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Report
The future of food systems in Europe and Central Asia - 2022–2025 and beyond

The document provides a comprehensive analysis of the future of the food systems in Europe and Central Asia based on a qualitative review of the literature and information available at the time of drafting. Specific attention will be given to (i) economic growth; (ii) natural resources and climate change; (iii)...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Status of digital agriculture in 47 sub-Saharan African countries

Sub-Saharan Africa is uniquely positioned significantly increase its current agricultural productivity to lift the region’s more than 400 million people out of extreme poverty and improve the livelihood of approximately 250 million smallholder farmers and pastoralists in the region. To achieve that, substantive digital transformation of the agriculture sector is...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Baffling Shades of Blue

Addressing the impacts of the Blue Economy on small-scale fisheries in Latin America
The incessant noise over ‘Blue Economy’ and ‘Blue Growth’ leaves artisanal and small-scale fishers dazed and confused. This report works through that confusion. It draws on scholarship from the trenches and the research centres across ten Latin American countries. From extensive interviews, policy reviews, analyses of finances and online datasets....
2022 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Report
The future of the European Farming Model

Socio-economic and territorial implications of the decline in the number of farms and farmers in the EU
This study provides an overview of the effect of the decline in the number of farms across the EU on the European farming model (EFM), which is built around the notion of multifunctionality and provision of public goods by agriculture. It concludes that in order to foster sustainability and resilience,...
European Union
2022 - Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union (European Parliament)

Article
Diversity and Conservation Gap Analysis of the Solanaceae of Southern South America

There is a need to make substantial advances in the taxonomic, systematic, and distribution knowledge of plants, and find better ways of transmission of this information to society to surpass the general pattern described as "plant blindness." The diversity of the plant family Solanaceae reaches its peak in South America,...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Journal article
Africa - IYAFA 2022: A New Dawn, A New Day

Starting their international year on a high note, the African Confederation of Professional Organizations of Artisanal Fisheries (CAOPA) hopes to become a prominent platform. On the eve of the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022), artisanal fisheries have never been more essential to the survival of coastal communities...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Video
Teaching agroecology in schools

To value local culture, and to encourage a healthy lifestyle it is important that schools include topics on farming and traditional food in their curriculum and activities. Weave elements related to agroecology in the school curriculum of all the grades. By organising field visits, children can learn from farmers about...
Peru
2022 - Access Agriculture

Website
Gateway to dairy production and products

World milk production is almost entirely derived from cattle, buffaloes, goats, sheep and camels. Other less common milk animals are yaks, horses, reindeers and donkeys. The presence and importance of each species varies significantly among regions and countries. The key elements that determine the dairy species kept are feed, water...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book part
Crecimiento y desarrollo de los pastos

Para hacer un buen manejo de pastos es necesario aplicar conceptos de fisiología vegetal relacionados con el crecimiento y desarrollo con enfoque en la producción de biomasa (conformada por hojas y tallos, que son la fuente alimenticia de los rumiantes). El efecto del animal sobre el pasto junto con el...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena láctea

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena láctea enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Manejo agronómico: fertilización

Estos análisis son los de mayor precisión para estimar el estado de la fertilidad del suelo y de la nutrición de las plantas. 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)

Policy brief/paper
Irrigating from space: Using remote sensing for agricultural water management

With water becoming increasingly scarce and irrigated agriculture already accounting for 70 percent of global water withdrawals, governments around the world are supporting efforts to improve the performance of water use in agriculture. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and its partners have invested in developing...
2022 - FAO

Journal article
Brazil - IYAFA 2022: Ear to the Ground

How can spaces for dialogue between small-scale fisheries social movements, policymakers and scientists be revived when they remain unlinked in local policy and management?. The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience of increasingly interconnected food systems and actors across the world. During this time, even as hunger increased significantly—including in rural...
Brazil
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Article
Une agriculture familiale de plus en plus dépendante du salariat ? Les travailleurs saisonniers dans l’agriculture familiale sénégalaise (régions des Niayes et du Delta)

Le Sénégal connaît une demande croissante en travail saisonnier dans le secteur agricole. Dans le cadre de l’agriculture familiale, ce phénomène résulte d’une différenciation socioéconomique au sein de l’agriculture familiale induite par des décennies de soutien de l’État à des modèles productifs agricoles particuliers. Cet article analyse le travail saisonnier...
Senegal
2022

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena limón tahití

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de limón tahití enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
Introducing the Agrifood Systems Technologies and Innovations Outlook (ATIO)

Agrifood system transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals requires increased attention to developing, adapting and diffusing impactful science, technology and innovation (STI). Current levels and patterns of STI uptake are inadequate to facilitate needed agrifood system transformations, especially in today's low- and middle-income countries. Moreover, the descriptive and evaluative...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Policy brief/paper
IMPROVING ECO-SCHEMES IN THE LIGHT OF AGROECOLOGY - Key recommendations for the 2023-2027 Common Agricultural Policy

One of principal changes within the new CAP has been the inclusion of Eco-schemes – voluntary programmes linked to the first pillar which will be available to farmers with the hope to incentivize more ecological and environmentally-friendly farming practices. While agroecology holds an eminent space within this list by being...
European Union
2022 - AE4EU - Agroecology for Europe

Report
Exploring the role of voluntary sustainability standards in women’s economic empowerment in the agriculture sector in developing countries

Women are equally as important economic actors as men, yet they suffer gross inequalities such as gender gaps in income and human capital, despite rapid improvements in global living standards and educational attainment. The compilation of evidence and data presented in this report proves that the many gender-related gaps identified...
2022 - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Blog article
Agriculture : L’ISRA va lancer une variété de blé adapté au Sénégal

Les conséquences de la guerre entre la Russie et l’Ukraine doivent servir de leçon. Elles doivent même inciter dès maintenant les pays qui en souffrent de se réinventer pour se mettre à l’abri dans le futur. Ainsi, au Sénégal, l’institut sénégalais de recherche agricole (ISRA) a annoncé le 24 mars...
Senegal
2022

E-learning
Abierta la inscripción - MOOC Agroecología 2022

Este curso descubrirá qué es la agroecología, cuáles son los diferentes enfoques y cómo se traducen en prácticas agrícolas. En una dinámica de capacitación participativa, basada en la diversidad social y geográfica de los actores, el MOOC propone construir un enfoque de la agroecología desde la perspectiva de las ciencias...
Argentina
2022 - El INTA
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