Improving food security and agricultural livelihoods in Northern Uganda is an EU-funded Government of Uganda's Agricultural Livelihoods Recovery Project (ALREP) implemented by FAO in northern Uganda targeting people that have resettled in their homes after the 20 years of war. The video highlights how farmer field schools are being used...

La publicación de este número de Unasylva tiene lugar a raíz de la celebración de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Desarrollo Sostenible Río+20, que, entre otros frutos, publicó el documento intitulado El futuro que queremos. En ese documento, los dirigentes de todo el mundo reafirmaron su compromiso...

Presentación realizada con fines expositivos, al cierre de un proceso de investigación de tesis, por lo que da cuenta de los resultados.

The purpose of this article is to provide some theoretical and empirical knowledge regarding the profound transformations undergone by the rural sector in the Argentinean Pampa, where technological changes have had a significant impact both on productive and everyday life never seen before in the history of this area. We...

Over the last fifty years food production per person in Africa has grown disappointingly slowly at little more than 10%. The population of Africa is growing rapidly at an average annual rate of 2.5% and is expected to almost double by 2050 to close to two billion people. Chronic hunger...

Se presentan los resultados del análisis de informes nacionales y documentos de 16 países de América Latina (Argentina, Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay) relacionados con la aplicación de un instrumento armonizado de diagnóstico para la Acuicultura de...

This Working Paper reviews the current knowledge on feed legumes development in drylands of Iran and presents the results of studies done by the Iran’s Dryland Agricultural Research Institute (DARI) in different agro-climatic zones of the country. The study includes the existing technologies, and advocates policy, and institutional innovations that...

In collaboration with the World Rural Forum, the International Cooperative Alliance and the World Farmers Organization, FAO plans to hold a series of regional dialogues to enhance local, regional and global discussions on family farming, including small-scale farming. The outcomes of these regional dialogues will set the ground to provide...

Este artículo informa que representantes de organizaciones campesinas, gremios agropecuarios de las nacionalidades  de pueblos indígenas y autoridades del Ministerio de Agricultura Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP), participaron la reunión preparatoria a la Conformación de la Red Especializada de Agricultura Familiar (REAF), capítulo Ecuador. Los objetivos de la REAF implican crear...

Participatory programming provides scope for the unlocking of potential competence and optimizing available resource use in order to improve plant nutrition and plant health; while safeguarding the integrity of the scarce land resource base in St. Lucia.

The project leader for the third phase of the project joined ICARDA in July 2012, and a project instigation meeting was conducted in Amman where the previous progress was reviewed, objectives discussed, and a comprehensive work plan developed. In the autumn of 2012, 29 zero-tillage (ZT) demonstrations were established in...

In line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) this study defines climate change as any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. The study report is based on case studies from Bangladesh (Sulaiman, 2010), Bolivia (Pafumi and Ulloa, 2010),...

This report presents results of analyses of the IFPRI household survey data on various topics that, combined, represent the current food security situation in Bangladesh. Specifically, the study examines how that situation varies between the FTF zone of influence in the southern region and other regions throughout the country.

La Matriz de Análisis de Política a la que se refiere este documento es una herramienta de análisis cuantitativo microeconómica relativamente fácil de aplicar. Ante la dificultad que representa el analizar el complejo y heterogéneo sector agropecuario, y dada la escasez de estudios microeconómicos, se considera que los Ministerios de...

The International Conference on Policies for Water and Food Security in Dry Areas was co-organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land reclamation and its Agricultural Research Center, ICARDA, FAO, IFAD and IRDC. The conference was held in Cairo on 24-26 June, 2013 and attended by some 200 policy...

The year 2013 is of particular importance: it is the year we celebrate the International Year of Quinoa (IYQ), and we formally begin to prepare for the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) in 2014. Quinoa and Family Farming go hand in hand: both can contribute substantially toward the fight against hunger. However, to tap their...

Without financial access and sufficient yearly earnings, many farmers also lose up to 50 percent of their annual potential income because they must gain quick access to cash to afford household expenses all year. In the time leading up to harvest, farmers often experience a “hungry season” in which they...

El problema de la distribución de beneficios, producto del desequilibrio en las relaciones de poder en la toma de decisiones entre productores y empresas, es la que amerita el establecimiento de políticas públicas para proteger a los pequeños productores. De forma general se ha identificado que los productores rurales son...

This paper attempts to contribute to the emerging literature with focusing on one important high-value agricultural product in Indonesia: chili. More specifically we examine the factors that determine chili farmers participation in supermarket channel and to investigate the impacts of this participation on their income. This study focuses on chilies...

This report presents a farm household model for use in the context of developing countries to gain knowledge on food security and rural poverty alleviation under different economic conditions and agri-food policy options. This model, called FSSIM-Dev (Farming System Simulator for Developing Countries), is an extension of the FSSIM model...