It is estimated that about half of the world’s obsolete pesticides can be found in the former Soviet Union, with many of them stored throughout Central Asia. As an important centre for agriculture, particularly cotton production, the subregion was a heavy user of pesticides. What remain are inappropriate burial sites,...

Current food systems are at a crossroads. There is a strong need for transforming food production and consumption patterns in a sustainable way. One where farmers adapt and build resilience to the increasing challenges from climate change and where nutritious food is available for all. Agroecology provides one solution towards...

This edition of the EU Rural Review tells the story of networking and how it has evolved as a rural development policy tool. The emphasis is on the lessons learned over the past decade of ENRD activity and from the mainstreaming of the networking concept across a range of policy...

Organic agriculture is a holistic production management system that promotes and enhances agro-ecosystem health, including biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity. It emphasizes the use of management practices in preference to the use of off-farm inputs, taking into account that regional conditions require locally adapted systems. This is accomplished by using agronomic, biological, and...

É possível que tenhamos que dizer adeus a algumas das nossas comidas e bebidas preferidas por culpa das mudanças climáticas. Com as transformações nos padrões de temperatura da Terra e a ocorrência cada vez mais frequente de eventos climáticos extremos (ondas de muito frio, calor, tufões e furacões), plantações podem...

It takes many years to develop new varieties of apples and pears and even longer before the newly planted trees start producing marketable volumes of fruit. For this reason, fruit growers are very interested in assessing whether there are new varieties which could help them respond to market demands. The...

Na Amazônia, a expansão de sistemas de produção sustentáveis é fundamental na estratégia de preservação da floresta. Baseada em produtos tradicionais da sociobiodiversidade e da agroecologia, contribui para reduzir o desmatamento. São mais de 400 mil famílias vivendo da floresta e produzindo alimentos, cosméticos, artesanato e outros produtos e serviços...

As lutas pelas terras e territórios indígenas ocorrem diariamente, numa longa história de resistências, violências e transformações. Há vitórias, como a retomada de terras e a integridade dos povos que não se deixam submeter, garantindo seus direitos fundamentais anteriores ao Estado. Entrevistamos duas mulheres líderes de povos indígenas do Brasil: Gliceria,...

La tropilaelapsose affecte les larves et les pupes des abeilles. Elle est causée par des acariens du genre Tropilaelaps. Les parasites se nourrissent de larves et de pupes d'abeilles et provoquent des malformations, la mort et, en conséquence, l’essaimage ou le déclin des colonies. Les acariens tropilaelaps sont des parasites naturels communs...

Autrefois maintenues à distance des politiques publiques, les entreprises multinationales sont aujourd’hui couramment considérées comme des partenaires clefs pour la conception et la mise en œuvre de politiques, aussi bien par les dirigeants africains que par les donateurs. Comment s’est opéré ce changement de paradigme ? A quel point le «...

The farm crisis is real, as is the climate crisis. Left unchecked, the climate crisis will dramatically deepen the income crisis on Canada’s farms as farmers struggle to deal with continued warming, more intense storms, and increasingly unpredictable weather. It is clear that climate change represents a major challenge to...

No es ninguna novedad que seamos las mujeres quienes experimentamos en nuestros cuerpos, en nuestros hijos e hijas, en nuestros territorios, en nuestros quehaceres cotidianos los efectos del cambio climático con una severidad desproporcionada. ¿Por qué? Por el solo hecho de ser mujeres, porque precisamente nuestros derechos básicos continúan siendo...

In 2014 five herb producers joined forces in the organic herb farm ‘Under the Sun’, making them the biggest Portuguese exporter of aromatic and medicinal plants. To save energy costs for herb drying, Gonçalo Costa Martins, one of the farmers, cooperated with a local engineer. Together they created an innovative...

Fishers from the Amazon region gathered to exchange ideas about common challenges and opportunities to sustain and develop indigenous fisheries in the light of the SSF Guidelines

Las vainillas son un grupo de orquídeas trepadoras que incluye alrededor de 110 especies, de las cuales nueve viven en nuestro país. Desde hace cientos de años, el xanath o vainilla ha sido cultivada por los totonacas en el norte de Veracruz y Puebla como fuente de un extracto utilizado...

Empreender com produtos da biodiversidade da floresta amazônica foi o desafio escolhido por Hortência Osaqui, 53 anos. Filha de pai japonês com mãe paraense, Hortência viveu grande parte de sua vida na zona rural, nos arredores de Augusto Corrêa, município situado no nordeste do Pará, na área da Amazônia Atlântica. A...

The ENRD newsletter provides all the latest rural development news from Europe straight to your inbox once a month. From policy updates to ENRD meetings and from project outcomes to online videos, this new and updated tool aims to provide something for everybody interested in rural development policy in Europe....

As part of its food security and livelihood programs, Action Against Hunger (ACF-USA) has organized seed fairs in rural areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to provide farmers with seeds. The fairs have been widely spread and had a great number of direct beneficiaries and vendors, successfully...

Es originaria del centro de México y como otras plantas de su familia posee muchas florecitas pequeñas que dan la impresión de ser una sola. Los mexicas en cada solsticio de invierno la desojaban y construían el camino espiritual para que las almas de sus añorados difuntos fueran guiadas por...

Our food production system is at the breaking point. Conventional farming yields large amounts of products for our use, but it uses resources faster than they can recover. If we continue this way, at some point we will have to face the moment when our lands will fail to produce...