This report is the result of the Focus Group (FG) on Organic Farming, Optimising Arable Yields which was launched under the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI) 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability'. The Focus Group brought together 20 experts with different backgrounds and experiences (scientists, farmers, advisers…) to make recommendations on transferable innovative...

A short video about the Organic Farmers,Protectors of Soils, Guardians of Biodiversity & Defenders of the Earth. 

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. Documento disponible solo en portugués.

Reducing risk and increasing resilience to natural disasters and climate change requires access to knowledge, information and the active participation of vulnerable population. Planning Communication for Agricultural Disaster Risk Management is a field guide to orient ADRM teams and concerned stakeholders for the design and implementation of communication for development...

A presente iniciativa buscou reunir uma gama de temas gerais que fossem importantes para toda e qualquer área temática da cooperação internacional, sem se esquecer de dedicar uma parte á agricultura, tema central da ação do IICA. A Parte II, com foco na cooperação voltada á agricultura e ao desenvolvimento...

La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico. Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...

By prioritising human and non-human life over economic profit, and cooperation over competition, citizens of the city of Cordoba have been able to transform their food system into a thriving network of local food producers and consumers. Women have been at the forefront of this movement.

For several years, insuring harvests against the climate hazards that regularly destroy farmers’ crops in developing countries has for several years been a major tool in the fight against poverty, mainly in Africa and Asia, where between 400 and 500 million farmers survive on very low incomes. This system, which...

When the seasonal rains came to some regions of south-eastern Senegal, the flooding used to cut off the inhabitants from the rest of the country. But that has changed with the IFAD-supported project known as PADAER – Projet d’Appui au Développement Agricole et à l’Entreprenariat Rural. Thanks to the projects’...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Granxa familiar is aimed to help agricultural families in Galicia, where traditionally the main farming system is Family Farming; in the past production was destined mainly for family consumption but now they ready to introduce this production in the market. 

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

A vast wealth of knowledge about crops, nutrition, medicines, biodiversity, ecosystems, climate change and more, is on the verge of being lost to Africa forever, just when it is most needed. Over millennia, women in most African traditions have played a central role in selecting, storing, and enhancing the diversity...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Born in a rural Bedouin community in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, Yasmina Atta grew up in a culture that heavily restricts the roles of women. Undeterred by this oppression, she started to support young women in claiming their rights and becoming relevant economic and political actors.

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

 En Côte d’Ivoire, au moment où l’industrie prend le train de l’engrais chimique, l’agriculture familiale amorce une diversification de ses stratégies de fertilisation, vers des intrants de plus en plus biologiques. Une innovation naît notamment dans les années 2000, prenant une ampleur considérable dans les années 2010 : la fertilisation...

During the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO headquarters in Rome on 18 and 19 September 2014, stakeholders representing governments, civil society, science and academia, the private sector, and the UN system gathered to discuss the contribution of agroecology to sustainable food systems. The...

La hausse des prix alimentaires au Sénégal était telle que les Sénégalais ne pouvaient même pas acheter des produits de base car tout était importé. Sans accès à des semences de bonne qualité, ils ne pouvaient pas produire leur propre nourriture. Un projet visant à cultiver des semences de meilleure...

El INTA promueve la agroecología como sistema de producción alternativo al modelo convencional de monocultivo, la diversidad es su eje central. Maximiliano Pérez, Licenciado en Biología e investigador del Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico para la Agricultura Familiar de la Región Pampeana (IPAF) del INTA, afirmó que “la agroecología pone...