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The Resources section holds archived publications and multimedia materials related to family farming general issues.

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Promoting Organic Agricultural Practices

The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019
Cambodia
2020

Report
Towards a Long-Term Vision for Mountains’ Rural Areas

The European Commission is expected to publish its communication on the Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas during the first semester 2021. The Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas is coordinated by Vice-President Dubravka Šuica, European Commissioner for Democracy & Demography. Janusz Wojciechowski, EU Commissioner for Agriculture, and Elisa Ferreira, Commissioner for...
European Union
2020 - Euromontana: the European Association for Mountain Areas

Event
Call for case studies on initiatives that enhance the livelihoods of small-scale food producer youth under a changing climate

As part of FAO’s "Boosting Koronivia" project supporting the negotiation process under the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, FAO is planning to publish a collection of case studies to showcase proactive solutions taken to support and strengthen the livelihoods of small-scale food producer youth under a changing climate. These include sustainable practices and measures that create...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Farming Smarter The Case for Agroecological Enterprise

Farming Smarter is intended as an overview of the thinking and principles behind agroecological approaches to agriculture and land management. It explores the economic argument for regenerative farming and confirms that there is no need for a trade-off between profit and nature in an agroecological system. The report reinforces the view that...
2020 - Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

Conference proceedings
Advancing agroecology and farmer managed seed systems in Limpopo

At a dialogue on farmer-managed seed systems and agroecology, held in Acornhoek, Limpopo on 20-22 January 2020, farmers and support organisations made clear that they want to see more government and policy support for agroecology and farmer-managed seed systems, that they will work together to engage government in this direction,...
South Africa
2020 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Blog article
Trying it yourself

Helping to write a script for a farmer training video on vermiwash triggered my interest in trying it out myself, as I began to wonder if ideas from tropical India could work in temperate Belgium.
Belgium - India
2020 - Access Agriculture

Video
A Film to Promote Sustainable Food System Practices

This is a film produced by ICENECDEV(International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development) to promote sustainable Food System in the Mount Cameroon Forest Region through Tradition/Indigenous Knowledge, Agroecology and Natural Farming Practices in providing healthy Food to Healthy People. This film is produced to promote cultural and traditional practices...
Cameroon
2020 - International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV )

Audio
Saúde e comida de verdade em tempos de coronavirus

Diversas têm sido as estratégias de comercialização e abastecimento alimentar adotadas por organizações da agricultura familiar. Algumas delas em diálogo com órgãos de saúde dos estados e municípios. O objetivo é garantir circuitos curtos de comercialização, cuidando da saúde de todas e todos nós e, também, mantendo a renda de...
Brazil
2020 - Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA)

Video
Uncle Wiz Farm: organic indigenous produce

Uncle Wiz is a shining example of a thriving smallscale farming and food distribution business that not only farms without chemicals but also focuses on and promotes indigenous food crops. Owners Wisdom and Mpumi Edward live in south Johannesburg and farm on land in Vanderbijlpark. Not only do they grow...
South Africa
2020 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Book
Enabling sustainable food systems - innovators' handbook

Sustainable food systems are fundamental to ensuring that future generations are food secure and eat healthy diets. Many food system activities must be reconstructed to transition towards sustainability, and myriad actors worldwide are starting to act locally. While some changes are more comfortable than others, knowing how to navigate them...
2020 - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment

Video
Preparación de Almácigos

Diego Machuca, ingeniero agrónomo y encargado de la Unidad Productiva Agroecológica de centro Ceres, nos entrega una serie de recomendaciones para desarrollar en nuestras casas una almaciguera ¡Míralo y celebra con nosotros la curiosidad! #FECI2020#CienciaPública#ExploraValpo
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura

Miscellanea
The Haller Farmers App - improving the lives of millions of smallholder farmers

The Haller Foundation is a UK based charity that was set up in order to educate rural farmers in East Africa on sustainable pioneering farming techniques to maximise their food production and to help build self-sustaining communities. Since our launch back in 2004, we have worked with over 25,000 people...
Kenya
2020 - The Haller Foundation

Newsletter
Cambio climático y coyuntura 2020, reflexiones y respuestas

La situación de emergencia por la enfermedad covid-19 ha retrasado el proceso editorial, ya que algunos artículos llegaron tarde y el mismo equipo editorial de LEISA está limitado a actuar solo remotamente. También consideramos que las muchas circunstancias de esta condición de salud, que afecta a la mayoría de los...
2020 - Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes .

Video
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Muhammad, an organic farmer from Pakistan

I want to tell the whole world to switch to organic farming. There is nothing to fear and you will find it highly beneficial.” Meet Muhammad, a farmer from Pakistan who has been farming organically for many years now
Pakistan
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International

Video
Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos

A video about the Impact of COVID-19 on small holder farmers in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - Asia Pacific Farmers

Video
¿Qué agroecología necesitamos?

¿Sabemos cómo se producen los alimentos que consumimos diariamente? La agroecología es una propuesta que nace en los ‘80 como respuesta a los estragos provocados por la agricultura industrial, que se centraba en monocultivos y uso intensivo de agrotóxicos. Hoy en día, algunas corporaciones se están apropiando de la palabra...
2020 - Biodiversidadla

Video
Caldo Sulfocálcico

El Caldo Sulfocálcico es utilizado especialmente por sus características fungicidas y acaricidas. Éste consiste en la mezcla de una medida de azufre en polvo y media medida de cal, hervidas en agua. El uso de la cal favorece la dilución del azufre en el agua que una vez decantado y...
Chile
2020 - Centro Regional de Investigación e Innovación para la Sostenibilidad y Los Territorios Rurales (CERES) de la Agricultura

Video
Organic Poultry production in Denmark

This video has been produced as a replacement for a field trip to the farm Gothenborg that was originally planned to take place during the OK-NET EcoFeed meeting in Billund in May 2020. Due to the COVID19 situation, instead the meeting was held online. The video replaces the farm visit...
Denmark
2020 - ICROFS

Website
Unleashing the potential of family farmers in NENA Region

Family Farming (which includes all family-based agricultural activities) is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, pastoral and aquaculture production which is managed and operated by a family and predominantly reliant on family labour, including both women’s and men’s. The family and the farm are linked, co-evolve and combine economic,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
Text Mining National Commitments towards Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Use

Capturing countries’ commitments for measuring and monitoring progress towards certain goals, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), remains underexplored. The Agrobiodiversity Index bridges this gap by using text mining techniques to quantify countries’ commitments towards safeguarding and using agrobiodiversity for healthy diets, sustainable agriculture, and effective genetic resource management. The...
2020 - Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT
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