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Solar Pumps Ring in Sunshine for Salt Farmers of Surendranagar
Surendranagar, India – For many people, salt is an ingredient without which a meal is tasteless and incomplete. But have we ever given a thought to the effort which goes into preparing this salt?
In India, farmers spend eight months in the harsh salt pans in the Little Rann of Kutch...
India
2019 - SEWA
Video
Farmers taking the lead: 30 years of Farmer Field Schools
The FFS has been one of the most successful approaches developed and promoted by FAO over the last 30 years, empowering farmers to become better decision-makers in their own farming systems. Initiated by FAO in 1989, and followed by many other organizations and institutions, the FFS programmes represent one of...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
FAO lança quarta edição da campanha ‘Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos
De acordo com o censo demográfico mais recente, as mulheres rurais são responsáveis pela renda de 42,2% das famílias do campo no Brasil. Foto: Banco Mundial/Andrea Borgarello
"Pensar em igualdade, construir de forma inteligente, inovar para a mudança" é o lema da quarta edição da campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos,...
Brazil
2019 - Dourados Agora
Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos - Informe Nº 39. Octubre 2019
Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Gestión productiva y económica de pequeños y medianos emprendimientos porcinos de Argentina y Uruguay vinculados al CIAP” presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore la calidad...
Argentina
2019 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIA)
Journal
Evidencias científicas sobre la producción ecológica
La Sociedad Española de Agricultura Ecológica/Agroecológica (SEAE) ha publicado el trabajo Evidencias científicas sobre la producción ecológica que trata de mostrar, a través de evidencias, los beneficios de este tipo de producción. Este documento es apoyado por más de cincuenta entidades del ámbito académico, ambientalista, empresarial y del asociacionismo del sector ecológico...
2019
Book
ColaborAcción
Una guía práctica para promover la sustentabilidad
Esta guía práctica responde en lenguaje sencillo algunas preguntas centrales de un mundo complejo. Un mundo que, sin dudas, necesita repensar la colaboración para encarar con éxito sus problemas más urgentes. Basado en los más de veinte años de experiencia de la Fundación Avina en América Latina, Sean McKaughan ofrece...
Brazil
2019 - Fundación Avina
Case study
Grassroots communities produce certified onion seed in Cameroon
High-quality onion production begins with highquality onion seed. Ensuring farmers’ access to quality seed requires the use of research-proven techniques. This project aimed to improve the onion seed system by strengthening producers’ capacity to produce certifi ed onion seeds. The project built the capacity of producers through training of trainers,...
2019 - World Vegetable Center
Miscellanea
Decreto Lei nº 9.980, de 20 de agosto de 2019
O Decreto Lei nº 9.980, de 20 de agosto de 2019, dispõe sobre a estrutura regimental e atribui funções à Secretaria Especial de Articulação Social, que assessora o Ministro de Estado Chefe da Secretaria de Governo da Presidência da República.
No art.15 e incisos VI, VII e VIII, expressa a atribuição...
Brazil
2019 - Presidência da República
Journal article
Agroecological practices as territorial development: an analytical schema from Brazilian case studies
Agroecological practices have been widely promoted as an alternative to the hegemonic agri-food system, yet they also can help to ‘green’ the system. To strengthen a transformative agroecology, Latin American activists have promoted the concept desenvolvimento territorial rural (DTR or rural territorial development), which has different versions. The dominant version advocates broad...
Brazil
2019 - The Journal of Peasant Studies
Journal article
The economic potential of agroecology: Empirical evidence from Europe
This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates the reasons why, and under what conditions, agroecological farming systems have the potential to produce higher incomes than farms that follow the conventional logic. This theoretical exposition is then followed by a presentation of...
2019 - Journal of Rural Studies
Blog article
Rural Dialogues | Peasants of Nature – French Initiative Reconciles Agriculture & Biodiversity
In the Western French region “les Pays de la Loire”, an idea emerged about a decade ago in the minds of some environmentalists. Faced with the dreadful, global, current loss of biodiversity, especially in agricultural landscapes – which accounts for 70% of the regional land – these passionate naturalists strived...
European Union
2019 - ARC2020
Blog article
Mapa vai aproximar agricultores familiares de grandes investidores
A Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo do Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa) realizará em novembro e dezembro três Encontros de Oportunidades: dois no Nordeste e um no Norte do país, em municípios estratégicos com oferta e demanda de produtos da sociobiodiversidade. O objetivo é conectar pequenos e...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo (SAF)
Report
An Africa-Europe agenda for rural transformation
Report by the Task Force Rural Africa
The African workforce will grow by 800 million people over the next 30 years. Generating sufficient jobs and incomes to meet their needs is one of the biggest political and economic challenges of our time. This report proposes strategies and policies, harnessing cooperation between Africa and Europe, to enable the...
2019 - European Commission
Policy brief/paper
Becoming an agroecologist – fostering social learning and responsible action for sustainable food systems
This brief is based on experience gained from the Master’s Programme in Agroecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in particular, and on contributions from our partner programmes at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and Martyrs University in Uganda (UMU). The brief provides an overview of agroecology,...
Ethiopia - Uganda
2019 - Stockholm Environment Institute, Master’s Programme in Agroecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Report
HLPE 14: Agroecological and other innovative approaches for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition
In this report, the HLPE explores the nature and potential contributions of agroecological and other innovative approaches to formulating transitions towards sustainable food systems (SFSs) that enhance FSN. The HLPE adopts a dynamic, multiscale perspective, focusing on the concepts of transition and transformation. Many transitions need to occur in particular...
2019 - the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security
Blog article
France, Agroecology & the Coming CAP Reform
Agroecology is much talked about, and practiced in many regions, but how does it relate to the word of policy-making? In some countries such as France, agroecology forms the basis of emerging agri-food policy – albeit in a contested and sometimes contradictory way.
Since the time of ecologically progressive Agriculture Minister...
European Union
2019 - ARC2020
Video
Así se combina la innovación con los saberes locales en el Gran Chaco Americano
EL FUTURO ESTÁ EN EL MONTE se constituye como un movimiento que impulsa en la región del Gran Chaco modelos productivos y comerciales que promuevan un desarrollo sustentable, competitivo e inclusivo, a través de la puesta en valor del capital natural, social y cultural, combinando la innovación con los saberes...
Argentina
2019 - El Futuro está en el Monte
Journal article
Agroecology and La Via Campesina I. The symbolic and material construction of agroecology through the dispositive of “peasant-to-peasant” processes
In this essay, we look at the symbolic and material territorialization of agroecology in La Via Campesina (LVC) through peasant-to-peasant processes (PtPPs) in the broad sense. The most significant examples of the scaling up of agroecology are clearly tied to organizational processes and in our perspective, PtPPs are the motor...
2019 - : Agroecology and sustainable food systems
Journal
Les batailles du consommer local en Afrique de l'Ouest
En Afrique de l’Ouest, la forte croissance démographique et l’urbanisation rapide ont changé les caractéristiques démographiques de notre population : en 1961, 80 % des 70 millions d’ouest-africains étaient paysans ; en 2011, ils n’étaient plus que 56 % des 342 millions ; en 2050, ils pourraient n’être que 37...
2019 - CFSI
Case study
The Good Cocoyam Seed Initiative
Indigenous cocoyams in Burundi have the potential to increase food and nutrition security and contribute to improved livelihoods, but farmers’ capacity to meet the growing demand for them has been constrained by a lack of good quality seed and technical knowhow. The Good Seed Initiative targeted both seed and cocoyam...
Burundi
2019 - ESAFF Burundi
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