Livestock: a fundamental resource in Mongolia
Discover what life is like for livestock farmers in Mongolia
Producers in the Peruvian Andes
Smallholder irrigation in Haiti
High-quality organic farming in Brazil
Click on the video below to hear from a woman who grows organic produce in Brazil
Spinning yak fiber in Mongolia
Watch these women as they learn how to use a spinning wheel to spin yak fiber
Animal-health agent in Cambodia
Cambodia’s 650 animal-health agents play a very important role for livestock farmers
Smallholder responses to climate change
Don’t confuse [small] livestock farmers with [big] polluters!
Beekeeping in Brazil
Beekeeping and agro-ecology in Brazil with the Fondation Air Liquide
AVSF to receive solidarity-based funding from Crédit Coopératif
AVSF was chosen by Crédit Coopératif to receive the second Solidarity Quota (QPS) applied to its most-recent bond issue. QPS is an innovative mechanism for solidarity-based financing, whereby the rate is fixed at 0.02% of the amount borrowed. The mechanism, which was created by Crédit Coopératif in 2010, is intended to promote development. In this […]
AVSF attends Conference on Development and International Solidarity
On November 5, French Deputy Minister for Development Pascal Canfin kicked off the Conference on Development and International Solidarity. The conference, which will run through March 2013, has one objective: to help France define its position regarding its post-2015 engagements abroad with respect to development and the fight to reduce poverty, inequality, and exclusion. The […]
Agro-ecology: a necessary solution
More local, healthy, and fair
Food speculation hits smallholders particularly hard
Local solutions to protect against global speculation