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

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Fact sheet
Componente ambiental: introducción al modelo

Ganadería Ovina. 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)

Practices
Tips for harvesting and storage of different crops

This practice shows some simple tips for harvesting and storage of different crops. The dependence of much food production on climatic fluctuations means that variability in food output can never be completely avoided. Adequate on-farm and household storage are therefore crucial, not only to enable storage of current and surplus food...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Report
Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets

FAO’s latest forecasts point to somewhat easing of market conditions for basic foodstuffs. However, increased climate variability, conflicts and geopolitical tensions, bleak economic prospects, soaring agricultural input costs and export restrictions continue to pose challenges to global food commodity market stability.     Issued twice a year, the November issue of the Food...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
The World of Organic Agriculture - statistics & emerging trends 2022

With the 23rd edition, FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International proudly present a new edition of “The World of Organic Agriculture.” Data collection is a major and constant concern of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL and IFOAM – Organics International. The comprehensive data provided over more than two...
European Union
2022 - FIBL, Ifoam

Video
Meet Lizelore Vos, experimenting with plant rotation and intercropping for biodiverse agriculture

Meet Lizelore Vos, who has just begun a plant rotation system to grow potatoes, carrots, chicory, alfalfa, and wheat, planting the crops on different plots each year, diversifying soil nutrients. She’s also planted rows of fruit and nut trees between the crops, to protect them from the wind, and generating...
2022 - AGROMIX Project

E-learning
URGENCI warmly welcomes you to join our e-learning course on Community Supported Fisheries!

We are pleased to announce that our first e-learning course on Community Supported Fisheries will take place from Monday 16 May through Friday 3 June!   This e-learning course is a part of the Erasmus+ funded project Deck to Dish: Advanced Training in Community Supported Fisheries. We are proud to be...
2022 - Urgenci International

Blog article
North Macedonia develops country's first National Food Security Strategy

Setting the basis for developing an integrated whole-of-government National Food Security Strategy in North Macedonia will be the focus of a new FAO project. The project was launched today through an event in Skopje, organized by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy in partnership with the Rural...
North Macedonia
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Project
Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture

  ARC2020 is supporting a research project on ‘Rural Perspectives on Digital Agriculture’, led by PhD Matteo Metta. The project aims to study, and to connect, farmers, advisors, policies, nature conservationists, and critical considerations around digitalisation from the perspective of a diversified, integrated, and multifunctional agriculture. Digitalisation is increasingly expanding in agriculture...
European Union
2022 - Arc 2020

Report
FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2021

This first ever FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2021 report presents a summary of the main priorities, developments and results achieved by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the Africa region in 2021. FAO in Africa: Impacts in 2021 is organized according to the four...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Legislar para promover la Agricultura Familiar en América Latina y el Caribe

La agricultura familiar es una actividad esencial para el desarrollo del mundo rural y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe. Legislar sobre agricultura familiar permite sentar bases normativas permanentes para el desarrollo de políticas propicias que fomenten la agricultura familiar como parte...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter

FAO Agroecology Newsletter - April 2022 / Issue #5
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Video
AGROMIX | Co-designing methods for sustainable and resilient food systems

The AGROMIX project aims to deliver participatory research to drive the transition to a resilient and efficient land use in Europe. It focuses on practical agroecological solutions for farm and land management and related value chains. Due to the unique social, environmental and economic conditions present across Europe, it is...
2022 - AGROMIX Project

Journal article
Beyond diffusion to sustained adoption of innovation: A case of smallholder poultry development in sub-Saharan Africa

Enhancing smallholder chicken production and productivity is an integral component of agricultural development strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. The African Chicken Genetic Gain (ACGG) project has been testing, identifying, and disseminating tropically adapted improved breeds (TAIBs) in Africa to improve the production and productivity of the sector. We applied a multimethod...
2022 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Journal article
South Africa: A Seismic Shift

A coalition of fishing communities, activists and lawyers has come together to keep the coasts and oceans of South Africa free of the destructive Blue Economy agenda. To Hell with Shell!” This was the rallying call of small-scale fishing communities and indigenous coastal communities in South Africa as they mobilized support...
South Africa
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Journal article
Déclaration des Organisations Paysannes de Guinée sur le foncier

Vers l’organisation des États Généraux du Foncier domanial : Voici une importante déclaration des Organisations Paysannes de Guinée (OPG)
Guinea
2022

Article
Herencia del color del pelaje en el ganado criollo Romosinuano

Las poblaciones de razas bovinas criollas son valiosos reservorios de diversidad y esta es importante para la formación y diferenciación de las razas. Las poblaciones aisladas son de gran interés porque las frecuencias génicas dependen del ambiente en que se desenvuelven, ya que el aislamiento les ha impedido tener intercambio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
Achieving SDG indicator 5.a.2 in the Western Balkans and beyond

FAO and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have been providing support to the Western Balkans region to promote progress on gender equality, with a focus on measuring the proportion of countries where the legal framework guarantees women’s equal rights to land ownership and/or control.
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Blog article
A young Kenyan mother turns into a successful organic entrepreneur to promote safe and healthy food for children

Today, she is well known in Kenya and beyond for her successful organic business ‘Sylvia’s Basket,’, which she launched in 2016 in Limuru, central Kenya. But at heart, Sylvia Kuria remains the same young mother, who decided over 12 years ago to produce organic vegetables in her kitchen garden, so...
Kenya
2022 - Access Agriculture

Fact sheet
Componente ambiental: servicios ecosistémicos

¿Qué son los servicios ecosistémicos? Son los beneficios directos o indirectos que obtienen las personas de los ecosistemas y agroecosistemas. 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)

Report
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022

Towards Blue Transformation
The 2022 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture coincides with the launch of the Decade of Action to deliver the Global Goals, the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. It presents how these and other equally...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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