between 2003 and 2013. It does so by reviewing the evidence contained in the evaluation reports that both organizations produced during this period. The overriding aim of the Evaluation Synthesis is to draw useful lessons...

Poster "Cambios globales, respuestas locales para el café". La incorporación de buenas prácticas agrícolas en las plantaciones de café ayuda a crear ecosistemas con mejores condiciones ambientales y productivas para enfrentar el cambio climático.

Au Sahel, les systèmes d’information élaborés et perfectionnés depuis les années 1980 n’ont pas suffi aux politiques nationales et aux actions d’urgence internationales pour gérer la spécificité des populations pastorales. Cette inadéquation renvoie aux difficultés historiques des administrations à prendre en compte la gestion commune des ressources naturelles et la...

Por meio do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), a agricultora familiar Letícia Weigert conseguiu fazer seu primeiro financiamento, em 2009. “Com um investimento de aproximadamente R$ 40 mil, ampliamos a nossa unidade agroindustrial”, conta ela, que recentemente passou a trabalhar com o cultivo suspenso de morangos. A agricultora...

Modern dairy plants use pure, fresh milk to make milk powder, cheese, yoghurt and other products. The processing plant can only make its products from pure milk. When water is added, the milk is diluted, or weakened, and it is not good for processing into dairy products.

Association of private farming of the Czech Republic organized an International Conference on family farms and Common Agricultural Policy of EU. The event was held in Brno on 4 - 6th of April 2016. 10 European countries attended the conference. Herewith volume 4. Presentation of Lithuania

48 million people live in Colombia nowadays. During the last 60 years of internal conflict, the country urbanized. According to the World Bank stats, less than 24% of the Colombian population lives in rural areas. About the 30 largest cities concentrate more than 70% of the population. The competition for...

Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and...

Le projet de «réduction des pertes et gaspillage alimentaires et de développement des chaînes de valeurs pour la sécurité alimentaire», a été lancé mercredi, à Tunis, par le ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Pêche, en collaboration avec la FAO.

APF CR is a part of the International project FARM_SUCCESS, which deal with succession at family farms.  The main aim of the project is to provide tools and knowledge to young farmers in order to enhance and support succession process in family farms. In mid of September already third meeting...

Sustainable development has long been part of the political agenda of the European Union. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their related targets, approved in September 2015 by the UN General Assembly, provide a new policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate change,...

From the 10th to the 13th of May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought together 70 people representing 30 organizations to share experiences and ideas about amplifying agroecology. True to its name, this Learning Exchange aimed to facilitate learning and cross-pollination...

Productivity growth in the Turkish agricultural sector is supported today by better technologies, crop varieties and animal breeds. Yet improvements have slowed since the late 2000s, and the productivity gap between agriculture and the rest of the economy remains large. To overcome these challenges, Turkey will need to reduce the...

Of the 35 million people in Uganda, more than 78% of the population are below the age of 30 and 18% are youth aged 18-30 years. Yet 11% of youth are unemployed (9% males and 14% females) and 26% youth are underemployed (28% males and 25% females). These youth unemployment...

Inland fisheries are almost all small-scale fisheries (SSF). The problems of inland fisheries are SSF problems and include access rights, tenure, gender, social welfare and empowerment. More than 60 mn people rely on inland fisheries for at least part of their livelihood and about half of them are women. An...

Vários municípios desconhecem os programas de compras públicas de alimentos produzidos pela agricultura familiar para fins sociais e, além disso, por várias dificuldades não vem cumprindo a lei federal que determina aquisição direta de gêneros alimentícios produzidos pela agricultura familiar para a merenda escolar.   A cartilha “Boas Compras da Agricultura Familiar”...

João Marcus Costa is a cassava farmer from Manjacaze, Mozambique. Like many Mozambican farmers, João's small cassava field used to face constant threats from drought, disease and pests. Even when he did manage to successfully harvest his cassava, he then faced additional challenges trying to get his cassava to market...