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

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Manual
Guía Metodológica para la Sistematización de los Cuadernos Agroecológicos

Esta Guía Metodológica presenta un paso a paso sobre por qué y cómo utilizar los Cuadernos Agroecológicos. Estamos construyendo juntas/os caminos e instrumentos que nos permitan mostrar y conocer/sistematizar la contribución (económica, ecológica, social y cultural) de la mujer rural a la economía familiar, a la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria, a la agroecología y a la vida....
Brazil
2021 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)

Report
Mapeo de iniciativa de agricultura familiar en Colombia

Resumen de iniciativa vinculadas a la agricultura familiar
El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.
Colombia
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
“Do you know an island in the world without fishermen?” – An interview about sustainable fishing and traditional fishermen on Menorca

For her Master’s thesis research, Annya Crane delved into the daily lives of local fishermen on Menorca for four months, in collaboration with our partner Marilles Foundation. Not only did her respect for these hard workers increase, she also discovered why the decline of family businesses is a major hurdle...
2021 - Adessium foundation

Blog article
Organic Agriculture is Good for All, so has a Bright Future…

China and India are the major organic agriculture producers in Asia. But other Asian countries too are working well to increase their share in the global organic market. Some countries worth mentioning are Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand, which are making systematic efforts to promote organic agriculture in their own ways....
2021 - AESA

Report
Food systems transformation Processes and pathways in the Mediterranean

A stocktaking exercise
The 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) set the stage for actors across the globe to engage in conversations around sustainable food systems, explore the interconnections between food systems and today’s pressing challenges, and make their voices heard for an inclusive and resilient transformation towards sustainability. As part of...
2021 - FAO, CIHEAM and UfM

Blog article
Biodiversity in Africa-10 figures, 10 Challenges

Data on African biodiversity reveals both its richness and the threats to which it is exposed. Beyond the anthropogenic threat, African biodiversity is also under pressure from climate change. An overview of the realities of African biodiversity in 10 figures.
2021 - Afrik 21

Video
Convert Garden Waste into Rich Resources

You can convert garden waste into a rich garden resource. This video explains how Nasira Habib does it in her home garden.  
Pakistan
2021 - International People's Agroecology Multiversity IPAM

Video
Incentive instruments for agroecology and sustainable financing mechanisms

Alain Karsenty, an environmental economist, has been a Senior Scientist at CIRAD (Montpellier, France) since 1992. His research and expertise area are focused on economic instruments for the environment. He has extensive knowledge of land tenure, concessions, forest policies, and practices in West & Central Africa and Madagascar, his main fieldwork. As an international consultant...
2021 - Capacity4dev Members' Channel

Journal article
A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil

Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for various policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward policy goals. This study draws on a policy mix approach to analyze adaptation efforts at the...
Brazil
2021

Blog article
Project strengthens food safety systems in five countries of Europe and Central Asia

Unsafe food is a major threat to human health and economies globally. A new project has been kicked off to strengthen official food safety control and risk communication systems in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Implemented under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture, funded by Turkey,...
Azerbaijan - Kyrgyzstan - Republic of Moldova - Tajikistan - Türkiye
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Policy brief/paper
Making healthy diets a reality in Fiji

The role of policy in supporting food systems that work for health
The Fijian Government’s agenda and strategic priorities – as informed by their international and national commitments – end up the shaping Fijian food systems, and the diets of Fijians. This agenda influences policy decisions and can either support or deter Fijian food systems from providing affordable and healthy diets for...
Fiji
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Magazine article
L’agriculture tunisienne face à la Covid-19 : impacts de la crise sanitaire et perspectives pour une agriculture résiliente

L’économie tunisienne a subi de plein fouet les effets de la crise sanitaire Covid-19 et des mesures indispensables pour la juguler prises par les pouvoirs publics comme la fermeture des frontières et le confinement de la population. L’agriculture a dû faire face aux mêmes difficultés ; toutefois, la courte durée du...
Tunisia
2021 - Cahiers Agricultures

Guidelines
Guía para la implantación del Plan de Soberanía Alimentaria y Educación Nutricional de Cuba en los municipios

El 22 de julio de 2020, el Consejo de Ministros de Cuba aprobó el Plan Nacional de Soberanía Alimentaria y Educación Nutricional, el primero de su tipo en la historia del país y considerado la plataforma nacional para lograr la plena seguridad alimentaria. Este Plan fue coordinado por el Ministerio...
Cuba
2021 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Implementation of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

Fishing and aquaculture provide a vital source of food, employment, trade and economic well-being for people throughout the world, for present and future generations, and should therefore be conducted in a responsible manner. The Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (the Code) sets out principles and international standards for responsible...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Indonesia – training smallholder farmers to pursue better lives

Naning Suprawati is the eldest daughter in a family of farmers and while she never argued with her father, she had always known that she wanted something different than the two options her father laid out for her. Suprawati went on to major in education in university but when she started...
Indonesia
2021 - AFA

Blog article
World’s experts report on tackling biodiversity and climate change

A workshop report published today (10 June) by 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate experts states that unprecedented changes in climate and biodiversity, driven by human activities, have combined and increasingly threaten nature, human lives, livelihoods and well-being around the world.
Last week, two major international scientific groups, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published their first joint report on Biodiversity and Climate Change written by 50 of the world's leading experts on the subject. The report highlights the...
2021 - https://www.bas.ac.uk

Practices
Construcción de lagunas, cisternas y pozos para el abastecimiento seguro de agua en épocas de sequía para el consumo animal

La crianza de ganado bovino, ovino y caprino requiere de agua para el abastecimiento de los animales. Las fuentes de agua más usadas por los pequeños productores pecuarios son manantiales, arroyos y pequeños ríos. Con el cambio climático, las sequías son más prolongadas y frecuentes provocando el agotamiento de las...
Dominican Republic
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Website
Data Food Consortium: a common and open digital language to develop short circuits

With the development of food tech, more and more services in short food circuits are provided via computerized tools: production monitoring, plot management, product catalog management, online sales via e-commerce tools, invoicing, accounting, etc. Today, these tools operate globally in a logic of silos and despite the existence of some Application...
European Union
2021 - Data Food Consortium

Report
Asia and the Pacific Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2020

The 2020 report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the Asia and Pacific region, provides an update on progress towards the 2030 targets (SDGs and WHA) at the regional and country level. Selected indicators look at undernourishment, food insecurity, childhood stunting, wasting and overweight, adult overweight, child...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Preocupación en Federación Agraria Argentina por las mermas en las cosechas de pequeños y medianos productores por la escasez de lluvias y los incendios

La Federación Agraria Argentina expresó el 18 de marzo su profunda preocupación ante las fuertes mermas que se confirman en las cosechas —especialmente de los pequeños y medianos productores agropecuarios que representa— que son consecuencia de la sequía y la falta de precipitaciones en momentos claves de la producción. Esta...
Argentina
2021 - Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA)
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