The need for restoring forests is increasing in the Asia-Pacific region considering the extensive areas of degraded forests and lands. In this context, a new approach, called forest landscape restoration (FLR) is currently being promoted widely. FLR is an innovative approach that integrates forest restoration work with other activities across...

The demand for smallholder financing is staggering. Over 270 million smallholder farmers in the regions of Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia require over USD 200 billion in financing to grow their businesses and improve their livelihoods. We looked closely at what it would take to change that...

On 8-9 June, Shi Yan and Judith Hitchman, URGENCI’s vice-president and president, participated in the final negotiations of the policy text on Connecting Smallholders to Markets, on behalf of Urgenci, as part of the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) delegation. Other Civil society organizations were present as well (La Via Campesina,...

The plenary session of the event FOOD 2030 will take place on 13 October with the participation of high level officials, industry, entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, and civil society organisations.

Expanding economic development to rural areas is a top priority for Azerbaijan, as it works to diversify the national economy and reduce dependence on oil. One of the first impediments to be tackled is excessive land fragmentation and small farm sizes. A new project launched here today by FAO will help...

Partiendo de su evolución histórica, el estudio se centra en la situación actual del esquema más potente de integración acometido de América Latina: lo MERCOSUR, con sus precedentes más inmediatos, en un contexto influido por otras iniciativas de integración y de cooperación presentes en la región. Los Países parte pertenecen...

Achieving food security for all is at the heart of FAO's efforts – to make sure people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. FAO’s mandate is to raise levels of nutrition, improve agricultural productivity, better the lives of rural populations and contribute to the...

The film promotes Community Supported Agriculture, a model for sustainable development of small agriculture and collecting local food production.

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced an especially high population growth and rate of urbanization, with about half of the region’s population living in cities. Farming in the region faces constraints from changing demographics as well as lack of arable land, limited rainfall, high temperatures, and soil...

FAO’s water and income diversification projects have become instrumental to tackle the negative impacts of El Niño induced drought for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Afar Region of north eastern Ethiopia. FAO supports the Afar regional government’s effort to improve the livelihood of pastoral and semi-pastoral households through animal...

Ten Farmers from Liberia are currently in The Gambia for a 6-day exchange visit of smallholders and community-based forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) on multi-stakeholder policy platforms, on community forest management.

La production agricole de la province du Katanga est en baisse et ne permet pas de subvenir aux besoins alimentaires de sa population de 9,6 Millions d'habitants (2009) dont 70,2% vivent en milieu rural. Les besoins en maïs pour satisfaire la demande sont estimés à 860 633 tonnes (plan quinquennal...

Farm Mechanization and Conservation Agriculture: Illustrating the use of two wheel tractor in smallholder farming

With the intensification of the crisis, food insecurity and poverty have drastically increased across all of Syria. At the same time, the crisis continues to affect the national economic and social balance in countries neighbouring Syria. The massive influx of refugees is exerting unprecedented pressure on host countries and communities, which...

De poco vale poseer grandes conocimientos técnicos si no poseemos habilidades para relacionarnos con nuestros destinatarios. Las personas buscan agruparse para producir cambios que mejoren su calidad de vida. El rol del coordinador es ayudar a que cada uno encuentre la manera de hacerlo. Para eso hay que poner mucho empeño...

El evento tiene por objetivo general generar un espacio de discusión y acuerdos que contribuya al establecimiento, promoción y difusión de políticas y mecanismos institucionales para el fortalecimiento de los sistemas de innovación ligados a la agricultura familiar, bajo un marco de acción de desarrollo sostenible, tanto a nivel nacional...

The 33rd session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC) will convene in Putrajaya, Malaysia, from 7 to 11 March 2016, hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture & Agro-Based Industry, Malaysia. The conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges in the region and priority areas of...

Mechanization covers all levels of farming and processing technologies, from simple and basic hand tools to more sophisticated and motorized equipment. It eases and reduces hard labour, relieves labour shortages, improves productivity and timeliness of agricultural operations, improves the efficient use of resources, enhances market access and contributes to mitigating...

América Latina y el Caribe constituye un amplio muestrario de casos exitosos y lecciones aprendidas en tal sentido, y es que ha sabido introducir una visión integradora en su determinación por concebir a la agricultura familiar como un ente transformador y no como un sujeto de beneficencia. En los últimos años...

The co-creation of knowledge about agricultural biodiversity is an essential part of peasant strategies for survival and autonomy. Facing the threats of the industrial model of production and consumption, peasants and social movements are defending agroecology and their dynamic management of agricultural biodiversity. Together with others, they are building collective...