After three years of recovery, the EU-28 real agricultural income per labour unit decreased in 2013 by 1.3% year-on-year driven by declines in both factor income and agricultural labour force (-2.1% and -0.9%, respectively). The agricultural income varies significantly across the European Union: the highest increases are estimated in the...

Vídeo-estudio sobre la situación de la mujer en el sector pesquero en la Ría de Pontevedra

This paper emphasizes the vital importance of the agriculture sector to the food security for Albania and other neigh boring post-communist countries. The aim of this study is to illustrate how investments in agricultural development and food security can protect these countries form future global crisis. Agriculture sector used to...

The importance of innovation in agriculture and rural development has been recognised by the European Union over successive reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), but there is widespread agreement that agricultural knowledge and innovation systems need to be   reinvigorated. The innovation priority in rural development programmes (RDPs) for 2014-2020...

With the world’s population expected to rise to nine billion by 2050, European regulators are pushing for a gradually greener approach to food sustainability, warning that demand for food could cause a number of related crises, such as runaway carbon emissions, waste and obesity.

This publication is an outcome of the multinational partnership “Community Supported Agriculture for Europe” that has been formed in order to spread and strengthen the idea of community supported agriculture (CSA) all over Europe and build connections between countries where CSA is a tried and tested method of .providing food...

Agriculture is the single largest employer in the world, with family farmersaccounting for the majority of this workforce. Family farms produce over70% of all food and manage a significant proportion of natural resources.Such a diverse and resilient agricultural model makes it possible to providesuitable solutions to challenges revolving around food,...

Rural development support from the European Union is governed by REGULATION (EU) No 1305/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 December 2013on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which is implemented into...

Domestic and donor-driven development agendas for African agriculture are spurring smallholder family farming as a catalyst for food security and poverty reduction. Family farms are also the backbone of agriculture in the European Union, although the process of concentration has gone further than in Africa. European agricultural policy reforms now...

Extrait du film de Coline Serreau "Solutions locales pour un désordre global" traitant du mode d'achat et de consommation alternatif que représente les AMAP.

The EU enlargement process introduces new opportunities for small farmers in the Balkans, but also new risks. Slow Food Bulgaria and Osservatorio organized a conference in Sofia on the protection of the region's traditional food Similar to many other parts of the world, recent years have witnessed a real revival of...

In recent years, as global food chains have expanded, a large array of terms has been used in academic, policy, technical or civic debates to illustrate innovative re-organisations of food supply chains aiming at re-connecting producers and consumers and re-localising agricultural and food production. These include short supply chains, alternative...

Les quatre témoignages présentés ici de paysans bio en AMAP (maraîchers, éleveuse, boulangère), montrent l’intérêt pour chacun d’être partenaire en AMAP : cela sécurise les producteurs en garantissant les débouchés, leur permet de parler de leur métier et d’être en contact régulier avec les acheteurs. Avoir le profil d’un paysan, c’est...

FAO is dedicated to assisting countries to achieve the goals of the World Food Summit and those contained in the Millennium Declaration. Forestry can make a significant contribution in this regard because many of the poorest people in the world live in and around forested areas, and therefore depend on...

Plusieurs parcours illustrent combien le partenariat en AMAP constitue un atout majeur pour s’installer à travers les garanties permises par les contrats avec les amapiens, l’avantage de bénéficier d’une avance en trésorerie, une sécurité de revenu et le soutien d’un collectif organisé. Grâce à la coordination de la FAMAPP, Terre de...

The First Regional Symposium on Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea was organized from 27 to 30 November 2013 by the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) in partnership with the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) – Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (MAIB),...

The concept of family farming is the recipient of much high-level political capital right now...  The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, the primary aim of which is to promote, develop and strengthen all types of familyoriented agriculture - from horticulture and livestock to fisheries and forestry - as a socially...

El Acuerdo de Asociación con la Unión Europea representa una serie de oportunidades de mercado para la agroindustria de la caña centroamericana, derivadas de las ventajas comparativas de los países de la región para producir bioetanol y las metas que la UE ha establecido en materia de utilización de biocombustibles...

All businesses need to innovate if they are to thrive, and family farms are no exception. By thinking ahead and developing new approaches, farmers can increase output, develop new and improved products, diversify and tap into new income streams, and remain environmentally sustainable. Innovative farms are more likely to weather...

It is often said that family farming is more than just a business - it’s a way of life and one that is deeply associated with values such as solidarity, continuity and commitment. In order to underpin rural vitality and encourage younger people into farming, it is important to address...