Smallholder farmers in developing countries play a key role in meeting the future food demands of a growing and increasingly rich and urbanized population. However, smallholders are not a homogeneous group that should be supported at all costs. Whereas some smallholder farmers have the potential to undertake profitable commercial activities...

Recognizing the importance of integrating women into agriculture, female farmers are working to overcome traditional family roles and misperceptions about the role of women in agriculture. Thirty-seven small holder female farmers in Montenegro have benefitted from grants from the Montenegro Institutional Development and Agricultural Strengthening (MIDAS) to improve their farms. Ljiljana K.,...

This report examines the role played by smallholders in world agriculture and explores their potential power to contribute to food security, poverty reduction and environmental stewardship.

La Red Agroforestal Chaco Argentina (REDAF), es un espacio de articulación que reúne a personas e instituciones que trabajan en la región chaqueña. Su interés es contribuir a la construcción de una mejor calidad de vida para comunidades rurales campesinas e indígenas, en armonía con los recursos naturales de este...

LU’UM es una asociación civil creada desde 2009 preocupada por los altos niveles de marginación y vulnerabilidad de las comunidades rurales en México.Estamos convencidos que el modelo económico actual se encuentra agotado, por ello desarrollamos un Modelo de Intervención Social (MIL) para comunidades marginadas, enfocado en tres ejes de trabajo: desarrollo humano, productivo-creativo y comercial....

WFP’s current gender policy, which explicitly reaffirms WFP’s commitment to creating an enabling environment for promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment to support partner countries in addressing food and nutrition challenges sustainably.Literature review and empirical research conducted by ALINe on behalf of WFP between January and August 2011, which examined...

12 million farms, 172 million hectares of agricultural land, 25 million people involved in agricultural production – these are some of the key data for the EU farming sector in 2010; but what about the situation of individual farms and how do things differ between Member States and as compared...

The Final Consolidated Partnerships Report provides an overview of P4P’s partnerships from September 2008-December 2013. P4P has engaged in over 500 partnerships over the pilot period, bringing together the diverse strengths of local and international organizations, government ministries, private sector actors, financial service providers and research institutions already working in...

Mercado el 100 abrió sus puertas el 31 de octubre de 2010 en la Colonia Roma. Actualmente se realiza cada semana y se organizan participaciones y/o eventos especiales. Mercado el 100 es un lugar de encuentro, de intercambio de experiencias y sabiduría que ofrece productos frescos a los vecinos de las diferentes zonas, a la par de un programa educativo...

The present publication provides guidance on such supportive policies, as well as on protocols which would be needed to support schemes of payments for environmental services. It is based on actual field experiences of FAO and GIZ in the promotion of Conservation Agriculture in different world regions and is directed specifically...

Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have established in parallel to conventional food chains, playing a key role in the emerging food networks that are continuously arising as an alternative to the globalized agri-food model. The diversities and particularities of the experiences existing all over the world (box schemes, farmers’ markets,...

It is proved that the Hungarian is a stock It is proved that the Hungarian is a stock-breeding and also a sheep breeding people breeding and also a sheep breeding people for more than 1000 years now The main Hungarian sheep species are the following: Racka, Cigája and Cikta. Hungary...

Au fil de cette vidéo sont présentés les différents projets menés par les assos membres du réseau, allant dans le sens d’une alimentation alternative et responsable. Au delà du fait de se rendre compte de ce que tu peux faire avec un peu de motivation et 3 bouts de ficelle,...

This community-friendly animation video explains the concepts and mechanisms of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) through a story of interaction between indigenous peoples and people requesting their consent for new development. Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a core principle of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous...

This publication, Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability, demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts.The work presented in this volume stems from the conference on...

Looks at solidarity purchasing groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS) in Rome as an example of sustainable food consumption.

YAAY busca posicionarse como una marca de objetos artesanales, contemporáneos y accesibles comercialmente y desarrolla colecciones de productos como accesorios u objetos utilitarios y trabaja bajo pedido de acuerdo a la necesidad de los clientes. Para este fin el área de desarrollo de marcas comunitarias trabaja con grupos de mujeres artesanas ayudándoles...

Black Gold: the Secrets of Compost was filmed on location in Swaziland, and is the first in the Living Classroom series. The Living Classroom is the result of GardenAfrica’s training programmes that have been successfully developed and implemented over the past ten years with sustainable agriculture & permaculture specialists. It was built...

A number of partners, including UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, the GEF Small Grants Programme, the Government of Norway, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and the ICCA Consortium, worked closely to develop this toolkit for governing and managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). The purpose of the toolkit...

Las alianzas público-privadas (APP) se consideran como un mecanismo institucional importante para acceder a recursos financieros adicionales, compartiendo riesgos y haciendo frente a otras dificultades en pos de un desarrollo sostenible e incluyente. A pesar de que varias formas de colaboración público-privada han existido por algún tiempo, no se dispone...