Ce séminaire, qui se tiendra le jeudi 29 octobre 2015 au Parc des Expositions du Kram à Tunis à l’occasion du Salon International de l’Agriculture, du Machinisme Agricole et de la Pêche, aura pour objectif de présenter et mettre en débat le nouveau Plan d’Action entre la Tunisie et l’UE...

Reducing children’s exposure to the toxic pesticides used in farming is the aim of a visual training guide, now adapted for use in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and translated to Russian language. Developed by FAO and the International Labour Organization, the guide is a tool for a wide...

Europe faces a moment of transformation. Europe 2020 Strategy puts forward three mutually reinforcing priorities: - Smart growth: developing an economy based on knowledge and innovation - Sustainable growth: promoting a more resource efficient, greener and more competitive economy - Inclusive growth: fostering a high-employment economy delivering social and territorial cohesion   Seven flagship initiatives...

Carbon-conscious farmers in the UK work with nature not against it, concerned about the health of their soils for future generations. They use principles of ‘feeding the soil not the plant’, understanding and encouraging soil biology, and harvesting sunlight to maximum effect. These farmers understand that we must repair damaged...

The aim of the guidelines is to enhance restoration efforts in the world’s drylands. They provide specific guidance for policymakers and other decision-makers, and for practitioners. Well-informed policymakers and other higher-order decision-makers can be enablers in the design and implementation of effective restoration efforts by providing appropriate policies, governance mechanisms...

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...

The present work takes guidance from the FAO  flagship publication, “The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2010-2011: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development” (FAO, 2011a). The SOFA report argues that, “despite the diversity in the roles and status of women in agriculture, the evidence...

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...

Humans have always taken what they needed from the planet’s soils, but the time has come to pay back this debt to Nature. These words from Kyrgyz National Agrarian University rector Ryspek Nurgaziev capture well the essence of discussions at the international scientific conference on soils and food security in Bishkek,...

'New peasants’ – youth deciding to become farmers and choosing agroecological production methods – are a crucial response to the trend of rural outmigration. Sidney Ortun Flament and Bruno Macias see knowledge sharing and exchange as a means to support this movement.

This document describe strategic plan of the Ministry of afgriculturte of Croatia. The document also covers activities and priorities in regards to the family farms sector.  

The third European Forest Week will be held in conjunction with Silva2015, the Joint Session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI); and the FAO European Forestry Commission (EFC). It will be hosted by the Government of Switzerland in the alpine village of Engelberg from 2–6...

The food security of billions of people worldwide depends on how secure their tenure is over the land, forests and fisheries they own or manage. That’s why FAO is rolling out the internationally agreed “Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure” with a series of technical awareness-raising workshops across Europe...

Sustainable management of forests, which cover 33 percent of Europe’s land area, will come into focus this week at the joint session of the FAO European Forestry Commission and the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (Silva2015).

This research aims to provide the evidence required to help put dryland issues firmly on the development agenda at national, regional, and global levels. Dryland Systems research informs the interventions required by providing international public goods – tools, methods, practices, policies, and technologies – to enhance the economic and social...

In Central Asia, unsustainable land management has turned large areas of productive land into wastelands. “Not possible, no water, too hot…” has for a long time been the standard response from locals when asked why there has been so little effort to reverse natural resource degradation. But in recent years,...

On October 02, 2015 Mr. Marinko Čavara, the President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ms. Khalida Bouzar, director of the IFAD Division for North Africa, Europe and Near East signed the Rural Business Development Project.

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...

Статья посвящена эволюции и классификации фермерских хозяйств. Акцент сделан на семейных фермерских хозяйствах как главной форме организации сельскохозяйственных предприятий на территории Европы и Юго-Восточной Азии. В процессе исследования были использованы общенаучные и специальные методы: анализ, синтез, экономико-статистический и другие. В результате были развиты теоретические положения, уточняющие сущность крестьянского (фермерского) хозяйства,...

Le présent colloque souhaite approfondir les questions liées aux futures tensions sur la gestion de l’eau, en lien avec le changement climatique et les évolutions sur l’usage de l’eau d’ici 2050, en incluant tant les études hydrologiques et climatiques que les études ou acquis des sciences sociales. Ces études concerneront...