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La Formation par apprentissage, une offre adaptée aux contextes des jeunes ruraux malgaches
Massifier la formation agricole et rurale (FAR) des jeunes et contribuer à la rénovation dusystème de FAR national, tels sont les objectifs du programme FORMAPROD, mis en œuvredans 13 régions de Madagascar depuis le début des années 2010. Sa spécificité ?Miser notamment sur la formation par apprentissage.
Madagascar
2023 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural
Guidelines
Augmented participatory action research in the digital age
Guidelines for implementation in community-based peatland restoration and sustainable business development
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a tool for fostering a new paradigm in natural resources management. Combined with an Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) approach, in community-based fire prevention and peatland restoration, PAR facilitates transformative change through a simultaneous process of research and taking action, linked together by critical refl ection....
Indonesia
2023 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Journal article
NGOs facilitating internal governance processes in community forestry initiatives
Community forest management can contribute to local development, while playing an important role in the protection and restoration of the world’s forests — crucial to tackle the global biodiversity and climate crises. The success of community forest management is influenced by the functioning of community-level governance arrangements. What role can...
2023 - Tropenbos International
Report part
Community Ownership can create change: Experimental participatory learning brings better life in Timor-Leste
It was another hot and humid day, another power cut, the generator groaning in the background. Fans were spinning and pumping hot air around as the A/C didn’t work with the generator. I looked around the office, everyone seemed bored, scrolling through Facebook, chatting occasionally. I felt sad that there...
Timor-Leste
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Knowledge hub for water Scientific knowledge, data and web tools supporting EU water policy
Water policy and management needs to take into account and integrate different water uses and the protection of water resources and aquatic ecosystems. Better policy is based on best scientific and technical knowledge. The availability of scientific knowledge is key to integrate environmental, agricultural and other sectoral policy objectives, as...
European Union
2023 - Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
Article
Human African trypanosomiasis cases diagnosed in non-endemic countries (2011–2020)
Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is transmitted by tsetse flies in endemic foci in sub-Saharan Africa. Because of international travel and population movements, cases are also occasionally diagnosed in non-endemic countries.
Antitrypanosomal medicines to treat the disease are available gratis through the World Health Organization (WHO) thanks to a...
2023
Policy brief/paper
Forests, Energy and Livelihoods
The world faces interlinked crises and conflicts, including poverty, inequality, and fragility. Deforestation and forest degradation trends are unsustainable and hundreds of millions of people lack access to clean, affordable energy. Forests and energy are vital for addressing these challenges and accelerating progress on the SDGs. To maximize the contribution...
2023 - UNDP
Blog article
Les pratiques agroécologiques sont largement utilisées par les agriculteurs africains
Les agriculteurs africains, aussi bien les petites exploitations que les plus grandes fermes, recourent très largement à toute une palette de pratiques agroécologiques. Cette observation controversée vient d'être révélée dans un nouveau document de travail de l'équipe du projet Viabilité. Une réalité qui s'applique à un large éventail de contextes...
2023 - CIRAD
Journal article
Disturbance and resilience of aquatic plant communities in fish ponds after temporary dry periods
Fish pond systems are managed with different practices. Among them, a dry period with one year without water is applied in some cases to promote mineralization of the sediments and control the development of pathogenic bacteria. This dry period induces a drastic disturbance on the plant communities. The objective of...
2023 - Aquatic Ecology
Technical paper
EU rules on producing and labelling organic products (from 2022)
It aims to revise and strengthen the European Union’s (EU) rules on organic production and the labelling of organic products in relation to:
the control system;
the trade regime;
production rules.
In this way, it aims to:
create a level playing field for operators;
harmonise and simplify rules;
improve consumer confidence in organic products and in the EU’s organic logo.
It repeals and...
European Union
2023 - Publications Office of the European Union
Video
Entrepreneurship in rural areas under RDP 2014-2020
The Polish Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development undertakes activities aimed at the development of entrepreneurship (e.g. improving qualifications and access to the labour market, financial support) under the Rural Development Programme for 2014-2020 (RDP 2014-2020).
European Union
2023 - EU CAP
Book
Lockhart and Wiseman's crop husbandry including grassland
Lockhart and Wiseman’s Crop Husbandry Including Grassland, Tenth Edition delivers the latest developments in crop varieties, crop protection products and environmental schemes. This new edition reflects the changing world around us, with sections covering the principles of crop production and chapters on plants, climate, soil management, fertilizers, manures, weeds and...
2023
Practices
Agroforestry for All – Walnut Agroforestry in Warwickshire
“10% agroforestry land-use mandatory for every organic farm” is the call from the European Organic-PLUS and AGROMIX research projects led by Coventry University’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR). This impact is being discussed by certification bodies and may become UK/EU organic and agroecological standard at the next ‘organic-plus’ upgrade of...
2023 - Organic Grower 64 – Autumn 2023
Technical paper
Rural Inspiration Awards 2022
The theme of RIA 2022 was ‘The Future is Youth’, inspired jointly by 2022 being the European Year of Youth, the long-term vision for rural areas, and the Rural Pact, developed by the European Commission. RIA 2022 sought to promote the importance of European youth to build a better future...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP NETWORK
Project
Project brief: Greening the humanitarian response in displacement settings
The scale and protracted nature of displacement today highlights more than ever the need to integrate environmental preparedness and response in humanitarian interventions. Addressing the environmental impacts of forced displacement and related risks is essential with environmental protection being a necessary pre-condition of human protection. Over past years, FAO has...
2023
Practices
Farmer Field Schools – Using peer -to -peer advisory to reduce antibiotic inputs and to improve animal health and welfare
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) facilitate exchange between practitioners. Recommendations shared between practitioners are often found more convincing and are thus implemented by farmers more rapidly.
2023 - RELACS
Journal article
The human being at the heart of agroecological transitions: insights from cognitive mapping of actors’ vision of change in Roquefort area
Agroecological transitions aim at developing sustainable farming and food systems, adapted to local contexts. Such transitions require the engagement of local actors and the consideration of their knowledge and reasoning as a whole, which encompasses different natures of knowledge (empirical, scientific, local, generic), related to different dimensions (economic, environmental, technical,...
France
2023 - Agriculture and Human Values
E-learning
Highlights from "Advocacy in Eastern Europe for Sustainable Food Systems"
Does Eastern Europe have a specific dynamic regarding the development of LSPA (Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology)? Together, let’s find different methods and models to build a more sustainable food system. The module is designed for consumers and producers interested in finding out more information about CSA in Hungary and Romania. It may also...
2023 - ASAT, Romania, Tudatos Vásárlók Egyesülete TVE, Hungary URGENCI, ICLEI
Blog article
Madagascar signs new ‘sustainable’ tuna deal with the EU
Foreign tuna fishing companies, mostly from Asia, have been exploiting Madagascar’s waters since the 1950s. The bloc that is now the European Union joined the hunt in 1986 and didn’t stop for decades, renewing its deal with Madagascar every few years.
Yet when the last Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA), as...
European Union - Madagascar
2023
Book
Moving Crops and the Scales of History
A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape"--the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops have been on the move for millennia, from wildlands into fields,...
2023
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