I grew up in a place known as Kabazi, Subukia Constituency and Nakuru County in Kenya. As a child of a family farming household, I had to participate in farming activities alongside my education. The family depended on its member’s labour to be able to provide adequate and nutritious food...

Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held un-der customary tenure. Yet there are many contending views and debates on the impact of these land policies and this book reveals how tenure security, agricultural productivity, and social inclusion were...

According to estimates, in Europe and Central Asia, 42 percent of monitored terrestrial animal and plant species have declined in population in the past decade. It is now more important than ever before to conserve and use biodiversity sustainably, and to reduce the pressure on natural resources and ecosystems. Action...

En Amazonie, les scientifiques du Cirad et leurs partenaires orientent et accompagnent les initiatives de territoires qui allient agriculture et élevage durables, inclusion sociale, conservation et restauration des écosystèmes forestiers.

¿Por qué usar plantas nativas en el arbolado urbano? Las especies nativas son una opción que cada vez se escucha más a la hora de hablar del arbolado urbano. Mejor adaptación al clima local y mayor rusticidad hacen de estas especies una oportunidad para construir la infraestructura verde urbana. Por su...

Depuis près de 20 ans, le Réseau international FAR réunit les acteurs africains de la formation agricole et rurale et alerte sur le manque crucial de formation et l’urgence à relever le défi de sa massification auprès des producteurs et productrices, majoritairement jeunes et peu alphabétisés. La Formation agricole et...

This guide presents the egg and larval descriptions of 150 species of fishes belonging to 57 families, which are most likely to be present in plankton samples collected in the continental shelf and oceanic waters off northwest Africa. The guide is structured in two parts. The first introductory part describes...

La agricultura familiar abarca numerosos grupos sociales, que incluyen a familias de pequeños agricultores, silvicultores, pescadores, pastores, pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales . Te compartimos el #4Pilar del #PlanAcciónMundial, para mayor información te invitamos a ver el siguiente video.

Join Ben Raskin of the Soil Association and Andy Dibben of Abbey Home Farm as they discuss agroforestry systems in horticulture. They'll be taking us through step by step how to design and set up a system that you can apply to your own market gardens and farms. The discussion...

Le 31 août 2023, une étape décisive a été franchie dans la promotion de l'agroécologie au Burkina-Faso avec la première réunion de mise en place du Groupe de Travail sur le Conseil en Agroécologie. Cette initiative, pilotée par le Réseau des Services de Conseil Agricole et Rural d'Afrique de l'Ouest...

The One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) initiative in Africa aims to build more sustainable food value chain systems, support family and smallholder farmers to be profitable and improve their livelihoods, minimize the use of chemical inputs and natural resources, reduce food loss and waste, and limit the negative impacts...

Transformation to sustainable agriculture in the Netherlands is increasingly called for. Agroecology is acknowledged as a sustainable – potentially transformative – alternative for conventional methods of agriculture. However, few farmers adopt agroecological practices. Recent literature suggests failure to achieve sustained and transformational change may be due to neglectance of personal,...

In this study, we assessed the PPR disease status, its economic cost, the financial viability of vaccination, and the perspectives of field veterinarians on the PPR vaccination programme implemented in Karnataka state, India. In addition to secondary data, cross-sectional surveys undertaken during 2016–17 (survey I) and 2018–19 (survey II) from...

El consumo de tabaco y el consumo de alcohol son, sin duda, los consumos adictivos con mayores daños a la salud entre la población mexicana.

L’Amazonie s’étend sur neuf pays, dont la France, pays qui assument de ce fait une responsabilité particulière vis-à-vis de l’humanité car l’Amazonie bénéficie à tous les habitants de la planète. Dans cette plus grande forêt tropicale de la planète, dotée des plus grandes réserves d’eau douce, de carbone stocké dans...

Evaluation of the Action Against Desertification Programme (AAD) in Northern Nigeria. To address the lack of baseline information, a counterfactual scenario was built based on ex ante spatial program information and a combination of machine learning and quasi-experimental impact evaluation techniques. We find that large-scale, bottom-up-led, land restoration in Northern...

El Plan de acción mundial, diseñado en torno a siete pilares de trabajo que se refuerzan mutuamente, recomienda una serie de medidas interconectadas que abarcan desde la escala local hasta la mundial. Este video describe el pilar 4 del Plan de acción mundial.

While the negative environmental, social and health impacts of the current food system have been acknowledged and evidenced for several decades, the recent and current transformations in food systems at diverse scales are not yet addressing the many inter-related stakes at play. Due to the much wider set of interactions...

Dados do Censo Agro 2017, divulgado pelo IBGE em 2022, mostram que a região Norte concentra a maior proporção de produtores rurais indígenas (5%). O último Censo realizado mostrou que estabelecimentos indígenas têm maior proporção de mulheres na sua administração (25,90%). Além disso, 27,99% dos produtores indígenas têm menos de...

This is a literature review on land use and integrated land use management systems in Uzbekistan. The review aims to synthesize and examine the state of knowledge and the scope for establishing various integrated resource and land use management strategies such as types of agroforestry systems and integrated pastoral management...