The International Year of Family Farming 2014 is an initiative promoted by the World Rural Forum and supported by over 360 civil society and farmers’ organizations from 60...
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The Narayana Reddy Column: Family farming
Only way to protect farmers and farming. Family farming is a characteristic of farms that can be maintained by the family members without much dependence on high cost external...
Research Notes
Rain shelters – A tool to strengthen family farming / Low cost seed testing method for small -scale farmers / Sustainability of an integrated poultry-pig-fish farming system /...
Small-scale farmers, big-scale change
The organisations working together in the Agricultural Biodiversity Knowledge Programme (agrobiodiversity@knowledged) initiated by Oxfam Novib and Hivos all work with family...
Multilayer vegetable farming: Small holder community innovates for improved production
Farmers often try new ideas in their fields and develop many local technologies by innovations and adaptations. These innovations are based on deep knowledge of the local...
Family farming can lead to significant gains
Owing to its predominance and advantages, family farming can have a significant role to play in feeding the world, eradicating poverty, ensuring the sustainable management of...
A farmer innovation spreads far and wide
Processed cardamom has more market value but processing of cardamom is a labour intensive process. Owing to lack of support from research institutions, farmers in the region have...
The mother of our breath
In the westernmost region of the Caroline Islands of Micronesia lies the Republic of Palau. Palauan traditional farming shows how agriculture, family values and culture are...
Family farms: Productive and sustainable
Efficient use of resources, time and energy is possible by creating self replicating cycles within the system. The careful selection of species - both plant and animal, the...
Expanding the web of agro-eco system
With monocropping, mechanization and modernization, agriculture has moved away from being a family based profession. Farmers in Kanyakumari district have proved that agriculture...
Integrated Farming: An approach to boost up family farming
Sustainable Integrated Farming Systems (SIFS) is a system which focuses on increasing farm productivity by increasing diversification, resource integration and creating market...
Ten qualities of family farming
Even in the International Year of Family Farming there is confusion about family farming: what is it actually, what makes it unique, and what distinguishes it from...