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Produto do cerrado recebe homenagem internacional
O cerrado é um bioma de grande biodiversidade, apesar de ser considerado a maior savana do mundo. É do onde cerrado que Juliana, uma agricultora familiar e chef, tira o sustento. Os produtos do cerrado são ricos em nutrientes.
Na gastronomia Juliana utiliza os frutos do cerrado. O bolo de banana...
Brazil
2019 - Tribuna Rural
Blog article
Selo Arte: para o campo, uma mesa cheia de novidades
Agroindústrias vão poder comercializar em todo o país
Muito em breve os produtores poderão contar com o Selo Arte, um instrumento de identificação de produtos alimentícios de origem animal, produzidos de forma artesanal, com características e métodos tradicionais ou regionais próprios.
Cada estado terá autonomia para identificar e caracterizar os produtos alimentícios de origem animal, realizar o cadastro destes...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo
Report
Farm diversification in the circular bio-economy
The EIP-AGRI workshop 'Opportunities for farm diversification in the circular bio-economy' was organised to highlight of the number of co-operation mechanisms and business models that have been developed to bring forward circular bio-economy projects and enterprises across the EU. The workshop took place in February in Vilnius, Lithuania, and was...
European Union
2019 - Eip Agri
Blog article
Why is family farming better for the environment?
Not only is family farming providing jobs and food in the world’s most food insecure areas such as Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Near East, they also provide a useful model for how agriculture can help redress environmental degradation.While smallholder family farms differ greatly across the regions, they play...
2019
Case study
EU Environment and Climate Change Policies
This study reviews the state of play of on-going EU environmental and climate legislation and pinpoints key challenges for the next five years. Challenges arise from the plans released by the president-elect, such as a new European Green Deal, the completion of work started in the previous term (e.g. the...
European Union
2019 - © European Union, 2019
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Landscape management to increase biodiversity
French farmers, beekeepers and agricultural students join forces to promote biodiversity
For the past three years, the Biodiversité project in the French region of Normandy has been working on biodiversity in agriculture. Farmers, beekeepers and students have joined forces to study the potential of increasing biodiversity on agricultural parcels by planting...
European Union
2019 - Eip Agri
Blog article
Where Next for CAP – Can Strategic Plans Deliver?
While the next CAP reform is still in discussion at the Council, and the European Parliament has not yet taken a final position, Samuel Féret explains the rationale of the new concept of CAP Strategic Plans (CSP) for a future CAP as proposed by the European Commission. This is intended...
European Union
2019 - ARC2020
Video
Cooperativas agropecuárias geram 200 mil empregos
No Brasil são quase mil cooperativas que juntas reunem mais de 14 milhões de cooperados, e empregam 425 mil pessoas.
As cooperativas agropecuárias movimentam a economia, geram 200 mil empregos, tem mais de 1 milhão de associados. São mais de 1600 cooperativas agrícolas no país. Quase 50% do que é produzido...
Brazil
2019 - COOPERATIVAS AGROPECUÁRIAS GERAM 200 MIL EMPREGOS
Journal article
The rural-urban gap and rural transformation in the Near East and North Africa
The rural-urban gap remains the single most well-documented development and welfare disparity in the economies of the Near East and North Africa (NENA). The gap between rural and urban areas can be seen in the lower productivity of economic activities, higher poverty levels and lower quality infrastructure and services in...
2019
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: A digital strategy for agriculture
There is a pressing need for overarching digital strategies to unlock the potential of digitisation in the agricultural sector.Digital technologies can help European farmers increase their profitability and reduce their environmental impact, however they are more effective when supported by public policy. In the northern part of Germany, the region of...
Germany
2019 - EipAgri
Case study
Cereal banks improving food security and incomes in Guinea-Bissau
In Guinea-Bissau, the intensifi cation of cashew monoculture and the decline in yields of rice and other staple cereals is a common issue that puts the population in an unprecedented state of food insecurity. Organisations such as CAURAL REMOBE have tried to fi nd a solution to this problem. The...
Guinea-Bissau
2019 - ONG Guiarroz, Guinée-Bissau.
Working paper
Characteristics of Smallholder Farm Households in Upper Egypt
Implications for nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions
This paper characterizes smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt based on data from a comprehensive farm household survey. The results from the descriptive analysis in combination with findings from the global literature provide recommendations on how agricultural projects can be leveraged for improving nutrition. The importance of focusing on nutrition...
Egypt
2019 - IFPRI
Blog article
How agroecology can respond to a changing climate and benefit farmers
Current food systems are at a crossroads. There is a strong need for transforming food production and consumption patterns in a sustainable way. One where farmers adapt and build resilience to the increasing challenges from climate change and where nutritious food is available for all. Agroecology provides one solution towards...
Brazil - Niger
2019 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Book
Developing Sustainable Value Chains for Small-Scale Livestock Producers
This publication constitutes a practical development tool, which implements the sustainable food value chain framework with a focus on small-scale livestock producers, targeting an audience of project design teams and policymakers. By integrating the concepts of value addition and the three dimensions of sustainability, the sustainable food value chain framework not...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2019
The Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2019 consists of three main sections: 1) an in-depth situation analysis of Sustainable Development Goal 2 Target 2.1 (to end hunger and ensure access to food by all) and Target 2.2 (to end all forms of malnutrition),...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Case study
Seed fairs in post-conflict situations
As part of its food security and livelihood programs, Action Against Hunger (ACF-USA)* has organized seed fairs in rural areas of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to provide farmers with seeds. The fairs have been widely spread and had a great number of direct beneficiaries and vendors, successfully...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Uganda
2019 - The Oakland Institute
Blog article
Letter from a Farm
Who grows the food we eat? Who sows the seeds, tends the soil, picks the fruits and harvests the carrots? At ARC, we want to put faces to our food.
Agroecology is not one fixed way of doing agriculture, rather it is a philosophy, set of practices, and way of engaging...
European Union
2019 - ARC2020
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Viva Maria: Mulheres rurais, em campanha, transformam indignação em poesia
Na certeza de que “Dias Melhores virão", frase que viralizou na internet ao longo das comemorações do 8 de março, Viva Maria hoje também compartilha algumas mensagens que recebeu através do WhatsApp.
E em nome desse seu fazer poesia, fazer agricultura familiar, eu compartilho com a nossa audiência a alegria de...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo
Conference/Meeting
JOIN THE EVENTS OF THE DECADE FOR FAMILY FARMING AT THE WORLD CLIMATE SUMMIT COP25
Family farming suffers first hand from climate change and is, in turn, one of the main keys to mitigation efforts.
More than 25,000 representatives from 200 countries (heads of States and Governments, environmental organizations, private sector, scientists, etc.) will meet in Madrid at the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 that will take place in the IFEMA space, from 2 to 13 December, to reach agreements and commitments between nations to combat the...
2019
Book
Resilience analysis of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in South Sudan’s cross-border areas with Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
“Strengthening the Livelihoods Resilience of Pastoral and Agropastoral Communities in South Sudan’s Cross-border Areas with Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda” is a three-year project funded by European Union that aims to improve governance and conflict prevention to reduce forced displacement and irregular migration in the cross-border areas of South Sudan....
Ethiopia - Kenya - Sudan - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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