Added value to improve Agriculture and Farmers’ living standards. A journey through the activities of the Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture Project (FSCA) in the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali Senegal and Sierra Leone

O País é hoje um dos maiores produtores de grãos do mundo, principalmente soja e milho, que, juntos, somam cerca de 80% da produção, quase toda exportada, principalmente para a China e Europa, onde é utilizada basicamente na alimentação do gado. A maior parte da produção de grãos acontece nas grandes...

Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...

Video of an Integrated Diversified Organic Farming System (IDOFS). MariaS Farm is a learning center for diversified and organic farming systems.

É papel do Estado propor e executar medidas para gerir os recursos naturais, bens comuns e fundamentais para a qualidade de vida. A Constituição Federal de 1988 estabelece que “todos têm direito ao meio ambiente ecologicamente equilibrado, bem de uso comum do povo e essencial à sadia qualidade de vida, impondo-se...

Ireland is a single payment region on paper. However, the convergence process will not be completed by 2019 (the Department commitment is that no-one will have a payment rate below 60% of the 2019 national average by that time) and payment rates over the national average will only be reduced...

4 September 2015, Yaoundé - Cameroon and FAO today signed two agreements: one creating a $20 million, five-year Partnership Programme aimed at promoting agricultural development in the Central African nation, the other establishing an expanded Partnership and Liaison office here in the capital.

Equitable Inventory Credit in Niger and Burkina Faso explains, step by step, what equitable inventory credit - or warrantage - is and how to adopt the good practices exemplified by the use of this rural finance method in Niger and Burkina Faso. The video summarizes the innovations and practices related...

The challenges facing small holder farmers in Zimbabwe are multi-faceted; they include low smallholder agricultural productivity caused by, among other things, reliance on rain-fed systems, poor input/output markets, low soil fertility, lack of draught power, lack of smallholder oriented credit support systems and weak agricultural extension service delivery systems. The...

Para Heifer International, la discusión de la perspectiva de trabajar bajo el concepto de la Soberanía Alimentaria tomó cuerpo durante el proceso de preparación del plan estratégico del área para el período 2005 - 2010. Esta discusión se alimentó fuertemente de las experiencias acumuladas en las tres regiones del área: América...

AGRUCO, es un centro universitario de excelencia en investigación participativa revalorizadora, formación posgradual e interacción social con comunidades indígenas, originarias campesinas y municipios que pertenece a la Facultad de Ciencias Agrícolas, Pecuarias, Forestales y Veterinarias de la Universidad Mayor de San Simón. Contribuye al Desarrollo Endógeno Sustentable, a partir de...

En este video, lanzado en honor al día de las madres, el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos (Proalimentos) rinde un homenaje al esfuerzo de las mujeres agricultoras del Ecuador por brindar frutos de calidad a sus familias. En Ecuador, las madres agricultoras no solo alimentan su familia, sino que que...

El ProHuerta garantiza a las personas el aprendizaje y participación de todos, independientemente de sus condiciones sociales, personales o culturales, con una mirada sistémica donde las diferencias de la diversidad le dan el valor agregado.

In semi-arid cropping regions of West Africa, fallow periods are getting shorter. As land becomes more scarce, farmers are not able to give their soils enough time to rest. This is leading to depletion of soil organic matter, severely threatening soil fertility and damaging soil structure. In the worst cases,...

This compilation presents a number of videos that globally picture the way in which the Peasant to Peasant Agroecological Movement (PTPAM) works within the ANAP, which has been a key to success in the spread of agroecology in Cuba. Each of these videos has the objective of picturing some feature of...

En el actual contexto institucional el programa ProHuerta está integrado a los demás programas y proyectos implementados por el INTA y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social, para la creación de sinergias que fortalezcan la intervención institucional en el desarrollo de los territorios, con capacidades e innovaciones tecnológicas de excelencia, reconocido...

Agroecology – as a scientific discipline and as an approach to sustainable farming practice – has objectives similar to those of organic agriculture. The paper sharpens the profile of both concepts and identifies strengths and weaknesses. The overarching challenge of both is to minimize trade-offs between food and fiber production...

Pesticidal plants, also referred to as botanical pesticides, have been used for centuries for pest management. Evidence of their use in agriculture dates back to Greek, Roman and Egyptian empires. They were the main method of crop pest management in modern times until the development of synthetic pesticides in the...

Les exploitations familiales des pays du Sud, au foncier cultivable souvent limité, doivent pouvoir entretenir la fertilité de leurs terres si elles veulent améliorer leur productivité. L’agriculture de conservation et le semis direct sans travail du sol constituent des pratiques pouvant répondre à cet enjeu. Mais on constate qu’elles sont...

Esta noticia informa que el Instituto de Provisión de Alimentos, Proalimentos, realizó la firma de contrato con ciento once pequeños productores de orito y naranja por un monto de 264.743 dólares. El orito será consumido por 41.184 niñas y niños de educación general básica, mientras que la mandarina será consumida por 47.570.  A...