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Vietnam / Fisheries Legislation: Re-visiting the Law
The government of Vietnam seeks to empower the country's fishermen through the landmark passage of an amended fisheries law
Viet Nam
2018 - ICSF
دراسة حالة
Farm to systems
In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...
India
2018 - Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
News from the CSA Network in Australia and New Zealand
Another international CSA network has evolved in the South Pacific to serve and develop a growing food movement. The Community Supported Agriculture Network Australia and New Zealand (CSAAUSNZ) is an advocacy group dedicated to highlighting, growing and supporting CSAs in Australia and New Zealand....
Australia - New Zealand
2018 - Urgenci
مقال صحفي
Profile: Dream Big, the Sea is the Limit: K.C. Rekha: Seagoing Fisherwoman from Kerala, India
Taking a road less travelled is not easy. Sometimes the whole of society stands against you. But no such fear deterred Rekha K.C. of Koorkenchery, a village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, the first woman in the country to go fishing in the deep waters of the outer...
India
2018 - ICSF
تقرير
Upscaling climate smart agriculture
Lessons for extension and advisory services
Extension and advisory services (EAS) can play a very important role in scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). EAS contribute to the realization of all three objectives of CSA (food security, adaptation and mitigation), but are currently focused on the first of these, namely food security through enhanced productivity. EAS...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
متنوّعات
Smallholders data-portrait
The updated dataset on Small Family Farms across the world
The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait of the ESA Small Family Farms Team is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers, bringing out the characteristics of family farms across the world. It is designed in such a way that differences between countries and regions can be...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Ghana - Guatemala - Indonesia - Kenya - Malawi - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Panama - Tajikistan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقال صحفي
Biogas plants help farmers in Vietnam
Current approach to manure management for small-scale Southeast Asian farmers
Animal excrements, especially those of pigs, are produced in large volumes in Southeast Asia . Where these wastes are not properly treated, negative impacts on natural environment and health of local inhabitants are a consequence.
Manure is generated in large volumes in the entire Southeast Asia. When properly treated, the volume...
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
مقالة
New study confirms the need to better prioritize rural youth in political agendas
The IYFF+ 10 World Coordination Committee (WCC) launches a new study that analyzes and highlights the common and global challenges faced by rural youth from all 5 continents.
The recently published study on Young People and Family Farming stresses the need to prioritize youth in the political agenda by strengthening a comprehensive approach at the institutional level tailored to the needs and demands of rural youth. This study has been carried out by the IYFF+ 10 World Coordination...
Afghanistan
2018 - WRF
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
High-tech marine research vessel arrives in Asia’s Andaman Sea to improve knowledge on marine biodiversity and ecosystems – UNFAO
A Norwegian research vessel, working for the EAF-Nansen Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has made a port call in Thailand as part of a regional survey of marine resources, ecosystems and environment in the Bay of Bengal.
The port call marks the beginning of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقال صحفي
India: Beach Profiling for Community Resilience
Women and men in fishing communities in South India work together to generate important beach related data. India’s 7,500 km coastline is a hotbed of transformation. The ‘Territorial Sea’, where fishing is allowed, provides an exclusive economic zone in the ocean, 60 per cent the size of its land area....
India
2018 - ICSF
وثيقة فنية
Integration of Youth into Smallholding Agriculture: Challenges, Impacts and Prospects: Perspectives from Cambodia
The objective of this doctoral dissertation is to look at the factors that determine the decisions of youth and their parents regarding youth occupation and thereby to understand the conditions for integrating youth into family farming. In the context of developing countries, there are increasing concerns that the younger generations...
Cambodia
2018
مقال صحفي
Yemaya Recommends: Film - Women at the Water’s Edge: Lives of women in climate changed Sunderbans
The Indian poet, Bhupen Hazarika’s soul-stirring composition ‘O Ganga Boicho Keno (Oh Ganges, why do you flow?),’ inspired by Paul Robeson’s “Ol’ Man River”, plays as we see footage of communities facing irrecoverable loss of their homes, lands and assets by an aggressively advancing river.Women at the Water’s Edge is...
India
2018 - ICSF
كتاب
Stories of Change
Read the latest publication by Tropical Agriculture Platform – Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (TAP-CDAIS) project on stories of change. This relates to many stories of personal change, organizational change, changes in attitudes, changes in practice and improvements in livelihoods. Some examples of rich learning experiences started with the...
Angola - Bangladesh - Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Guatemala - Honduras - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Rwanda
2018
دراسة حالة
Study tour to Bangladesh fosters knowledge-sharing on rice-fish systems
Rice-fish systems are common in many South and Southeast Asian countries as well as some areas of Africa. The systems are diverse, spanning capture fisheries and aquaculture, with fish and rice growing concurrently in rice fields and canals or, alternatively, fish raised between rice crops.
FISH has developed several approaches to...
Bangladesh
2018 - World Fish
صحيفة وقائع
Grape Mundo: an ecosystem for grape farming
“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...
India
2018 - Rta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
تقرير
Lessons learned from five years of nature conservation and development in South Pacific Islands
This report is a compilation, which captures the experiences of the Project Team during their engagement with their respective governments and various organizations over the 5 years of project implementation. Such experiences were compiled for, shared, and discussed at a workshop specifically organised by the FAO FPAM project and held...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
كتاب
The End of Desertification?
Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
The opening chapters of this book examine something that never occurred but was widely believed to have existed—the late 20th century desertification crisis in the Sahel. Recent advances in climatology and changing weather patterns have effectively terminated further scientific debate about the existence of widespread Sahelian desertification, providing us with...
2018
فيديو
Tam Viet Farm
Video introduction Tam Viet Farm, produced by ALiSEA
Viet Nam
2018 - ALiSEA Mekong
صحيفة وقائع
Women-led agriculture service team in inclusive food system programme
In Cambodia, small-scale farmers are facing the issue of low economic returns from their rice farming because of low productivity and high input costs. The system of rice intensification (SRI) allows farmers to use less inputs. In dry areas, SRI could result in an average yield of 3.6 tonnes/ha, while...
Cambodia
2018 - Oxfam Cambodia
مقالة
Investing in the Future: The Breadfruit Story
There are many reasons for Pacific farmers to get involved in producing breadfruit: it is highly nutritious; it can be used as an import substitute for wheat, rice, and potatoes; there are untapped export markets; it is natural disaster and climate change resilient; and there is an expanding body of...
2018 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
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