Publications
Publications récentes
How can the right to food benefit indigenous peoples?
Étude de cas par pays, 2009
This paper analyses how right to food is relevant to indigenous peoples and how the implementation of the right to food can benefit them. It provides an overview on the international legal framework of indigenous...
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Livre/chapitre d’un livre, 2009
Markets have been found to be an increasingly important source of the seeds of crops and varieties low income farmers need to improve their livelihoods, encompassing both the formal and informal seed sector. Markets also...
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Articles de presse, 2009
Droughts are common recurring natural hazards in Asia, and El Niño events are particularly severe in the Philippines. This paper explores responses by farm households, irrigation system managers, and macro policymakers in the Philippines to...
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Manuel/directives, 2009
This guide has been written to assist countries in undertaking a right to adequate food assessment as a first step in the process of developing a right to adequate food strategy and in implementing specific...
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Note de politique, 2009
Malian farmers have accumulated knowledge about managing millet and sorghum seed over thousands of years in the Sahel. In response to climatic changes in this harsh environment, they have selected the varieties that continue to...
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Note de politique, 2009
There are no easy solutions to the ongoing food price crisis. Maize and wheat prices doubled between 2003 and 2008, and the price of rice doubled in the first four months of 2008, rising 33...
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Note de politique, 2009
Minor millets are a group of annual grasses found mainly in arid and semi-arid regions. They are cultivated on 29.1 million hectares in India, accounting for nearly 25 percent of the total acreage under cereal...
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Le point sur l'élevage
Publication phare, 2009
L’élevage représente 40 pour cent de la valeur de la production agricole mondiale et contribue aux moyens d’existence et à la sécurité alimentaire de près d’un milliard de personnes. La croissance rapide des revenus et...
Étude de cas par pays, 2009
The fisheries sector is a source of employment and income for more than 43 million fishers and fish farmers in the world, and the great majority of these live in developing countries, principally in Asia....
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Making the case for rights-focused and rights-based monitoring
Manuel/directives, 2009
These Methods to Monitor the Human Right to Adequate Food are intended to assist countries that are committed to the protection and realisation for all of the human right to adequate food. The focus is...
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