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Blog article
What is a women’s association about?

In Ecuador, community organiser, Ing. Guadalupe Padilla, has told me that belonging to a group can help women gain leadership experience. Women become leaders as they work in a group, not in isolation. Guadalupe has helped to organise several such groups. Like a story, the group has to be about...
Ecuador
2022 - Access Agriculture

Video
Catálogo Audiovisual de Tecnologías Agroecológicas

Iniciativa de la región LAC que es el Catalogo Audiovisual de tecnologías Agroecológicas (CATA). Es un proyecto donde confluyen Agroecología y Arte, conocimiento y práctica.Está pensando a manera de enciclopedia audiovisual de saberes y experinecias con enfoques difrentes en la producción agropecuaria y el relacionamiento con el medio ambiente. Dividido por...
Argentina - Cuba - Uruguay
2022 - OXFAM

Website
Animal Production

In several countries across the world, the surging demand for livestock products is largely met by large-scale livestock production and associated food chains. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of small-scale producers and pastoralists depend on livestock for their livelihoods. Beyond food production, farm animals play other important economic, cultural and social...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Website
Map of youth initiatives by the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC)

The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) is an autonomous and self-organised global platform of small-scale food producers, rural workers organisations and grassroots social movements whose goal is to advance the Food Sovereignty agenda at the global and regional level. The Youth Working Group of the IPC has produced...
2022 - IPC Youth Initiatives

Blog article
Tonga volcanic eruption: what possible impact on agriculture and fisheries

With the full picture of damage and needs after Tonga’s massive volcanic eruption and tsunami only gradually emerging, what is already clear is that the stakes could not be higher for the farmers and fishers of the South Pacific island nation, living in one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. With roughly...
Tonga
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Conceptos básicos: Contexto actual

¿Cuál es la importancia de la ganadería en Colombia? ¿Cuáles son los grandes retos que enfrenta la ganadería convencional? ¿Quiénes vienen investigando y promoviendo en este tipo de sistemas? 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
Complex rice systems, Indonesia

Complex rice systems (CRSs) are integrated agricultural systems that combine azolla (aquatic ferns), fish, ducks and border plants into rice production systems to augment ecological processes of nutrient recycling, weed and pest suppression, and replace agrochemicals that are harmful to human, animals and environment. Moreover, CRSs could foster ecosystem services...
Indonesia
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Policy brief/paper
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

Summary for Policymakers
The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate change mitigation progress and pledges, and examines the sources of global emissions. It explains developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts, assessing the impact of national climate pledges in relation to long-term emissions goals. The Summary for Policymakers (SPM)...
2022 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Conference proceedings
New Agroecology Initiative to Catalyse Resilient Agrifood Systems in Zimbabwe

Partners of a new resilience building initiative in Zimbabwe held a launch meeting in Harare on 7 October 2022, gathering 80 participants, including national agricultural extension programmes, government representatives, academic institutions, government representatives, private sector actors, the media, EU representatives and national agricultural research and development organisations. Entitled "Resilience Building through...
Zimbabwe
2022 - Cirad

Report
Empowering women farmers

A mechanization catalogue for practitioners
Rural women across the world work along agri-food value chains performing numerous agricultural operations. Their work is increasingly affected by land degradation, climate change impacts and out-migration. It is often unrecognized, unqualified and unpaid. Moreover, the traditional division of labour often relegates women to manual, time-consuming operations with high degrees...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
IFOAM Organics Europe position paper on carbon farming and the revision of the LULUCF Regulation

Finding synergies between climate action and biodiversity protection
The organic movement welcomes the ‘Sustainable Carbon Cycles’ initiative of the European Commission on “carbon farming” which brings focus on soil carbon sequestration on agricultural land. While climate mitigation should clearly prioritize absolute emissions reductions, carbon sequestration in the land use sector will also be needed to meet long-term climate...
European Union
2022 - IFoam Europe

Blog article
Rebuilding soil to cultivate on unculturable land in Slovenia

This article details the experience shared during World Soil Day 2022 event on how to make uncultivable soil fertile and suitable for food production in Slovenia while increasing interest in this subject for younger generations through practice-driven education.
Slovenia
2022 - DevelopmentAid

Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Development Newsletter - March 2022

Retrospective of March from Romanian Rural Network: collecting local refugee aid initiatives, agrifish council of 21 march 2022, network to innovate webinars: social innovation, informal video conference of agriculture ministers , 3rd informal meeting of national rural network support units - mediterranean cluster and many many more  
Romania
2022 - Reteaua Nationala de Dezvoltare Rurala RNDR

Blog article
Soil for a living planet

In a refreshingly optimistic book, ‘The soil will save us’, Kristin Ohlson explains how agriculture could stop emitting carbon, and instead remove it from the air and place it in the soil.
United States of America
2022 - Access Agriculture

Report
Efficient agricultural water use and management in paddy fields in Zambia

The report identifies the irrigation potentials, gaps and needs that exist at national level for paddy rice production. The analysis carried out in the outlook will form a basis for enhancing water resources management in paddy fields. The report addresses all stakeholders involved in the sector, including technicians, researchers, and...
Zambia
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Practices
Conceptos básicos: Especies vegetales

Árboles multiproposito, árboles maderables, estrato arbustivo, estrato herbáceo Fuente principal Modelo productivo sistemas silvopastoriles de estratos múltiples para el sistema de producción bovina doble propósito en la región Caribe de Colombia  
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Variedades de soya e híbridos de maíz para el sistema: épocas y densidades de siembra de soya e híbridos de maíz

El sistema maíz- soya requiere una rotación alterna de variedades de soya e híbridos de maíz, adecuada y oportuna, en función del recurso hídrico disponible y del ciclo de cultivo. 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
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change

Full Report
The 17 Chapters of the Working Group III Report assess the mitigation of climate change, examine the sources of global emissions and explain developments in emission reduction and mitigation efforts.
2022 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Video
Conversatorio virtual: Los retos de la producción de un repositorio digital sobre la memoria de trabajadores/as rurales

Este material da cuenta del Conversatorio virtual denominado Los retos de la producción de un repositorio digital sobre la memoria de trabajadores/as rurales. Esta actividad virtual fue desarrollada por el Grupo de Trabajo CLACSO Trabajo agrario, desigualdades y ruralidades.  
Argentina
2022 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

E-learning
Hybrid course: ''Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and social movements'', on January 2023

This program of the University of Vermont is designed to examine potential pathways towards the sustainable transformation of our current agrifood system by integrating economic, social, and ecological perspectives. Rooted in ''Participatory Action Research'' (PAR), the program will guide the students to identify key questions and practice new methods for integrating data from...
United States of America
2022 - University of Vermont
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