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Zero Budget Natural Farming in India
Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) is a set of farming methods, and also a grassroots peasant movement, which has spread to various states in India. It has attained wide success in southern India, especially the southern Indian state of Karnataka where it first evolved. The movement in Karnataka state was...
India
2016 - La Via Campesina
Policy brief/paper
Financing Organic Agriculture in Africa
Mapping the issues
Organic Agriculture (OA) is a rapidly growing sector in Africa, with strong links to economic and sociocultural development in the continent (Willer and Kilcher, 2012; Auerbach, 2013). OA can also be seen as a relevant tool to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2, 12, 13 and 15 on sustainable...
2016 - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Blog article
New round of agricultural censuses in Asia is key to achieving SDGs
Twenty-one Asian countries are participating in a roundtable discussion as part of the FAO’s World Programme for the Census for Agriculture 2020 (WCA 2020). The roundtable discussion was opened by Kundhavi Kadiresan, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific. The census, held once every ten years,...
Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Journal
Quantifier et chiffrer économiquement les externalités de l’agriculture biologique
Les activités agricoles génèrent, parallèlement à la production de biens agricoles, des externalités négatives (coûts sociaux) ou positives (bénéfices ou aménités) non pris en compte par le marché. La réduction des externalités négatives et l’accroissement des externalités positives représentent des atouts pour la collectivité, qui peuvent justifier un soutien financier de la société....
France
2016 - INRA
Case study
System of Rice Intensification in Vietnam: Doing more with less
In Vietnam rice is grown on 85% of cultivated land. Annual paddy (unmilled) rice production grew from 19.2 million metric tons in 1990 to 42.4 million metric tons by 2011, and in 2012, Vietnam exported eight million metric tons of rice. These yield increases were achieved through improved seeds, but...
Viet Nam
2016 - Oxfam
Magazine article
Climate smart crops
Tubers, pulses and millets are important for the livelihoods and nutrition of poor farmers, especially in fragile regions. These crops are not only underutilized, but are also under researched. Ama Sangathan, a women federation consisting of 1200 indigenous women, have revived these crops in two blocks in Odisha, by their...
India
2016 - Leisa India
Miscellanea
Transformative Social Innovation: LA VÍA CAMPESINA
In the last two decades, visions of food sovereignty have inspired the origin of social movements, policy innovations, new experiments and debates. The perspective of food sovereignty is thinking by many authors as a ‘dynamic process’, without a clear conceptual and practical definition (Edelman 2014). Many social and rural movements...
2016 - La Via Campesina
Case study
Malawi Farmer to Farmer Agroecology project
Malawi is a small landlocked country in southern Africa, bordered by Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The majority of Malawians are smallholder farmers, who grow crops for both food and income. More than half of the Malawian population lives in poverty, and the rate of food insecurity is very high. Typical...
Malawi
2016 - University of Malawi
Case study
Revitalizing Agroecology in China
China is a large country with diverse agro-ecosystems and numerous different agricultural production systems. These agricultural systems are managed by more than 200 million households who provide agricultural products to meet the needs of almost a fifth of mankind.
Agriculture plays numerous key functions, including not only the provision of...
China
2016 - Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China
Conference/Meeting
Know-how exchange for young people in rural areas
EVENT TO BE HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CZECH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE MARIAN JURECKA
11 − 12 November 2016, Krtiny, Czech Republic
The conference is prepared for farmers, LAG representatives, rural NGOs and members of municipalities. The topic is business start-up aid for young farmers and good practise examples. The conference...
Czechia
2016 - Young Agrarians Society of the Czech Republic
Journal
La transition agroécologique : défis et enjeux
L’agroécologie est avant tout une discipline scientifique au carrefour de l’agronomie et de l’écologie. C’est aussi la somme des pratiques qui en découlent. Elle permet non seulement de transformer l’agriculture mais aussi de repenser l’ensemble des systèmes alimentaires afin de les rendre plus durables. Elle vise à conjuguer production agricole...
France
2016 - CONSEIL ÉCONOMIQUE, SOCIAL ET ENVIRONNEMENTAL
Blog article
FAO and India’s SEWA join efforts to empower rural women and youth
New agreement aims to ensure capacity development, farmers’ access to productive resources, knowledge exchange.
India's Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) and FAO are strengthening their collaboration to boost rural development and reduce poverty in Asia and Africa via local initiatives focused on empowering rural women and youth.
Italy
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Mapping Farmer Seed Varieties in Manica, Mozambique
Report on initial investigations into agricultural biodiversity
This scoping exercise was carried on to deepen our understanding of the current context of seed use, main crops and varieties in the research localities, in order to gather evidence of the ongoing importance of farmer seed systems in the agricultural practices and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, to identify cases...
Mozambique
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
Event
Terra Madre Balkans
“Putting farmers first” is the main theme of Terra Madre Balkans 2016. 350 delegates will be arriving from 13 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, The Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Italy and Albania).
The Balkan region hosts a wide variety of farmers. For this reason,...
Albania
2016 - Slow Food
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Uganda
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...
Uganda
2016 - Food Plant Solutions
Report
Transitioning out of GM maize
Towards nutrition security, climate adaptation, agro-ecology and social justice
Coinciding with World Food Day, the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), in a new report titled “Transitioning out of GM maize: towards nutrition security, climate adaptation, agro-ecology and social justice” makes a compelling case for South Africa to urgently transition out of GM maize production, to systems that are socially...
South Africa
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Report part
Research for agri committee - food value chain in the EU - how to improve it and strengthen the bargaining power of farmers
The food supply chain plays a substantial role in the European economy, connecting sectors such as agricultural, food processing industry and distribution that together make more than 5% of European value-added and 7% of employment. Furthermore, all European consumers are directly affected by EU food supply chain performance since food...
European Union
2016 - Euroepan Parliament
Blog article
Georgia develops production and certification of seeds
A new laboratory in the village of Tsilkani in Georgia has been furnished with all the equipment needed to conduct seed quality control – thanks to an FAO project financed by Austria.
Operated by the Scientific Research Centre of Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture with, the new lab is equipped with seed...
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture of the United Nations
Blog article
China hosts international symposium on Agroecology to advance work on SDGs
The International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems has been jointly organized by FAO and CAAS, and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province of China, with the support of the Government of France.
In his message from the Director General of FAO, Ren Wang, Assistant Director-General stressed that:...
China
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Report From Ostrava - 3 rd. European Meeting of CSA Movements
After Ostrava: Guidelines for the Future of the European Declaration on CSA
150 peasants and eaters from 26 countries stretching from Ireland in the West to Georgia in the East and Norway in the North to Greece in the South of Europe came together from 16th to 18th September 2016 in the framework of the 3rd European Meeting of Community Supported Agriculture...
Czechia
2016 - URGENCI
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