Despite strong per capita income growth, the structure of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies has not changed markedly in recent decades. In spite of a rapidly growing labour force and urbanizing populations, employment growth in rural areas in general and in non-farm sectors in particular has been slow, and poverty levels in...

Descripción y análisis de dos hechos que para el autor, resultan muy relevantes para el agro en Colombia: el Paro Nacional Agrario, Campesino, Étnico y Popular que se realizó entre el 30 de mayo y el 12 de junio de 2016 y la firma del acuerdo sobre cese al fuego...

The "La Aurora" farm is located 400 km southeast of Buenos Aires, within an area dedicated to mixed agricultural and livestock production. The combined effect of an increased use of agro-chemicals and the area under monocrops was the endangerment or the region's natural resources. From 1997, La Aurora started to use...

Artisanal or small-scale fisheries (see definition in Box 9) represent an important share of the fisheries sector in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and the considerable role that they play in the region has long been recognized. Small-scale fisheries have the potential to make a significant contribution to food...

La FAO y la SECAC organizaron los días 28 y 29 de junio las “Jornadas mesoamericanas de Agricultura Familiar: Instrumentos para la planificación de políticas públicas diferenciadas”, como un espacio de intercambio de experiencias entre los países involucrados en “Mesoamérica sin Hambre”, que a su vez permitiese conocer la experiencia...

We use qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use in Ethiopia. We find a four-fold increase in the value of herbicides imported into Ethiopia over the last decade, primarily by the private-sector. Adoption of herbicides by...

Burkina Faso ranks as the sixth poorest country in the world according to the 2015 UN Human Development Report. Recent studies estimate that 46.4% of the population in the Eastern Region lives below the poverty line. These people are caught in a vicious cycle of degrading natural resources, declining soil...

The National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods is part of the project GCP/SEC/008/TUR, which contributes to the Regional Initiative 1 for the REU Region and to the SO3 by improving knowledge for evidence-based policies. The purpose of the National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods for Tajikistan...

Horizon 2020 Thematic Network - Smart AKIS ‘European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research in Smart Farming Technology.’ Smart-AKIS is a Horizon 2020 thematic network which aims to increase the adoption of Smart Farming Technologies by the European farming community. It strives to bridge the gap between the field...

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.

In Lebanon, the agricultural sector suffers from both internal and external problems that opposed its development. Relatively high production costs, unregulated use of chemicals and the absence of extension services can be considered the most important in addition to groundwater pollution, high-level migration towards cities, lack of economic policy for...

De acuerdo al Programa de Gobierno y los Lineamientos Estratégicos Institucionales 2014-2018, a nivel nacional se trabajó el área de Medio Ambiente, en donde la Región de Antofagasta ha sido la primera en recoger el guante, desarrollando así un Seminario de Agroecología, impulsando un nuevo camino en la mirada agroambiental....

La abeja africana Apis mellífera scutellata (o A.m.adansonii, según otros autores) continúa su avance migratorio por el continente americano. Por el comportamiento que estas abejas han mostrado, se considera que al dispersarse paulatinamente en el continente americano, ocasionarán un gran impacto; principalmente porque originarán una reducción en la producción de...

The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) presents a short animated awareness video to explain how agricultural risk management (ARM) can significantly contribute to improving the resilience of vulnerable rural households by increasing their capacity to absorb and adapt to risks. Discover how three farmers from Uganda have found ways...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Soil  Partnership (GSP) have jointly released ‘Boosting Africa’s soils: From the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizers to a sustainable soil management framework for food and nutrition security in Africa by 2030’, a booklet published on the occasion of the 29th Session of...

Adapting to climate change and reducing the risk of disaster are topics of intense interest for anyone involved in agriculture in Serbia. In cooperation with the European Union, Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection and local self-governments, FAO ran two training workshops on these issues earlier this month. Participants in...

Multifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy. In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network...

The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut announces a digital contest to collect stories related to food security through this hashtag: #AUBFoodSecurity on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The aim of the project “Precision Agriculture and the Future of Farming in Europe” is to identify implications for legislative pathways for precision agriculture in Europe by mapping areas of concern around future developments.

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...