This collection of abstracts compiles the abstracts and extended abstract of the conference Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy, held in Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site in Barcelona, Spain, 21–23 October, 2015.

La presente publicación recoge los principales resultados y recomendaciones de un proyecto regional y busca sumar la reflexión, el compromiso y la acción de la FAO a los esfuerzos de los países de la Región en pos de acortar las brechas de la desigualdad y la discriminación que han impedido...

Las Tiendas Mundo Rural tienen por objetivo valorizar el trabajo de la Agricultura Familiar Campesina (AFC) y acercar sus productos y servicios a los habitantes de la ciudad, en una relación más directa con el consumidor. La oferta de las Tiendas Mundo Rural está alineada con los nuevos paradigmas de consumo...

Article annonçant la mise en place par l’Association Diaspora Congo Brazzaville d'un programme de développement des exploitations familiales agropastorales.

Large-scale land acquisitions by both foreign and local investors for agriculture, forestry and wildlife purposes, among others, remain a major challenge for African governments. The Namibian government through various ministries received proposals from multinational agribusiness to develop large-scale agricultural irrigation projects.This study is aimed at investigating land acquisitions by private...

Cooperation between Tajikistan and FAO has been ongoing since the country joined the Organization in 1995. FAO assistance was initially provided in the form of short-term emergency interventions to respond to a locust outbreak and also to help the country in its transition to stability after a spell of civil...

Stelios Stylianou, founder of the company Zita Ltd, returned to Cyprus after conducting trials in the dairy industry aiming to develop the local industry in this segment. Most of the processing units in the area were family businesses without opportunities for growth. In 1982, after acquiring the necessary experience within...

Resumen ejecutivo del Plan de seguridad alimentaria, nutrición y erradicación del hambre 2025 de la CELAC, contiene breves antecedentes, objetivo, pilares, lineas de acción y medidas propuestas por línea.  

This interactive course is a self-training tool. It guides you through the simulation of a workshop process in the fictional country of Namambar. You will learn how to use a methodology based on malnutrition problem-and-solution trees to support joint planning for combating food insecurity and malnutrition. Through this course, you...

Beriu commune is located in the center of Hunedoara County, in Romania, 30 km from Deva town. It comprises 8 villages. Agriculture is not so well developed in the region, as the terrain is not suitable for it and the soils are not so fertile. Therefore, the main activity in this...

En Tunisie, l’agriculture et la société rurale traversent une crise profonde depuis le début des années 2000. Cette crise a été aggravée par le traitement de la crise des matières premières agricoles de l’automne 2007. L’approfondissement de la crise a fait le lit de la révolution de janvier 2011 qui...

Lebanon’s rural areas are resource-rich but to keep citizens there the government must provide them with more economic incentives to stay, experts told The Daily Star Friday. “Social protection is critical to fight poverty in rural areas,” Maurice Saade, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization representative in Lebanon, told...

El 2015 fue declarado por la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas como el Año Internacional de los Suelos (AIS), movida por aumentar la concienciación y comprensión de la importancia del suelo para la seguridad alimentaria. La FAO promueve acciones del AIS 2015 en el marco de la Alianza Mundial por...

Esta noticia informa que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos (Proalimentos), entidad adscrita al Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP), firmó un segundo contrato por 33.300,54 dólares con ochenta y cinco pequeños productores de naranja de los cantones Puyango y Chaguarpamba, de la provincia de Loja. En total, la...

Fruit production is one of the most important and fastest growing agricultural subsectors in Albania. Production of fresh fruit has grown by 38% since 2007 reaching 394 960 tonnes in 2013. The orchard sector is also considered an important and priority sector by the Albanian government.

Esta publicación es una recopilación y sistematización de las distintas actividades realizadas por el Comité Nacional de la República Dominicana durante todo el Ano Internacional de Agricultura Familiar.

Integration is based on the principle of the interactions between two or more components of the production system. Interactive research based on interdisciplinary approach involving NARS and ICARDA’s scientists is important to develop integrated crop-livestock systems in the low rainfall areas. The site of Sidi-Bouzid is characterized by a large...

Thirteen percent of the total population of the United States (US) is composed of immigrants. Mexicans accounted for about three-quarters of the increase in the Hispanic population from 2000 to 2010. The social and economic problems facing this population in their countries of origin are fueling migration to the US,...

La FECAOL nació en el año 2003, son pequeños agricultores organizados para luchar por los intereses de los agricultores, fomentando una agricultura alternativa, libre de productos tóxicos, sin la dependencia de tiendas de agroquímicos y buscando el buen vivir para las familias ecuatorianas.El litoral o costa ecuatoriana es una zona...

Family farming is a contested socioeconomic category of analysis. It is at times defined as a list of its diverse components, including pastoralists, artisanal fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, rural women and youth, among other subcategories. It has been claimed by peasant movements, not only as part of an overarching strategy to...