Based on the opportunity offered to Romania by the European Union by the funding Axis 4 - LEADER within the National Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 at the initiative of eight administrative units since the beginning of 2011, it was established in the County of Arad the Miniș-Măderat Vineyard Local Action...

South-eastern Transylvania is one of Europe’s most important natural and cultural landscapes, supporting many rare habitats and fauna and flora species including some of the most significant areas of wildflower-rich grasslands in Europe. This high nature value farmed landscape is the result of good husbandry over hundreds of years, and...

Traditional fisheries involving fishing households (as opposed to commercial companies), using relatively small amount of capital and energy, relatively small fishing vessels (if any), making short fishing trips, close to shore, mainly for local consumption. In practice, definition varies between countries, e.g. from gleaning or a one-man canoe in poor...

Este video muestra un informe sobre cómo se desarrolla la agroecología familiar orgánica en diferentes partes del Ecuador.

En Perú, una alianza entre estudiantes universitarios y comunidades indígenas amazónicas replantea el comercio justo desde la perspectiva de un negocio inclusivo en un nuevo modelo empresarial social. El objetivo de este nuevo modelo empresarial social es crear alternativas de producción sostenible que mejoren las condiciones de vida de las...

We study the dynamics of the supply response of smallholder grain producers to changes in crop prices and costs of production in Ethiopia. We develop an intertemporal acreage demand allocation model of a representative household under a rational expectations hypothesis. An estimable acreage demand equation is derived and estimated for...

23 years ago, Ioan Neagoș established a milk processing company called Carmo-Lact Prod SRL. Currently, in addition to the factory in which all the products are manufactured under “Monor” brand, he also has a cow farm which provides the raw material for the factory, and a vegetal  arm. He wants...

Este material recupera aspectos significativos de los procesos en cada país, destacando aquellos que los entrevistados (de los diferentes sectores de la sociedad que participaron de la experiencia) identificaron como el distintivo particular de la experiencia de pilotaje del lugar en el que les tocó desempeñarse y en base a...

El Centro de Investigación para la Agricultura Familiar fue creado el 26 de agosto de 2005 con el objetivo de generar, adaptar y validar tecnologías apropiadas para el desarrollo sostenible de la agricultura familiar, en función de los lineamientos establecidos por el Plan Estratégico Institucional. Incluye entre sus organismos a...

This report aims to identify the main constraints that limit smallholders in emerging countries from accessing markets. It does this first through a literature review of economic development theory and findings from past empirical studies. It then looks at different policy instruments currently used in five countries: Brazil, Chile, Indonesia,...

This publication contains the Statement of the Indigenous Peoples, local communities and family smallholders from the XIV World Forestry Congress held in Durban, South Africa, 7-11 September 2015

Este libro reúne un conjunto de estudios de caso y un análisis transversal de las políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar en once países latinoamericanos, complementados por un ensayo interpretativo acerca de las implicaciones para políticas públicas derivadas de los principales eventos internacionales del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar...

The European Union (EU), FAO and the Government of Zimbabwe launched a major programme to assist smallholder farmers boost productivity and engage in commercial agriculture through integrated farming approaches. The 4-year US$19 million programme is managed by FAO and focuses on smallholder irrigation and livestock production support activities. As part...

Conceptually, the benefits of irrigation are realized through improvements in agricultural productivity. At household level, the agricultural production increases could be followed by improvements in income generation and food consumption patterns. The goal of this research was to examine the relationship between irrigation, income generation and household consumption patterns for...

Este video presenta el modelo asociativo de comités distritales implementado en 4 distritos de Melgar para mejorar la comercialización de fibra de alpaca. 

Au Bénin, le stock de poissons des lacs et des zones humides s’est épuisé du fait de la surpêche et de la destruction des mangroves et des habitats naturels. Aujourd’hui, ces lacs ont été revalorisés et les pêcheurs et vendeurs de poissons trouvent d’autres moyens de gagner leur vie.

For farmers in Ukraine, securing affordable pre-harvest financing for producing their crops just got easier. Thanks to the efforts of Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO, a pilot project in the country's Poltava Oblast has issued the first “crop receipts”...

El ministro de Agricultura y Ganadería de Paraguay, Jorge Gattini, y su par israelí, Yair Shamir, firmaron una declaración conjunta de cooperación agrícola, que ayudará a los esfuerzos del Gobierno Nacional paraguayo a tecnificar los cultivos de los productores de la Agricultura Familiar.La Declaración Conjunta fue firmada durantela Exposiciónde Tecnología...

Vincenzo Sposato, the owner of the “Le conche” farm, took over the family business in 2009. The investment made with the support of EAFRD resulted in improvement of agricultural productivity, diversification by focusing on breeding and reproducing pigs and developing new distribution channels for the products; All this led to...

This paper tries to respond the question of how to make agriculture and food systems more nutrition-sensitive. Many of the undernourished people in Africa and Asia are small-scale subsistence farmers. Diversifying production on these farms is often perceived as a promising strategy to improve dietary quality and diversity. This hypothesis is...