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Vietnam: Shared Success
Some valuable lessons—a replicable model—on protection of aquatic resources and small-scale fisheries. The term co-management has been researched in Vietnam since the 1990s. A number of pilot projects have been conducted to find appropriate distribution and management sharing responsibilities between the government and the community. April 25, 2019, was a crucial...
Viet Nam
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
Innovación y agricultura digital
El mundo está cambiando a un ritmo acelerado con el surgimiento de una serie de tecnologías. Las tecnologías digitales y otras formas de innovación ofrecen oportunidades únicas para mejorar los sistemas alimentarios y las sociedades rurales de América Latina y el Caribe, y para ayudar a alcanzar los Objetivos de...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Empowering sustainability in Ghana
Sometimes, it is not so easy for people to embrace sustainability instead of some “not so sustainable” practices which could be beneficial as far as their income is concerned.
Without a single doubt, sustainability holds the key to food security along with education, woman empowerment and gender equality. Sulemana Hibbatullah Wunpini is a gender activist fighting for women and girls’ rights while seeking for equality. She constantly seeks for opportunities to speak in public for everything she stands for...
Greece
2020 - Food Security Center
Report
Food Outlook – Biannual Report on Global Food Markets
Food markets will face many more months of uncertainty related to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, while most markets are braced for a major global economic downturn, the agri-food sector is likely to display more resilience to the crisis than other sectors.
Food Outlook is published by the Trade and Markets Division...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Woven bamboo products manufacturing unit
Woven bamboo products are produced from thin strips of bamboo. There exist a wide variety of such products and they have been closely associated with the development of civilizations in bamboo growing regions of the world for many millennia. The products may be primarily intended for agricultural use, such as...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Contribution to national policies for a agroecological transition in Senegal
Different actors in agroecology including farmers, grassroots community organizations, communities organizations, non-governmental organizations, researchers and private companies have decided to come together in one framework to contribute to the reflections of the State of Senegal on the question of the agroecological transition referred to as "Dynamic for an AgroEcological Transition in Senegal"(DyTAES).
DyTAES aims, in...
Senegal
2020 - CIRAD
Newsletter
FAO Markets and Trade Newsletter August 2020
August 2020 FAO Markets and Trade Newsletter
2020 - United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization FAO
Newsletter article
Ghana: Smoking fish efficiently
The ahotor oven represents an improvement on the widely used chorkor smoker, and is an energy- and time-efficient fish smoking technology. My recent tours in some coastal communities in the Central, Western and Volta Regions of Ghana exposed me to a daily reality of fishmongers in the region. As part of...
Ghana
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Technical paper
COVID-19 will almost double acute hunger by end of 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic will see more than a quarter of a billion people suffering acute hunger by the end of the year, according to new figures from the World Food Programme (WFP).Latest numbers indicate the lives and livelihoods of 265 million people in low and middle-income countries will be under...
2020 - World Food Programme
Practices
Cultivation of improved banana varieties, in combination with mulching, trenches and organic compost
This technology describes a combination of good practices for soil and water conservation to enhance the resilience of banana plantations to the increasing dry spells in the central cattle corridor of Uganda, as part of the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) project on Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change in Uganda....
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Manual
FAO framework on ending child labour in agriculture
The purpose of the FAO’s framework is to guide the Organization and its personnel in the integration of measures addressing child labour within FAO’s typical work, programmes and initiatives at global, regional and country levels. It aims to enhance compliance with organization’s operational standards, and strengthen coherence and synergies across...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Village bamboo preservation unit
Bamboo and rattan are ideal resources for development that integrates poverty reduction and environmental sustainability, and INBAR’s priority is giving people at all levels the knowledge and skills they need for long-term development involving bamboo and rattan. Therefore, preserving bamboo extends its life and maintains its quality. Bamboo culms are...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Working paper
Shallow water shrimp fishery in Mozambique: who benefits from fiscal reform?
In Mozambique, fisheries are important to the national economy and individual livelihoods. Shallow water shrimp fisheries (SWSF) provide an important source of income for many coastal communities. Yet the sustainability of SWSFs is under threat, due to overfishing, the rapid and uncontrolled expansion of the artisanal fishing subsector, and the...
Mozambique
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Journal article
Roundup: news, events, briefings and more. Samudra Report No.84
The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries.
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter article
SSF: Illuminating hidden harvests
The conversation around a global and collaborative small-scale fisheries study highlights the under-recognition and under-reporting of women’s work. Illuminating Hidden Harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development’ (IHH) is a collaborative study led by FAO, Duke University and WorldFish. The study, due out in 2021, consists of 58 country...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Women's Empowerment in Agriculture is Essential to COVID-19 Survival and Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic presents a devastating threat to lives and livelihoods around the world. Many development organizations and research institutions are raising their voices and calling for governments, policymakers, donors, and implementers to pay attention to the gender-specific risks and impacts of the outbreak to ensure response efforts are equitable...
2020 - AgriLinks
Report
Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia - An overview.
This publication aims to provide an overview of actions and initiatives on Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia countries.
There is enough evidence that agroecology contributes to more sustainable food systems, in particular to delivering food production while respecting natural resources, ecosystem services and social processes. However, to assure agroecology can...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book part
Características socioeconómicas de los productores
El cultivo de mora en Colombia es un generador de ingresos y de empleo para los pequeños y medianos productores, y una alternativa agroindustrial para algunas zonas del país. Su porcentaje en la producción nacional es del 5,8 % (Red de Información y Comunicación del Sector Agropecuario Colombiano [Agronet], s....
Colombia
2020 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Practices
Participatory varietal selection: short duration legume crops for rainfed rabi in India and Nepal
Poor farmers in marginal areas continue to grow old crop varieties that are often susceptible to pests and disease, and which are less suited to current constraints and opportunities experienced by farmers. These farmers have had little exposure to new varieties, whilst those that have been released are often not...
India - Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Working paper
FishCounts: increasing the visibility of small-scale fisheries in Cambodia’s national planning
Artisanal and family fishing make a significant contribution to Cambodia’s economy and food security. Community fisheries are already empowered to manage local fisheries resources, but small-scale fisheries are often overlooked in policy making, partly due to a lack of reliable data. Developing a fisheries satellite account through the System of...
Cambodia
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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