Category: Family Farming

IYFF Campaign Update December 2009 – A dream nearer each day »

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 [...]

Latest IYFF Brochure »

WRF has released the latest brochure of the Campaign for an International Year of Family Farming. Click to download

Enduring Farms: Climate Change, Smallholders and Traditional Farming Communities »

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 [...]

Five key steps towards a food system that can address climate change and the food crisis »

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 [...]

Goat farming is good money »

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 [...]

How to milk a cow properly »

FarmFriday shares this guidelines from CELAC on Milk Hygiene. click the pix

How China became world’s third largest food aid donor by promoting family farms »

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 [...]