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

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Blog article
Conoce Arca Tierra, la chinampa de agricultura regenerativa

En un mundo perfecto, uno en donde no existiera la comida rápida, las chinampas serían el sistema de cultivo ideal. Es más: lo son, pero la agricultura a gran escala les gana terreno porque nuestro modo de vivir nos exige privilegiar el producir mucho a bajos costos sobre una producción...
Mexico
2021 - Regeneration International

Book
Potentially Important Fruit and Nuts of Uganda - Luganda

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Uganda
2021 - Food Plant Solutions

E-learning
Implementation of Farmer Field School Programmes

Farmer Field School (FFS) is a participatory education approach that brings together a group of small-scale food producers to solve production problems through sustainable agriculture. The FFS approach offers space for hands-on group learning, enhancing skills for observation and critical analysis and improved decision making by local communities. Building on...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena piña

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de piña 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...
Colombia
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Newsletter
Access Agriculture e-newsletter June 2021

This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2021 - Access Agriculture

Project
CGIAR's Initiative: ‘’Transformational Agroecology across Food, Land, and Water systems’’

A redesign of food systems is urgently needed to simultaneously achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability. Agroecology is gaining prominence as an approach to achieving this radical shift. Evidence demonstrates how agroecological approaches can contribute to sustainable, resilient agricultural and food systems today and in the future. However, despite many locally...
2021 - CGIAR

Blog article
Serbian hunters receive training on African swine fever and hunting biosecurity

This summer, FAO, in collaboration with Vojvodinasume and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), has already held nine training events for hunters on African swine fever (ASF) at various locations in Serbia, with today being the tenth and last. The trainings were organized upon the request of Serbia...
Serbia
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Event
World Food Forum

The first World Food Forum, powered by global youth, is around the corner! 1-5 October be ready for a series of virtual events that include... Musical performances Cooking shows Masterclasses Much more!
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Key P-IRIS’ messages about rural innovation networks

P-IRIS was based on the demand from Managing Authorities (MAs) to better support rural innovation in these regions. The initiative to address the issue through a project was taken during Euromontana’s General Assembly in November 2015. P-IRIS includes several members of our network: the County of Vestland (Norway), the Province of...
2021 - EuroMontana

Blog article
ICTs as the key to farmer empowerment

According to the author Napoleon Hill, “all achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.” Mori Goroubera, Head of ISADA Consulting in Benin, would certainly agree with this statement. His enterprise model was selected as one of the 25 best ideas in an Africa-wide competition in 2020 for...
Benin
2021 - Access Agriculture

Report
Sheep and Goats in Fiji and Papua New Guinea

A Success Story
Humans domesticated sheep and goat thousands of years before the cow. Initially sheep and goat were the livelihood source mainly for meat, milk and skin and now commercial production is order of the day. Global production of sheep meat is 9 million tons and developing countries are at the top...
Fiji - Papua New Guinea
2021 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAAri)

Book
Coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models

A new paradigm for territorial development?
This book offers a framework with which to analyse the coexistence and confrontation of agricultural and food models and in so doing takes a new look at territorial development. It puts this framework to the test by subjecting it to a series of conceptual works and case studies in France...
France
2021 - Éditions Quae

Report
Public food procurement for sustainable food systems and healthy diets - Volume 2

Sustainable Public Food Procurement (PFP) represents a key game changer for food systems transformation. It can influence both food consumption and food production patterns. It can deliver multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits towards sustainable food systems for healthy diets. This publication aims to contribute to the improved understanding, dissemination, and...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root Crops in Uganda - Luganda

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Uganda
2021

Report
Food Outlook: Biannual Report on Global Food Market

Global food trade is poised for a resilient year ahead even as international food commodity prices are set to remain high amid supply and demand uncertainties, according to a new report released today by the Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The report notes that trade flows continued to reach...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Manejo integrado de enfermedades: reconocimiento y manejo de elefantiasis

Disturbio común en zona cafetera desde la década de los años 60; sin embargo, en los últimos años (2010 - 2021) se ha registrado mayor incidencia, con pérdidas importantes en cultivos de banano y plátano. 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
2021 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Cuidado de la salud de ovejas y cabras y corrales mejorados

Un buen estado sanitario de los animales y la posibilidad de responder en eventos de emergencia buscando sustituir los recursos alimentarios de los animales que ya no están disponibles en cantidades adecuadas, son acciones prioritarias de respuesta y manejo en una situación de emergencia climática. Esto fue diseñado principalmente con...
Colombia
2021 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Policy brief/paper
Climate change impact on crop production in Sri Lanka: challenges and adaptation options

The need to ensure farmers’ livelihoods and welfare as well as national food security urges decision-makers to effectively tackle the challenges posed by climate change. Understanding how climate change affects the crop sector is essential for identifying appropriate and effective solutions to increase the resilience of the agriculture sector to...
Sri Lanka
2021 - FAO Plant Production and Protection Division, the FAO Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment and governmental institutions of Sri Lanka

Fact sheet
Urban Women Agripreneurship in the Gaza Strip, Facts & Challenges

The aim of this fact sheet is to highlight the realities and challenges of urban women’s entrepreneurial work in the agriculture sector, or agripreneurship, in the Gaza Strip. It is an initiative by the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP) & Urban Women Agripreneurs Forum (UWAF), committed to enhancing...
Palestine
2021 - Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)

Blog article
Food systems account for more than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions

Some two-thirds of the emissions from global food systems come from the land-based sector, comprising agriculture, land use and land use changes. That figure is higher for developing countries, but also declining significantly in step with decreasing deforestation and increasing downstream activities such as food processing and refrigeration. In terms of...
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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