Two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century are the increasing demands for food, water and energy from a growing population and climate change. Agriculture and smallholders are central to both, perhaps nowhere more so than in Africa. Whilst progress has been made during the last two decades to...

In December 2012, the programme on “Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume cropping systems for food security in Eastern and Southern Africa” (SIMLESA) commissioned a study to compile case studies of good practices in gender mainstreaming in the areas covered by the programme. This study was a result of an action point...

Las pequeñas y pequeños productores de la Zona Sur de Honduras no recuerdan una sequía similar a la de 2014. Los mayores la comparan con una ocurrida en 1965, cuando bajaron de las montañas, en busca de alimentos.  Camino a sus aldeas, el paisaje es desolador: a casi 600 pies sobre...

Esta propuesta de Ley fue elaborada en base a una consulta amplia y participativa, que consistió básicamente en la recolección de información mediante una investigación documental, la realización de entrevistas directas y la aplicación de una encuesta a informantes clave del poder legislativo, del poder ejecutivo, organismos de cooperación, organizaciones...

El segundo congreso de la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indigenas (ANAMURI), se realizó los días 28, 29 y 30 de Noviembre del año 2014, en la comuna de San Miguel, en la región Metropolitana y reunió a mujeres de Arica a Coyhaique que debatieron problemas de importancia nacional...

A Reunião Especializada da Agricultura Familiar (REAF) é um fórum formado por representantes de governo e da sociedade civil vinculados aos países do Mercosul (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguai, Uruguai e Venezuela) e Mercosul Ampliado (Bolívia, Chile, Peru e Equador). Criada em 2004, com protagonismo da iniciativa brasileira, em 2014 esta arena...

This course provides guidance on how to design and implement agriculture policies and programmes that are gender-responsive, sustainable, contributing to gender equality, and therefore able to improve food and nutrition security. 

Lineamientos estratégicos de INDAP, período 2014-2018. Abarca temáticas desde el contexto histórico de la institución hasta el plan de gobierno de la presidenta Michelle Bachelet. La agricultura familiar campesina, el mundo rural e Indap, la economía rural, los pueblos originarios, el potenciar el desarrollo de jóvenes y mujeres, el cuidado...

This report discusses how WFP has approached gender mainstreaming in its Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative, and examines how P4P contributed to empowering smallholder women farmers over a five-year pilot period. It documents how WFP went beyond adopting symbolic gender considerations to embrace a transformative agenda in the drive for...

This is the Gender Strategy for the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems (Dryland Systems). It sets out the challenges and targets for including gender aspects and addressing gender issues as a core activity and outcome of the CGIAR Research Program on Dryland Systems. The Strategy's overall goal is: to...

Fisheries play an important role in the economic and social life in Burundi. Yet, about 10 to 15% of the harvest was lost during the processing phase. Fish drying, which is the most common processing technique in the country, was done generally on bare ground. This has led to partial...

La pequeña agricultura familiar es un sistema de producción cuya importancia en las economías nacionales es evidente en los países de América Latina y el Caribe. En promedio, representa más del 80% de los sistemas de producción de la región y aporta entre el 30% y el 40% del PBI...

Video que muestra la experiencia en El Salvador de una asociación de agricultoras familiares y cómo ellas se han organizado en torno a ser proveedoras de los comedores escolares, a través de las compras públicas. Así se mejora la alimentación de los niños a la vez que las familias y...

Cambios muy importantes se han producido en el sector agropecuario nacional entre 1994 y 2012: el sector se ha expandido significativamente. En 1994, el PBI agropecuario era de S/.7,487 millones; a soles constantes, en 2012 fue de S/.17,392 millones: creció en 132%. Pero también ha crecido la superficie agraria; el...

Economic shocks including food price shocks, environmental shocks, social shocks, political shocks, health shocks, and many other types of shocks hit poor people and communities around the world, compromising their efforts to improve their well-being. As shocks evolve and become more frequent or intense, they further threaten people’s food and...

Almost half of the world's agricultural workers are women - but in Africa, less than 15% of them own land. Rice farmer Awa Jagne explains what it means to her to own her own land and produce food for her family.

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest around EUR 37.5 billion in Italy's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Italy to adapt both...

WFP marks the International day of Co-operatives and commits to invest in capacity building of small-holder farmers through local purchases to achieve sustainable food security.

In Guatemala, many women, like weaver Ana Maria Gonzalez, depend on off-farm income to survive.

In a dry, thorny, remote village about 200 km south of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, a group of women have transformed an abandoned piece of land into a flourishing community garden, growing enough fresh, nutritious vegetables to supply nearby towns and villages, while boosting the health and income of their own community.