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Governance in small-scale fisheries
Topic outline
This course aims to contribute towards creating an enabling environment for implementing the FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing sustainable Small-scale Fisheries (SSF Guidelines) in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, by strengthening the capacity of government officials and fisheries practitioners at local, national and regional levels, and...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Regenerative agriculture in Spain
Along with Greece, Italy and Portugal, Spain is the country in continental Europe that is faced with the largest percentage of desertification and the greatest water shortages.Next to climate change, intensive and conventional farming are the main causes of this catastrophic form of land degradation. According to the European Commission,...
Spain
2023 - Resilience Food Stories
فيديو
Community seed banks
Because of our seed bank, we have native varieties again. By using indigenous seed our costs have reduced as we can grow and keep our own seed. So, we don’t have to depend on the market. In our seed bank, we also train farmers how to grow crops organically, free...
2023 - Access Agriculture
مقال صحفي
Agroecology-oriented farmers’ groups. A missing level in the construction of agroecology-based local agri-food systems?
The efforts of agroecology-oriented farmers and peasants’ orga-nizations have been studied in depth in relation to their political expression, but less so with regard to the forms they adopt to strengthen the socio-economic viability of small- and medium- sized farms within sustainable food systems. Whilst farmers’ self- organization represents a...
2023 - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
مقالة
Agricultural Water Deficit Trends in Yemen
Globally, climate change is triggering shifts in water availability, especially across arid and desert landscapes similar to that in Yemen, where precipitation patterns are increasingly erratic. Here, we use water budget calculations, drought metrics, and trend analyses to examine climatic water deficits, with the aim of unraveling irrigation demands and...
Yemen
2023 - Agrometeorology, Agricultural Water Management and Impacts of Extreme Events
تقرير
National Land Policy Study Report on Togo
AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA’s Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries.
These reports aim to:
Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance structures, focusing on how these policies affect peasants’ rights,...
Togo
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
دراسة حالة
Seed sovereignty, a viable option for food and nutritional security in Africa
This publication is a significant contribution to the agroecological transition. It results from documenting good and little-known stories about traditional seeds, local seeds and farmers’ seed systems. Seed practitioners provide the initial stories. A multi-disciplinary review committee then helped finalize the stories to provide readers and policy-makers with the arguments...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
وثيقة فنية
How do couples in rural Tanzania make decisions? Findings from a novel mixed-methods approach for understanding intrahousehold decision-making
This paper responds to current concerns about quantitative methods for studying decision-making by describing the development of and results from an innovative transdisciplinary and mixed-methods tool for researching intrahousehold decision-making. The tool focuses specifically on decision-making about agricultural- and expenditure-related matters by spouses in marital or cohabiting relationships, although it...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - CGIAR
مقالة
Why do we need to talk about rural feminism in Romania?
Rural women face double discrimination. The first is directed against the rural areas, which are marginalized by public policies, are invisible in relevant debates, ridiculed and blamed at for its social and economic problems, poverty, lack of education, migration and many other consequences of historical and systemic discrimination. The second...
Romania
2023
تقرير
Multifunctional Land Use Framework
The key to better land use decisions
A practical process that supports better, more sustainable decisions about land, by all those who need to make them, including local and national government, businesses and communities.
It is based on a set of principles and practices designed to align top-down and bottom-up priorities, mediate competing pressures and encourage multifunctionality.
It brings together key data and...
2023 - Food, Farming & Countryside Commission
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Smart projector -- a revolutionary tool for rural actors
Farmers are increasingly facing challenges relating to climate change. It is vital therefore to make them aware of good agricultural practices that can help them increase not only production, but also their resilience.
Having understood well such problems, Access Agriculture is working in Benin, West Africa, to provide rural actors with...
Benin
2023 - Access Agriculture
دراسة حالة
Reducing losses from fish harvests changes the work and future of Tanzania’s women fish processors
FAO’s FISH4ACP programme empowers women to address falling yields and discrimination
When Suzana Hamimu Kaleju began working as a fish processor 30 years ago in the port of Kigoma, she used to lay the sprat, a type of herring, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika before selling her dried fish in local and regional markets.
They would get dusty or sandy so...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
حدث
Business Incubator and Accelerator for Mountains and Islands
Mountains and islands make up 30 percent of the earth's surface area and are home to approximately 1.3 billion people. Mountain and island communities are among the worst hit by climate change, suffering from high rates of poverty and hunger and struggling to cope with natural disasters.
The Mountain Partnership Secretariat...
2023 - The Mountain Partnership Secretariat (MPS)
مقال صحفي
Achieving win-win outcomes for biodiversity and yield through diversified farming
To leverage agriculture's potential to better benefit both people and nature, policymakers need clear messages about which farming practices positively impact biodiversity and yields, and when trade-offs arise. Existing reviews analyse effects of different agricultural practices on either biodiversity or yield, without considering interactions. Here, we applied multinomial and quantile...
2023 - Bioversity International
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
The Sudan: Food security crisis intensifies amid ongoing conflict and economic challenges
Urgent scale up of emergency humanitarian support to rural communities needed
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) raises a dire warning about the escalating food crisis in the Sudan. As conflict and economic decline continue to ravage the country, urgent and intensified humanitarian support for rural communities is urgently needed.
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase (IPC) projections,...
South Sudan
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
The market mafia
Smallholder, organic farmers in Bolivia struggle to sell their healthy, natural produce to an urban and peri-urban audience that is only slowly awakening to the health risks of food produced with agrochemicals.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2023 - Access Agriculture
موقع إنترنت
CGIAR Gender Impact Platform
GENDER (Generating Evidence and New Directions for Equitable Results) is a CGIAR impact platform that synthesizes and amplifies research, fills gaps, builds capacity and sets directions to enable CGIAR to have maximum impact on gender equality, opportunities for youth and social inclusion in agriculture and food systems.
2023 - CGIAR
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
10-year plan for stronger, more equitable and environmentally friendly mahi-mahi fishery
FISH4ACP ready to start supporting Dominican Republic in making value chain more productive and sustainable
Key stakeholders in Dominican fisheries today endorsed a ten-year upgrading strategy for the mahi-mahi sector, marking the launch of an ambitious agenda to strengthen this important artisanal fishery, making sure that benefits are shared equitably and growth does not increase the burden on the environment.
“This agreement gives an important boost...
Dominican Republic
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
نشرة إخبارية
International Institute for Environment and Development - Climate change newsletter April 2023
IIED's climate change newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our research to shape development policy and practice for climate resilience, equitable global governance, and locally-led adaptation to climate change.In this edition - new blogs, publications, and jobs, plus more on the upcoming CBA17 conference ...
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
فيديو
Setting up an integrated farm
By installing an integrated farm, you can produce something on every inch of land, while reducing waste and buying fewer inputs. Draw a map of your farm and decide where to grow what crops, trees and vegetables, based on your knowledge of which crops need sun and which grow in...
2023 - Access Agriculture
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