In the early 2000s, dairy cattle farmers in the valley of Wipptal in northern Italy found their herds were producing an excess of slurries. Furthermore, due to reasons such as conflicts with tourism (odour problems) and the fact that 40% of the meadows in the area are steep sloping, limited...

Regional Conferences are an official forum where Ministers of Agriculture and other high officials from all Member States in the region meet to debate challenges related to food and agriculture, thus promoting regional coherence. The Regional Conference is held once every two years, in years when the global FAO Conference does...

The Near East and Nile Valley Regional Dialogue on the International Year of Pulses in Cairo, Egypt was hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in cooperation with The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). More than 20 experts met on...

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This case study is part of the work conducted by the Agroecological Learning Alliance in South East Asia (ALiSEA), in order to showcase outstanding agroecological initiatives at grass root level across the Mekong region (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam). ALiSEA is an innovative regional initiative supported by Gret, aiming at...

Cuando sembramos una misma especie en el mismo terreno, cada año caemos en lo que se conoce como monocultivo, el cual trae consecuencias poco favorables para nuestra producción, pues fomenta el incremento de malezas, plagas y enfermedades, que se hacen resistentes a métodos de control. Es por lo anterior que uno...

The Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), in cooperation with its partner Dutch agri-agency Agriterra, is supporting the roll out of FACT trainings by its member Viet Nam Farmer Union (VNFU) in 10 provinces through trainings of trainers and coaching missions for the trainers. The Farmers’ Advocacy Consultation Tool...

En el marco de la implementación del Plan de Seguridad Alimentaria, Nutrición y Erradicación del Hambre 2025 de la CELAC, FAO y ALADI han definido una serie de acciones orientadas al fortalecimiento del comercio intrarregional y la agricultura familiar, apuntando a aportar soluciones a los grandes desafíos de las pequeñas...

The Regional Initiative works with governments in the region to facilitate access of producers to different assets (such as land, water, energy, and infrastructure) and rural financial services (loans, savings, insurances) as well as non-financial services (technical assistance, innovation and knowledge). One key aspect of its work is to strengthen...

  This paper investigates how household agricultural involvement affects food consumption and dietary diversity in rural Malawi. Ceteris paribus, a 10 per cent increase in on-farm income share increases food consumption per capita by 2.9 per cent, calorie intake per capita per day by 1.7 per cent, and leads to small...

n order to market their agricultural produce abroad, countries must comply with stringent safety standards. Phytosanitary controls, as they are called, check for the presence of plant diseases and pests and are mandated by the World Trade Organization.

This video tells the inspirational story of an entrepreneurial farmer and successful family farm in Brazil.

Individual Transferrable Quotas (ITQs) have caused no end of controversy in the small-scale and coastal fisheries (SSCF) sector worldwide. The most recent reform of the CFP stirred up such controversy but rejected the imposition of obligatory Transferable Fishing Concessions (TFCs) – ITQs by another name. However, TFCs remain an integral part...

Tras cinco décadas de guerra, Colombia está comenzando a transitar una nueva realidad luego de cuatro años de negociaciones entre el gobierno de Juan Manuel Santos y las FARC, en La Habana. El motor de la guerra fue la lucha por la tierra. Este artículo fue publicado en el Portal Rebelión,...

En toda América Central y la Región de Los Andes, una gran proporción de agricultores producen café y cacao para mantener a sus familias. Sin embargo, los árboles viejos y improductivos, plagas y enfermedades, patrones climáticos erráticos, junto con sistemas de mercado ineficientes y modelos de comercialización de bajo valor,...

This side event is a contribution to the recommendations made by the 32st Session of the Regional Conference for the Near East to provide support for the Regional Initiative on "Building resilience for improved food security and nutrition in the Near East and North Africa" as a vehicle through which,...

El CIMMYT se presenta en la Conferencia Agrícola de Oxford para exponer estrategias de intensificación sustentable en la agricultura mundial.

Weaver ants help to protect your fruit and nuts from fruit flies and many other pests. If you don’t have weaver ants in your orchard yet, collect all the nests from an ant colony and transfer them to one of your fruit trees. Help the ants to spread to more...

National rural networks (NRNs), group administrations and organisations active in rural development. NRNs were introduced for the first time in the EU rural development policy of 2007-2013 and have been carried over into the 2014-2020 programming period. NRNs can either operate as a specific intervention within a single Rural Development...

In Kenya, small-scale farmers stabilise river banks and reduce rainwater runoff from nearby plots by planting trees and grasses.e