This presentation will provide the policy background, then look at the current status of main South African stocks, followed by a discussion on the economic returns from small-scale fishing and what can and cannot be expected from implementation of the policy; concluding with recommendations on the way forward.

FAO’s first forecast of global wheat production in 2017 points to an above-average output, but down from the record high of 2016, mostly reflecting expectations of reduced crops in North America. COUNTRIES IN NEED OF EXTERNAL ASSISTANCE: FAO estimates that 37 countries, including 28 in Africa, are in need of...

The Neighborhood Women Association from Saschiz was established as a nonprofit association in November 2015, by a group of 23 women who live and/or work in the village: housewives, entrepreneurs, doctors, teachers, aiming to promote and support the common rights and interests of women and families in rural areas at micro-regional,...

Le paysage agraire libanais est caractérisé par l’existence d’une petite agriculture rassemblant une majorité de ménages ruraux, dont le fonctionnement, le rôle et la contribution au développement de l’agriculture sont encore mal connus. Ces raisons sont l’objet de cette étude. Cette étude traite 3 thèmes majeurs : i) de l’état...

The Expert Meeting on Climate Change Implications for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries, was held at the GFCM, Rome, 4–6 December 2017, with the objective to provide technical support the development of an adaptation strategy to cope with the potential effects of climate change on fisheries, in the framework of...

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

El Observatorio de Género y Equidad (OGE) es un fundación que promueve el debate, seguimiento, evaluación y reflexión colectiva respecto a la situación de las mujeres en Chile y las políticas dirigidas a la promoción, respeto y garantía de sus derechos. En él colaboran instituciones y organizaciones de mujeres de la sociedad...

Food supply for the growing world population significantly contributes to ecological and societal challenges. At the same time, there is a growing demand from policies, society and the food sector to improve sustainability in agriculture. Through operational management, farmers can contribute to an improvement of sustainability while adapting their farm...

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...

Non-timber forest products such as bamboo shoots are a very important food and source of income for farmers in rural areas of Laos. Sustainable management of bamboo is important for food security, and improvement of the bamboo value chain can help increase incomes for rural people. That is why the...

The 4th Responsible Business Forum on Food & Agriculture will convene over 450 decision makers from business, government, investors, the development community and farmers to establish innovative and collaborative approaches to achieving food and nutrition security in Asia.

The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs. 

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...

Governo federal chega à marca de 2000 selos Sipaf com mais de 150 mil agricultores beneficiados. Entenda o que é e como ele auxilia agricultores familiares e consumidores em todo o Brasil. As informações disponíveis em embalagens de produtos são sempre fonte de garantia para quem compra. No Brasil, o...

En Tunisie, l’agriculture familiale fait face à un grand nombre de contraintes et « court le risque d’une disparition pure et simple » (Amri, 2002) sous l’effet conjugué de plusieurs facteurs structurels: un morcellement important des exploitations, un vieillissement de la population rurale, un désintéressement des jeunes, -enfants d’exploitants agricoles-,...

This newsletter is the second edition of the Farm-Success Project newsletter. The Farm-Success Project newsletter outlines all of the most recent Farm-Success Project developments, detailing the Project’s road to creating strategies to train farmers for a sustainable succession process in order to enable and to motivate young farmers to continue...

En este artículo, se tratan de poner en números los ciclos que se reflejan en número de unidades de producción, en este caso teniendo como referencia a unidades cuya principal actividad es el tambo que están ubicados en el Departamento de Iriondo de la provincia de Santa Fe. Estas unidades de...

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...

Este documento se inserta en el Programa Red de Tiendas Mundo Rural, el cual busca generar un espacio de comercialización de productos de la agricultura familiar campesina bajo un modelo de circuito cortos, acercando historias y valores a los consumidores. El presente manual es una guía para los Proveedores de...

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...