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Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China
The sustainable development of cooperatives is essential to agricultural sustainability and is determined mainly by cooperation longevity. The risk sharing and benefit distribution mechanisms are important governance arrangements that affect cooperation longevity in member-heterogeneous cooperatives. However, the relationship between cooperatives’ risk sharing and benefit distribution arrangements and cooperation longevity is...
China
2021 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Homegrown harvests – Bringing food security to an educational campus
Urban spaces can be innovatively used for food production. They can help city dwellers rethink their connection with food ecosystems and land in the process. Educational institutions provide a unique opportunity conducive to integrating food security as part of its curriculum as well as outreach activities. The IIT Gandhinagar organic farm...
India
2021 - Leisa India
مقال صحفي
Application of innovation platforms to catalyse adoption of conservation agriculture practices in South Asia
Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is a package of practices that could improve the sustainability of smallholder farm productivity and profitability. However, existing extension systems are unable to facilitate widespread adoption to have the impact necessary to meet food security and livelihood requirements. This paper examines the utility of ‘Innovation...
2021 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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Regional policy forum on developing public policies for family farming: reaching out to the grassroots through participatory policy making
The participation of the stakeholders, especially the beneficiaries of public policy, has become an essential part of the policy development process. In the past, the decision-making process failed to include stakeholders who are most affected by the policies that were being crafted then. This resulted in “Type III errors” or...
2021 - Asian Farmers' Association
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Mainstreaming agro-ecology in Southeast Asian higher education for the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, opportunities and policy options
This policy brief is one in a series led by Chulalongkorn University with support from the Office of the Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Education, Thailand, in partnership with FAO. The series was initiated to support the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Work Plan on Education, 2016–2020 implementation while...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Integrated farming in small holder farms for livelihood and nutritional security
Farmers of coastal Tamil Nadu are compelled to grow rice despite its low returns, as rice alone has the unique feature of withstanding water stagnation for a longer period of time. Integrating fish culture and poultry rearing in rice helped farmers in 3 coastal districts in Tamil Nadu to double their...
India
2021 - Leisa India
دراسة حالة
Bringing cultures together on the farms and mountains of Viet Nam
Cooperatives are boosting farming, incomes and community spirit
Ma Thi Ninh thought farming would be relatively easy. The Yen Duong area of Viet Nam where she lives has excellent, arable land and offers many sought-after products, including organic sticky rice, seasonal vegetables and bamboo used for traditional handicraft products. But once she started to farm and trade in...
Viet Nam
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
FAO improves the food security of South Pentecost communities in Vanuatu
The community of Bunlap, which a Kustomary Area in South Pentecost, Vanuatu is building its capacity and diversity in agroforestry production thanks to the Integrated Sustainable land and Coastal Management (ISLCM)/FAO project.
In the second phase of the Tropical Cyclone (TC) Harold Livelihood Recovery Program for South Pentecost, the project team...
Vanuatu
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Integrated Farming System
Krishi Vigyan Kendras have been instrumental in helping farmers adopt integrated systems on the farm, thereby helping them produce more and earn more. Lyngrah’s farm, now a model farm, serves as an example of such support provided by KVK.
Shri Wallam Kupar Lyngrah, a dedicated progressive and innovative farmer, hails from...
India
2021 - Leisa India
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Bonding on the job in Bamyan, Afghanistan
The area of Bamyan in central Afghanistan is located right in the middle of what was known as the Silk Road and used to be a strategic resting point for travellers and merchants. It was meeting point of cultures and once a hub of Buddhism, but today it is more...
Afghanistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
الممارسات
Promocionando el desarrollo de Cooperativas de Campesinos para la gestión de riesgos a nivel local
Cuando las asociaciones locales de campesinos son debidamente capacitadas y empoderadas, pueden desempeñar un papel fundamental en la gestión de riesgos. En el 2007, la Ley Nacional de Cooperativas de Campesinos fue adoptada en China, estableciendo un marco institucional sólido para el desarrollo de cooperativas agropecuarias a nivel local. Sin...
China
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Organic Agriculture is Good for All, so has a Bright Future…
China and India are the major organic agriculture producers in Asia. But other Asian countries too are working well to increase their share in the global organic market. Some countries worth mentioning are Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, which are making systematic efforts to promote organic agriculture in their own ways....
2021 - AESA
فيديو
Convert Garden Waste into Rich Resources
You can convert garden waste into a rich garden resource. This video explains how Nasira Habib does it in her home garden.
Pakistan
2021 - International People's Agroecology Multiversity IPAM
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Making healthy diets a reality in Fiji
The role of policy in supporting food systems that work for health
The Fijian Government’s agenda and strategic priorities – as informed by their international and national commitments – end up the shaping Fijian food systems, and the diets of Fijians. This agenda influences policy decisions and can either support or deter Fijian food systems from providing affordable and healthy diets for...
Fiji
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Indonesia – training smallholder farmers to pursue better lives
Naning Suprawati is the eldest daughter in a family of farmers and while she never argued with her father, she had always known that she wanted something different than the two options her father laid out for her.
Suprawati went on to major in education in university but when she started...
Indonesia
2021 - AFA
تقرير
Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020
The 2020 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Asia and Pacific region, provides an update on progress towards the 2030 targets (SDGs and WHA) at the regional and country level. Selected indicators look at undernourishment, food insecurity, childhood stunting, wasting and overweight, adult overweight, child...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
تقرير
Investing in food safety for global benefits – a concrete case in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries
The Asia–Pacific region is growing at an impressive pace: it is home to the highest population numbers and densities, and is a hub for technological advancements. Asia and the Pacific have the potential to lead the future of food and agriculture. However, the levels of country capacities vary widely: an...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Pacific Small Island Developing States turn to digital technology for better health
Residents in Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are turning to innovation and digitalization to tackle the growing problem of long-term poor dietary habits and the health concerns that often follow, such as stunting among children, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity and the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), specifically diabetes.
NCDs...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Backyard farming and slaughtering – Keeping tradition safe
The region of Asia and the Pacific has a long history in farming livestock at the household level: this practice is linked with cultural identities and economic development in rural and low-mid socioeconomic communities. Household and village level animal production is well-aligned with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, and...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
تقرير
Rapid assessment of the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the Philippines
The Rapid Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Supply Chains in the Philippines Report is a publication prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with technical support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Department of Agriculture (DA). The study...
Philippines
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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