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Seed fair: reflections and ideas generated by African farmers in Benin
We invite you all to join us on a virtual trip to the 7th Annual West African Farmers' Seed Fair organised by the West African Committee for Farmers' Seeds (COASP) in Zoungbonou, Benin, from 9 to 11 March 2023. The seed fair brought together farmers, CSOs, government officials, academics and...
Benin
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Article
El Agua Como Bien Común
Los derechos de las generaciones futuras
De conformidad a las normas incorporadas a la Constitución Argentina de 1994 el agua puede ser calificada como bien colectivo, lo que no es una novedad dada que la categoría existía en la legislación castellana. La idea de bienes colectivos había sido eliminada a partir de la codificación del siglo...
Brazil
2023 - CADERNOS ELETRÔNICOS DIREITO INTERNACIONAL SEM FRONTEIRAS
Fact sheet
Call for papers - Workshop on “Sustainable Agroecology: Governance, practices, potentials, and tensions in a comparative perspective”
Agroecology holds that agricultures that are part of sustainable food systems are closely interwoven with local contexts and communities. These agricultures are embedded into farmers’ local and practice knowledge which is articulated in constructive ways with scientific knowledge. They combine producers’ concerns with concerns of consumers and environmental protection and...
Germany
2023 - University of Kassel, Witzenhausen/ Kassel, Germany
Report
Autumn school report ‘Ways of Knowing for Agroecological Transitions’
As part of the RISE ATTER project, consortium partners co-designed and delivered a 7-day event at Monkton Wyld Court in Dorset, UK. This is the first of three summer/autumn schools planned to take place over the course of the ATTER project. The main objective of this week-long collective space was...
2023 - RISE-ATTER
Website
Organic farming systems_GENERAL Fiche
This general fiche summarises all the environmental and climate impacts of organic farming systems and specifically on organic livestock systems, found in a review of 30 synthesis research papers [1]. These papers were selected from an initial number of 220 obtained through a systematic literature search strategy, according to the inclusion criteria reported...
European Union
2023 - European Commission
Website
Concurso Regional 2023: Soluciones Tecnológicas de Bajo Costo y/o Basadas en Recursos Locales
El Banco de soluciones tecnológicas de bajo costo y/o basadas en recursos locales es una iniciativa del Grupo de Trabajo Temático de Transferencia de Conocimiento y Buenas Prácticas de PLACA.
La segunda edición de este concurso regional busca relevar soluciones tecnológicas de bajo costo y/o basada en recursos locales que contribuyan a mejorar...
2023 - Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura de Latinoamérica y el Caribe
Guidelines
Recomendaciones para el desarrollo sostenible de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur
Lineamientos de políticas para hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el sector
Este documento va dirigido a las personas que día a día trabajan en la pesca y la acuicultura artesanales en pequeña escala en América del Sur, hombres y mujeres que permiten que tengamos alimentos sanos y nutritivos, y que contribuyen a la seguridad alimentaria y al desarrollo local. Se presentan...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
La sécheresse au Maghreb: diagnostic, impacts et perspectives pour le renforcement de la résilience du secteur agricole
Le présent rapport vient contribuer aux efforts des Nations Unies et de ses agences pour renforcer la résilience du secteur de l’agricultureface aux effets sévères de la sècheresse, doublée des effets du changement climatique et son impact sur la survenue des extrêmes climatiques sèches. La sécheresse est un phénomène à...
Algeria - Libya - Mauritania - Morocco - Tunisia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Feeding Insects for Organic Layers (OK-Net EcoFeed)
Feeding of insects offers new possibilities to overcome the protein gap in organic farming. As natural decomposers, insects can successfully transform organic waste. Large scale insect production is based on by-products from the agri-food industry which otherwise would be discarded or underexploited. The amino acid profile of insects corresponds to...
2023 - FiBLFilm
Blog article
European Network of Agricultural Journalists organizes press trip on innovations for wineries and farms
Agricultural journalists are actors in the ecosystem of agricultural innovation communication and therefore important for EU-FarmBook.
EU-FarmBook supports the activities of the European Network of Agricultural Journalists (ENAJ), because journalists play an important role in the most relevant target groups of EU-FarmBook, such as farmers, advisors and decision makers. ENAJ is...
Germany
2023 - EU Farmbook
Article
Production d’engrais sans émissions de carbone
Des chercheurs de l’École polytechnique fédérale (ETH) de Zurich et de la Carnegie Institution for Science ont montré comment produire des engrais azotéa de façon plus durable. Il s’agit là d’une nécessité non seulement pour protéger le climat, mais aussi pour réduire la dépendance aux importations de gaz naturel et...
2023
Blog article
Women’s empowerment and market skills improve rural livelihoods
A bold business decision helps one Cambodian woman improve her farm’s production and challenge gender roles
Hos Salop’s days always began very early. She would cook breakfast for her husband and her three-year-old grandchild before working on her family farm in the village of Pongro in northwest Cambodia. She collected vegetables, fed the chickens and a pig, cleaned her house and dropped her grandchild off at...
Cambodia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Rearing crickets for food and feed
People who traditionally eat insects, such as grasshoppers, termites, white ants or crickets catch them in the wild when they are in season. In some places there are now fewer edible insects because the environment has been damaged. Rearing insects on your farm can provide proteins throughout the year. Edible...
Uganda
2023 - Access Agriculture
Miscellanea
Convocatoria: Programa de Investigación y Formación en Sistemas Agroecológicos Andinos
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) es una institución internacional no- gubernamental con estatus asociativo en la UNESCO, creada en 1967, actualmente, reúne 836 Centros de Investigación y posgrado en el campo de las Ciencias Sociales y las Humanidades en 57 países de América Latina, el Caribe y otros...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - Peru
2023 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
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Learning to respect local knowledge, the hard way!
It was a sunny Saturday morning, full of life and energy as we arrived in one of the beautiful and serene farming communities in the hinterlands. Whilst one could easily be put off by the roughness of the roads to the community, the freshness of the air in such forest...
Ghana
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Stocker une partie des récoltes en échange d’un crédit ? Les avantages du warrantage au Sahel
Un nouvel outil se développe auprès des paysans sahéliens : le warrantage. Ce dispositif de crédit-stockage encourage les producteurs à différer une partie de la vente de leurs récoltes. L’objectif : mieux résister à la période de transition entre l’épuisement des stocks et la nouvelle récolte. Le nouveau numéro de...
Burkina Faso
2023 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
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World Bee Day | 20 May
For centuries bees, among the hardest working creatures on the planet, have benefited people, plants and the environment. By carrying pollen from one flower to another, bees and other pollinators enable not only the production of an abundance of fruits, nuts and seeds, but also more variety and better quality,...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Guidelines
Guía básica de aprendizaje: Implementación de sistemas agroforestales con cedro, plátanos y bananos (CEDPLA)
Guía básica de aprendizaje: Implementación de sistemas agroforestales con cedro, plátanos y bananos” (CEDPLA), es una guía técnica para la implementación de módulos agroforestales que contribuyen a la resiliencia climática de comunidades agrícolas en siete municipios de Cuba que forman parte del proyecto "Resiliencia climática en los ecosistemas agrícolas de...
Cuba
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Strengthening the resilience of agricultural supply chains
Fresh fruits and vegetables constitute important commodities in world agricultural production, trade and consumption. Their typically high nutritional value makes fresh fruits and vegetables a critical component in ensuring global food security and nutrition. Since a large share of fruits and vegetables are produced in low income countries, concerns regarding...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
Just transition and adaptation in the food system: national policy dialogue
The National policy dialogue on a just transition and adaptation in the food system took place in Ekurhuleni, from 20-22 September.
Organisations representing the labour movement, smallholder farmers, farm workers, labour tenants, informal traders, waste reclaimers, food and land justice organisations, civil society, and policymakers came together to discuss building a...
South Africa
2023 - Alliance for Rural Advancement (AFRA)
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