There is self-evidently a place and a need for both small and larger scale fishing fleets, but this requires first of all establishing a level playing field that ensures fair access to resources, to markets, to sector support, and to decision taking processes for all fleet segments.

La gestión estatal del desarrollo rural y la agricultura familiar forma parte de la agenda pública de principios del siglo XXI. Los modos de intervenir en dichas problemáticas se traducen en acciones continuas desde la creación de la Reunión Especializada de la Agricultura Familiar (REAF) del Mercosur y los Foros...

Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...

School teachers and managers, community leaders and local stakeholders came together in Cabo Verde in the last weeks of December to celebrate the International Year of Pulses (IYP) with several awareness raising events. This awareness-raising campaign aimed at educating children and adolescents about the importance of healthy nutrition habits, including the...

This report is a result of research conducted in partnership with Tshintsha Amakhaya, Farmer Support Group, TCOE Zingisa and Surplus People Project. The report investigates the state of farmer-managed seed systems in rural South Africa. Through 3 case studies in Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, the report highlights both...

Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is highly susceptible to climate change and natural hazards, particularly to flood and drought conditions which seriously affect the country’s agricultural production. Although gradually declining in terms of its contribution to GDP in recent years, agriculture continues to play a major role in Lao...

Agriculture is an important engine for economic growth in Africa, but effective agricultural strategies to support rural development and poverty alleviation are scarce. State investment in the small-scale farming sector is minimal and the entrepreneurial family farm sector remains underrepresented. Meanwhile, large-scale land investments are advocated as means to bring...

he Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC) met with FAO from April 5 to 8 in Rome headquarters with sixteen participants across seven world regions to discuss partnerships between FAO with Indigenous peoples worldwide. This is the first time the GIYC members have had the opportunity to meet with FAO representatives....

Le bulletin traite de la célébration de la journée mondiale de l'alimentation 2016 et de la journée internationale des légumineuses, de la protection sociale, du lancement du projet de réduction du travail des enfants dans l'agriculture, de l'évaluation du programme pays de la FAO, des clubs dimitra, de l'appui aux...

Forests have, historically, had a very important role in food security in upland areas of South and Southeast Asia – both as sources of wild food and as sites for grazing, planting food trees and bushes, and various types of shifting agriculture. However, since at least the early 20th century,...

This paper presents the targeting system adopted in Senegal to implement food purchases using procurement preferential treatment for small-scale family farming food outputs. The study provides a detailed description of the selection of farmers producing rice in the Kédougou region and discusses how it influenced the performance of food purchases...

Con base en las prioridades nacionales y regionales de los países, de las iniciativas regionales de la FAO, y de los acuerdos y diálogos internacionales en materia forestal, el mandato de la COFLAC es asesorar a la FAO sobre el programa forestal a ser desarrollado en la Región. Esto incluye...

Precaution is needed prior to promoting electric pulse fishing as a more sustainable alternative for traditional beam trawling.

The ocean is one of the main systems of our planetary biosphere. It accounts for almost half of the planet's biological production, but a much smaller proportion of human food – about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake. This is no longer tenable given the nutritional...

The farmland structure of the Misiones province (Argentina), unlike many other regions in the country, gravitates around numerous small farmsteads –typically less than 30 ha, which are the home of 60,000 families dedicated to forestry, agriculture, livestock raising, fisheries and beekeeping. In this context, the ‘Abundance’ cooperative was established in...

After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island in the Sundarbans in West Bengal have to struggle for survival, losing land and livelihood to floods and erosion. In Mousuni Island, salinity ingress has rendered agricultural land uncultivable for years. Tidal flooding that occurs twice a month makes it difficult for...

L’instabilité du régime pluviométrique affecte la production maraîchère dans la commune de Parakou située au Nord du Bénin. Cet article vise à analyser la variabilité pluviométrique et à identifier les stratégies d’adaptation développées par les producteurs maraîchers.

El arroz es un alimento básico en ALC donde el consumo per cápita es de 30 kg/año y la demanda supera la producción. Los rendimientos, costos y rentabilidad dependen de factores agroclimáticos y tecnológicos siendo esencial la innovación en el cultivo. El proyecto SICA, ejecutado por el IICA en República...

Agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável mobilizam mulheres rurais Viva Maria continua abraçando a campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. A embaixadora do norte, Maria Julia Serrim, fala sobre o trabalho com agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável como forma de conectar e empoderar as mulheres rurais. Se como Maria Julia Serrim você,...

Genetic modification of crops through natural evolution or artificial crossbreeding has been happening for millennia, giving rise to more productive or resilient crop species. Thus, the term ‘genetic engineering’ more accurately refers to the artificial introduction of genetic material to produce new GE varieties. Advocates of genetically engineered (GE) crops...