Por meio do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), a agricultora familiar Letícia Weigert conseguiu fazer seu primeiro financiamento, em 2009. “Com um investimento de aproximadamente R$ 40 mil, ampliamos a nossa unidade agroindustrial”, conta ela, que recentemente passou a trabalhar com o cultivo suspenso de morangos. A agricultora...

Association of private farming of the Czech Republic organized an International Conference on family farms and Common Agricultural Policy of EU. The event was held in Brno on 4 - 6th of April 2016. 10 European countries attended the conference. Herewith volume 4. Presentation of Lithuania

48 million people live in Colombia nowadays. During the last 60 years of internal conflict, the country urbanized. According to the World Bank stats, less than 24% of the Colombian population lives in rural areas. About the 30 largest cities concentrate more than 70% of the population. The competition for...

Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and...

Le projet de «réduction des pertes et gaspillage alimentaires et de développement des chaînes de valeurs pour la sécurité alimentaire», a été lancé mercredi, à Tunis, par le ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Pêche, en collaboration avec la FAO.

APF CR is a part of the International project FARM_SUCCESS, which deal with succession at family farms.  The main aim of the project is to provide tools and knowledge to young farmers in order to enhance and support succession process in family farms. In mid of September already third meeting...

Sustainable development has long been part of the political agenda of the European Union. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their related targets, approved in September 2015 by the UN General Assembly, provide a new policy framework worldwide towards ending all forms of poverty, fighting inequalities and tackling climate change,...

From the 10th to the 13th of May 2016, the AgroEcology Fund (AEF) and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) brought together 70 people representing 30 organizations to share experiences and ideas about amplifying agroecology. True to its name, this Learning Exchange aimed to facilitate learning and cross-pollination...

Productivity growth in the Turkish agricultural sector is supported today by better technologies, crop varieties and animal breeds. Yet improvements have slowed since the late 2000s, and the productivity gap between agriculture and the rest of the economy remains large. To overcome these challenges, Turkey will need to reduce the...

Of the 35 million people in Uganda, more than 78% of the population are below the age of 30 and 18% are youth aged 18-30 years. Yet 11% of youth are unemployed (9% males and 14% females) and 26% youth are underemployed (28% males and 25% females). These youth unemployment...

Inland fisheries are almost all small-scale fisheries (SSF). The problems of inland fisheries are SSF problems and include access rights, tenure, gender, social welfare and empowerment. More than 60 mn people rely on inland fisheries for at least part of their livelihood and about half of them are women. An...

Vários municípios desconhecem os programas de compras públicas de alimentos produzidos pela agricultura familiar para fins sociais e, além disso, por várias dificuldades não vem cumprindo a lei federal que determina aquisição direta de gêneros alimentícios produzidos pela agricultura familiar para a merenda escolar.   A cartilha “Boas Compras da Agricultura Familiar”...

João Marcus Costa is a cassava farmer from Manjacaze, Mozambique. Like many Mozambican farmers, João's small cassava field used to face constant threats from drought, disease and pests. Even when he did manage to successfully harvest his cassava, he then faced additional challenges trying to get his cassava to market...

More than 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in urban areas and this is expected to rise to 70 percent by 2050, particularly in developing countries. Increasing effects of climate change, including storms, floods and other extreme weather events, pose an added threat to how people in cities, especially...

El propósito del 7° Foro del Frente Parlamentario contra el Hambre de América Latina y el Caribe es convocar a un debate parlamentario regional para definir las principales estrategias y líneas de acción del FPH para el período 2016-2017, promoviendo un diálogo político que posicione el derecho a la alimentación...

Este estudio busca aportar elementos para avanzar en la organización de una red de grandes empresas colaboradoras de INDAP y de la AFC, con un enfoque de nuevo trato y valor compartido. Este trabajo fue realizado por los expertos en RSE Marina Hermosilla y José Briones, contando con el apoyo financiero...

For the indigenous peoples of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the ‘fi sh province’ of the Russian Federation, fi ghting for their rights to access fi shing resources is crucial

El documento presenta el proceso de construcción de los registros de la agricultura fami​liar en el marco de la Reunión especializada de agricultura familias (REAF). Igualmente, presenta una caracterización y análisis del estado de situación de los registros y el universo de la agricultura familiar en los estados pares y...

El 17 de junio se realizó el Seminario Equidad de Género para el Desarrollo Territorial en la Cineteca del Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda en el que, frente a más de 100 personas, se presentaron dos documentos: el Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad 2015: Género y Territorio, elaborado por...

Tenure security is believed to be critical in spurring agricultural investment and productivity. Yet what improves or impedes tenure security is still poorly understood. Using household- and plot-level data from Ghana, this study analyzes the main factors associated with farmers’ perceived tenure security. Individually, farmers perceive greater tenure security on...