By admin on May 28, 2010 in Agricultural Researches, Family Farming, News Clippings, Rural Poverty in SEA | 0 Comments
FarmFriday shares this interesting newsbit we picked up from PhilRice about a research they conducted that showed Filipino rice farmers have steadily improved their socio-economic status over the past 10 years or so. Any reactions?
There is a steady improvement in the social and economic status among Filipino rice farmers and their household for the last [...]
By admin on Apr 16, 2010 in Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, Small Farmers to Market | 0 Comments
FarmFriday shares this interesting newsbit from IPS. This highlights again the need to support agriculture in general and smallholder farmers in particular.
IPS|By Stephen Leahy
How’s this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day, food prices have climbed 30 to 40 percent, climate change is reducing agricultural production – and for the past two decades, [...]
By admin on Apr 9, 2010 in Family Farming, News Clippings | 0 Comments
FarmFriday shares this nugget. Available for download is the report of the ileia organised conference on the Future of Family Farming.
ileia organised a conference on the Future of Family Farming, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Keynote speakers like Camilla Toulmin from the UK, K.S. Gopal from India and Olufunke Cofie from Ghana presented [...]
By Jet Hermida on Feb 5, 2010 in Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, News Clippings, Small Farmers to Market | 0 Comments
FarmFriday highlights this is very interesting newsbit from IFAD with its President Kanayo F. Nwanze pushing for more efforts to linking smallholder farmers to the private sector:
“In Davos, I intend to show business leaders how linking smallholder farmers to the private sector is key to building the economy of developing countries. The private sector [...]
By admin on Dec 28, 2009 in Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, News Clippings, Press Releases | 0 Comments
Towards The Celebration Of The International Year Of Family Farming-IYFF. A dream nearer each day
José María Zeberio-Executive Secretary of the World Rural Forum-WRF
REPORT ON THE IYFF
Before the end of 2009 we wish to update our report on the IYFF.
In the world today there are 3,000 million people who live in the countryside. The greater part [...]
By admin on Dec 18, 2009 in Family Farming, News Clippings, Sustainable Agriculture | 0 Comments
WRF has released the latest brochure of the Campaign for an International Year of Family Farming. Click to download
By admin on Dec 13, 2009 in Agricultural Researches, Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, News Clippings, Sustainable Agriculture | 0 Comments
Thanks again to our friend Jose Osaba for sharing this interesting book from TWN.
“THE world is now facing a new era of climate change and the impacts of climate change are already being felt everywhere, particularly in the developing countries and small islands. The local knowledge systems and agricultural practices and techniques adopted by local [...]
By Jet Hermida on Oct 21, 2009 in Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, Food Security | 0 Comments
GRAIN has a nice article about enhancing the global food system and here’s an interesting excerpt – Five key steps towards a food system that can address climate change and the food crisis. Read the full article here though. HungerWednesday it is.
1. Move towards sustainable, integrated production methods
The artificial separations and simplifications that industrial agriculture [...]
By admin on Sep 16, 2009 in Family Farming, Farm Technology | 0 Comments
Tired of real estate or money market investments that turn out to be duds? Despair not! Do what we have been telling you forever: invest in agriculture. for starters, how about goats?
Looking for a farming venture that is not only environment friendly but profitable as well? PCARRD suggests raising goats
Goats are very popular among Filipinos [...]
By admin on Aug 21, 2009 in Family Farming, Farm Technology, Food Security | 0 Comments
FarmFriday shares this guidelines from CELAC on Milk Hygiene. click the pix
By Jet Hermida on Jul 22, 2009 in Agriculture and Globalization, Family Farming, Farm Technology, Food Security, Hunger and Poverty, News Clippings | 0 Comments
HungerWednesday again and we highlight this interesting article from Celias about how “China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight.. became the world’s third largest food aid donor.” And China got to this by dismantling collective farms and replaced them with family farms. Wow! Another convincing proof that family farming is the way [...]
