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Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas (ANAMURI)

Su misión es contribuir al desarrollo integral de las Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas, considerando los aspectos laborales, económicos, sociales y culturales, a través del estímulo a la organización y su fortalecimiento. Todo su quehacer está sustentado en una ideología que apunte a la construcción de relaciones de igualdad, considerando la...
Chile
2015 - Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Rurales e Indígenas (ANAMURI)

Blog article
The Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) signs agreement of food purchase from family farming

The Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) signed today (28/10/2015) a new contract for the purchase of food from family farms. The University is a pioneer in buying products from family farms to supply their university restaurants, and, since 2012, it is an active participant of the Food Acquisition Program of...
Brazil
2015 - Federal University of Paraná (UFPR)

Magazine article
From a family business to a meat processing factory

The history of this factory in Bihor begins about 20 years ago as a family business. Its upward trajectory was driven by the desire for improvement and innovation, business developing in several steps, the first step being a small livestock farm. Thus, in 2001, it was outlined the current direction...
Romania
2015

Magazine article
Editorial - Soils: where the roots of agroecology and family farming lie

Healthy soils contribute to resilient food production. Soil carbon is a key to healthy soils but, today we see the long-term consequences of agricultural management that has neglected soil carbon – degraded soils, polluted waters, and unprecedented rates of hunger and malnutrition. There are good examples of agroecological practices that...
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Magazine article
Livia Gîrboiu - Winemaking as a family legacy

The Gîrboiu wine cellar is a family business created in 2005. The vineyards are set in the Cotești village, located in an area with a climate extremely favorable for growing grapevine and a soil rich in mineral, unique in the south-east of Romania. This area has a vast tradition in winemaking,...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network

Magazine article
Agroécologie en Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre : réalités et perspectives

Grain de sel est la revue semestrielle d’Inter-réseaux Développement rural. Chaque numéro est consacré à une thématique précise et vise à faire participer aux débats et réflexions autour de ce thème une diversité d’acteurs et de points de vue.
2015 - Inter-Réseaux Développement Rural

Magazine article
More and more women assume the management of agricultural holdings

The area where the beneficiary of this project activates is in a vegetable area with tradition in Braila County, but which is insufficiently exploited due to the population aging process. Considering the growth of the consumption of vegetables and fruit, especially of the local and natural ones, Aurelia Dunose decided...
Romania
2015

Newsletter article
Agroecologia: os desafios econômicos, sociais e ambientais da agricultura familiar

Cáceres (MT) – A pesquisa Promovendo Agroecologia em Rede, que a Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA) está realizando no país, envolvendo sete regiões brasileiras, com o apoio da Fundação Banco do Brasil e do BNDES na realidade traça um retrato da agricultura familiar no momento histórico. Sem contar as diferenças...
Brazil
2015 - Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA)

Newsletter article
Agroecological family farmers can become “the backbone of food security in Europe”

In September 2015, family farmer Jyoti Fernandes spoke at a Policy Debate in the European Parliament. The video is embedded below and a full transcript of the talk is available here. Being part of the UK Landworkers’ Alliance and the European Coordination of La Vía Campesina (host of the debate),...
2015 - Agroecology Now

Newsletter article
FAO to help conflict-affected small farms in eastern Ukraine

With the arrival of spring, small-scale farmers in the conflict-affected Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine are ready to get back to farming. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will be there to help, with initial assistance valued at US$ 800,000, the Organization announced today. Conflict in eastern Ukraine...
Ukraine
2015

Book
Caracterización y tipificación de la agricultura familiar en la comunidad indígena de Ceima Cachivera en Mitú-Vaupés

Con el fin de visibilizar la agricultura familiar en el país se realiza esta investigación en la que se caracteriza y tipifica las formas de agricultura indígena en la comunidad de Ceima Cachivera en las dimensiones social, cultural, económica, productiva y ambiental, La comunidad está ubicada dentro de la periferia...
Colombia
2015 - Facultad de Ingeniería Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Case study
Overcoming the constraints of agriculture in the Sahel by successful community-based approaches

Case of the regeneration of land and the fight against soil salinization in the groundnut basin in Senegal
Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...
Senegal
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Case study
Sustainable preservation of strategic agricultural products to ensure food sovereignty and increase the income of both men and women farmers

The case of biological conservation of the potato and fonio in central Guinea
Due to its prime location, Guinea has significant potential for fruit and vegetable production. The country has assets such as soil fertility, abundant rainfall and a rural population traditionally oriented towards agriculture. Farmers represent 61% of the population and constitute 80% of the poor. They are mainly engaged in the...
Guinea
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Magazine article
Seminario Regional sobre Agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. 
2015 - AgriCultures network

Book
Programa de Educação Ambiental e Agricultura Familiar

Caderno conceitual do PEAAF
O PEAAF é um Programa de Educação Ambiental, desenvolvido pelo Departamento de Educação Ambiental da Secretaria de Articulação Institucional e Cidadania Ambiental do Ministério do Meio Ambiente - DEA/SAIC/MMA, destinado ao público envolvido com a agricultura familiar, quer sejam agricultores e agricultoras propriamente ditos ou agentes que trabalham diretamente com...
Brazil
2015 - Alex Barroso Bernal

Article
Agroecology – the bold future for Africa

African Civil Society Statement: FAO Regional Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, Dakar, 2015.
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Conference paper
Aproximación agroecológica para el nuevo modelo de producción agrícola en Venezuela

En esta presentación se identifican unidades eco-territoriales en Venezuela, se describen los sistemas agrícolas y otros usos de cada categoría y se definen orientaciones para el manejo y uso sostenible del territorio.
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2015 - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agrícolas Venezuela (INIA)

Book
Replacing Chemicals with Biology: Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides with Agroecology

How to replace HHPs with ecosystem-based approaches to pesticide and crop management
2015 - PAN International

Case study
Agricultura familiar agroecológica en el norte del gran Córdoba

La experiencia vivida en la localidad Villa los Llanos-Estación Juárez Celman tiene por objetivo conocer la realidad de la agricultura familiar integrando conceptos productivos agroecológicos y sociales a través del metodología que implica la observación y el diagnostico. Observación que fue realizada de una forma no estructurada, llevada a cabo a...
Argentina
2015 - UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CORDOBA FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS AGROPECUARIAS

Case study
Strengthening the productive potential of men and women farmers in arid and poor areas of the Sahel

The case of efficient and accessible agroecological practices in the county of Loga, Niger
The county of Loga is considered the most underprivileged in the Dosso region and one of the poorest in Niger. A community rehabilitation program, after the food crisis of 2012, ranked the county as the most vulnerable area of all five departments that make up the Dosso region. The annual...
Niger
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
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