With the arrival of spring, small-scale farmers in the conflict-affected Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are ready to get back to farming. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will be there to help, with initial assistance valued at US$ 800,000, the Organization announced today. Conflict in eastern Ukraine...

Con el fin de visibilizar la agricultura familiar en el país se realiza esta investigación en la que se caracteriza y tipifica las formas de agricultura indígena en la comunidad de Ceima Cachivera en las dimensiones social, cultural, económica, productiva y ambiental, La comunidad está ubicada dentro de la periferia...

Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...

Due to its prime location, Guinea has significant potential for fruit and vegetable production. The country has assets such as soil fertility, abundant rainfall and a rural population traditionally oriented towards agriculture. Farmers represent 61% of the population and constitute 80% of the poor. They are mainly engaged in the...

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. 

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental, desenvolvido pelo Departamento de Educação Ambiental da Secretaria de Articulação Institucional e Cidadania Ambiental do Ministério do Meio Ambiente - DEA/SAIC/MMA, destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores e agricultoras propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com...

African Civil Society Statement: FAO Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, 2015.

En esta presentación se identifican unidades eco-territoriales en Venezuela, se describen los sistemas agrícolas y otros usos de cada categoría y se definen orientaciones para el manejo y uso sostenible del territorio.

How to replace HHPs with ecosystem-based approaches to pesticide and crop management

La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico. Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...

The county of Loga is considered the most underprivileged in the Dosso region and one of the poorest in Niger. A community rehabilitation program, after the food crisis of 2012, ranked the county as the most vulnerable area of all five departments that make up the Dosso region. The annual...

This video explores the different perspectives of food providers on agroecology and the calls from social movements to embed agroecoogy in the struggle for food sovereignty. It focuses on the International Declaration for Food Sovereignty which has been advanced by social movements to claim agroecology as a bottom up practice,...

Ukraine agriculture has been evolving since the country achieved independence in 1991, following the breakup of the Soviet Union. The first round of farm reforms in 1992-93 initiated privatization of land through the distribution of paper shares to the rural population and mandated the transformation of former collective and state...

A movement is growing. While agroecology has been practiced for millennia in diverse places around the world, today we are witnessing the mobilisation of transnational social movements to build, defend and strengthen agroecology as the pathway towards a most just, sustainable and viable food and agriculture system. This video explores...

El Movimiento Agroecológico Latinoamericano y del Caribe, MAELA, es un movimiento que articula a organizaciones campesinas, de pequeños y medianos productores familiares, comunidades indígenas, comunidades sin tierra, de mujeres y jóvenes rurales, de consumidores y organizaciones sociales, que defienden la Agricultura campesina y familiar agroecológica de nuestra América.

Dépêche relative au lancement du programme Agrifinance-Burkina , dans sa phase active. L’initiative qui bénéficie de l’appui du Programme des nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) et de la Coopération Suisse vise à améliorer le financement de l’agriculture familiale dans le pays et sera mis en œuvre jusqu’en 2019.

G20 Members (Turkey, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indıa, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and the EU) represent 85% of the world’s economy, 70% of the global agricultural economy and the two thirds of...

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores(as) propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com este segmento da população. O Programa visa o desenvolvimento de ações educativas que busquem a construção coletiva de estratégias para o enfrentamento da...

A gathering of 240 people representing rural communities from 40 European countries, meeting at the second European Rural Parliament yesterday, approved an ambitious European Rural Manifesto. It called for full recognition of the right of rural communities to a quality of life and standard of living equal to that of...

O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores(as) propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com este segmento da população. O Programa visa o desenvolvimento de ações educativas que busquem a construção coletiva de estratégias para o enfrentamento da...