ابحث في قاعدة البيانات
كتاب
Review of existing legislation to protect pollinators from pesticides in selected countries
Honeybees (Apis mellifera), wild bees, and other pollinators can be adversely affected by pesticides as well as other stressors, with potentially large economic and ecological consequences. Legislation is one possible tool which can be used to support actions to protect pollinators from pesticides. Several documents have been published at the...
Australia - China - Dominica - Ireland - Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Samoa - Solomon Islands - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2022 - FAO
تقرير
Amplifying agroecology in Vermont: Principles and processes to foster food systems sustainability
Agroecology represents a model system that supports the environment by offering an approach to food production that enhances biodiversity, builds ecological resilience, improves soil diversity, reduces the use of natural resources, and provides a healthy environment for the planet. It is increasingly recognized as an effective system that generates a...
United States of America
2021 - Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative, University of Vermont 2 Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont 3 Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont 4 Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont 5 Environmental Program, University of Vermont 6 Center for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Vermont 7 UVM Extension, University of Vermont 8 Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, CA 9 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Vermont
كتاب
Legal & Policy Strategies for Health Care & Food System Partners
Food insecurity is deeply intertwined with health and economic disparities, as an underlying factor in risk for COVID-19 and as an effect of the economic crisis the pandemic has triggered. Pre-existing health inequities and an increased risk of job loss or loss of income mean that Black, Latinx, and Indigenous...
United States of America
2021
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Building a better fruit fly trap
The Mediterranean fruit fly is a worthy enemy. This pest, also known as the medfly, is widespread over the tropics, attacking and spoiling oranges, mangoes and many other fruits. Each female can lay 200 eggs in her brief lifetime—allowing rapid population growth. The medfly damages so much high value fruit,...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - United States of America
2021 - Access Agriculture
مقالة إخبارية
US: Why small-scale fisheries matter
A growing coalition of small-scale, community-based fishers is calling for the recognition and protection of Alaska’s invaluable coastal fisheries. Small-scale fisheries support a way of life that has become increasingly rare in the industrialised world–a way of life that is inexorably tied to the natural world, where individuals face forces far...
United States of America
2021 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Minnesota Farmers Turned the COVID-19 Crisis into an Opportunity to Strengthen Community
Iron Shoe Farm in Minnesota is finding new ways to connect farmers and consumers and keep their business afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. The farm’s founder, Carla Mertz, is hoping to do this by transforming food supply chains and building strong local communities.
United States of America
2021 - FoodTank
دراسة حالة
Food Sovereignty in the USA: A Selection of Stories
Food sovereignty is a vision for democratic control over food and agricultural systems. The Narrative Collective of the United States Food Sovereignty Alliance compiled a series of stories that explore the concept of food sovereignty. These stories highlight food sovereignty in action, what the struggle looks like, and how it’s already taking shape.
With...
United States of America
2021 - US Food Sovereignty Alliance
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
“Food Connects Us All” Grassroots voices from North America on the importance of building agroecology, fighting for policy, and joining global struggles
For decades, rural peoples movements of peasant farmers, indigenous people, pastoralists, and fisherfolk (to name a few) have organized at the global level for a new food system based around the concepts of the human right to food, food sovereignty, and agroecology. Increasingly, grassroots movements and frontline communities from North America...
United States of America
2021 - Actionaid USA
الممارسات
Raising rabbits in the tropics
The importance of the domestic rabbit as a supplier of meat for human consumption is widely recognised throughout the world. The document 'Rabbit Technology for Warm Climates' is designed as a text for students, teachers, and practitioners on rabbit rearing.
United States of America
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
موقع إنترنت
Agenda de investigación para la prevención y contención de Fusarium en la región Andina
La marchitez por Fusarium causada por Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) Raza 4 Tropical es una amenaza para la producción de banano y plátano en América Latina y el Caribe, por esta razón es importante articular acciones entre los países que permitan contener, prevenir y controlar la dispersión del...
Colombia - Ecuador - United States of America
2020 - FONTAGRO
تقرير
Making the market work for nature
How biocredits can protect biodiversity and reduce poverty
Tackling biodiversity loss is a growing priority for human survival. Introducing incentives for positive actions could play a key role in helping to reverse this loss. This paper explores the potential of using a novel approach to promote biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity credits or ‘biocredits’ are coherent units of measurement that track...
Costa Rica - Germany - Malaysia - Namibia - South Africa - United States of America
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
مقال صحفي
US / COVID-19: Relief Misdirected
Small-scale fisheries are important for the food security of the United States. Yet relief measures during the COVID-19 pandemic favour industrial operators, and are unsustainable. When the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the US in March 2020, no one knew for certain what it would mean for the seafood industry, let alone...
United States of America
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
As the food supply chain breaks down, farm-to-door Community Supported agriculture (CSA) take off
During the Coronavirus crisis, it has become clear how fragile and vulnerable agro-industrial supply chains can be. However, a movement known as "Community Supported Agriculture" (CSA) is at its peak, a model of local marketing providing healthy and nutritious products from the field to the kitchen. Members buy a share...
United States of America
2020
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
El rol de la mujer rural en el sistema agroalimentario latinoamericano
Esta publicación es parte de una serie de blogs en apoyo a la campaña de las #MujeresRurales, dentro del contexto de la iniciativa “Mujeres rurales, mujeres con derecho” coordinado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO, por sus siglas en inglés). El siguiente...
United States of America
2020 - Research Programa on agriculture for nutrition and health - CGIAR
مقالة
Yes, U.S. Farmer Suicide is SignificantlyHigher Than the National Average
This work analyzes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 17-state survey and its subsequent errata on U.S. suicide rates. The CDC study, which had generated media interest on U.S. farmer suicide, was retracted following the emergence of a coding error. Although the CDC corrected and republished its survey,...
United States of America
2020
مقال صحفي
Transitioning to Sustainable Agriculture Requires Growing and Sustaining an Ecologically Skilled Workforce
In the face of rapidly advancing climate change, biodiversity loss, and water scarcity, it is clear that global agriculture must swiftly and decisively shift toward sustainability. Fortunately, farmers and researchers have developed a thoroughly studied pathway to this transition: agroecological farming systems that mimic natural ecosystems, creating tightly coupled cycles...
United States of America
2019
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
14 Organizations Changing the Face of America’s Farmers
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) most recent census data, white farmers operate 96.5 percent of the nation’s farms, on plots of land that average 424 acres each; on the remaining 3.5 percent of land, Hispanic or Latino and Black farmers maintain plots of land that are, on average, 374...
United States of America
2019 - FoodTank
صحيفة وقائع
FarmOS: free and open source farm management software platform and development community
Scaling soil health and biologically based landscape restoration is knowledge rather than input limited. The FarmOS system leverages existing global, open-source hardware and software communities to provide tools to all scales and production systems. It is free to download, use and modify. Farmers control their own secure data to choose...
United States of America
2018 - FarmOS
دراسة حالة
Research for AGRI Committee - A comparative analysis of global agricultural policies: lessons for the future CAP
This study provides a comparative analysis of global agricultural policies aimed at drawing lessons for the future of the CAP. Against the background of the main trends in agricultural support as well as recent changes and new initiatives in global agricultural policies, an in depth analysis is made of selected...
Australia - Canada - Japan - Switzerland - United States of America
2018
مؤتمر/اجتماع
WEBINAR: Impactful Innovations.
Lessons from Family Agriculture on Adaptation to Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Webinar: Impactful Innovations. Lessons from Family Agriculture on Adaptation to Climate Change in LAC and the Caribbean (OUT-24862)
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Time: 3:00 pm (EST), Washington, DC
Organizer: FONTAGRO
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To download the publication:
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United States of America
2017 - FONTAGRO
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