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Blog article
FAO Analysis shows how Nationally Determined Contributions are lighting the way for climate action in the Near East and North Africa region

Agriculture is one of the sectors most affected by climate change, but as a recent FAO report ‘Regional analysis of the Nationally Determined Contributions in the Near East and North Africa’ illustrates, agriculture is also a key part of the solution to addressing the climate crisis, particularly in the Near East...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
EU organic policy supports agro-ecology’s expansion

Sustainable, ecological approaches to European farming, the heart of the European Green Deal, are needed to safeguard food supplies for EU citizens and protect the long-term livelihoods of rural communities. The emergence of more support for organic systems as a form of agro-ecological production can help address these policy challenges...
European Union
2022 - ENRD

Manual
Training of trainers manual on the operation, maintenance and repair of farm machinery

This training of trainers (ToT) manual aims to provide insights into the operation, maintenance and basic repair of farm machinery. It provides an overview of the main concepts of equipment that can facilitate sustainable agriculture practices, with examples and guidelines on the topic. Its objective is to provide extension officers,...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Newsletter article
Reflections on Women and Fisheries Labour

A range of critical issues confront women in small-scale fisheries, the most basic being the under-recognition of women’s contributions. Since the 1990s, there has been an increased awareness that women do fish. However, there still is a deep-seated perception that “real” fishing is done by men while women merely play a...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Journal article
Gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence in spearmint (Mentha spicata L.) leaves influenced by mineral nutrition

The production of export-quality spearmint is limited in Colombia because of low production volumes, poor compliance with good agricultural practices, nutrient availability, and fertilization management. This study aimed to identify how NPK fertilization influences photosynthesis and photochemistry in Mentha plants during Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria AGROSAVIA.

Blog article
Restoring ecosystem services in the Peruvian Andes

In the high Andes of Peru, rural farmers are becoming sustainable stewards of the ecosystems on which they depend – bolstering the region’s water security and their own livelihoods. IFAD is supporting these rural farmers the Conservation and Sustainable Use of High-Andean Ecosystems project, through compensation of environmental services for...
Peru
2022 - IFAD

Blog article
Conseil agricole et transitions agroécologiques des agricultures familiales : dynamiques, défis et perspectives en Afrique de l’Ouest

En Afrique de l’Ouest, le conseil agricole marqué par de longuesannées d’orientation vers le modèle de révolution verte, est de plusen plus sollicité pour accompagner des dynamiques de transitionsagroécologiques. Mais il y a un déficit de connaissances sur les ca-pacités réelles du conseil agricole à effectivement faciliter les tran-sitions agroécologiques,...
2022 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural

Manual
The EU-wide individual farm model for common agricultural policy analysis (IFM-CAP v.2)

Manual of the model
This manual presents the second version of the EU-wide individual farm level model IFM-CAP which has been developed to assess the economics and environmental impacts of the CAP and related policies, such as the Strategies embedded in the European Green Deal. The rationale for such a farm-level model is based...
European Union
2022 - Joint Research Centre (European Commission)

Technical paper
Human rights and the environment

This legal paper reflects on the evolution of international law on the interdependence of human rights and the environment. It illustrates their significance for the development and implementation of national laws on agricultural development and the management of renewable natural resources, ranging from land, water, fisheries, plants, and animals, to...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Newsletter article
What’s New, Webby?: ICSF Archives/Digital library

ICSF’s Archives/Digital library contains ICSF’s collections of more than three decades, built up since ICSF’s documentation centre was set up in Chennai in 1999 with the twin objectives of gathering all kinds of information pertinent to small-scale fisheries and making it available to all stakeholders in an easy and rapid-access...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

E-learning
Diplomado Agaves & Mezquites Regenerando Zonas Semiáridas. 03 de junio al 24 de septiembre 2022

El Diplomado es promovido por la organización civil Vía Orgánica AC y por la Universidad de Guanajuato y va dirigido a estudiantes, agricultores y campesinos que deseen restaurar sus paisajes, enriquecer las tierras y combatir el cambio climático a través de la siembra de Agaves y Mezquites en sus comunidades....
Mexico
2022 - Vía Orgánica

Policy brief/paper
The benefits of ecosystem restoration: Eleven Lessons Learned from an Analysis of Five European Restoration Initiatives

Ecosystem restoration has the potential to significantly contribute to reversing biodiversity loss, supporting climate change mitigation and adaptation, and increasing societal well-being, including gender equality. This policy brief provides the lessons learned from an analysis of ecosystem restoration benefits. The work draws on the experiences of five successful restoration initiatives within...
2022 - United Nations Environment Programme

Project
Introducing the Sámi food culture into public kitchens

The Sámi people inhabit the region of Sámi, which incorporates most of northern Norway, Sweden, and Finland as well as parts of North-western Russia. The Sámi have their own traditional food culture which was not well known to the public kitchens of Sweden’s Sámi region, where many Sámi live and...
Sweden
2022 - ENRD

Blog article
FAO workshop focuses on stronger land markets in Central Asia

The basis of agricultural production is land, and farmers need a properly functioning land market in order to make the most out of this precious asset. To this end, FAO convened Central Asian representatives of all related spheres in Bishkek to discuss the potentials of developing their national agricultural land...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: The Island of sea women: A novel

The Island of Sea Women: A Novel by Lisa See, 2019, 384 pages, Simon & Schuster Ltd, New York,, ISBN: 978 1 5011 54867 “Every woman who enters the sea, carries a coffin on her back. In this undersea world we tow the burdens of a hard life. We are crossing...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Report
OASIS – The Original Agroecological Survey Indicator System

A simple and comprehensive system for agroecological transition assessment
This document is the first of two. This brochure introduces the system of indicators and describes its principles
2022 - Agroecology Europe

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Cameroon

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...
Cameroon
2022

Conference/Meeting
How to scale agroecology

As part of its 10th anniversary celebration this year, Access Agriculture is organising a webinar on “How to scale agroecology” on 25 October 2022, in partnership with the Agroecology Coalition. The webinar will feature an eclectic line-up of distinguished speakers and panelists, including representatives from the Agroecology Coalition, FAO Family Farming Knowledge Platform, ANTHRA, Collaborative Crop Research Program at McKnight...
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture

Policy brief/paper
Global biodiversity framework stuck in a paradigm of catastrophic growth

What future for Africa?
The global community is coming togetherunder the auspices of the CBD, after delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, to address the “silent catastrophe” of biodiversity decline (CBD, 2018). It is anticipated that the COP 15 to the CBD will meet in Montreal, Canada from 7-19 December 2022 to finalise and...
2022 - The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Website
Développement local en République Centrafricaine

L’Iram lance un centre de ressources en ligne dédié au développement local en République centrafricaine. On y trouve des documents relatifs au cadre politique et législatif centrafricain, de la documentation scientifique, ainsi que des travaux produits à l’occasion de la conduite de projets (études, cartes, rapports). Le site a vocation...
2022 - IRAM
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