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

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Manual
16 thousand litres - Plates Cisternas

Over the past decades, ASA and families throughout Brazil's semiarid region have developed and refined the method of building plate cisterns. This booklet aims to share this experience in cistern construction, enabling other people to benefit from this technology that has changed the scenario and the lives of thousands of...
Brazil
2021 - Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA)

Blog article
Teaching the farmers of tomorrow with videos

Youth around the world are leaving agriculture, but many would stay on the farm if they had appropriate technologies and better social services, as Professor Alejandro Bonifacio explained to me recently.
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2021 - Access Agriculture

Event
Organic seed breeding at the Organic World Congress

The LIVESEED project, which IFOAM Organics Europe co-cordinates, is contributing to the Organic World Congress (OWC) with a colourful program. Organised 8-10 September 2021 in Rennes, France, the Congress is an excellent opportunity to showcase the project’s results and recommendations.
2021 - IFOAM Organics Europe

Video
Growing food in a pandemic: a story of resilience

Capital Growth, a food growing network, presents people with the opportunity to grow food as part of a healthy, resilient food system. During the pandemic in 2019/2020, Capital Growth worked with over 50 gardens to grow food for the local community through their Community Harvest Initiative. This video tells their stories of...
2021 - Capital Growth

Website
Sembrando capacidades

Este sitio web da cuenta del alcance del proyecto Sembrando Capacidades, iniciativa de cooperación sur-sur trilateral, que buscó el fortalecimiento de instrumentos y políticas para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria en Colombia, a partir de la gestión del conocimiento y el intercambio de experiencias, presenta en este repositorio web todos los...
Colombia
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Article
Análisis de eventos climáticos extremos asociados a excesos de lluvia y heladas meteorológicas en el Altiplano Cundiboyacense de Colombia

Los excesos de lluvia y las heladas meteorológicas son fenómenos adversos en la agricultura, que ocasionan daños irreparables en la fisiología de las plantas, reduciendo la productividad de biomasa de éstas. Con el objetivo de establecer aquellas áreas de mayor amenaza ante tales fenómenos, se realizó el análisis para un...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
Uzbekistan gears up for UN Food Systems Summit through dialogue events

Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture, together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organised a national dialogue to prepare for the UN Food Systems Summit, a major global event which is planned for September. In over 100 countries around the world, national dialogues and...
Uzbekistan
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: Escoba de bruja

Cacao-Theobroma cacao
La infección causa superbrotacóon o engrosamiento; hojas grandes curvadas, retorcidas y variables. - Podar los árboles de cacao a una altura por debajo de los - Remoción de tejidos enfermos (enterrarlos). - Plantas afectadas seriamente se deben rehabilitar con materiales tolerantes. - Establecimiento de genotipos tolerantes a la enfermedad. -...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Journal article
High Infection to SARS-CoV-2 in an Indigen Community of the Colombian Amazon Region

Introduction. COVID-19 is a pathology caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. The World Health Organization has reported more than 94 million cases and two million deaths worldwide. Objective: To describe the seroprevalence, spatial distribution, and clinical and sociodemographic variables of SARS-CoV2 in a community of the Colombian Amazon region. Methods. In...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Video
Making livestock production more sustainable

Supporting nomadic herding and pastoral communities in a changing world.
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Manual
Cisterna Calçadão - 52 mil litros

Ao longo das últimas décadas, a ASA e famílias de todo o Semiárido do Brasil desenvolveram e aprimoraram o método de construção das cisternas de placas. Esta cartilha tem como objetivo partilhar essa experiência na construção de cisternas, possibilitando que outros povos possam usufruir dessa tecnologia que mudou o cenário...
Brazil - British Indian Ocean Territory - British Virgin Islands
2021 - Articulação Semiárido Brasileiro (ASA)

Blog article
African farmers can feed Africa

This article offers a well-argued and supported study synthesis in response to the issue, Why didn't AGRA's Green Revolution work in Mali? Is it feasible for African farmers to feed the continent? This is a must-read essay for anybody interested in the situation of Mali and the powerful farmers' movement...
Mali
2021

Report
Autonomy through agroecology: What women farmers expect from sustainable food systems

Women farmers, especially female peasant and family farmers are pivotal to build back better food systems. 60% of the world’s food is produced by smallholders on 30% of the global agricultural surface. 50%-80% of this food, depending on the country and region, is produced by women.  SWISSAID and partners launched a qualitative...
2021 - SWISSAID

Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #43

Agroecology Newsletter of January 2021.
2021

Magazine article
Agriculture et Développement

Revue de vulgarisation et d'appui conseil
Articles:  Pisciculture: promotion et développement de la pisciculture dans les régions Sahariennes Pour une gestion durable de la foret Algérienne Les systèmes de gestion de l'information et des connaissances
2021 - Agriculture et Développement

Event
EIP-AGRI workshop Farm data for better farm performance

Digital technologies and data-based solutions can help farmers work more precisely, efficiently, and sustainably, improving decision-making and farming practices, and helping increase farm’s environmental performance and competitiveness, whilst also making farming jobs more attractive to younger generations. Collaborative data sharing models play a key role in ensuring that data driven...
European Union
2021 - EIPAgri

Event
Diálogo regional sobre la igualdad de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres para la transformación de los sistemas alimentarios de América Latina y el Caribe

Un sistema alimentario justo, transformador y equitativo en relación con el género es aquel que permite a los países, comunidades, hogares, y a los hombres y mujeres, contar con lo necesario para producir y tener acceso suficientes alimentos para sus familias y poblaciones a través de procesos sostenibles, positivos para...
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Article
Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated?

Numerous attempts have been made to estimate the share of the world’s food produced by family farms and by farms of different sizes. This paper updates estimates of the number of farms worldwide, their distribution and that of farmland, using the most recent agricultural censuses available, in combination with survey...
2021

Report
Promover prácticas agrícolas sostenibles: De los incentivos a la adopción y los resultados

Las prácticas agrícolas sostenibles permiten un uso más eficiente de los recursos naturales, mitigan el impacto de la agricultura en el medio ambiente y fortalecen la capacidad de adaptación al cambio climático y la variabilidad climática. Debido a que estas prácticas generalmente requieren un esfuerzo sustancial o la asignación de...
2021 - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)

E-learning
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries - Introduction

This course is the first of a series that aims to provide guidance on the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) and its application to fisheries management. It provides a comprehensive overview of the world fisheries and goes on explaining fisheries management, its objectives, mechanisms and challenges. Subsequently EAF is introduced,...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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