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Zero Draft text submissions from the small-scale farming perspective
Recently 'Green Economy Coalition' presented an analysis of the UNCSD Zero Draft text submissions. Are small-scale farmers already on Rio+20 agenda?
Family Farming World Conference: Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth.
Among the more than 200 people that attended the Family Farming World Conference hosted in Bilbao, Spain, last October, were the highest representatives of agricultural organisations from all over the world, as well as politicians and members of international bodies such as FAO and IFAD.
GMOs and Peru: Is the debate coming to an end?
Peru says no to GMOs for ten years.
A new paradigm for the FAO
The use of an ecosystem approach to intensify crop production and improve rural livelihoods is gaining ground.
2014 to be the International Year for Family Farming
Fantastic news from the IYFF Campaign: the plenary of the 37th FAO Conference ratified the Resolution requesting the UN General Assembly to declare in 2011 the International Year of Family Farming-IYFF, to be implemented during 2014.
How can small and large farmers co-exist?
OXFAM International’s contribution to the debate.
Feed the world, shift to agroecology!
Conventional industrial practices cannot feed the world; the way we conceive agriculture has to be reoriented toward agroecology. This is the conclusion drawn in a recently published report called "Agroecology and the Right to Food" by Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
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