Seed can be an important entry point for promoting productivity, nutrition and resilience among smallholder farmers. While investments have primarily focused on strengthening the formal sector, this article documents the degree to which the informal sector remains the core for seed acquisition, especially in Africa. Conclusions drawn from a uniquely...

El esfuerzo y dedicación de 52 familias integrantes de una asociación, permitieron que la misma sea identificada por el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos (Proalimentos) para la compra de fresa a ser incluida en la alimentación de 4.533 estudiantes del Azuay. La presente nota refleja la perseverancia y esfuerzo diario de Nancy...

Forms of agroecological transformation are already happening. But more must be done to bring examples to light, and to garner the political support that agroecology deserves and needs.

The current challenges to agriculture posed by food insecurity and climate change are serious. There is a paradox of increased food production and growing hunger in the world. The global food production system is broken as we are destroying the very base of agriculture with unsustainable practices. Conventional agriculture has...

Mediante este video, El Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos, Proalimentos, reconoce el valor de la tierra ecuatoriana y el esfuerzo de los agricultores, quienes generan los más frescos y sanos productos para la alimentación escolar de alrededor de 2.8 millones de niños y niñas del país. Proalimentos, a través de políticas...

Este cuaderno de la Vía Campesina describe que "Como La Vía Campesina pensamos que en este momento de disputa por la agroecología, es importante compartir avances en nuestros procesos para identificar, documentar, sistematizar y compartir los éxitos de la agroecología campesina. Con este cuadernillo, ofrecemos una selección inicial, una primera...

Este manual surge del requerimiento de contribuir a que los productores agrícolas y otros actores percibamos al suelo como un organismo vivo, fijando en el centro de la naturaleza de los suelos, la Vida. Desde aquí se fundamentan e integran todos los contenidos actitudinales, conceptuales y procedimentales que se presentan...

Ce guide, en français et en wolof, capitalise les pratiques agricoles teste es et valide es avec les exploitants dans le cadre du projet REFSA. Loin d’e tre exhaustif, il aborde essentiellement les techniques de maraî chage et ne se veut pas un recueil scientifique.

Small family farms are in general extensively managed in Estonia and are in general structured in a way which facilitates outdoor systems (e.g. pastures convenient to the animal housing). Having said that, there are no specific conditions in the Pillar 1 payment rules which would exclude intensive or indoor farming...

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...

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...

El objetivo del taller es consensuar los fundamentos de la agroecología y la soberanía alimentaria y su relación con los procesos de Desarrollo Rural desde un enfoque socio – territorial, para reflexionar sobre la necesidad de articulación entre sistemas de conocimiento y estrategias de intervención institucionales. Este evento tendrá lugar el...

Thomas Machokoto surveys his farmland – three hectares of bare soil neatly dug with ditches, pits and furrows in preparation for the rains. Together with other members of a small group of local farmers, he has been digging these contour bunds and infiltration pits to capture and store rainwater. The...

O material que agora se torna público em forma de livro consolida o que resultou de quatro estudos sobre feiras agroecológicas estabelecidas em municípios dos estados do Ceará, Pernambuco (Recife), Paraíba e Rio Grande do Norte. Trata-se de pesquisas desenvolvidas conforme uma pioneira linha de trabalho, estabelecida via parceria entre...

Este artículo informa que el 28 de agosto de 2015, se desarrolló en la ciudad de Quito la reunión del Grupo de Trabajo de los países miembros de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC). La creación de nuevas políticas públicas, la generación de trabajo en el campo y la...

Since the mid-term review, the French government has had the objective of maintaining grass-based livestock systems, and sheep and goat systems in particular. This has been translated into significant financial transfers from arable farms to the livestock sector. The new CAP continues this policy in favour of livestock systems, through...

Esta noticia da cuenta sobre la primera feria de la agricultura familiar campesina. El evento contó con la asistencia de distintas organizaciones, que en total agruparon a alrededor de 80 productores. El propósito de la feria impulsada por el Proyecto Redes Comerciales, del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP),...

Added value to improve Agriculture and Farmers’ living standards. A journey through the activities of the Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Project (FSCA) in the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali Senegal and Sierra Leone

O País é hoje um dos maiores produtores de grãos do mundo, principalmente soja e milho, que, juntos, somam cerca de 80% da produção, quase toda exportada, principalmente para a China e Europa, onde é utilizada basicamente na alimentação do gado. A maior parte da produção de grãos acontece nas grandes...

Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...