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مقال صحفي
Soil erosion, regulatory aspects and farmer responsibility: assessing cadastral data
This paper sets out to clarify the factors in soil erosion and soil conservation. The Czech Republic struggles with soil conservation. Shifts in the rural economy, the loss of good-quality agricultural soil to urbanisation, and sub-optimal land management leading to erosion are at issue. Here, we apply quantitative and qualitative...
Czechia
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
مقال صحفي
Vietnam: Learning from Warnings
Vietnam’s fisheries sector plays an important role in the economic structure of the country. Marine capture fishery production continues to increase at an average rate of 9.07 per cent annually, whereas aquaculture activities increase at an average rate of 12.77 per cent per year. As reported by the General Directorate...
Viet Nam
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Fisheries and aquaculture can bring a lot to the table
Fish is an excellent source of protein and essential micronutrients, with global average per capita fish consumption now topping 20 kilograms a year. In Central Asia and certain landlocked countries, though, average consumption is closer to 2 kilos, according to FAO data.
Fisheries experts and national decision makers from Central Asia...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
فيديو
Filtros de aguas grises: Una alternativa para producir alimentos
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en algunas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
Por esta razón, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), impulsan en Guatemala la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises.
Estas estructuras...
Guatemala
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Indonesia / Conservation: Hooray for Manta Rays
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species – a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity – has assessed 93,500 animal species since it began its work in 1964. Its research found that over 26,000 species are threatened with extinction – that is, 27 per cent of all...
Indonesia
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
How efficient have the CAP greening measures been so far?
In 2017, Alliance Environnement (formed by IEEP and Oréade-Brèche) and the Thünen Institute carried out an evaluation of the greening measures under the Direct Payments Regulation for the European Commission. The 2013 CAP reform introduced a payment for a compulsory set of ‘greening measures’ (crop diversification, maintenance of permanent grasslands,...
2018 - Euromontana
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Sierra Leone
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...
Sierra Leone
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
وثيقة فنية
Yemen Plan of Action 2018-2020
The overall goal of the three-year Plan of Action is to make a significant contribution towards improving food security and nutrition and strengthening the resilience of vulnerable rural and peri-urban households while restoring the agriculture sector of the country. As a dynamic document, the Plan of Action will be implemented...
Yemen
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مجلة
Strengthening the Role of Women in Rural and Agricultural Areas – Obstacles and Opportunities - CIHEAM Watch Letter n. 40
Co-published by the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the CIHEAM, the Watch letter n ° 40 "Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas - Obstacles and opportunities" aims to show different perspectives of the situation in the Mediterranean region by analyzing the challenges and opportunities in the socio-economic, social, environmental,...
2018 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Gambian farmers adapt to climate change with new irrigation strategies
FAO helps smallholders in West and Central Africa adopt new irrigation strategies
Many West and Central African countries are fortunate to have abundant water resources. However, these resources are unevenly distributed across the region and are mostly untapped. Less than three percent of the region’s arable land benefits from some form of strategic water management. At the same time, many countries face...
Gambia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Paying for priceless value: securing forests’ role in water quality
Given the many threats to the Earth’s water supply, the role of forests has never been more important. The role of forest ecosystems in preserving water quality is largely underestimated. To ensure healthy water, strategies for optimizing purification, regulating surface flows and controlling erosion will increasingly need to be a part...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Origin labelling of food a boost for local economies and sustainable development
Food products registered with a Geographical Indication (GI) label boast an annual trade value of over $50 billion worldwide. Such products have specific characteristics, qualities or reputations stemming from their geographical origin.The study Strengthening sustainable food systems through geographical indications by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
تقرير
Impacts of climate change on farming systems and livelihoods in the Near East and North Africa
Regional Initiative on Small-scale Family Farming for the Near East and North Africa
This study has been developed under the Regional Initiative on Small-scale Family Farming by Phoebe Lewis (Agronomist) and Mohamed Abdel Monem (Water and Environment Specialist), under the supervision of Alfredo Impiglia, Delivery Manager for the Regional Initiative on Small-scale Family Farming, FAO Regional Office for the Near East and North...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Sierra Leone
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...
Sierra Leone
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
مقال صحفي
Belize / Access Rights: Free to Move
Belize, a pioneer in fisheries conservation, has become the first country to adopt a national, multispecies territorial user rights programme
Belize
2018 - ICSF
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Armenia embarks on national strategy for e-agriculture
An FAO workshop on 19 November in Yerevan, Armenia, provided an opportunity for the country to kickstart its efforts towards developing a national e-agriculture strategy.
Nowadays, agriculture is much more than farming; it has become more and more integrated with other sectors, and this integration requires optimization through digitalization.
E-agriculture is the...
Armenia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
موقع إنترنت
Contract Farming Resource Centre (CFRC)
The "Contract Farming Resource Centre" has been established to offer a "one-stop" site, where information on contract farming is freely made available. Interest in contract farming as a mechanism to coordinate linkages between farmers and agribusiness firms has grown recently, in view of the international trends towards tighter alignment in...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Sierra Leone
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...
Sierra Leone
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
How Iraq’s agricultural heartland is dying of thirst
Nineveh, once Iraq’s breadbasket, is becoming a dust bowl. Farmers, who came home after Islamic State fled, say they feel abandoned by their country’s leaders, joining a wave of popular anger over the slow pace of rebuilding from the war.
Iraq
2018 - Reuters
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Moldovan agriculture has become more resilient to natural disasters
Moldovan authorities and FAO have successfully implemented a four-year project to increase drought resilience amongst small-scale farmers by helping them adopt modern irrigation technologies and best practices.
At the closing event, held today in Chisinau, FAO and the minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment brought together a variegated set of...
Republic of Moldova
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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