Nós, mulheres agricultoras e extrativistas que pesquisamos e produzimos em nossas roças, palmeirais, açaizais, rios e igarapés, nos juntamos para participar das importantes atividades do IX  Congresso Brasileiro de Agroecologia.  Agradecemos o diálogo com os pesquisadores das Universidades e outras instituições de pesquisa. “Eu já tinha conhecimento que as chuvas estavam se...

10 March 2015, Rome - An innovative partnership spanning five African countries is providing important lessons on how governments can procure food for public institutions, such as schools, directly from small-scale family farmers. Modelled on Brazil's achievements in fighting hunger and poverty, the Purchase from Africans for Africa programme (PAA...

Participatory guarantee systems support farmers’ access to markets, and provide an alternative to often prohibitively expensive third-party certification. They also bring together networks of farmers and urban citizens who are redefining food production standards from the bottom up. In the past two years, the number of participatory guarantee systems across...

En este sitio se encuentra el programa, documentación, principales noticias, entre otros documentos relacionados con el Encuentro Nacional de Agroecología.

“If you have a healthy, living soil, you have healthy plants and healthy people. These three things are closely linked.” Irene Cardoso, a professor of soil science at the Federal University of Viçosa and a member of ILEIA’s board is passionate about soils and family farmers. In her role as...

Este caderno expressa o jeito próprio das mulheres fazer as coisas, de produzir conhecimentos juntas, a pedagogia feminista, partilhada com muitas mulheres catingueiras, pesquisadoras, experimentadorras e agricultoras. A publicação é o resultado de um esforço conjunto de sintetizar a riqueza do processo de vivências de 210 mulheres agricultoras e experimentadoras de...

The planned Symposium is one of the activities initiated by FAO in the last three decades. It is expected that this event will constitute a neutral forum for discussion and dissemination of scientific knowledge on forest biotechnology. The event is organized in cooperation with EMBRAPA, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (www.embrapa.br), one...

Los sistemas públicos de abastecimiento y comercialización son herramientas claves para  proveer una oferta estable de alimentos y facilitar el acceso de la población más vulnerable a los mismos, señaló hoy la FAO al respecto de la creación de la primera red regional en América Latina y el Caribe. Brasil, Bolivia,...

La introducción a este boletín describe: "Siguiendo con los boletines temáticos de la Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur (REAF), este mes queremos compartir los avances de nuestros países en la implementación de sistemas de compras públicas de productos de la agricultura familiar, aspecto fundamental para el sector y prioritario...

A  2º edição da publicação Alimentos Regionais Brasileiros (Ministério da Saúde) representa importante iniciativa de melhoria do padrão alimentar e nutricional, contribuindo para a garantia do direito humano à alimentação adequada e saudável e da Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional da população brasileira.  O material traz além dos alimentos por região, receitas...

The author focuses on the evaluation of 20 years of public policies in favour of family farming in Brazil, and in particular on the PRONAF (Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar – National Programme for Strengthening Family Farming). Launched in 1995 as the result of an intense involvement of family...

El cambio climático es una de las principales amenazas para la justicia alimentaria, los modos tradicionales de subsistencia y la vida de las personas. Los impactos del cambio climático en América Latina son cada vez más preocupantes; en particular aquellos que afectan al sector agropecuario y forestal, dada su alta dependencia...

Brazil has achieved impressive results in reducing poverty with “Fomento,” a set of large-scale, government-run social programs targeting smallholder farmers. Rural poverty in Brazil dropped dramatically from 51.4 percent in 2002 to 29.1 percent in 2011; during the same period, family farmers’ incomes also grew by 50 percent. When an...

Many innovations led by women are based on agroecological principles such as increasing diversity, using fewer pesticides, or building new relationships with consumers. Through small experiments women learn, get organised and strengthen their autonomy. They gain increasing recognition and visibility in their communities and increase their self-esteem. This positive spiral...

A strong network of female farmer-innovators in Paraíba, Brazil has been driving fundamental change in the lives of hundreds of women. Collective learning among farmers has brought rural women out of their isolation and into positions of leadership. The success of the women’s movement lies in its link between experimentation...

En el marco de la presentación de logros del programa de cooperación trilateral Estados Unidos, Honduras y Brasil, un total de 24 tecnologías en agricultura familiar ha logrado transferir hasta la fecha en su mayoría con énfasis en hortalizas tolerantes al calor y las demás aplicadas en energía renovable en...

A presente iniciativa buscou reunir uma gama de temas gerais que fossem importantes para toda e qualquer área temática da cooperação internacional, sem se esquecer de dedicar uma parte á agricultura, tema central da ação do IICA. A Parte II, com foco na cooperação voltada á agricultura e ao desenvolvimento...

CATIE (Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) es un centro regional dedicado a la investigación y la enseñanza de posgrado en agricultura, manejo, conservación y uso sostenible de los recursos naturales. Sus miembros son Belice, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, República Dominicana,...

En el marco del proyecto GCP/RLA/195/BRA, se desarrolló en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia, los días 9 y 10 de Julio de 2015 el Taller Regional sobre Directrices Voluntarias de Políticas Agroambientales en América Latina y el Caribe, con el objetivo general de intercambiar opiniones, reflexionar y generar recomendaciones concertadas...

El análisis de los movimientos de conexión y desconexión de la cadena de abastecimiento dada por las relaciones intermediadas entre los productos alimenticios demuestra que existe una hegemonía del sistema agroalimentario global que distanció a quien produce de quien consume. Este paradigma genera consecuencias para ambos, creando movimientos de crítica...