Despite many agricultural and socio-economic studies conducted in other parts of Indonesia, there is a scientific gap among researches focused on small scale farmers in North Sumatra. The article presented is based on the Sustainable livelihoods framework established in the 1990’s by the Department for International Development (DFID) with special...

The E-agriculture strategy guide is an attempt to provide countries with a framework to develop their national e-agriculture strategies. E-agriculture strategies will help to rationalize both financial and human resources, and address ICT opportunities for the agricultural sector in a more holistic and efficient manner. This will help improve the...

Released exclusively in Bangkok, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will launch its 2016 Asia-Pacific regional report on food insecurity entitled “Investing in a Zero Hunger Generation.” This substantive report, the first of its kind since the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examines the present state of...

A farmers' community in India learned, through the FAO Community Animal Health Workers training programme, how to rear poultry and face the poultry diseases problems.

Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time. Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues. A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional...

This practice describes golden roles for dairy production, including; feeding milk cows, calf rearing, breeding adult cows, heat stress management, animal health, producing quality milk, and housing dairy stock.

A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with...

Life of Nomadic pastoralists from Mongolia

An Indonesian smallholder farmer started his own rice-fish business after an FAO training programme on rice-fish farming.

FAO has been implementing Regional Initiatives as a mechanism to help deliver its work at country and regional levels since 2013. The Regional Initiatives emphasize impact through well focused activities that address the most important challenges in food and nutrition security at country and regional levels. Together with its country,...

Asia’s position in the global food market tilts heavily towards demand due to its huge population and limited agricultural resources. With only one-fifth of the world’s agricultural land, the region hosts more than half of the global population. Asia has achieved significant production improvements over the last 50 years but...

Food matters to Pacific Islanders. Throughout the region, family farming and fishing is a way of life, cultural meaning, and a source of enduring food security which has ensured the health and wealth of Pacific Island communities. However urbanization and the transition of the population out of subsistence production have...

Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is locally available.

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) awarded the Royal Order of Sahametrei to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Cambodia for outstanding services to the King and the people of Cambodia. The award, signed by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen, is given in recognition...

This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in a...

上海市松江区推出的“种粮+养猪”相结合的家庭农场模式，符合条件并有意愿的家庭农场主可申请代养松林肉猪，猪棚由松林公司按统一标准建造，虽然提高了农民的收入，但是猪棚的建造是否改变了耕地用途，如果是的话，需要加以取缔和制止，这根弦一定要绷紧。家庭农场，是近些年我国农业生产经营中出现的一种新型经营主体，它以农户家庭为基本生产单位，增加技术、资本等要素投入，实行农业专业化生产、规模化经营，提高农业产出率和农产品商品率，提高农业生产机械化和农业经营集约化水平。2013年中央一号文件提出，鼓励和支持承包土地向专业大户、家庭农场、农民合作社流转，成为近年来农业发展的亮点之一，一时间，更是成为媒体关注的热词之一。

The report of the proceedings of the New Delhi workshop on the SSF Guidelines (Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication). The workshop brought together 95 participants from 13 states representing civil society organizations. governments, FAO, and fishworker organizations from both...

In adopting its Multi-Year Programme of Work at its Eleventh Regular Session in 2007, FAO’s Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (the Commission) agreed to the preparation of a report on The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture (the Report). The Commission stressed that the...

Timor-Leste is a half Island country with a total population of 1.2 million people; it is geographically situated between Asia and the Pacific region. It is a tropical country and 80 per cent of its population live in rural areas. Agriculture, fishery and forestry are the main economical mainstays. In 2013,...

Odxel, Cacra, Nauxi, Bambolim and Siridao are small fishing villages running from north to south along the western coast of Tiswadi taluka (an administrative district for taxation purposes) of the Indian state of Goa. They lie on the banks of the Zuari river, which, at 92 km in length, is...