The ACIAR project ‘Strategies Using Floriculture to Improve Livelihoods in Indigenous Australian and Pacific Island Communities’ utilised value chain analyses as a unifying framework in and across participating countries. The overall aim of this multifaceted project was to identify constraints and opportunities for indigenous enterprise development through floriculture. The potentially...

Ahead of Indigenous Terra Madre Asia and Pan-Pacific, running from October 11-14th 2019 in Hokkaido, Japan, we spoke to indigenous delegate Imanul Huda, member of the Kapuas Hulu Slow Food Community in Indonesia. In our interview, Imanul discusses his involvement with Slow Food and his work to protect natural resources and sustainable food sources...

Researchers at the AgroecologyNow initiative at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) and Cultivate! partnered to produce this new publication. The guide highlights the challenges and emerging opportunities that might arise when designing mapping processes. It aims to support mapping efforts to be powerful tools for food system change. The guide recommends thinking...

Producing more food with less water is a straightforward objective that could be realized through using better production practices. The challenge is in achieving an overall optimum in using the little water available. Clarification of the WP concept in its different dimensions - economic, social and environmental – has become...

Esta pesquisa faz parte de um conjunto de ações voltadas para fortalecer a rede de pesquisa e transferência de tecnologia para agricultura familiar de forma a ampliar a disponibilidade de informações sobre pesquisa agropecuária às comunidades amazônicas. São reflexões teóricas e experiências de pesquisa e de trtansferência tecnológica apresentadas e...

Aníbal Chiramberro comenzó como trabajador rural y se fue formando en la cría de ovinos. Luego de varios años de actividad logró hacer realidad su sueño de tener un campo propio y montar su propia Cabaña. Gracias a políticas específicas para productores pequeños, logró ir creciendo y consolidándose en el...

El presente trabajo busca analizar las políticas de inclusión de la agricultura familiar (AF) en el marco de las estrategias de desarrollo territorial implementadas en Argentina en el período 2003-2015. El mismo parte de una perspectiva interdisciplinaria, con aportes provenientes de la sociología, la ciencia política, la antropología y la...

We are now approaching 2020, which means that one third of the time set to reach the Sustainable Development Goals has passed. What we have seen is a growing commitment across the world to the Zero Hunger agenda. Countries are advancing in setting up platforms that will be able to...

Cada vez mais, a agricultura familiar cresce de importância no Brasil. Por um lado, ajuda a fixar as famílias de pequenos agricultores no campo. Por outro, possibilita abastecer as grandes metrópoles com produtos de qualidade, custos mais baixos e preços mais acessíveis.

La publicación tiene como objetivo analizar la participación de mujeres campesinas e indígenas como proveedoras de los Programas y Experiencias piloto de Compras Públicas a la agricultura familiar, identificando los factores que favorecen o dificultan esa participación y proporcionando indicaciones y recomendaciones para que este tipo de iniciativas puedan favorecer...

La presente guía tiene como objetivo apoyar modelos de negocio que integran a pequeños productores dentro de cadenas de valor con base en el principio que deben existir beneficios mutuos tanto para los productores como para los compradores, y apoyar a practicantes del sector público y privado y a tomadores...

With increasing concerns on the sustainability of agricultural systems, many tools have been developed to assess farm sustainability. The main objective of this study was to assess and compare the sustainability of different forms of family farm organization. A second objective was to test the relevance of the IDEA method...

Como en la edición anterior Cómo combatir los mecanismos de inercia frente al cambio, este artículo también se propone como un aporte a las personas que están en la tarea de implementar cambios (especialmente organizacionales) para ayudar a pensar y accionar estrategias que hagan efectiva y consensuada la modificación. Este texto...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) es una organización ambiental global dedicada a la conservación de las tierras y aguas de las cuales depende la vida. Guiados por la ciencia, creamos soluciones innovadoras y prácticas a los desafíos más urgentes de nuestro mundo para que la naturaleza y las personas puedan prosperar...

When you get sick, your first thought might be to get antibiotics from your doctor. However, what you may not realise is that this seemingly small decision can have huge consequences on the health of both your specific community and society as a whole. The misuse and overuse of antimicrobials,...

This training module offers a basic introduction to the necessary steps, the best strategies and the available experiences in starting a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) partnership. This training module is addressed to potential and current CSA members, but also to anyone interested in the food sovereignty movement and in the...

Around 43 percent of the NENA region’s population live in rural areas, which in turn are highly affected by the poverty that results from exclusion from the region’s economic growth; 70 percent of the region’s poor currently live in rural areas and are largely dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods....

The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today approved an FAO project designed to transform Pakistan’s Indus River Basin by improving agriculture and water management to make this vital food-producing region more resilient to climate change. The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has provided FAO with a grant of nearly $35...

Among the topics of this edition: Non-chemical alternatives for combatting weeds; Ensuring secure food and nutrition supply;  IoF2020 webinars on IoT and many other interesting topics!

The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture worldwide. Biodiversity for food and agriculture is the diversity of plants, animals and micro-organisms at genetic, species and ecosystem levels, present in and around crop, livestock, forest and aquatic...