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Contexto de cadena ovino - caprina
En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de ovino - caprina 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.
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Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Case study
From lavender fields to women’s cooperatives
International Day of Rural Women celebrates women of Anatolia who are standing for zero poverty and inequalities
The fifteenth of October is the International Day of Rural Women. This is a day to recognize that women’s empowerment and gender equality can lead to better lives, better production, and a better environment for all. One such story is that of how Hilal and Emine created a lavender agribusiness cooperative...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Intégrer la notion de service écosystémique dans les politiques et les pratiques agricoles des pays du Sud
La notion de service écosystémique est devenue incontournable dans les discours institutionnels et académiques en dépit des controverses et des critiques. Initialement portée par les acteurs de la conservation de la biodiversité, elle connaît depuis plusieurs années un déploiement dans les milieux agricoles. Si l’idée selon laquelle les fonctionnalités des...
2022 - CIRAD
Report
DRYING OUT AFRICAN LANDS: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa
As the escalating climate crisis threatens access to water for millions across Africa, Drying Out African Lands: Expansion of Large-Scale Agriculture Threatens Access to Water in Africa unveils the devastating impact of large-scale agricultural plantations on the right to water on the continent. Since the 2007-2008 food crisis, Africa has...
2022 - The Oakland Institute
Case study
Feed for livestock and poultry ensures food for children and families
In-kind support to rural families in Armenia helps resist the hardships of COVID-19
Life in the rural areas of Armenia has perks but has never been easy. Around one-third of villagers live below the poverty line. This situation has been further exacerbated by COVID-19, which has imposed greater financial challenges by restricting the opportunities for trade and seasonal work abroad. At the same...
Armenia
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Guidelines
Multi-actors agricultural innovation platform: guideline for master trainers
Multi-actors innovation platforms (MAIPs) are increasingly deployed as a model for participatory and inclusive innovation to address the challenges of sustainability in complex systems like
the agri-food systems. The facilitation of co-innovation and multi-actor partnerships is critical to the success of MAIPs, as a common lesson learned across the multitude of...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Website
Sustainable Development Goals
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are global objectives that succeeded the Millennium Development Goals on 1 January 2016. The SDGs will shape national development plans over the next 15 years. From ending poverty and hunger to responding to climate change and sustaining...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Creating agroecological markets
To sell agroecological produce, we need to pay attention to four things: organization; negotiation with local authorities; a guarantee system, so consumers know that all the produce is free from agrochemicals; and finally marketing and customer services.
2022 - Access Agriculture
Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena panela
En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de panela 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.
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Editorial Agrosavia
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Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Farmer Field Schools and agroecology: Tools for sustainable food and agricultural systems
This practice describes the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in the context of agroecology and the use of the 10 Elements of Agroecology as a holistic tool to think about sustainable food and agricultural systems at multiple scales. The practice also explains how FFS and agroecology interventions can support sustainable...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Manejo agronómico: podas
Las podas son unas de las principales prácticas de manejo agronómico en el cultivo de lima ácida Tahití. Consiste en ajustar el crecimiento y desarrollo de los árboles para tener una mejor distribución de las ramas, mejorar la entrada de luz, y así, aumentar la sanidad del árbol y mejorar...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Journal article
Presence of pesticides in the environment, transition into organic food, and implications for quality assurance along the European organic food chain – A review
The use of synthetic pesticides is not allowed in organic production, but traces of synthetic pesticides are regularly detected in organic food. To safeguard the integrity of organic production, organic certifiers are obliged to investigate the causes for pesticide residues on organic food, entailing high costs to the organic sector. Such residues...
European Union
2022 - Science Direct
Blog article
Ukraine | Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The Green Road of Ecovillages is a network of ecological communities and permaculture centers that give shelter to refugees from Ukraine. Some of the displaced people are now elsewhere in Ukraine, others outside Ukraine. It was born organically on the basis of an existing network and due to the incredible...
Ukraine
2022 - Arc 2020
Manual
Guía práctica para la incorporación del enfoque de interseccionalidad en proyectos y programas de desarrollo rural sostenible
En América Latina y el Caribe, el acceso a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, la situación de pobreza y la capacidad de respuesta al cambio climático están fuertemente relacionados con las diferencias de género, origen étnico-racial, grupo etario y territorio. Situación que exige observar el carácter entrelazado de estas desigualdades...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Understanding Soil Health | Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet Part 1
Part one of the series on "Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet" of Soil Food Web School explores some of the many benefits that regenerating soils can have on the rest of the planet and on humans in a dialogue between Dan Kittredge, Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Didi Pershouse, Dr. Elaine Ingham and...
2022 - Soil Food Web School
Video
Shescapes: Women in Small-scale Fisheries
The 32 minute film complied by shows a change that has occurred over a decade in different countries across the world — truthful appreciation of women’s role in fisheries. Despite differences in society, culture, politics and economics, their involvement in the sector follows a similar arc the world over. The...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
ECVC Youth: Navigating Dreams & Precarity Working and Learning Conditions of Young Agricultural Workers, Interns and Volunteers Across Europe
This report assesses the working and learning conditions of young agricultural workers, defined as people who labour in the fields, mountains and farms and also in the livestock or food processing units and who are younger than 40 years old. The report looks at a wide range of issues including...
European Union
2022 - European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC)
Report
Peasant Agroecology
According to ECVC
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) has released a new publication on its vision of peasant agroecology, capable of offering solutions to the present-day major environmental, social, economic and political challenges we are facing. The publication explains the concepts of peasant agroecology according to ECVC, then offers diverse case studies that...
2022 - European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
Blog article
Les légumineuses améliorent les rendements des cultures de plus de 20 %
Introduire des légumineuses dans les systèmes de culture améliore les rendements des cultures principales d’environ 20 %, selon une nouvelle étude publiée dans Nature communications. Les scientifiques ont synthétisé 462 expérimentations de terrain, totalisant près de 12 000 observations de rendement à travers 53 pays. Les plus forts avantages des...
2022 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Technical paper
The effects of major economies’ policies on climate action, food security and water in developing countries
The growing demand for food, water and energy, in conjunction with climate change, puts pressure on land and freshwater resources. This problem can be acute in developing countries, where many households and producers have inadequate access to these commodities. While development is primarily driven by national policies, outcomes are often...
2022 - ECDPM
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