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The Resources section holds archived publications and multimedia materials related to family farming general issues.

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Article
Farmer's story ''Community Food Projects: Emerging from a backyard garden''

My wife and I have always dreamt about going back to the rural areas to start farming. Mainly to start growing our own food, spending days tending a flock of chickens, and maybe growing a big garden for our family and perhaps allowing our children to enjoy what nature is...
Zimbabwe
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection

Newsletter
FAO Right to Food Newsletter, September 2022, Issue 15

As the food crisis comes to prominence on national and international agendas, there is increased urgency to rethink global agrifood systems to be efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable. Greater international cooperation and coordination is vital to secure this, and the need for collaborative action on human rights has never been...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book part
Prácticas culturales

Las prácticas culturales evitan condiciones favorables para el incremento de un insecto o enfermedad y disminuyen sus efectos adversos en el 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)

Audio
Boosting climate resilience with agroforestry

Agriculture needs to adapt to climate change to ensure food security. Agroforestry systems could help make farms more resilient, but they only constitute a fraction of farming in Europe. Is it time for change?
Germany
2022 - Deutsche Welle (DW)

Article
SEGAE: An online serious game to learn agroecology

The game is based on a modeling framework that gamifies the implementation of agroecological practices in an integrated crop-livestock farm and assesses their impacts on sustainability. To do so, SEGAE is based on an output-oriented approach that represents impacts of practices on various indicators. These impacts are included in a...
2022 - Agricultural Systems

Report
The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries 2022

The State of Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of this crucial aquatic food production sector in our region, as well as the information necessary to review advances and identify challenges in achieving the sustainability of fish and fisheries in the Mediterranean and the...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
Roundup: news, events, briefings and more. Samudra Report No.88, December 2022

The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites  which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme  and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries. 
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Blog article
El Senado de Bolivia posesiona al Frente Parlamentario de Lucha contra el Hambre

l Senado de Bolivia renueva la composición del Frente Parlamentario de Lucha contra el Hambre y reactiva esta instancia del Legislativo que es fundamental para que el país avance hacia el logro de la soberanía alimentaria y la mejora de nutrición y alimentación en Bolivia. Su trabajo suma al de otros...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Newsletter
Yemaya Newsletter No.65, March 2022

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of Yemaya, its newsletter on gender and fisheries. The articles in this issue are drawn from the presentations and discussions at the webinar organized by GAFS, Women Work in Fisheries, Too! held on 29 November 2021. The webinar...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Article
Consumer story ''Planting seeds of liberation: Reflections on Allyship in food systems''

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. Lila Watson It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State...
India
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection

Report
Grazing with trees

A silvopastoral approach to managing and restoring drylands
Drylands constitute almost 48 percent of the world’s surface – including presumed dryland areas – and are particularly vulnerable to climate change and climatic risks. Yet at the same time, population growth and global changes mean that an increasing number of people depend upon drylands for their livelihoods. These people...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Newsletter
All-Ready Newsletter #2: Paving the way to the agroecology transition in Europe – Update on ALLReady’s activities

The past months were exciting for the ALL-Ready project and we have been working hard to prepare the future network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures. We are pleased to give you some insights on the project’s activities in this second edition of the ALL-Ready newsletter. Our recent activities...
European Union
2022 - ALL-Ready Consortium

Conference/Meeting
Europe needs family farms. Family farms in the Czech Republic need clear legislative support.

Family farms’ support by legislative measures should be a crucial step for EU countries to ensure food security and a healthy environment in Europe. Therefore, the International conference - Increasing legislative support for family farms in the EU focuses on Family Farm Legislation and family farm policy at the EU member states’ level.
Austria - Czechia - Hungary - Latvia - Lithuania - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Slovakia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2022 - Czech Republic – Association of private farming of the Czech Republic

Video
Land of the Bees

This is Simon, community animator and Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner. Simon shares how indigenous communities in Tharaka, Kenya, have been working to bring their beekeeping traditions back from the brink. “We are turning the tide on the history of loss in our own lands.” By working with the bees, attending to their needs, the...
2022 - The Gaia Foundation

Journal
Samudra Report No.88, December 2022

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has released the latest edition of its popular fisheries publication – SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelihoods. SAMUDRA Report No. 88, dated December 2022, has a special focus on the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022),...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Case study
Communities benefit from planting and growing forests supported by FAO

It was one of those days when Ylvi Çengaj was working intensively in the village of Rrenc in the southern part of Kosovo1 to establish forests with native seedlings in an abandoned area. Contracted as a casual worker along with dozens of others by a forestry programme of the Food and Agriculture...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Diputadas chilenas lanzan proyecto de ley sobre seguridad y soberanía alimentaria

En el marco de la primera reunión 2022 del capítulo nacional del Frente Parlamentario contra el Hambre, desarrollada este lunes en la Cámara de Diputados de Chile, la parlamentaria Carolina Marzán, presidenta de dicho Frente en el país, presentó un proyecto de ley marco para la Promoción de la Seguridad...
Chile
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Article
Mushroom hunters "foraging mushrooms with my dad in Jhumlawang''

It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam)effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches a chance to...
Nepal
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection

Blog article
Food sovereignty: A social construction from the field

This article is the first in a series of articles highlighting the work of our colleagues around the world to build agroecological practices, science and movements. Agroecology has emerged as a set of practices based on principles that guide how to produce food sustainably, as well as how to manage...
2022 - Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Conference proceedings
Global conference - Family farming at the core of sustainable food systems

Two years have passed since the United Nations Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 (UNDFF) began. During these two years, two important observations have been made: the first is the enormous capacity of family farming to create alliances, and the second is the comprehensive and coherent response that the Decade can...
2022 - World Rural Forum
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