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Ensuring rural development through better access to land for women in the Western Balkans
In late 2015, the world pledged to transform our future by committing to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which foresees reforms providing women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, in accordance with national laws.
This gave further...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Agriculture and food security in climate sensitive areas in the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean region is characterised by very limited arable land resources, 95% of which are already farmed (UfM, 2016). With almost no room left for the expansion of cultivated areas, the future of Mediterranean agriculture and its contribution to food security relies on the preservation of fragile lands threatened by...
European Union
2021 - Committee of the Regions
Report
Agriculture, food and nutrition security: a study of availability and sustainability in India
This volume provides an interdisciplinary collection of studies that cover the trends and issues related to agricultural productivity and availability, food and nutrition security, and sustainability in India. The book discusses a broad range of vital issues concerning the production and consumption of food during the era of climate change,...
India
2021
Video
Pasture management - Intensive rotational grazing with the Pitt Käch family in Switzerland
This video shows how to manage pastures so that the cows have good grass throughout the growing season. The farm is set up for fully grazing a herd of Kiwi-Cross with seasonal calving.
Switzerland
2021 - Farm Demo
Fact sheet
Renuka Bio Farms in India
The initiative is located in the Chittoor district in the Rayalaseema region of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. With a tropical climate, Chittoor is one of the most drought prone districts in the country, a problem exacerbated by depletion of natural resources, global warming, increasing population pressure, pollution, loss...
India
2021 - CARI, Gosavi Bahuudeshiya Sanstha (GBS)
Event
FAO World Food Day photo contest for Europe and Central Asia
For a long and healthy life, we all need good quality air, food and water. Unlike air and water, to be available and consumable, food needs to be produced, processed, and often transported and traded – a chain of actions that constitute the ‘food system’. We stand ready to transform...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Azerbaijan, Central Asia, and Turkey explore new solutions to food loss and waste
On the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, FAO, Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the Regional Coordination Centre for Food Security of the Economic Cooperation Organization held a conference to reflect on existing challenges pertaining to food loss and waste in Azerbaijan, Central Asia, and Turkey...
Azerbaijan - Türkiye
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Impact of seafood imports on the EU small-scale coastal fleet
International trade has become an important component of seafood production, with the growth in seafood trade greatly outpacing both population growth and seafood production growth. The EU plays a significant role in the international seafood market as the world’s largest seafood importer. The growing import of seafood into the EU...
European Union
2021 - Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (European Commission) , EUMOFA
Blog article
For Kenyan farmers, organic fertilizer bokashi brings the land back to life
Farmers in Kenya’s arid Tharaka Nithi county are growing fresh vegetables thanks to the use of an organic fertilizer known as bokashi. Made from a mix of farmyard waste, bokashi adds both nutrients and microorganisms to the soil, unlike chemical fertilizers that add only nutrients that are quickly consumed or washed...
Kenya
2021
Website
agroBRIDGES Project
agroBRIDGES was born from the need to stimulate the adoption of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) in the European Union. SFSCs introduces key economic, social and environmental benefits for sustainable development, like:
Rebalancing the market position of farmers and increasing their income.
Better connecting farmers with consumers and reducing intermediaries.
Meeting the societal...
European Union
2021
Journal article
Forest and water policy integration: A process and output-oriented policy network analysis
Natural resource management requires cross-sectoral policy integration because the scope of current environmental and sustainability issues surpasses traditional sectoral boundaries. While the emergence of policy networks in such cases has been observed in the policy integration literature, little is known about how these networks are formed and how they influence...
Germany - Spain
2021 - University of Freiburg
Event
SIDS Solution Forum - Pacific leaders from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) consider solutions for major push to achieve SDGs as COVID-19 batters economies
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum will enhance information exchange to facilitate development. It will gather Heads of Governments, UN agencies, and representatives from a wide spectrum of farmers organizations, NGOs, civil society and innovators to incubate, promote and scale-up home-grown and imported solutions to accelerate the achievement of the...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Technical paper
CAP impact on Generational Renewal
The ageing of the farming population is one of the top challenges facing rural areas in the EU
• Risk of land concentration
• Increase in need of skilled (hired) labour
• Vitality of rural areas
=> Generational renewal = priority of the CAP
European Union
2021 - European Commission
Video
Innovamos juntos la Agricultura Familiar en Costa Rica
La agricultura familiar es clave para lograr una ruralidad próspera, territorios más innovadores y garantizar alimentos frescos y saludables en nuestras mesas. En la actualidad, la agricultura familiar en Costa Rica representa el 55% de las explotaciones agrícolas.
Costa Rica
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
A step-by-step approach toward a gradual adoption of the full conservation agriculture technology: an example from Timor-Leste
This practice describes the step-by-step approach to promote conservation agriculture implemented in Timor-Leste. It also describes the conservation agriculture (CA) principles and steps in adopting the CA package.
After several years of promoting CA in Timor-Leste by various actors, the adoption of the CA package is rarely fully implemented by farmers....
Timor-Leste
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Working paper
Food systems and digitalization from a food sovereignty approach
This working paper seeks to support food producers’ organizations and other grassroots-based organizations in the complex debate on digitalization. It highlights four critical issues when considering digitalization in agriculture from a food sovereignty perspective: (1) the practice of digitalization is not neutral but supports large-scale food production systems at the...
2021 - Schola Campesina
Website
European Agri-Food Data Portal
Data on national and European agriculture and common agricultural policy (CAP), provided by the European Commission’s agricultural and rural development department.
European Union
2021 - European Commission
Report
La Agricultura Familiar Campesina (Indígena) en las Compras Públicas del Programa de Alimentación Escolar - PAE
Este informe se organiza en torno a seis capítulos. En la primera sección, se definen los objetivos de la consultoría, mientras que en la sección siguiente se presentan los antecedentes de la AFC, detallando el panorama histórico a nivel nacional e internacional, las definiciones operacionales de la AFC y una...
Chile
2021 - Escuela de Antropología UC
Book
AGROKIDS: todo un mundo en cuentos
Este libro es el resultado de los cuentos generados por los participantes del primer concurso del cuento infantil y juvenil “El Agro Cuenta” que gracias a su imaginación y creatividad nos harán pasar un rato muy divertido. Disfruta de estás grandes historias hechas por grandes chicos.
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Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Report
Examen de l’état de la restauration des forêts et des paysages en Afrique 2021
L’objectif du présent rapport est d’évaluer la mise en œuvre actuelle de la restauration des forêts et des paysages (RFP) en Afrique. Il expose le contexte de la RFP sur le continent africain, met en lumière les principales initiatives de la RFP et en donne un aperçu en Afrique au...
2021 - Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO)
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