The report confirms earlier systematic reviews that described a scarcity of studies investigating the potential beneficial health effects of an organic diet. The largest of the epidemiology studies looking at allergies and atopic disease, the PARSIFAL study, studied 14 000 children aged 5–13 years in five European countries. It showed that children on a...

El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...

This edition includes perspectives on LEADER/CLLD, forestry, integrated approaches to rural policy and the new European Solidarity Corps, as well as short updates from the Slovenian and Slovakian networks. The edition’s thematic section brings ‘A focus on… social inclusion’, including an overview of social inclusion challenges in rural Europe, highlights of...

Organic agriculture is one of the most widely known alternative production systems advocated for its benefits to soil, environment, health and economic well-being of farming communities. Rapid increase in the market demand for organic products presents a remarkable opportunity for expansion of organic agriculture. A thorough understanding of the context...

The Seminar will discuss practical opportunities for promoting 'Resource Efficiency' through the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs). It is intended for anyone involved in RDP implementation at the European, national, regional and local levels. The event will build on ongoing ENRD thematic work on  ‘Resource Efficiency’, including aspects such as water use...

Mozambique has a population of about 25 million people. Most live in rural areas and rely on farming for all or part of their household income. Located on Africa’s south-eastern seaboard, the country encompasses biodiversity sites of great significance. Today agriculture is said to account for 25% of Mozambique’s gross domestic...

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...

In rural Rwanda, where roughly one in four people lack access to a safe water source, many communities rely on rivers and streams to drink, wash, clean, farm, and play. Conventional coffee farming methods and processing can poison water used by people downstream. Responsible coffee production, as demonstrated by this...

O coco indaiá e o gergelim (foto), produzidos por quilombolas Kalungas, no estado de Goiás, serão catalogados no projeto “Alimentos bons, limpos e justos”. Nos dias 27 e 28 de maio, uma equipe do projeto, com representante da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), da Universidade de...

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the Sahel whose economy is highly dominated by agriculture and livestock husbandry, with more than 70% of the population living in rural areas. The prevailing farming system is smallholder agriculture based on cereal production, especially sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and pearl millet...

MagosVölgy Ecological Farm was established in 2013 by Judit and Zoltán Dezsény, a young urban-to-rural migrant couple. MagosVölgy Ecological Farm is situated in North-Hungary, 85 km north to the capital of Budapest. MagosVölgy literally means Seeds Valley as well as Elevated Valley. Seed is the core symbol of life, representing the...

El artículo se centra en el tema de los conflictos que se suceden a partir de las normas que regulan la aplicación de productos agroquímicos. Los actores que viven en ciudades o pueblos y que por el crecimiento urbano quedan entrelazados a una problemática que está presente, acerca de la cual...

The European Union and Chile last month (7 April) concluded negotiations on a trade agreement in organic products. The deal provides that Santiago and Brussels will mutually recognise the equivalence of their organic production rules and control system and “ensure a high level of respect for the principle for organic...

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...

TV5 Monde documentary about Saschiz, Romania and Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania`s contribution to develop and sustain the area.

Romanian National Rural development Network Newsletter, National, and international subjects

In this video, Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader on Rural Poverty Reduction at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) talks about the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), Agroecology and Food Sovereignty. He also talks briefly about the work...

he Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIWG) on a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas meets again this week in Geneva. Negotiations are expected to get even more challenging this time, as discussions will touch upon “contentious” issues, such as the right to...

Han pasado casi 44 años y hoy enfrentamos colosales desafíos mundiales, los efectos devastadores del Cambio Climático, el incremento de las desigualdades sociales, la disolución de los lazos comunitarios, la aceleración del desarrollo tecnológico (generado por las TIC, la biotecnología, la nanotecnología y las ciencias cognitivas), la crisis de representación...

In 2015, 119 million European citizens, representing almost a quarter of the EU population, were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Statistics show that the average poverty rate is slightly higher in rural areas, with very contrasting situations across the Union as some countries display a huge poverty gap...