The rationale of the study of NWFPs is to improve the livelihoods of local rural communities living within forests. The aim of the study concerns the promotion of small and medium enterprises exploiting the state’s forest products in order to contribute towards creating employment in disadvantaged forest governorates. The selection...

A cartilha técnica sobre agroecologia apresenta o que é o sistema, traz informações e conceitos da atividade e ensina o passo a passo das práticas, além de orientar o agricultor sobre como ter acesso a essa política pública. O agricultor vai aprender a como produzir biofertilizante natural e adubos orgânicos,...

This report triangulates qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary data to analyze Lebanon’s main NWFPs value chains: pine nuts – Pinus pinea -, honey, Syrian oregano and sage – Origanum syriacum and Salvia fruticosa -, and laurel - Laurus nobilis. For each value chain, the report proposes recommendations for the...

O galo vai cantar hoje no mínimo três vezes para acordar você, Maria! Você que é trabalhadora rural e que não pode deixar de participar do concurso "Vozes, Imagens e Histórias e Experiências das Mulheres Rurais". O prazo final de inscrição é hoje (15). Para quem não sabe, o concurso é...

Una discusión conceptual será desarrollada, la cual se basará en la evidencia y recomendaciones de intervención de los servicios de ATER en los países. A partir de esta discusión, se realizarán recomendaciones, que permitan transitar hacia una mirada más integral y holística de los servicios rurales, donde los sistemas de...

La calidad de nuestra alimentación y nuestra soberanía alimentaria dependen de las decisiones que tomamos todos los días. En la CONABIO colaboramos con muchas instituciones para conocer la diversidad de plantas domesticadas, sus parientes silvestres, los procesos que les han dado origen a través de la selección continua que hacen los...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zimbabwe from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...

The FAO Director-General argued that the world's rural areas will be the key battleground in the push to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda, since it is there that poverty and hunger are most concentrated.At the same time, most of the increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world...

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.  The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...

Bimestriel d'informations du monde rural et de l'environnement en République Démocratique du Congo

Ao conceder o Selo de Identificação da Participação da Agricultura Familiar (SIPAF) de número 1.800, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) fez, nesta semana, o balanço dos últimos números do programa. A boa notícia é que já são mais de 145 mil agricultores familiares beneficiados...

El nuevo estudio publicado por la cooperación internacional entre FAO y Brasil presenta un mapeo de los roles de las mujeres algodoneras en cinco países (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Paraguay y Perú), identificando las áreas de empoderamiento y desapoderamiento que, en mayor y menor medida, afectan su participación en este importante...

Despite growing consensus on the socio-economic benefits emanating from enhanced land tenure security, issues related to how best to measure it and what constitute universal indicators of tenure (in)security are poorly understood. As a result, issues of what drives tenure security are poorly understood and inconclusive. This study, thus, examines...

This study investigated correlation and regression analyses designed to asses the respective relationships between the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale/ Prevalence (HFIAS/ HFIAP) as a measure of food access, the Household Dietary Diversity Score, the Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) as a measure of food stability and (i)...

La investigación y su sistematización en este documento fue posible gracias al fnanciamiento proveniente de la Unión Europea a través de los proyectos “Fortalecimiento a organizaciones andinas para la incidencia en política pública sobre seguridad alimentaria en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú” y “Democratización, derechos y diálogo intercultural para la inclusión...

The shouts can be heard from a distance as one approaches Domboshawa, 30 kilometres northeast of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare. Tokupai madomasi! Tokupai mbambaira! Do you want tomatoes or sweet potatoes? Mune marii? How much do you have? Scores of women and children carrying bundles of vegetables, sacks of sweet...

La temática de esta edición es la construcción social de mercados y su relación con la agricultura familiar. ENTREVISTA: Sergio Schneider. Mercados y agricultura familiar OBSERVATORIO: Indicadores de sostenibilidad para emprendimientos de agricultura familiar DIÁLOGOS: Mesa Técnica de Agricultura Familiar y Economía Campesina de Colombia POLÍTICAS: Primer trimestre de 2017 EN ACCIÓN: Colombia: Implementando estrategias...