A newly established network of women fish processors and traders promises to improve the prospects of women in Africa’s post-harvest sector. The vast fish resources of the African continent offer many benefits. Fishery and aquaculture products supply food, nutrition, income and livelihoods to hundreds of millions of people; they help earn...

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...

This paper sets out to clarify the factors in soil erosion and soil conservation. The Czech Republic struggles with soil conservation. Shifts in the rural economy, the loss of good-quality agricultural soil to urbanisation, and sub-optimal land management leading to erosion are at issue. Here, we apply quantitative and qualitative...

The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait of the ESA Small Family Farms Team is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers, bringing out the characteristics of family farms across the world. It is designed in such a way that differences between countries and regions can be...

EU Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development Phil Hogan stated that his top priority in the ongoing EU budget negotiation is "protecting the small and medium sized farmer who remains the backbone of Europe's food production and rural communities".

A desigualdade de gênero se revela nas questões de educação, renda eacesso a Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. No Brasil, o Programa Nacional MulheresMil tem como objetivo intensificar o processo de desenvolvimento regional einstitucional, pela melhoria do acesso de mulheres em situação de vulnerabilidade socialà educação e ao mundo do trabalho....

Info-poster on the activities and results of Action Against Desertification. Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in support of the Great Green Wall initiative and UNCCD national action programmes to combat desertification, implemented by FAO and partners with funding of...

Este documento presenta una versión resumida y gráfica del documento técnico que acompaña a la Re- solución 464 de 2017 del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo rural, por medio de la cual se adoptan los Lineamientos Estratégicos de Política Pública para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria.Por tratarse de un...

Farm holidays, or agritourism for short, have been experiencing a significant increase in overnight stays for years. At the same time, it is more and more developing into a high-quality holiday offer. The striving for ever more demanding customers is to be seen quite sceptically. All too touristic structures endanger...

France has promised to phase out glyphosate at a quicker rate than the EU. However, successive “Ecophyto plans” have not produced any results and meanwhile, the use of phytosanitary products continues to grow.

The new Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum, estimates that, especially when it comes to women’s workplace equality, it will be another 217 years before we achieve gender parity. The report ranks a total of 144 countries by economic opportunities, education, political participation and health. The...

Animal excrements, especially those of pigs, are produced in large volumes in Southeast Asia . Where these wastes are not properly treated, negative impacts on natural environment and health of local inhabitants are a consequence. Manure is generated in large volumes in the entire Southeast Asia. When properly treated, the volume...

News and meeting about he Common Agricultural Policy post 2020.

Cet article présente et décrit le contenu d’une base de données construite à partir d’une enquête menée dans le gouvernorat de Sidi-Bouzid, situé dans le centre de la Tunisie. Sur ce territoire en transition, le secteur agricole, qui tient une place prédominante dans l’activité économique, est caractérisé par la diversité...

Twenty-five years after the introduction of the quota system, significant challenges confront women in Norway’s fisheries. Norway is considered to be one of the largest fishery nations in Europe. Despite this, there are few professional women fishers in the country. According to statistical data released in 2017 by the Norwegian Directorate...

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy and contributes over 45 percent of government revenue. The agricultural sector is the largest employer, representing 60 percent of total employment. Overall, approximately 80 percent of rural women are employed in agriculture. However, the percentage of agricultural land held by women remains...

This report monitors progress towards the targets of ending both hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2), and provides an analysis of the underlying causes and drivers of observed trends. While the prevalence of undernourishment is at the forefront of monitoring hunger, the prevalence of...

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) was launched in June 2015 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FFKP gathers digitised quality information on family farming from all over the world, including national laws and regulations, public policies, best practices, relevant data and statistics, researches,...

As the fifth in a series of annual, theme-oriented reports, the 2018 edition of the United Nations World Development Report (WWDR) focuses on opportunities to harness the natural processes that regulate various elements of the water cycle, which have become collectively known as nature-based solutions (NBS) for water. This is...

Meeting for the second time, Kyrgyz stakeholders gathered this week in Bishkek to advance the country’s national criteria and indicator set for sustainable forest monitoring. The exercise, carried out under a joint project of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and FAO, is especially important today; Kyrgyzstan is currently...