FAO report “Deep Roots”
Deep Roots is a new publication from U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This large, richly illustrated book takes a closer look at the momentum generated by the International Year of Family Farming (IYFF) in 2014. According to FAO, the book examines “family farming policy development and actions at international, regional, national, municipal and local levels of activity.”
It covers in its 256 pages: Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, North Africa, the Near East, North America and the Pacific.
The subjects are as diverse as agribusiness, agroecology, aquaculture, biodiversity, cooperatives, drip irrigation, farmer unions, food security, food sovereignty, gender justice, land rights, migrant workers, natural resources, organic farming, resilient agro-ecosystems, slow food, smallholdings, women’s groups and young farmers.
