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Climate change. Hunger. Poverty. These enormous global challenges and our search for solutions dominate the headlines daily. In countries from Ecuador to Ghana to Viet Nam, smallholder forest and farm producers, including women, youth and indigenous people, are organizing themselves to find practical answers to these challenges. And it is...
Second phase of FFF launched in Nepal
25/09/2018
25/09/2018
In a global partnership between FAO, IIED, IUCN and Agricord, the second phase of Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) was launched on Tuesday in Kathmandu, Nepal. There were more than 70 participants in attendance, which included high-level representation of the Minister of Ministry of Forests and Environment (MoFE), the Chairperson...
14/09/2018
El Ministerio de Desarrollo Rural y Tierras (MDRyT) lanza la segunda fase de la iniciativa Mecanismo para Bosques y Fincas (FFF), con el objetivo de apoyar a las organizaciones de productores forestales y agrícolas a mejorar sus medios de vida y abrir mercados para su producción.
Esta iniciativa da continuidad...
Mexico’s forests laws mean that 60% of its forests are owned by communities; the country has more than 2,000 community forest enterprises in total. Why Mexico is backing community forestry – and how community groups are ‘Scaling up locally controlled forest enterprises’ – were the topic and title of a workshop...
Second phase of FFF gets going in Vietnam
10/09/2018
10/09/2018
As in the first phase, the Vietnam Farmer Union (VNFU) will coordinate FFF implementation in Vietnam. VNFU hosted the launch workshop with over 85 participants from farmer unions in northern provinces, Vietnam Administration of Forestry and other government agencies, local NGOs, private sector, international organizations and donors.
Presenting at the workshop,...