family farming
The newest issue of Mountain Research and Development (MRD)—Vol 36, No 3—is now available online and open access. Papers in this Open Issue explore a broad range of topics related to sustainable development in mountains worldwide: they analyze the potential for...
Agricultural growth is a key pathway towards addressing development issues such as food and nutrition insecurity and poverty, which climate change is already exacerbating. And gender may just be the piece of the puzzle that we have been paying ‘lip service’ to for far too long. We...
For the first time in it history, the Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations explicitly and globally recognized the importance of family farms as part of the solution to its hunger program. The year 2014 was named the International Year of Family Farming. Family...
The Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), the Governance, Environment & Markets Initiative at Yale University (GEM), and the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law (NIEM) of the...
In 2015, with Future Earth and SDG activities, sustainability ranks high on the research and development agendas. Both international efforts are reflected in the orientation of MRD. Papers in this Open Issue explore how Indian farmers’ engagement in a pro-poor value chain can improve...
From a global perspective, mountain farming is family farming. Mountain areas, with their dispersed patches of useable land at different altitudes with different climates and with their often highly fragmented landscapes and narrow limits for mechanization, are most efficiently and...
Based on centuries of experience in tackling mountain environments, farming families and communities have developed distinctive forms of institutions and organizational arrangements.
This MRD Focus Issue on ...
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. As of 2003, it has been observed every year to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development...
Food Sovereignty is the right of the world’s peoples to produce and consume healthy food. Food cannot be reduced to a commodity in the hands of the transnational corporations
The international peasant and family farmer movement, La Via Campesina, is...
