For decades, policymakers and development practitioners have debated benefits and threats of property rights formalization and private versus customary tenure systems. This paper provides insights into the challenges in understanding and empirically analyzing the relationship between tenure systems and agricultural investment, and formulates policy advice that can support land tenure...

Con el propósito de examinar, difundir, visibilizar y aprender de las buenas prácticas y experiencias de distintos grupos de base comunitaria en materia de gestión de territorio y gobernanza forestal, fue inaugurado el Taller Internacional sobre “Gestión del Territorio, Gobernanza Forestal y Vinculación con Mercado por Comunidades y Pequeños Productores”:...

Speaking at the pre-ICAE (International Conference of Agricultural Economists) event organized by the European Commission, the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), on 7 August, at the Expo Milano 2015, Dr. Mahmoud El Solh, Director General of ICARDA, presented innovative techniques for enhancing...

El reto de promover la agricultura familiar (AF) en el mundo no se encuentra solo en manos de los países en vías de desarrollo —que es en donde principalmente se realiza esta importante actividad—, sino también en los llamados países industrializados. Cada vez más, muchos de sus gobiernos están reconociendo...

Malgré les efforts de la recherche et les multiples interventions des États, la productivité des ressources en eau, terre et capital, reste souvent limitée, notamment en Tunisie. Cette étude présente un cadre d’analyse des performances des exploitations agricoles irriguées. Elle vise à étudier le niveau et les déterminants effectifs de...

The first farmers’ market (farmářský trh in Czech) in the Czech capital, Prague, was held in 2009 and since then demand for fresh locally-grown produce has continued to increase. Within two years, there were more than 13 farmers’ markets in the capital. Jana Spilkovà, an Assistant Professor of Social Geography...

Farming and food are “big business” in the EU – even though they involve players both large and small. On the one hand, agriculture itself is restructuring and slowly taking a lower share of total employment in the EU – as new knowledge and smart techniques make farm workers more...

Este documento sinteza las acciones realizadas durante el evento realizado en octubre de 2015 en Macharetí, Bolivia, mismo que convocó a los aliados del Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y el Territorio con el objetivo de establecer un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de experiencias en relación a los casos sistematizados, con especial énfasis sobre las...

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) believes that, by working together, the global community can sustainably defeat hunger and malnutrition. Collaborating with development practitioners, policymakers, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, IFPRI contributes to achieving this goal by providing needed evidence for country- and region-led policies that help ensure...

In India, rainfed agriculture accounts for over 40 percent of food production. With its high vulnerability to changing climate patterns and weather fluctuations, the increasing rate of climate change threatens India’s rainfed agricultural sector and the millions of people it supports.

Malnutrition should not be one of them. Countries that are determined to make rapid advances in malnutrition reduction can do so. If governments want to achieve the SDG target of ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030, they have clear pathways to follow. There are many levers to pull, and...

El video documental narra, con la voz de los actores comunitarios, la situación inequitativa de acceso al agua destinada al riego de cultivos tropicales de la zona baja de este importante río de la cuenca del Guayas. En este territorio están dos grandes ingenios, que aportan con cerca de las...

En reciente fecha, las organizaciones de cacao y banano de República Dominicana tuvieron la oportunidad de participar del primer taller de diseño y gestión de páginas web. Dicho taller, que fue impartido en la ciudad de Mao en la sede de la Coordinadora Nacional de Comercio Justo (COORDOM), contó con...

Organic products have derived from biodynamic idealism in small health food stores to a natural and ordinary shopping choice in supermarkets. This development did not come out of the blue. It is the result of cooperation between farsighted farmers, organisations and politicians that has turned Denmark into the world’s leading...

En Bolivia, la producción agropecuaria familiar indígena originaria ha disminuido y ha dado paso a que la agricultura comercial o “agroindustrias” crezca de manera desproporcionada, advirtieron expertos e ingenieros agrónomos. En el país, su relevancia en la producción agropecuaria es cada vez menor. Según datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)...

FAO is supporting family farmers, who have an often-undervalued role to play in ensuring global food security. The Swaziland Agricultural Development Project, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping over 20,000 smallholder farmers produce more, higher-quality food and connect with new markets.

There are many challenges faced by small scale family farmers. In this region, smallscale farmers have difficulty accessing markets, and when they do they lack competitiveness on the European markets. These farms are less resilient to floods and droughts, hence there is a need to strengthen the adaptive capacity of...

In the last few years Hungarians have become more interested in healthy eating, as fresh and seasonal food has become more fashionable thanks to the promotion of local farm products by civil society. This trend is demonstrated by the rising popularity of farmers’ markets and food festivals, which have become...

This report provides an overview of key economic developments in European agricultural holdings based on 2012 data, the latest available in the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). The FADN survey represents farms that account for the majority of EU agricultural production. After the sharp decline in farm income in 2009,...

Faced with falling meat and dairy prices, exacerbated by Russia’s embargo on EU products, which are affecting producers in many member states, the European Commission decided to authorise aid totalling €500 million, to help, among other things, with the private storage of cheese, powdered milk and pork.