El cierre de la planta en la que trabajaba y luego un paso de cuatro años por otra empresa vitivinícola fueron los disparadores tras los cuales Carlos y su familia se decidieron a iniciar un emprendimiento en una finca en Las Paredes, Mendoza. Comenzaron plantando uvas y elaborando vinos de...

This paper analyzes the vertical relationship between growers and processors in the Algerian tomato processing industry. We use extensive data on production contract outcomes for processing tomato growers (including 3,740 coordinated contracts) to examine the performance of grower-processor vertical contracts. The results indicate that the tomato grower-processor vertical relationship undergoes...

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Este video es de Delia, quien talla calabazas de forma artesanal mediante una técnica artística peruana llamada burilado. Con el apoyo de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Delia ha logrado que sus hijos puedan estudiar y mantener viva...

Last March in New York the sixty-second Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) took place with a priority focus on ‘Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls’. The Commission recognized in its conclusions «the crucial contributions of rural women to local and...

A programme that helps rural women in Kyrgyzstan gain access to new economic opportunities has received significant financial support from the Swedish government. The USD 5 million contribution from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will help expand the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural...

Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased rainfall variability. Given these projections, there is a need to identify effective strategies to help rural communities adapt to climatic risks. Yet, relatively little research has examined...

ICARDA has been expanding conservation agriculture in Ninawa province in northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Conservation agriculture is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, while simultaneously preserving and enhancing the environment. Through a combination of reduced tillage, crop rotations, and stubble retention, conservation agriculture allows farmers...

This report presents the lessons learned from a project in four East African countries – Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda – focusing on youth and their agribusinesses. In Burundi and Rwanda, poultry and eggs were sold to retailers but were also provided to schools to alleviate malnutrition. In Kenya and...

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Este video es de María, quien enterraba sus ahorros en el patio de su casa hasta que un día le robaron. Entonces, decidió acudir a Financiera Confianza, la entidad de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, y deposita sus...

This document presents the work of the exchange workshop organized on December 14 and 15 2017 by the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (GTAE in french - created by the french NGOs AVSF, Agrisud, CARI and Gret) and dedicated to methods to evaluate the performance of agroecology and development conditions. The work of...

El Observatorio de Género “Mujeres y Territorios” busca develar las amplias desigualdades que enfrentan distintos grupos de mujeres de la población Latinoamericana. Estas desigualdades son la expresión de una exclusión social profunda, donde la intersección del género, la etnicidad, la edad y el territorio, profundizan la marginación de algunas mujeres...

La Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar (REAF), por intermedio de sus coordinadores nacionales, solicitó al Programa Fidamercosur CLAEH la cooperación técnica para desarrollar el presente informe. El trabajo consistió en relevar, con el apoyo de las instituciones de gobierno de cinco países (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Uruguay y Paraguay), la información sobre...

Los continuos cambios que se produjeron desde la década del 80' con el avance de la sojización en la pampa húmeda argentina, han condicionado la permanencia de ciertos sistemas de producción que compiten con este cultivo en especial por el recurso suelo. Este proceso de transformación social provocó importantes consecuencias...

Given the spread of different transboundary animal diseases (TADs) such as African Swine fever (ASF), Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) and Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), it is pertinent that FAO will provide assistance to countries in a way of practical knowledge on how to deal with animal...

Soil and water conservation technologies (SWCT) are important to farmers, to the research community, as well as to the policy makers, given that declining soil health, and increasing erosion and moisture stress have implications for agricultural livelihoods, national food security, and more generally for well-being within rural communities. Yet, despite...

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.  Este video es de Diana, un ejemplo de mujer fuerte que no le teme a las adversidades. Cuida de su familia gracias a su plantación de banano orgánico, que crece gracias al apoyo de la Fundación Microfinanzas...

LIFE members & Management team up with a number of organizations across Europe to stop the attempt to pave the way to a legal and widespread use of this harmful gear. 

This info sheet presents the key concepts related to Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), where they are found, why they are suitable for smallholder farmers and the benefits. This info sheet was prepared under the FAO Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP/RAS/3510) on “Small-Scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Development through Participatory Guarantee...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR), has launched the project “Support sustainable water management and irrigation modernization for newly reclaimed areas”. This project will set up and...

Dans cet article, la pluriactivité décrit une situation dans laquelle un agriculteur n’est pas entièrement investi (en termes de force de travail et/ou de capital) dans les activités agricoles. La pluriactivité est parfois appelée agriculture à temps partiel, ou travail hors ferme (Mishra et Goodwin, 1997). L’article est divisé en...