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...

Depuis 2004, le Réseau AMAP Ile-de-France accompagne le développement du mouvement des AMAP dans la région. Il soutient aussi depuis 2009 l'installation de nouveaux paysans en agriculture biologique de proximité, avec ses partenaires du Pôle Abiosol.

Northern Uganda is home to 20 per cent of Uganda's entire population, but it accounts for 38 per cent of Uganda's poorest. The Acholi sub-region and Adjumani district have suffered more from recent internal conflicts than other areas in the north. Living in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps has...

The workshop titled, ICSF-BOBLME India (East Coast) Workshop on Implementing the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) was organized by ICSFin collaboration with BOBLME project.The workshop was the third in a series of consultations held in 2015...

Between 2004 and 2014, FAO has developed over few thousands FFS in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region primarily on good agricultural practices and IPM, covering ten countries3 under the Regional Integrated Pest Management Programme in the Near East (GTFS/REM/070/ITA). The main objective was to improve food security...

Can Perol Baix Llobregat SL was formed in 2008 through the association of six Spanish families from the Catalonia region, with the aim of developing a direct marketing business that consisted of high-quality agricultural products sold to consumers in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The idea of establishing the company...

Este artículo informa que en el marco de la Convocatoria 2015, se recibieron 146 perfiles de proyectos, de los cuales, previa evaluación de un panel de expertos, 17 fueron invitados a presentar sus propuestas finales. Las propuestas fueron evaluadas por su calidad científica y tecnológica así como por su impacto...

Before submitting the project, Agroserv Ltd  - from SLOVAKIA, had 2 466 hectares of agricultural land at its disposal, but nevertheless, its capacities were not fully used: the machines and the technologies used were obsolete, whereas the company did not have the capacity to  manage efficiently animal production and the...

Ownership of assets is important for poverty alleviation, and women’s control of assets is associated with positive development outcomes at the household and individual levels. This research was undertaken to provide guidance for agricultural development programs on how to incorporate gender and assets in the design, implementation, and evaluation of...

Somos la Tierra es una campaña multimedial para visibilizar la importancia de la agricultura familiar en la Argentina. Fotografías, filmaciones, entrevistas e investigaciones realizadas en decenas de viajes, miles de kilómetros recorridos, multiplicidad de voces, diferentes culturas y costumbres, gran cantidad de productos, paisajes impactantes, problemáticas comunes y particulares, viejos...

Eyes on Their Finger Tips deals with the traditional marine wisdom of a set of people and the rarest of rare experiences they have had at sea. Through these numerous chapters he takes us into the seas of the fishers. It is a voyage which we cannot make in reality....

As the World Forestry Congress convenes in Durban, South Africa, forest producers should be embraced and inserted at the center of strategies to protect forests, and to ensure that the strategies benefit both local people and the global environment.

Using traditional recipes and qualitative raw materials proved to be a successful choice for a new bakery in the Přílepy village, Czech Republic. The business led to the creation of jobs and became a place of meeting and leisure for locals.