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Agriculture: A snapshot of Czech agriculture
Episode 18 of Food for Europe takes a long look at agriculture in the Czech Republic, following its assumption of the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Like all EU member states, Czechia is trapped in a storm of events outside its control, with farmers badly hit...
Czechia
2022 - Food for Europe
Magazine article
N°77: Do agricultural advisory services still have a purpose?
In recent years, agricultural advisory services have been the subject of renewed interest at the level of agricultural policies and development aid. Numerous development actors have taken up the issue of advice to farmers: professional agricultural organizations, government agencies, investors, agri-providers, NGOs, telephone companies, etc.
Questioning the meaning of agricultural advisory...
2022 - Inter-réseaux Développement rural
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Central African Republic (CAR)
This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...
Central African Republic
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North
Case study
Empowering communities and addressing farming challenges through cooperatives: The Case of Yen Duong Cooperative
Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully...
Viet Nam
2022 - Yen Duong Cooperative
Blog article
¿Y usted ya comió?
La mística de Doña Celestina
¿Y usted ya comió?
La mística de Doña Celestina
Conocí a Doña Celestina -una mujer de sombrero alto, encantadora a la vista, voluptuosa, de ojos chinos y manos cálidas como su fogón- en un viaje a Pechuquiz.
Pechuquiz es una planicie en el distrito de Frías del departamento de Piura, zona costeña y...
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection
Video
Curso virtual: Innovación y sostenibilidad en la agricultura familiar
Los sistemas alimentarios se enfrentan a múltiples desafíos de sostenibilidad derivados de la presión demográfica, el cambio climático, la pérdida de biodiversidad y problemas de malnutrición. Sin embargo, la agricultura familiar ha venido poniendo en práctica soluciones innovadoras a estos desafíos. Para aprender sobre este tema, el proyecto Sembrando Capacidades,...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
Agroecology and Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: An exploratory analysis with some tentative indications from the recent experience of Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh
This paper looks at the potential of agro-ecology for farming systems in India in order to achieve sustainable and inclusive development of agriculture in the country. It situates the potential of agro-ecology within the larger structural transformation context of the rural, agricultural and smallholder Indian economy, arguing that the preponderance...
India
2022
Journal article
Statements - COFI: Not Without Our Consent
The following Statements were made by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) at the Thirty-fifth Session of the Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) during 5-9 September, 2022
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
EIP-AGRI Focus Group Digital tools for sustainable nutrient management
The Farm to Fork strategy under the European Green Deal identifies the excess of nutrients in the environment as a major source of air, soil and water pollution, negatively impacting biodiversity and climate. The European Commission aims to reduce nutrient losses by at least 50%, while ensuring there is no...
2022 - EIP-AGRI
Blog article
Could agroecology save Colombia’s farming crisis?
This article contains compelling and inspiring stories of agroecology as a science, a practice and a movement in Latin America, Colombia. In 2004, five agronomy students in Fusagasugá, two hours south of the Colombian capital, Bogotá, set out to create a peasant and environmental movement, to protect the land and...
Colombia
2022
Blog article
Building resilience organically
With a little support and guidance, farmers can transform their lives and become resilient to changes in weather and markets. The case of Pitar Sabar shows how a tribal farmer with the support from WOTR, changed the way he farmed and enhanced the income levels, besides becoming a resource person...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Video
How do small-scale food producers survive emergencies?
Have you ever wondered why, in this day and age, some communities constantly face extreme hunger? There’s a common saying that goes, “Give a person a fish and they will have dinner for the night,” “but teach them to fish and they’ll never have to worry about food again”. It...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Manual
Welfare and environmental impact of organic pig production
The handbook summarizes the results of the Core Organic Cofund project POWER, aiming to increase animal health and welfare of organic pigs while reducing the environmental footprint of the farming systems. It provides a common toolbox of knowledge-based strategies for designing and managing concrete outdoor runs, reducing piglet mortality and...
2022 - AU-AGRO (Aarhus University), Dept. Agroecology, Blichers Allé 20, 8830 Tjele, Denmark BOKU (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria CFF (Centre for Free Range Livestock), Marsvej 43, DK-8960 Randers, Denmark CREA-ZA (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics), Via Po, 14 – 00198 Roma, Italy FiBL (Research Institute of Organic Agriculture), Ackerstrasse 113, Postfach 219, CH-5070 Frick, Switzerland
Case study
Sistemas agroalimentarios sostenibles con énfasis en pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos y circularidad en Argentina
Experiencia país: posicionamiento e innovación en políticas públicas
Este documento es un resumen que incluye antecedentes, evolución, hitos y desafíos que presenta la reducción de la perdida y desperdicio de alimentos de cara a la concreción de los ODS y la agenda 2030, puntualmente al Objetivo 12 - meta 3. La agenda de Pérdida y Desperdicio de Alimentos...
Argentina
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
Threshold-crossing time statistics for gene expression in growing cells
Many intracellular events are triggered by attaining critical concentrations of their corresponding regulatory proteins. How cells ensure precision in the timing of the protein accumulation is a fundamental problem, and contrasting predictions of different models can help us understand the mechanisms involved in such processes. Here, we formulate the timing...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
E-learning
Circuitos Cortos de Comercialización en la Agricultura Familiar
El Curso “Circuitos cortos de comercialización en la Agricultura Familiar Una herramienta para alcanzar mercados inclusivos” , se enmarca en la Plataforma Técnica Regional para la Agricultura Familiar (https://www.fao.org/americas/daf/plataforma/es/) 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,...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
‘Olives for life’ connect agriculture and biodiversity
The LIFE Olivares Vivos project developed an innovative model of olive growing that can be used elsewhere in Europe.
Olive groves extend over nearly five million hectares of the EU. One of the main crops in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, with nearly 1.9 million olive farms, the olive sector is...
European Union
2022 - European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Journal article
Taiwan: A Safe Harbour
Taiwan is an island country. The fisheries in the surrounding seas are crucial to its development. This informs the government’s policy on marine fisheries. The flourishing capture fisheries are one of the country’s main economic activities. Unlike the more stable and favourable land-based economic activities, capture fisheries are risk-prone and...
Taiwan Province of China
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Introduction to sowing seeds in a flat
Susie Yeo, Second Year Apprentice at the UCSC Farm and Garden, explains how to broadcast and drill seeds in a flat .
2022 - UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology
Blog article
Building Farm Resilience through Natural Farming – Reflections from Field
Natural farming being recognised as an important pathway for achieving sustainable development goals, a study was undertaken to understand the potential of natural farming as a sustainable agricultural model. The field assessment revealed that natural farming systems contribute highly to the environmental/ecological dimensions of sustainability of farmers while there is...
India
2022 - Leisa India
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