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Se aborda los conflictos que se suceden con las normas en un territorio de relaciones que se entrecruzan entre lo rural y lo urbano. Los ingenieros agrçonomos se ven involucrados en estos aspectos ambientales de diferentes formas, las que trascienden a la producción.

Small-scale farmers, and the resources they manage, provide food and incomes across value chains all over the world. They are fundamental to the livelihoods, health and nutrition of billions of people. They are also essential for improving agricultural biodiversity, food-system stability and adaptability to climate change. Integrating the perspective of...

El proyecto Sembrando Capacidades (Brasil- Colombia-FAO) finaliza su gestión después dos años de trabajo enfocados en el fortalecimiento de instrumentos y políticas para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria (ACFC) en Colombia a partir de la gestión del conocimiento e intercambio de experiencias entre ambos países, alrededor de cuatro ejes: extensión...

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems, and restore them to achieve global goals. Only with healthy ecosystems can we enhance people’s livelihoods,...

The provisional political agreement reached by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP. Higher environmental and climate ambitions, aligned with Green Deal objectives, are to be implemented from January 2023. The new CAP will also ensure...

New Organic Regulation (EU) 2018/848 will apply from 1 January 2022. The basic regulation published in June 2018 will be accompanied by around 23 acts of secondary legislation, most of them not yet published.  Additional acts of secondary legislation will be published in the following months and years, making reading and...

Las páginas de este folleto están dedicadas a presentar los resultados del Concurso 10 Iniciativas y Evidencias Innovadoras de Agricultura Sostenible y Agroecología para el desarrollo rural, escalables a Políticas Públicas en Cuba. Se describen las experiencias y los principales resultados de las 15 iniciativas seleccionadas en el proceso de...

The new year brought new beginnings, including the launch of Solidaridad’s new website. At the center of the refreshed design, content, and structure is the smallholder producer. Take a look around to see what’s new!

Vivimos una crisis civilizatoria integrada, a su vez, por múltiples crisis: climática, social, económica, cultural, ambiental, política y profundamente ética, las cuales, son resultado de los desequilibrios en las relaciones humanidad-tierra y del modelo de vida depredador que el capital ha diseminado de forma global. Ante esta realidad necesitamos sentar las...

Agroecology Fund (AEF) launched a new video, “Agroecology: Grassroots Solutions to Global Crises”, a 7-minute short film featuring grantee partners, advisors, allies, and donors from the global AEF community.  Filmmaker and photojournalist Rucha Chitnis is in conversation with Rutendo Zendah from the African Centre for Biodiversity in South Africa, Pius Ranee from the North...

El crecimiento y desarrollo del sector agropecuario de la región pampeana argentina atraviesa profundas modificaciones tecnológicas desde hace varias décadas. La mecanización, robótica, genética, herramientas remotas y la nueva generación de insumos químicos y biológicos, influyen decisivamente sobre el modo y la forma de producir alimento primario en este territorio....

In the RELACS project, a survey on the current copper use in Hungary and investigations of the efficacy of a potential copper substitute, Tagatose peronospora and phytophthora, in vineyards are tested. Vintner and owner, Márton Ruppert, for his farm Tagyon Hil in Hungary, has been using Tagatose to replace copper...

The Foreign Affairs and Development Ministers' meeting culminated in the Matera Declaration on food security, nutrition and food systems. A call to action in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond - a declaration by the G20 Ministers, FAO and other UN agencies and partners. In it, the signatories "agree to deliver on food...

El 29 de junio, el presidente de Federación Agraria Argentina, Carlos Achetoni, presentó en el marco de una jornada organizada por la Confederación de Organizaciones de Productores Familiares del Mercosur Ampliado (COPROFAM) su “Propuesta preliminar para el diálogo político 2021”. Durante el encuentro, se precisaron las propuestas elaboradas por la...

This discussion paper focuses on drawing connections between the many and varied aspects of food system change that need to be undertaken in complementary ways in order to build a just, ecological, and resilient food system. It also paints a picture of a potential food system in Canada that brings...

A maior crise sanitária do século fez aumentar a procura por uma alimentação saudável, livre de venenos, em todo o mundo. Por isso, os agricultores que já estão nesse caminho e são amparadas por uma rede de apoio para a certificação agroecológica/orgânica de seus produtos, puderam ampliar sua produção, levando...

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.

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...

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...