Ukraine agriculture has been evolving since the country achieved independence in 1991, following the breakup of the Soviet Union. The first round of farm reforms in 1992-93 initiated privatization of land through the distribution of paper shares to the rural population and mandated the transformation of former collective and state...

El CIP define su misión como “trabajar con nuestros socios para alcanzar la seguridad alimentaria, el bienestar y la igualdad de género de las personas pobres que dependen de los cultivos y sistemas alimentarios de raíces y tubérculos en el mundo en desarrollo. Lo hacemos mediante la investigación y la...

La Delegación de la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa) ejerce este año a través del Componente Agricultura Familiar, Periurbana y de Traspatio, seis millones 100 mil pesos para instalar mil 220 proyectos en apoyo a personas que viven en colonas marginadas, explicó el titular de...

Le ministre sénégalais de l’Agriculture et de l’Equipement rural, Dr Papa Abdoulaye Seck, a vanté, la pratique de l’agroécologie qui, selon lui, constitue ‘’un support de systèmes alimentaires solides et démocratiques, garantissant un revenu conséquent et durable et assurant la santé des communautés rurales, tout en préservant l’environnement"

In Latin America and the Caribbean, domestic workers make up 18% of the female labour force. Migrating from rural areas to work in the city, many maintain both rural and urban identities. With strong connections to their family’s farm on one hand, and playing a key role in buying and...

CEEweb together with Young Researchers of Serbia, Eko-Centar, Juniperia, Daphne – Institute of Applied Ecology and Naturalists Club Poland have launched a project on experience sharing and capacity building in small-scale farming. The project “Empower the powerless: Visegrad experience for small-scale family farms in the Western Balkans” aims to place...

Humans have always taken what they needed from the planet’s soils, but the time has come to pay back this debt to Nature. These words from Kyrgyz National Agrarian University rector Ryspek Nurgaziev capture well the essence of discussions at the international scientific conference on soils and food security in Bishkek,...

The ancient Egyptian civilisation, founded upon the agriculture and peasantry of the Nile Valley, is famous worldwide. Yet, today peasantry in Egypt often denotes poverty and there is a widening social divide between farmers and urban consumers. But over the past ten years, and particularly since the revolution in 2011,...

In the past 50 years, about a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land has been lost, threatening food production, cultural landscapes and biodiversity. One of Japan’s most valued cultural landscapes includes rice terraces. In order to prevent them from abandonment, an innovative concept known as the Ownership System, was devised almost...

Desde hace 25 años, el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria –INTA– y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, a través del Plan Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria, llevan a cabo el Pro Huerta. Con el foco puesto en mejorar la alimentación de la población que habita las áreas urbanas, periurbanas y rurales,...

This publication is about the work of FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and its decades-long struggle to eradicate hunger throughout the region. For more than 60 years RAP has cooperated with member countries to help them produce enough safe and nutritious food for people living in...

El recetario de saberes y sabores de nuestra tierra nace en el marco del proyecto “Saberes y Sabores: mejoramiento de productividad y nutrición de familias campesinas/indígenas de las provincias de la Sierra centro del Ecuador” cuyo fin es enfrentar la malnutrición de los sectores campesinos y urbano marginales. Paradójicamente, quienes producen...

Historically, scientists learnt from farmers to unravel the interplay between nature and farming. Pablo Tittonell believes that this year, the International Year of Soils, presents an opportunity to foster a true dialogue of wisdoms, bringing farmer knowledge and scientific knowledge closer together again.

L’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (Fao) explore de nouvelles pistes pour mieux lutter contre la faim et la malnutrition. Elle semble vouloir activer un nouveau levier, notamment l’agroécologie. «L’agroécologie est une des solutions qui sont faites pour un monde libéré de la faim. Elle permet également de...

El informe identifica las medidas concretas que se pueden seguir en relación con las Directrices Voluntarias para garantizar la pesca en pequeña escala en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza, conocida como las Directrices de la SSF, los sistemas alimentarios de indígenas y pescadores,...

The arid southern highlands of the Bolivian Andes are a harsh environment for even the most hardened farmers. The ‘quinoa boom’ and the move to mechanisation have led to shortened fallows and a drastic drop in soil organic matter. The dry sandy soils and the natural vegetation they support are...

This paper analyzes the extent to which transformative territorial coalitions can deliberately change the exclusive structures that afflict rural territories in Latin America. A historical comparison of three rural territorial dynamics in Ecuador demonstrates that deliberate planning is not necessary to promote an inclusive and equitable economic dynamic if a...

November 2015: On the 5th and 6th of this month, a unique Africa-wide seminar on agroecology took place in Dakar, Senegal. We are proud to present 7 inspiring agroecological initiatives driven by farmers from across Africa. 

El encuentro, que se pretende desarrollar anualmente, busca visibilizar proyectos, propuestas y reflexiones sobre extensión y desarrollo rural. En su primera versión, se hace énfasis en los aportes de la extensión rural a los procesos de desarrollo y paz en los países latinoamericanos. El ejercicio se orientará desde nueve mesas temáticas...

On the one hand, agriculture itself is restructuring and slowly taking a lower share of total employment in the EU – as new knowledge and smart techniques make farm workers more productive, and as older farmers retire. On the other hand, almost 11 million farms still provide work for roughly...