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

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Balance Social 2019

El Balance Social de AGROSAVIA 2019 está dividido en dos capítulos. El primero está dedicado al análisis de una muestra de 26 tecnologías ofrecidas por la Corporación y que han sido incorporadas por los productores en sus sistemas agropecuarios o agroindustriales. Esta muestra incluye diferentes tipos de tecnologías como material...
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Website
Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB)

La Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB) es un espacio de coordinación e intercambio de autoridades territoriales que administran o influyen sobre las principales masas boscosas de Mesoamérica. Gobiernos indígenas y organizaciones forestales comunitarias que en la Alianza buscan fortalecer su propio diálogo, enfocado en la gestión comunitaria de sus recursos...
2020 - Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB)

Practices
Cultivating lotus on raised beds in flood prone areas

This practice describes how cultivating lotus in raised beds can create employment and generate income in the rainy season. The example of the flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Vietnam is used to highlight its benefits. Steps on how to implement the technology are listed...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Audio
Montenegro’s mountains - where tourism meets tradition

In Montenegro, smallholder farmers rely heavily on traditional agriculture practices for their livelihoods. So much so, that a poor blueberry harvest or honey season can have devastating impacts on rural households. That’s why the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Montenegro
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Agency and advocacy in the food systems of the majority: Food for thought from the Sustainable Diets for All programme

Interventions to improve the sustainability and nutrition of food can be misdirected when based on assumptions about people’s priorities and level of knowledge. When citizens have the capacity to act on their own priorities — in other words when they have agency — there is the potential to achieve better...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Indonesia - Uganda - Zambia
2020 - International Insitute for Environment and Development

Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #38

Agroecology Newsletter of August 2020
2020

Blog article
The ALIVE Programme contributes to a sustainable environment that enables women and men living in poverty to improve their lives.

Small-holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing the negative impacts of climate change. The vulnerable exposure to frequent extreme weather conditions, increased risk of pests, water deficiency among others has a direct negative effect on food production. The women face higher risks and greater burdens from the impacts of climate...
Kenya
2020 - Vi Agroforestry

Journal article
Integración de la ganadería bovina en sistemas agrícolas. Evaluación económica

La concurrencia de diversos factores que afectan la sustentabilidad del sistema productivo predominantemente agrícola de la región núcleo, tales como la alta proporción del monocultivo de soja, la complejización del manejo agrícola por la aparición de malezas resistentes, las altas tasas de extracción de nutrientes de los suelos, el cambio...
Argentina
2020 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias -Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)

Case study
Meet the young agripreneurs who won’t let COVID-19 get them down

Since COVID-19 struck, life has changed for entrepreneurs and businesses around the world. Due to lockdowns and movement restrictions, smallholder farmers and rural businesses have been unable to access markets and sell produce or other products. As they often have little or no access to social security, rural youth disproportionately...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

E-learning
Agricultura Familiar: procesos organizativos y de comercialización

El siguiente video es la grabación de la videoconferencia denominada "Procesos organizativos y de comercialización de la Agricultura Familiar", que fue presentada por Edgardo González y Pablo García. La actividad fue realizada el jueves 29 de octubre de 2020 entre las 9:30 y las 11 hs y participaron un total...
Argentina
2020 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)

Report
The 2020 Global Food Policy Report

The 2020 Global Food Policy Report focuses on the need to build inclusive food systems, both to ensure that marginalized and vulnerable people enjoy the benefits and opportunities that food systems can bring and to support sustainable development. Inclusive food systems can help create better economic opportunities for poor people,...
2020 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Report
Smallholders and family farms in Serbia

The background for conducting country study on the challenges, needs and constraints of smallholders and family farms in the Republic of Serbia has been a wish to further strengthen the Regional Initiative on Empowering Smallholders and Family Farms and develop it towards a stronger programmatic approach at both the regional...
Serbia
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
COVID-19: Voices of young agripreneurs in Uganda

In Uganda, the COVID-19 youth engagement initiative promoted by FAO was launched through a network of youth champions and organizations that have been supported by and collaborating with the ICA programme, for instance in the development of the National Strategy for Youth Employment in Agriculture or in the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture initiative. Watch the...
Uganda
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Fact sheet
Catálogo de toros: laboratorio de reproducción animal

En este folleto puede encontrar información de distintas variedades de toros, como pruebas de desempeño en pastoreo, valores genéticos y valoración genómica de Romosinuano y Blanco Orejinegro y otras razas. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate
Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Comment faire un simple voile qui protège le corps des piqures d’abeilles

Le vêtement de protection est un élément important de l’équipement d’un apiculteur parce qu’il protège le corps des piqûres d’abeilles et rend la récolte du miel plus simple. Il peut éviter l’usage du feu pour chasser les abeilles pendant la récolte du miel. Le vêtement de protection peut être un...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Practices
Fishery management: Length frequency distribution analysis (LFDA) and catch effort data analysis (CEDA) software

Length Frequency Distribution Analysis (LFDA) and Catch and Effort Data Analysis (CEDA) are software packages with analytical tools to guide and assist stock assessment and develop fisheries management policies in developing countries. The outputs of LFDA include estimates of growth and mortality and precautionary management advice. CEDA analyses catch and...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Blog article
Seeking New Agreements for Working with Nature through Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity

In this first article in the new column of Agroecology Now! named "Agroecology in Motion: Nourishing Transformation'', Patrick Mulvany, an Honorary Research Fellow (HRF) at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR), makes a call to radically foreground a more robust and transformative understanding of agricultural biodiversity, especially the need to enhance...
2020 - Agroecology Now!

Journal article
Indigenous tenure security and local participation in climate mitigation programs: Exploring the institutional gaps of REDD+ implementation in the Peruvian Amazon

The Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism faces implementation challenges related to tenure security and governance institutions. In response, multiple regional climate mitigation initiatives have emerged. In Peru, indigenous networks have created their own Indigenous Amazonian REDD (RIA), an initiative aiming to strengthen property rights for...
Peru
2020 - Swiss National Science Foundation

Newsletter
IFPRI Resources and Analyses on COVID-19 (also known as Coronavirus)

IFPRI is curating a series of analyses from IFPRI researchers and guest contributors on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutrition security, poverty, and development. The webpage will continue to be updated with new analyses in the coming weeks and months.
2020 - IFPRI

Blog article
Challenges for emerging small-scale livestock farmers in Nigeria

Engaging in crop and animal production, seems like a dead-end in order to diversify the country’s economy. But what are the challenges that farmers are facing during the process of a more sustainable and food secure future? According to Food and Agriculture Organization, around 60 to 70% more food will have...
Nigeria
2020 - Food Security Center
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