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Between institutional reform and building popular movements: The political articulation of agroecology in Brazil

Agroecology is increasingly seen to contain solutions that can be used for wider societal transformation. While debates have mainly focused on reformist versus revolutionary strategies, less attention has been paid to how such strategies connect to peasant demands and how they can be combined for agroecological transformation. This article explored on...
Brazil
2022 - Journal of Rural Studies

Journal article
COFI35: Eyes on the Prize

The 35th session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI-35) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was organized in the hybrid mode on September 5-9 at the FAO headquarters in Rome. The committee reviewed current issues and challenges related to fisheries and aquaculture. The meeting reaffirmed...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Article
Our food system isn't ready for the climate crisis

The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown. The global food industry had other ideas and over the past century, humans have increasingly relied on fewer and fewer crop varieties that can be...
2022

Audio
Rurality: Working for a more attractive and prosperous countryside in Europe

As Europe's rural population ages and diminishes in size, Food for Europe looks at the EU's Long Term Vision for Rural Areas. The EU spends around a third of its budget to support farming, but agriculture is just one of many elements that must be present for rural communities to thrive....
European Union
2022 - Food for Europe

Blog article
De-risking agriculture – Women-led climate resilient farming model

When women are empowered to decide what to grow, what inputs to use, when and where to sell – key shifts happen in agriculture and livelihoods. By empowering women in Marathwada as change-makers in agriculture, the WCRF model promoted resilient livelihoods for farming households while ensuring farming to become an...
India
2022 - Leisa India

Journal article
Organic Farming as an Alternative Maintenance Strategy in the Opinion of Farmers from Natura 2000 Areas

gricultural land accounts for approximately 40% of the total Natura 2000 (N2K) network area. Therefore, many habitats and species protected under the Habitats and Birds Directives are dependent on or linked to agricultural practices. This implies that sustaining agriculture of a high natural value is a priority in achieving the...
European Union
2022

Website
Cycle of Dialogues Climate and resilient management of agricultural ecosystems

Since the end of 2021 and so far this year 2022, the world faces fertilizer scarcity, driven by a rise in prices, increasing by approximately 78% in this period. Prices of P and K fertilizers went from US$ 450 to US$ 1200 per ton; urea went from US$ 500 to over US$...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
A journey of struggle and empowerment of women of the dry and arid area of Surendranagar: Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal (SMBVM)

Women and their needs are still largely unaccounted for, with policies unfavorable to them. Through the formation of women’s groups and associations, women’s issues and needs were made visible in various arenas – community, market, and policy processes. The experience of Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal showed that the needs of women...
India
2022 - Surendranagar Mahila Bal Vikas Mandal (SMBVM)

Article
Long term assessment of salinity impact on fruit yield in eighteen date palm varieties

Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) growth and production in the arid regions is adversely affected by increasing soil and water salinities. Although many aspects of date palm nutrition, physiology, genetics, and many more are extensively researched, the evaluation of salinity impact on date palm growth and productivity are limited to short duration studies and/or...
2022 - Agricultural Water Management

Blog article
New project explores impacts of biodiversity loss on women and girls

IIED is undertaking a review of the impacts of biodiversity loss on women and girls and has launched a survey to capture views on these impacts, the policy gaps and barriers to participation in decision making. A new short-term project funded by the UK's Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs...
2022 - IIED

Journal
Organic Research Centre Bulletin No. 136 - Summer 2022

The Organic Research Centre is a leading, independent, research charity working for better farming, food and health, promoting environmental sustainability, quality food and health and wellbeing for all. We work in the UK and internationally to: research and develop practical, sustainable land management and food production systems based on organic...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2022 - The Organic Research Centre

Book part
Manejo del recurso suelo

El suelo es considerado un recurso natural no renovable (fao, 2015). Por tanto, es necesario realizar prácticas que permitan su cuidado y a la vez la producción de mango de azúcar. 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)

Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: Manejo de plagas

Control oportuno de arvenses que pueden servir como hospederos alternos y conservación de benéficos. Uso de entomopatógenos como Bacillus thuringiensis para el control de larvas. Uso de control químico bajo la recomendación de un especialista. 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)

Journal article
Semi-parametric generalized estimating equations for repeated measurements in cross-over designs

A model for cross-over designs with repeated measures within each period was developed. It is obtained using an extension of generalized estimating equations that includes a parametric component to model treatment effects and a non-parametric component to model time and carry-over effects, the estimation approach for the non-parametric component is...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

E-learning
Curso: Innovación y sostenibilidad en la agricultura familiar

El Curso “Innovación y Sostenibilidad en la Agricultura Familiar”, se enmarca en la Plataforma Técnica Regional para la Agricultura Familiar en alianza con los proyectos “Sembrando Capacidades” (ABC, MAPA Brasil, MADR Colombia y FAO) y Farmers Organizations for African, Caribbean and Pacific countries FO4ACP (FIDA, UE, OACPS, PROCASUR y FAO). Esta plataforma...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022

Leveraging agricultural automation for transforming agrifood systems
Automation has been shaping world agriculture since the early twentieth century. Motorized mechanization has brought significant benefits in terms of improved productivity, reduced drudgery and more efficient allocation of labour, but also some negative environmental impacts. More recently, a new generation of digital agricultural automation technologies has appeared, with the...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Action Plan for the Development of Organic Production in the EU

Organic farming is a farming method that uses natural substances and processes to produce food. This means that organic farming has a low environmental impact. In accordance with the EU regulation for organic production, it is very restrictive on the use of different synthetic products and prohibits the use of...
European Union
2022 - EU CAP Network

Journal article
IYAFA 2022: Leap Year

The occasion was the 35th Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI-35), the intergovernmental forum of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The purpose was to review and discuss issues and challenges related to fisheries and aquaculture. Campaigners for the rights of small-scale fishers and Indigenous...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

E-learning
Small and medium enterprises and nutrition - upgrading business models

This is the second of a series of two e-learning courses on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Nutrition. In this course, you will learn an approach to integrate nutrition into SME business models, in order to make food systems more nutrition-sensitive.
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
'Too many people, not enough food' isn't the cause of hunger and food insecurity

Many assume world hunger is due to "too many people, not enough food." This trope has persisted since the 18th century and moves us away from addressing the root causes of hunger and malnutrition. The world produces enough food to provide every man, woman and child with more than 2,300...
2022
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