With the looming context of the fourth Greek bailout, the European Rural Sustainability Gathering 2017 kicked off in in Karditsa, Greece. The event saw the social economy, cooperatives and grassroots initiatives take centre stage, as tools and approaches to address the crisis. The location displayed the best of progressive rural...

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This policy brief addresses the issue of limited farmer access to quality seed of Irish potato varieties in demand in local markets, which is a severe constraint for the potato sector in eastern Africa. It provides evidence in support of urgently needed action and presents options for practical decisions by...

La innovación y su relación a las transformaciones en los territorios, son concepciones que se relacionan desde la interpretación de las dinámicas que se encuentran en los mismos cuyo protagonismo está dado por los actores sociales. Se presenta una síntesis del trabajo Nuevas concepciones de los actores sociales en torno a...

The sixteenth meeting of the Stakeholder Group for the cross-border region of “Drina-Sava” was organized on the 2nd March in the City Hall Nijemci in Nijemci, Croatia. 

This book contributes to the discussion about territorial inequalities. Taking the cases of Chile, Mexico and Peru, it presents new evidence about patterns of development in our societies, with a degree of spatial breakdown that was previously unavailable. The authors study both the outcomes of these differentiated development dynamics, in...

Biodynamic principles were first introduced in the US after 1924, when Rudolf Steiner first delivered his agricultural lectures. In 1938, the Biodynamic Association was established, making it the oldest sustainable agriculture nonprofit organization in North America. Still, there are only about 300 certified biodynamic farms in the US today, compared...

With support from international organizations and projects, Ukraine is now in the final stages of preparing legislation that is expected to open the agricultural land market. As part of this process, FAO has been assisting with the introduction of land consolidation, and with the drafting of a land consolidation law....

As every year, the prospects for LIFE’s members, and the fate of the resources they depend on, hang on the discussions, negotiations, and decisions on setting catch levels and accompanying measures for Baltic fisheries in 2018. Our position, based on numerous discussions with our Members, is outlined below, a position...

El desarrollo rural, la producción familiar,la formación se ve cada vez más complejizada, a la vez que la tecnología aparentemente simplifica aspectos del hacer y accionar diario. Sin embargo, en términos del desarrollo agrario, la visualización de lo cotidiano es compleja. Este es un artículo que trata de aportar a...

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Delegates of La Via Campesina, representing our organizations and movements, are gathered in the Basque Country to celebrate our 7th International Conference from the 16th to the 24th of July of 2017. After four days of collective discussions and reflections on Food Sovereignty, peasant agroecology, autonomous training networks, migrant rights, trade, climate justice...

This Regional Gender Strategy is designed to enable FAO RNE officers and country officers in the region as well as development practitioners to respond to current regional priorities. As a complement to the FAO Gender Equality Policy, the regional gender strategy will promote coherence and improve efficiency of gender-sensitive programming....

Desde 2014, y con el apoyo de la ILC un grupo organizaciones en el país colaboran en la elaboración e implementación de una Estrategia Nacional de Involucramiento (ENI) para el acceso democrático a la tierra en Nicaragua. La ENI es un esfuerzo colectivo de articulación y de diálogo entre actores...

En Entre Ríos se probó a campo un sistema de máquinas modulares para poscosecha: lavado, secado y embolsado de hortalizas pesadas. El diseño ahorra energía, agua y tiempo a productores que no cuentan con tecnología adecuada para sus tareas de pos cosecha. La tecnología se presentó en el marco de...

Los hongos extraídos de su medio natural representan una fuente de alimento e integran parte de los usos, costumbres y estrategias de sustento de los pueblos que los utilizan. La domesticación de este recurso fortalece su valor ecológico, impulsa un aprovechamiento sostenible y favorece la conservación del medio ambiente. En...

¿Qué es el Sistema Integrado de Producciones Agroecológicas (SIPA) y por qué surge como una propuesta institucional? Los problemas y las consecuencias que resultan de la implementación de la agricultura convencional - modernizante- comercial representan nuevos retos en el ámbito del desarrollo rural contemporáneo, y ello no se puede desligar...

Keynote speech by Elizabeth Henderson at the Future Harvest CASA’s “Cultivate the Chesapeake Foodshed” conference, January 14, 2017 

The abject working conditions of the shellfish fisherwomen on the Paraná coast of Brazil call for a revaluation of their work to guarantee them rights and benefits

El análisis conjunto de 50 estudios de caso en 22 países africanos muestra la contribución de la agroecología al logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de las Naciones Unidas. Las tendencias que revela este análisis evidencian el potencial de la agroecología para fortalecer, de manera sostenible, la soberanía...