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

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Video
Shescapes: Women in Small-scale Fisheries

The 32 minute film complied by shows a change that has occurred over a decade in different countries across the world — truthful appreciation of women’s role in fisheries. Despite differences in society, culture, politics and economics, their involvement in the sector follows a similar arc the world over. The...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Video
Réussites Paysannes au Sénégal

Problématique de la commercialisation de l'arachide au Sénégal Le Roppa a procédé le 19 juin dernier au lancement d’une série de films produits en partenariat avec SOS Faim Belgique et mettant en lumière des réussites paysannes. Le premier traite de la commercia-lisation des arachides au Sénégal et d’une expérience de contrac-tualisation...
Senegal
2022 - Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs Agricoles de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA)

Article
Have public policy and family farming been an unhappy marriage for the past 20 years?

The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have made progress in creating and implementing public policies on family farming (FF) by developing their own concepts, which converge in the fact that the family labor force is the most important link. However, this also appears to be their weakness...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
FAO elearning Academy: major achievements for 2021

Strengthening capacity to face global challenges
This publication describes the activities and initiatives implemented by the elearning Academy in 2021. 2021 was an exceptionally productive and successful year with over 700 000 learners throughout the world, more than 90 FAO multilingual elearning courses published, in collaboration with over 300 partners worldwide. The year marked the second...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Newsletter
IIED Biodiversity newsletter September 2022

IIED's biodiversity newsletter is sent out every two months to keep you updated on our and partners' work on the links between biodiversity, conservation and local people's livelihoods.In this newsletter we share a new episode of the Make Change Happen podcast and some recent StoryMaps looking at innovative financing for nature...
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Journal article
Bridging Social Innovation with Forest and Landscape Restoration

Mitigating climate change, preventing mass species extinctions, improving rural livelihoods, and disaster risk reduction are among today's most urgent challenges. To meet these challenges, a large number of social actors need to agree to engage and act collectively on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR), ensuring its dual goal of restoring...
2022 - University of Padova, Italy

Journal article
Edible weeds and food and nutrition security in the face of the herbicide revolution. A case study from Zambia

Herbicides are on the rise across the developing world. Herbicides may come with several advantages but can also undermine environmental and human health. In the quest to assess the trade-offs of herbicides one aspect has received limited attention: the role of edible weeds, which can be key elements of rural...
Zambia
2022 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Journal article
Sri Lanka: The Rage of a Perfect Storm

Months after a container ship carrying toxic chemicals caught fire off the west coast of Sri Lanka, fisherfolk still suffer from the dreadful aftereffects of the country’s worst marine ecological disaster. A 186-m-long container ship called X-Press Pearl, registered in Singapore, arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the night of 19...
Sri Lanka
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Fact sheet
Componente animal: recurso animal

Aquí se relacionan las razas o grupos genéticos predominantes en el sistema productivo de carne ovina del trópico bajo. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
Rural people in crisis: The latest news from IFAD

From Latin America, across Africa and the Middle East, all the way to the Pacific Islands – poor rural communities and small rural producers are up against a mammoth combination of crisis factors, including the effects of the ongoing war in Ukraine, a lingering pandemic, climate change, inflation and financial,...
2022 - IFAD

Article
Co-construire des connaissances avec des organisations d’agriculteurs familiaux : un observatoire de science citoyenne à Santarém, Amazonie brésilienne

This data paper presents a survey conducted in a participatory manner in the territory of Santarém, in the Brazilian Amazon. The aim is to understand how global changes are affecting family farmers. In the study area, family farming has been confronted over the past 20 years with the rapid expansion of...
Brazil
2022

Manual
The Extension and Advisory Service Systems Yardstick (EAS-Y)

Extension and advisory services (EAS) play a key role in facilitating innovation processes, empowering marginalized groups through capacity development, and linking farmers with markets. Advisory services are increasingly provided by a range of actors and funded from diverse sources. With the broadened scope of EAS and the growing complexity of...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Citizen participation in the governance of nature-based solutions

The last half-a-century has seen a marked demand for authentic citizen participation in public policy-and decision-making, not least in the field of sustainability. The depth and forms of citizen engagement in nature-based solutions (NBS), for example, and how such participation shapes their trajectories is gaining increasing attention. In this paper,...
2022 - Lund University, Sweden

Practices
Recycling agricultural residues in organic farming by on-farm compost production

This practice abstract was elaborated in the BIO4FOOD project: the project is running from November 2020 to October 2023, and is to contribute to reducing crop wastes providing natural protection products, vegetables rich in health-promoting minerals and biofertilizers.
2022 - CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics

Journal article
Food systems in transition: conceptualizing sustainable food entrepreneurship

This paper presents the sustainable food entrepreneurship framework (SFEF). It aims to further the understanding of the role of entrepreneurship in the sustainability transition of the food system, especially in the context of food system re-localization. The framework conceptualizes sustainable food entrepreneurship as a cyclical ongoing process of change. We...
2022 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Policy brief/paper
The changing nature of Kenya’s seed industry sectors

Lessons from the potato seed sector industry
In this paper, we discuss the changes taking place in the Kenyan seed sector, with a focus on potato. The changes paint an extremely disturbing picture of how draconian agricultural and seed laws and policies are undermining smallholder farmers and their seed and food systems.
Kenya
2022 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Journal article
Myanmar: Fate Snatched Away

Political turmoil following a military coup has robbed small-scale fisherfolk in Myanmar of their decade-long success in making democracy work for them. The governance of Myanmar’s inland and coastal fisheries underwent reforms in favour of small-scale fisheries (SSF) and fishing communities in the period between 2010 and 2020. This happened through...
Myanmar
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Video
Réussites Paysannes au Burkina

Le Roppa a procédé le 19 juin dernier au lancement d’une série de films produits en partenariat avec SOS Faim Belgique et mettant en lumière des réussites paysannes. Le premier traite de la commercia-lisation des arachides au Sénégal et d’une expérience de contrac-tualisation qui a permis d’augmenter la production et les revenus des...
Burkina Faso
2022 - Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA)

Guidelines
A guide to World Food Safety Day 2022

The fourth World Food Safety Day (WFSD) will be celebrated on 7 June 2022 to draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agricultural production, market access, tourism and sustainable development. This publication is a guide for all...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Componente animal: salud animal

Mantener los animales en un lugar limpio, seco, protegido de predadores y condiciones climáticas. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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