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A case of Agricultural Heritage Systems
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations defines Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) as "remarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development"....
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Agroecology-based aggradation-conservation agriculture (ABACO): Targeting innovations to combat soil degradation and food insecurity in semi-arid Africa
Smallholder farmers in semi-arid Africa are in an increasingly vulnerable position due to the direct and indirect effects of climate change, demographic pressure and resource degradation. Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as an alternative to restore soil productivity through increased water and nutrient use efficiencies in these regions. However, adoption...
2012 - Elsevier Ltd
فيديو
Gender and rural microfinance: A learning route in Uganda
FAO in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and PROCASUR launched an initiative to strengthen women's access to micro financial services. The objective of this activity was also to target practitioners of the rural microfinance industry and assist them to generate effective microfinance programs for both women...
Uganda
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Agroecology as a Transdisciplinary, Participatory, and Action-Oriented Approach
This article traces multiple directions in the evolution of agroecology, from its early emphasis on ecological processes in agricultural systems, to its emergence as a multidimensional approach focusing on broader agro-food systems. This review is timely, as agroecology is being increasingly applied within a diversity of scientific-, policy-, and farmer-based...
2012 - Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group (ARLG)
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Agroecology
Growing the Roots of Resistance
Agroecology today has a strong focus on bringing sustainability to food, feed, and fiber production. But there is also a larger focus on the social, economic, and political “drivers” that move food systems beyond the conditions that have created un-sustainability in modern industrial agriculture. With its ecosystem foundation, the science...
Mexico
2012 - University of Vermont
فيديو
Empowering women farmers in Ethiopia
Munira Shemsudin, Gender & HIV/AIDS Programme Officer for Self Help Africa in Ethiopia, talks about the power of investing in women farmers.
Ethiopia
2012 - FarmingFirst
مقال صحفي
Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and the New Green Revolution
In the face of recurrent global food crises, institutions of the corporate food regime propose a new Green Revolution coupled with a continuation of neoliberal economic policies. Because these are causes of the crises to begin with, this approach can worsen rather than end hunger. Building a countermovement depends in...
2012 - Taylor & Francis
فيديو
Views on Smallholder Farming in Malawi with Alice Kachere
Alice Kachere, a smallholder farmer from Malawi, talks about the challenges she faces as well as the training she has benefited from.
Malawi
2012 - FarmingFirst
تقرير
Sustainable agricultural livelihoods in marginal areas (SALMA)
Project information document
The World Bank SALMA project would contribute to the economic infrastructure area of engagement outlined in the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for FY11-14 and is aligned with the lessons learned in the FY08-09 Interim Strategy Note. Three aspects of economic infrastructure are addressed: agriculture, environment, and transportation. The project is...
Lebanon
2012 - the World Bank (WB)
صحيفة وقائع
Elaboración de un concentrado orgánico para la alimentación de aves ponedoras
Receta japonesa para elaborar un concentrado orgánico para aves ponedoras. En cada país se puede adaptar dicha receta con sustitutos locales.
Costa Rica
2012 - Ministerio de Agrícultura y Ganadería (MAG)
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The goat farm is popularized due to the support
The Lithuanian Goat Breeders Association, headed by the farmer Andžela Dalia Ėmužytė, has already prepared more than one project under the action area “National Rural Network” of the 2007–2013 Lithuanian Rural Development Programme measure “Technical Assistance”. Goat milk cheeses, produced at the farm of the farmer A.D. Ėmužytė, have become...
Lithuania
2012
مقال صحفي
Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture
This Special Issue on Diversified Farming Systems is motivated by a desire to understand how agriculture designed according to whole systems, agroecological principles can contribute to creating a more sustainable, socially just, and secure global food system. We first define Diversified Farming Systems (DFS) as farming practices and landscapes that...
2012 - Resilience Alliance
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Necesidad de políticas públicas de transición a la Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar en Argentina
De las semillas a los canales cortos de comercialización
La tendencia a la adopción de tecnologías de punta por parte de los productores agropecuarios de Argentina, ha favorecido procesos relacionados con la revolución verde y más recientemente la revolución biotecnológica expresada por la liberación de los OGM en plantas y sus tecnologías de manejo asociadas. Consecuentemente, las empresas de mayor...
Argentina
2012 - Seminario Derecho a la Alimentación, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
دراسة حالة
Conceptual framework for economic valuation of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS): The case of rice fish culture in China
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) initiative was launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 2002 with the aim of establishing the basis for the global recognition, dynamic conservation and adaptive management of outstanding traditional agricultural systems and their associated landscapes, biodiversity, knowledge...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
فيديو
Success Story: Smallholder Farmer Entrepreneurship in Swaziland with Happy Shongwe
Happy Shongwe, a smallholder farmer from Swaziland, talks about her successful business of growing and selling legume seeds.
Eswatini
2012 - FarmingFirst
دراسة حالة
Kuttanad Below Sea Level Farming System
The only system in India that has been practicing rice cultivation below sea level since the past 2 centuries
Kuttanad is a delta region of about 900 sq. km situated in the west coast of Kerala State, India. The area is a larger mosaic of fragmented landscape patches and varied ecosystems such as coastal backwaters, rivers, vast stretches of paddy fields, marshes, ponds, garden lands, edges, corridors and remarkably networked water ways.
The Kuttanad Below Sea-level...
India
2012 - M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
مقال صحفي
Rural Social Movements and Agroecology: Context, Theory, and Process
Rural social movements have in recent years adopted agroecology and diversified farming systems as part of their discourse and practice. Here, we situate this phenomenon in the evolving context of rural spaces that are increasingly disputed between agribusiness, together with other corporate land-grabbers, and peasants and their organizations and movements....
2012
كتاب
Food Plants and Good Gardening for Healthy Diets in Swaziland
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Eswatini
2012 - Food Plant Solutions
دليل
Insectos y Agricultores ¿amigos o enemigos?
Los agricultores suelen ser conscientes de la enorme diversidad de especies de insectos en sus campos, y de las funciones que estos cumplen como parte de un ecosistema. La agricultura tiene gran influencia en el equilibrio de la población de insectos. Sin embargo, en todo el mundo, las evidencias muestran...
Peru
2012 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes
صحيفة وقائع
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Agricultural Heritage: A new vision, a new hope
China has a five-thousand-year history of agricultural civilization. Diversified natural and cultural features across regions have led to a variety of agricultural heritage systems which have evolved from the co-adaptation of the local community and its environment. However, for a long period, their ecological rationality and potential economic benefits have...
China
2012 - Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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