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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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Caravan 31: Coping with climate change in dry areas

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Egypt, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Central Asia, Western Asia
Land & Food Security
agricultural land management
food security
mining
This issue of Caravan showcases some of ICARDA’s efforts of coping with climate change in dry areas with improved water land management and resilient production systems. These include initiatives in conservation agriculture which provide sustained production levels while conserving the ecosystems on which our entire food system is dependent upon. ICARDA continues to make significant contributions in the promotion of sustainable water land management approaches and technologies devised by researchers and farmers.
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Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights

Reports & Research
January, 2015
Rwanda, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mongolia, Senegal, Tanzania, Western Africa, Africa, Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Africa, Southern Asia
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agriculture
rangelands
This report explores evidence and insights from five case studies that have made significant recent progress in addressing the challenge of insuring poor smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the developing world. In India, national index insurance programmes have reached over 30 million farmers through a mandatory link with agricultural credit and strong government support. In East Africa (Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania), the Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) has recently scaled to reach nearly 200,000 farmers, bundling index insurance with agricultural credit and farm inputs.
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Food versus fuel: Examining tradeoffs in the allocation of biomass energy sources to domestic and productive uses in Ethiopia

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia
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El Trabajo de la FAO sobre el Cambio Climático

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Nepal, Kenya, Zambia, Guatemala, China, Tanzania, Ecuador, Congo, Guinea, Ethiopia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
sustainable development
Esta brochure presenta los mensajes clave de la FAO sobre el cambio climático y la seguridad alimentaria. Se incluye un resumen de la ayuda más reciente de la FAO a los países para hacer frente a los impactos del cambio climático. También se reúne los conocimientos más relevantes en materia de cambio climático, incluyendo las herramientas y metodologías de la FAO que puede proporcionar a los países para informar sobre sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero procedentes de la agricultura, la ganadería y la silvicultura.
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Sustainable Wildlife Management and Animal Health. CPW Fact Sheet 3

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Tanzania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Italy
natural resources management
Wildlife and livestock interactions can lead to bi-directional disease transmission, competition for resources and direct predation. An integrated management approach is essential, particularly given current human population growth and intensification of agriculture. This fact sheet focuses on wildlife/livestock health and the key role of sustainable wildlife management in this area.
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The Role of Natural Regeneration in Large-scale Forest and Landscape Restoration: Challenge and Opportunity

Reports & Research
December, 2015
France, Brazil, Nigeria, Zambia, Ethiopia, Niger, China
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
From November 19 to 21, 2014, some of the world’s most noted specialists on forest landscape restoration gathered in Rio de Janeiro to assess Natural Regeneration as a cost-effective strategy to achieve large-scale restoration throughout the world. Natural regeneration consists, in its most basic form, of letting remaining portions of the original ecosystem re-colonize a degraded area.
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Review of Near East Forestry and Range Commission and other FAO forestry activities, including follow-up to the recommendations of NEFRC 21

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Cyprus, Iran, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Jordan, Morocco, Yemen, South Africa, Turkey, Oman, Italy, Tunisia, South Sudan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
rangelands
Meeting Name: Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC)
Meeting symbol/code: FO:NEFRC/2015/2/Rev.1 (English only)
Session: Sess. 22
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Dimitra Newsletter, no. 27. September 2015

Reports & Research
September, 2015
France, Benin, Belgium, Burundi, Sweden, Guinea-Bissau, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Senegal, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Cameroon, Nepal, Finland, Italy, South Sudan, Chad, Africa
youth
land tenure
In this edition you will find a series of articles on a wide range of themes whose common denominator is a wish to improve the livelihoods of rural communities, especially in Africa. It is interesting to note that two aspects emerge strongly from the variety of themes: nutrition and the role of young people – two aspects of development that are also central to activities at FAO.
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L’action de la FAO face au changement climatique

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Seychelles, Kenya, Ecuador, Philippines, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
sustainable land management
forest land
sustainable development
Cette brochure présente les messages clés de la FAO sur le changement climatique et la sécurité alimentaire. Elle comprend une synthèse des exemples les plus récents de l'appui de la FAO aux pays pour faire face aux impacts du changement climatique. Elle rassemble également les connaissances les plus pertinentes sur le changement climatique, y compris les outils et méthodologies que la FAO peut offrir aux pays pour évaluer leurs émissions de gaz à effet de serre provenant des secteurs de l'agriculture, de l'élevage et de la foresterie.