El mundo está alimentado por la agricultura familiar. Sin embargo, las pequeñas parcelas de cultivo y las explotaciones familiares han estado denostadas durante todos estos años, en los que el irremediable proceso de desagrarización ha ido aparejado de un insistente eslogan del capitalismo: lo pequeño no es competitivo. Es ya...

How do small-scale farming communities deal with the challenges of migration and land abandonment stemming from falling local income? This project shows the value of linking small-scale producers for their mutual benefit. Advantages are obtained on behalf of all small-scale farmers by procuring one food-safety authorization for multiple producers, by...

A Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (CONAB) atualizou os preços de referência de 2017 para 27 produtos amparados pelo Programa de Garantia de Preços da Agricultura Familiar (PGPAF). Os novos valores, aprovados pelo Conselho Monetário Nacional (CMN), entram em vigor no dia 10 de janeiro de 2017 e valem até 18...

A 3-year research-for-development initiative in the Barotse floodplain, Zambia, supported by the CGIAR research programs Aquatic Agricultural Systems and Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, brought scientists and community members together to improve food and nutrition security all year round. Activities included assessing seasonal food availability, dietary intake patterns of the...

La empresa pública Unidad Nacional de Almacenamiento (UNA EP) inició la compra de maíz amarillo duro a pequeños y medianos productores de la provincia de Manabí. La absorción de la cosecha se cumplirá en los centros de acopio de los gremios agrícolas, debido a que la planta de silos fijos de...

With the help of the young farmer grant, the producer has installed a processing unit for the production of ice cream, enabling him to sell ice cream at local events. He has also made two rooms available for guests and runs a bike rental service.

Los estudios sobre alimentación se inclinan por temas sobre diversos problemas en términos de acceso y de calidad de los alimentos. Al nivel mundial las discusiones advierten sobre el proceso de industrialización de la alimentación y vinculan el tema de lo rural como un potencializador de las nuevas relaciones de...

Перепелка – самая миниатюрная и скороспелая сельскохозяйственная птица семейства фазановых отряда куриных. Простота содержания и кормления позволяет содержать их и в городе, и в деревне. Дает она до 300 яиц в год. А уникальность пищевых и диетических свойств позволяет практически всем употреблять яйца и мясо перепелок без ограничений.

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This publication provides guidance on using a common methodology for monitoring pollinator diversity and abundance, as part of the GEF supported Project “Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture, through an Ecosystem Approach” implemented in seven countries - Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa. The project...

Land and natural resources (primarily forests and water) play critical roles in economic and rural transformation. As populations and economies grow, the first natural response is to expand cultivation into former forests and rangelands and use the most readily available water sources in agriculture and the urban sectors. At that...

Over 100 international agriculture and food experts, including from 27 African countries gathered in Nairobi to discuss ways to boost agricultural mechanization for the benefit of smallholder farmers in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Farm mechanization has huge potential for increasing agricultural production and transforming rural families’ livelihoods by reducing...

This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.

Usar o sol para produzir energia é uma ótima opção para quem quer economizar na conta de luz e ajudar o meio ambiente. Com recursos do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), agricultores têm a oportunidade de financiar tecnologias para produção de energia renovável, como placas fotovoltaicas.  Para incrementar...

This video showcases FAO’s resilience works in Ethiopia’s Afar region in the last few years. 

In Africa street food vending and consumption have proliferated in the last three and a half decades, especially in urban areas. People who face barriers to the formal wage labor market find in street food vending a viable income option, as it requires little start-up capital and no formal education....

Cuando las Cortes Generales aprobaron la Ley 45/2007, para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Medio Rural, el objetivo fundamental era llenar un vacío legislativo y político que supliera la ausencia de una legislación y de una política rural propias, que se había cubierto parcialmente con reglamentos y políticas derivadas de la...

La Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) y el Programa Fidamercosur CLAEH convocan a una nueva edición del concurso Buenas Prácticas en Agricultura Familiar. Este concurso premiará y difundirá experiencias exitosas en sus contextos locales, que puedan constituirse en disparadoras de ideas y experiencias aplicables en otros contextos diversos. Los proyectos...

Brian O’Riordan, LIFE’s Deputy Director, explains to the readers of Inshore Ireland the consequences of the “tradition of exemptions” and the future steps needed for a correct management of the small-scale fleet in the long term.  

In this video, we will visit the rooftop brooders of the women in Fayoum – and we will learn from them the key steps for a successful household chick raising business.