The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department is pleased to present World aquaculture 2010. Six regional reviews and the resulting global synthesis, which provided the basis for this document, involved many people, including fish farmers, service providers, policy-makers, scientists, researchers, and intergovernmental and non-governmental organization workers. This rigorous consultative review process...

FAO has been working closely with NGOs and small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe to introduce conservation farming techniques and improve food production. The video provides a short overview of what this actually means for Zimbabwe's communal farmers, recounting some of their stories and including the perspectives of FAO staff, NGO staff...

At Culberry Nursery in Angmering, West Sussex (4 miles west of Worthing), Martin Jarvis is taking the first steps to set up a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Project.A meeting in May 2011 established the level of interest, as local Angmering residents and members of Transition Town Worthing discussed ideas of...

Africa’s small farms face shortages of labor, land, animal traction and financing that, together, limit their access to improved technologies. This paper evaluates a series of conservation farming technology packages as possible vehicles for incrementally raising productivity and incomes among resource-poor farm households in Africa. Discussion focuses on asset-poor households...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been providing support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) for well over three decades. FAO is normally the focal point for the United Nation’s Agriculture/Food Security Theme Group and its Sub-group on Sloping Land Management, which are...

Las experiencias de producción familiar agroecológica en diferentes regiones del mundo han evidenciado que es una opción viable para promover la seguridad alimentaria y, al mismo tiempo, conservar la biodiversidad de nuestros países. En los países andinos, los pequeños productores junto con los movimientos agroecológicos han cumplido un rol importante para...

This volume, Climate Change and Food Systems Resilience in Sub‑Saharan Africa, demonstrates the possibility of harmonizing agricultural production with the wellbeing of the biosphere – and that this can be achieved in Africa, our biosphere’s least developed continent, and the continent which is likely to suffer most from climate change....

Koraput region of the state of Orissa in India is known for its ecological wealth coexisting with poverty, generally referred to as the paradox of economic poverty in the midst of genetic prosperity. Koraput is a tribal district; more than 70% of the total population comprises of scheduled tribes. There...

The Round Table on Organic Agriculture and Climate Change (RTOACC) is a newly launched initiative dedicated to increasing understanding and quantifying the role that organic agriculture can play in climate change mitigation and adaptation – in addition to its already understood contribution in areas such as reducing use of chemical...

La presente publicación tiene como finalidad contribuir a la reflexión y análisis de los procesos desarrollados en las ferias: conocer sus potencialidades, limitaciones y dificultades. También generar herramientas de trabajo para los técnicos de terreno y organizaciones sociales, que realizan el acompañamiento de las ferias, así como para aquellos dispuestos...

El número 2 de la Revista Eutopía, correspondiente a octubre de 2011, contiene: De cadenas de mercancias (commodities) a cadenas de valor: construcciones teóricas en una época de globalización La industria de aceite de palma en Ecuador: ¿un buen negocio para los pequeños agricultores? Guayaquil y la región: desarrollo territorial e inclusión social Cadena...

The livelihoods of the world's poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing the ability of smallholders to connect with the knowledge, networks, and institutions necessary to improve their productivity, food security, and employment opportunities is a fundamental development challenge. Where once rural areas were largely disconnected from...

Access to agriculture finance is a hot topic in Uganda, especially for small scale farmers. There is a lot of talk in the sector about working together to remove barriers for small holder farmers to access value chain financing. Most recently the 2011 Zipping Finance and Farming Event in Kampala...

This report provides an overview of the findings from a Farmer Innovation Study conducted by Find Your Feet in 2011. The study was conducted in the district of Rumphi, in northern Malawi.

This paper makes a distinction between direct and indirect energy for (used in) the food chain and energy from (that can be produced by) the food sector. Energy from the food chain includes renewable energy produced on farms or in processing plants. This type of renewable energy includes wind, solar,...

La Barbarine est la principale race ovine à viande en Tunisie. Avec ses deux écotypes dominants, la tête noire et la tête rousse, elle constitue 64% de l’effectif total des ovins. Connue par son adaptation aux conditions climatiques difficiles, sa capacité d’exploiter les pâturages pauvres ainsi que de surmonter les...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) is a major staple food in Burundi; thus increasing its production and marketing has the potential for raising incomes of the farming households. In the country, bean outputs have been declining for decades, yet demand for the crop in East Africa has surged considerably. This...

El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar el concepto de Agricultura Familiar en diversas definiciones y en qué medida puede resultar una herramienta exitosa para el mundo rural y su salida de la pobreza. La Agricultura Familiar (AF) corresponde a la “producción agrícola predial por cuenta propia de pequeña escala”....

The regional ”Workshop on Advancing the Application of Assisted Natural Regeneration for Effective, Low-Cost Forest Restoration” was organized from 19-22 May 2009, in Bohol, the Philippines, as a concluding activity of the three-year FAO-supported project aimed at promoting ANR in the Philippines. Both the project and the workshop were implemented...

This paper is a condensed presentation of findings in the project “Land and Legal Plurality in Angola” as a part of the research collaboration programme between CEIC, Universidade Catholica de Angola and CMI, Norway. Fieldwork was done in August and September 2009 and 2010 in the municipalities of Kachiungu and...