The critical role of smallholder farmers in ensuring global food security has been widely acknowledged. Smallholders produce up to 80% of food supply in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa and not only are they supporting their families, but also rural communities and ultimately all of us. In Asia, we have 74% of...

New agreement aims to ensure capacity development, farmers’ access to productive resources, knowledge exchange. India's Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and FAO are strengthening their collaboration to boost rural development and reduce poverty in Asia and Africa via local initiatives focused on empowering rural women and youth.

"Failing to support Syria’s farmers now will give them no choice but to abandon their land, move to the cities and ultimately migrate to other countries.There is no peace without food security and there is no food security without peace.  No peace is sustainable without food security, which in turn...

Key forestry leaders from Asia-Pacific began deliberations today on a series of critical natural resources issues challenging the region. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience to the negative impacts of climate change are among the priority topics on the agenda for the five-day meeting that will be the main...

Le Ministre de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche Maritime, Aziz Akhannouch, a dévoilé les premiers détails d’une stratégie de préservation des oasis. Cette stratégie a pour ambition de faire revivre des espaces sinistrés. Mais le soutien international est plus que nécessaire pour que la stratégie aboutisse. 

This scoping exercise was carried on to deepen our understanding of the current context of seed use, main crops and varieties in the research localities, in order to gather evidence of the ongoing importance of farmer seed systems in the agricultural practices and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, to identify cases...

Comment répondre au défi qui se pose à notre agriculture : la gestion des sols agricoles, la préservation et l’optimisation de l’utilisation de l’eau, des fertilisants et des produits phytosanitaires,la réduction de l’empreinte environnementale du travail agricole, le confort et la sécurité des agriculteurs, la production d’une énergie renouvelable à...

Dans le cadre d’un projet de coopération entre la FAO et le ministère de l’agriculture, des ressources hydrauliques et de la pêche,la petite agriculture a fait l’objet de débats et travaux de groupes très productifs lors de la tenue de l’atelier de restitution des résultats terrain d’un travail de diagnostic...

Europe is at the heart of a rapid worldwide change marked by global economic changes and environmental challenges. Many States choose to face these challenges by strengthening their urban policies, considering that economic dynamics are mainly based on the competitiveness of urban poles. On the other hand, rural territories are...

The slowdown in the world economic growth, in particular in commodity-exporting emerging economies contributes to a persistent general decline in commodity prices, including in still oversupplied crude oil. The slight re-appreciation of the euro to 1.15 EUR/USD affects the competitive advantage of the EU in the world market. In 2016,...

FIER MADA (Foire Internationale de l’Economie Rurale de Madagascar) 18ème Edition – 3d to 7th august : participation by TCP on NewCountrySTAT system, EU funded project (AINA) led by FAO, National Task Force for CSA (FAO ensuring executive secretary), TCPs on normative interventions (forestry, land) – Communications’ activities : Photos coverage,...

Budget invested in EU farming (nearly 0.30€/citizen/day) contributes to a stable and sustainable supply of safe food at affordable prices to the citizens in EU's 28 Member States.

Providing enough safe, nutritious food to a growing population is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Food and agricultural sectors are central to eradicating hunger and poverty, but current farming practices and climate change are putting pressure on our natural resources. No organization alone has the ability to solve these...

ultifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy. In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network...

The following pages report the results of our survey conducted among (Malian, Senegalese and Mauritanian) Soninké migrants during the period of 14th to 4 December 2015, living in the social residences of the former home Pinel (first home of migrant workers in France). This survey had to aim to discuss...

“Putting farmers first” is the main theme of Terra Madre Balkans 2016. 350 delegates will be arriving from 13 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, The Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Italy and Albania). The Balkan region hosts a wide variety of farmers. For this reason,...

Somos la Tierra es una campaña que realizó el INTA para visibilizar la importancia de la agricultura familiar en el todo el país. Para ello se recorrieron casi todas las provincias, relevando diferentes experiencias, entrevistando a gran cantidad de productores y productoras que contaron su historia, explicaron sus saberes y...

Este documento corresponde a la Declaración ministerial de la CELAC de la II Reunión Ministerial sobre Agricultura Familiar (AF) y el Plan de Acción del Grupo de trabajo de Agricultura Familiar de la CELAC 2016.

En el marco de la campaña Mujeres Rurales entrevistamos a Marisa Elizabeth Boschetti, responsable del área de la Mujer en la Confederación de Productores Familiares del Mercosur (COPROFAM) y Coordinadora Nacional de Lechería de FAA (Federación Agraria Argentina). Nacida y residente en Alicia, esta agricultora argentina de 44 años hace mil malabares para...

Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a...