Farms in Northern Ireland face a series of challenges due to the crisis in farm profitability which saw farm incomes drop by 16% in 2014/15 and a devastating 46% in 2015/16. Low prices threaten many farms since low profitability makes it less appealing for the next generation to take over. In...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Today, ICT represents a tremendous opportunity for rural populations to improve productivity, to enhance food and nutrition security, to access markets, and...

This technical guide provides details of numerous techniques specific for tropical wet zones. It describes the core principles of agroecology, distilling local knoweldge accumulated by family farming. This guide is designed as a support tool for technicians and farmers involved in actions to promote and develop agroecology and consists of two...

Future policies towards livestock farming and trade in the UK and EU should support a shift to healthy sustainable diets and develop more coherent approaches to environmental objectives such as climate change, protecting nature and high animal welfare.

By pooling the ideas and knowledge of technical experts, partners, and concerned national institutions, Kyrgyzstan aims to prepare a high-quality proposal for financing by the Green Climate Fund. A three-day national facilitation workshop on Green Climate Fund readiness and project formulation – hosted and organized by Kyrgyzstan’s State Agency on...

Everybody needs food – and that means that everybody needs farmers. Farming was one of humanity's first professions, an organised way to meet the fundamental needs of each and every person on the planet. It's this fundamental need that means that farming is just as important today as it was...

Soma de inovação e tradição em prol do meio ambiente, de relações justas no trabalho e de qualidade de vida para todos,  a produção de alimentos orgânicos no Brasil tem tudo para colher ótimos resultados em 2017. Segundo levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário...

For over a decade ActionAid Mozambique (AAMoz) has worked with strategic partner organisations in the south and north-east of the country to promote agroecology initiatives with 80 farmers’ associations consisting of over 8000 farmers. 96% of the members are women and 30% of them young people, cultivating an average of...

A agricultura familiar é um importante segmento para o desenvolvimento do Brasil. São aproximadamente 4,4 milhões de famílias agricultoras, o que representa 84% dos estabelecimentos rurais brasileiros. A agricultura familiar é econômica, vem dela 38% do valor bruto da produção agropecuária e o setor responde por sete em cada dez postos...

Access to agricultural land has become a major issue throughout Europe - we are witnessing loss of land, land degradation, land concentration, land price increases and speculation. Yet the growing demand for local, fair and organic food cannot be met without the land and the committed farmers. Community Supported Agriculture has...

Este livro retrata um pouco da história, dos percalços e das conquistas que marcaram o processo de construção da Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica no Brasil (Pnapo) – uma política que nasceu das demandas e iniciativas da sociedade civil organizada e foi sendo construída aos poucos, de forma...

A coletânea de artigos que compõe a presente publicação tem origem no projeto desenvolvido pelo Observatório de Políticas Públicas para a Agricultura (Oppa)2 em conjunto com o Núcleo de Estudos sobre Agricultura e Desenvolvimento (Nead) do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA),3 que contou com apoio da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Agricultura...

The video provides a brief summary about the First Symposium on Agroecology and Family Farming that took place in Santiago (Chile). Organized by the Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP, for its Spanish acronym) and FAO's Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, the Symposium brought together agroecological practitioners, representants from...

El concepto de cadena agroalimentaria se utiliza para describir un sistema que agrupa actores económicos y sociales interrelacionados, y que participan articuladamente en actividades que agregan valor a un bien o servicio, desde su producción hasta que este llega a los consumidores, incluidos los proveedores de insumos y servicios, transformación,...

A national association of cheese eaters and producers established to support the development of solidarity between urban and rural people, and to encourage the settlement of small farmers and artisans in rural Lithuania. Viva sol has started a farmers’ market in Vilnius, a box scheme, environmental training and activities to support...

Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant...

Around the year 2010, the research field of “transition studies” was gaining increasing attention and was developing into a true research community with the advent of the “Sustainability Transitions Research Network” (STRN), the organisation of annual international sustainability transition (IST) conferences, and the launch of a scientific journal, named “Environmental...

The profile features farmers in New Zealand who came to the idea of regenerative agriculture due to an awareness of the ecological limits being breached by New Zealand agriculture. They believe that while farming is responsible for many of the environmental problems faced by their country, they also believe that better...