April 17th, marks the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle. Organised by La Via Campesina, it is an annual event to remember the 1996 deaths of 19 members of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) struggling for agrarian reform in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil. This was part of a brutal crackdown by the Brazilian...

Stronger, more efficient promotion of agrifood products and new methodologies and indicators in agriculture and rural statistics are among the positive changes expected during the implementation of two new FAO projects in Republic of Moldova. The project agreements were signed in Chisinau today by Raimund Jehle, the FAO Representative in Republic...

The UN Biodiversity Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, showed that sustainable development of fishing communities and participatory conservation of marine biodiversity are compatible 

Desde mediados del siglo XX la expansión del capitalismo, la globalización y las políticas de liberalización de la economía transformaron la sociedad rural en América Latina. Hacia finales del siglo, las políticas de ajuste estructural modificaron fuertemente la estructura social y productiva del sector agrícola. Los procesos de concentración de...

Mihai is an organic beekeeper with about 190 bee families.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) continues to protect the lives and livelihoods of conflict-affected people. Households from 52 settlements along the “contact line” will be provided with day-old chickens and animal feed. The help, valued at USD 1 million, comes as part of United Nations...

Ieva Stragytė is an organic farmer from Lithuania

With more than 40 percent of the workforce working in agriculture and almost half of the population living in rural areas, Albania’s agriculture is the backbone of the country’s economic development. The sector will play a key role in the integration of Albania into the European Union and in achieving...

The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites  which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme  and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries. 

O Decreto -Lei n.º 64/2018, de 7 de agosto, consagrou o Estatuto da Agricultura Familiar, distinguindo as especificidades desta nas suas diversas dimensões, reconhecendo e valorizando a adoção de medidas de apoio específicas, a aplicar preferencialmente ao nível local para atender à diversidade de estruturas e de realidades agrárias, bem...

Gender relations shape food systems. They significantly influence how and what we produce, work and eat. Gender oppression has often had a negative effect on women and gender non-conforming people1 across all stages of food systems, irrespective of their contributions.From growing and harvesting produce, to processing, transporting, and consuming food,...

Este documento pretende reposicionar lo rural en las agendas de desarrollo nacional y regional en base a evidencia que ilustre el importante papel que los entornos rurales juegan en lo económico, lo ambiental y lo social. En América Latina y el Caribe las tres dimensiones del desarrollo sostenible —que suponen...

FAO contributions to this UN Thematic Working Group report are chapter 4, "Working Conditions for Migrants in Thailand's Agricultural Sector" and chapter 5, "Working Conditions for Migrants and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Thailand’s Fisheries Sector."

In recent years, Armenia has gone through severe structural changes that have affected the forest sector. Forests, which were formerly under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, are now the responsibility of the Ministry of Nature Protection, together with areas dedicated to nature conservation. These changes allow for a harmonized...

Too much drought can slow down growth and cause young fruits to fall. Water your okra regularly to avoid slowing down its growth. Get rid of weeds. Nourish okra crops by periodically applying a little compost, well-rotted manure or litter around the base of each okra plant.

The FAO has raised the alarm over the state of biodiversity, which is necessary for global food security, in the first report it has published on the subject.  While it is repeatedly a casualty of agriculture and our nutrition, biodiversity is needed for both of these. In a report published on 22 February...

This book represents the proceedings of the International Symposium on Agricultural Innovation for Family Farmers: Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, which took place at FAO headquarters, 21-23 November 2018. FAO convened the symposium to provide inspiration for innovation actors and decision‑makers to unlock...

The Rapid Livestock Market Assessment guide seeks to facilitate livestock market assessments in order to support those operating in the livestock sector, such as multilateral financial institutions, international development organizations, governments, research organizations, NGOs, community-based organizations, service providers and input suppliers. The guide provides project design teams with basic skills and...

Una consecuencia visible del fuerte proceso de globalización desarrollado durante los últimos 20 años es la creciente interdependencia económica, social y política entre casi todos los países del mundo. La intensificación de la vinculación comercial se expresa a través del crecimiento del intercambio de bienes y servicios que, a pesar...

Agriculture is a leading cause of climate change, but it is also undeniably affected by it. Farming must therefore change in order to keep up with global demands, while reducing its environmental impact. Without these necessary changes, it’s estimated that by 2030, the impacts of climate change will be even worse, causing...