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Policy brief/paper
Vote on the WestMed MAP
In the light of the vote on the Multiannual Plan for the fisheries exploiting demersal stocks in the western Mediterranean Sea that will take place on the 10th of January 2019 at 9:00 in the PECH Committee, LIFE writes to the Members of the European Parliament to outline the amendments that...
2019 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Project
Plataforma da Marcha Das Margaridas 2019
Os pontos centrais da luta da Marcha das Margaridas estão expressos nesta Plataforma Política. Ela foi construída de 2017 a 2019 a partir de diálogos estabelecidos com pelo menos 30 organizações e movimentos sociais, resultado de centenas de encontros e reuniões realizadas em âmbito nacional, regional, estadual e na base...
Brazil
2019 - Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Rurais Agricultores e Agricultoras Familiares
Conference proceedings
Pour une prise en compte accrue de l’approche One Health au Mali
Le document présente les Actes d'un séminaire organisé à Bamako en novembre 2018, par AVSF et VSF-International, avec le soutien de l'Agence Française de Développement, pour dynamiser et renforcer les collaborations entre l’ensemble des partenaires impliqués (organisations paysannes, société civile, services publics et techniques déconcentrés, professionnels de la santé animale...
Mali
2019 - AVSF
Technical paper
Making the case for gender-responsive adaptation planning in Uruguay: The importance of sex-disaggregated data
This case study shares Uruguay’s recent experiences collecting and analyzing sex-disaggregated data relevant to adaptation planning in the agriculture sectors1 . It describes the findings from a qualitative and quantitative study that aimed to generate information about resources as well as symbolic, cultural, and economic barriers affecting adaptation in agricultural...
Uruguay
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
THE NEW EU FISHERIES FUND MUST STAY ON COURSE TO HELP SMALL-SCALE FISHERS!
LIFE calls on MEPs to reject amendments 10, 19, and 39, which aim to expand the definition of small-scale fisheries and create an uneven playing field across Europe.
Imperfect as it is given the great diversity of small-scale fleets, the simple definition – under 12 metres and not using towed fishing...
2019 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Working paper
Improving dissemination strategies to increase technology adoption by smallholder farmers in Tunisia
With the human population increasing drastically in recent times, improving agricultural productivity will be important in maintaining livelihoods and raising living standards. This project investigated the adoption of farming technologies in two governorates of Tunisia: Zaghouan and Kairouan. Through a questionnaire approach, a total of 700 farmers from both governorates...
Tunisia
2019 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Technical paper
Evaluación de la inclusión de desechos alimenticios a la dieta de cerdos criollos (Sus scrofa domesticus) en etapa de inicio y su efecto en los parámetros productivos y económicos
La presente investigación se realizó con el objetivo de evaluar el efecto de la adición de un 30% de desechos alimenticios (arroz, tortillas, vegetales y carne) en la dieta de cerdos criollos (Sus scrofa domesticus) y como este incide en los parámetros productivos y económicos.
La investigación se llevó a cabo...
Argentina
2019 - Universidad del Salvador
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, November 2019
The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
Canada
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
Guidelines
PGS Guidelines: How to Develop and Manage Participatory Guarantee Systems for Organic Agriculture
The terminology and conceptual framework for describing Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) was first developed from the International Alternative Certification Workshop held in Brazil in 2004 and sponsored by IFOAM - Organics International and the MAELA. During this event, the dynamics of different alternative organic certification systems were shared and their...
2019 - IFOAM - Organics International
Event
VII Encuentro Regional de Planificación de Parlamentarios contra el Hambre
La VII versión de Encuentro Regional de Planificación de Parlamentarios contra el Hambre tendrá por objetivo dar seguimiento y fortalecer los planes de trabajo legislativo de los países miembros del Frente, en el marco de los compromisos del IX Foro y de la Cumbre Mundial de Madrid .
Lo anterior, se pretenderá conseguir mediante la...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Consorcio de cooperación Los Tres Reyes: cuatro maestras chacineras tras un sueño
Unidas por la familia y una finca en Agua Dulce en la provincia argentina de Tucumán, Verónica, Gladis, Zaira y Eugenia comenzaron hace unos años a transitar un camino de capacitación, trabajo y esfuerzo que, de a poco, va dando sus frutos.
Siempre en busca de oportunidades, lograron pasar de la...
Argentina
2019 - Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA)
Blog article
Mapa prepara maior feira da agricultura familiar já realizada na Expointer
Além da oportunidade de comercialização, dezenas de Selos da Agricultura Familiar serão entregues aos produtores participantes
Agricultores familiares terão espaço de destaque na 42ª Expointer, que começa no próximo sábado, 24, em Esteio (RS). O Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa) prepara neste ano a maior feira do setor já realizada no evento.
Um pavilhão com mais de sete mil metros quadrados e 316 espaços de...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo (SAF)
Journal article
How Does Agroecology Contribute to the Transitions towards Social-Ecological Sustainability?
This Special Issue of Sustainability aims at compiling original theoretical, methodological, and empirical research exploring how agroecology approaches can promote the transition towards sustainability, particularly of agri-food social-ecological systems, taking into account the complex relationships established between ecological functions and ecosystem services, human wellbeing, innovative socio-technical innovations, and governance models...
2019
Book
Guidelines for increasing access of small-scale fisheries to insurance services in Asia
A handbook for insurance and fisheries stakeholders
These Guidelines for increasing access of small-scale fisheries to insurance services, have been developed as a complement of the 2014 Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines). They were developed to provide implementation guidance for increasing access to financial...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Climate Change Impacts on Finnish Winter Seining Fishery
LIFE members from Snowchange Cooperative raise the alarm: ice melting is leading to the disappearance of the traditional seining fishery season. Back in the 1960s, the harvest could start in November and end in May, but fifty years after the season could be reduced to just a few weeks between February and March. This...
Finland
2019 - LIFE PLatform
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, December 2019
The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
Canada
2019 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
Guidelines
Geographical Indications for sustainable food systems
Preserving and promoting agricultural and food heritage
A Geographical Indication (GI) is a sign used on goods that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. Most commonly, a GI consists of the name of the place of origin. The specific qualities are the result of the local...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Audio
Inside Europe: Women and 'Slow Fish' sustainability
There are plenty of women working in the world of fishing — from fishing itself to processing and sales. There's an event in Italy called "Slow Fish" organized by the international Slow Food network. It focuses on issues of sustainability in fishing worldwide. This year the organizers chose to give...
2019
Case study
Social and Economic Empowerment in Agricultural Entrepreneurship
A Case Study of Rural Farmers in Cameroon
A case study has been conducted for assessing how Agricultural Entrepreneurship (being part of a farming cooperative, taking part to training programs and improving one’s commercial/agricultural techniques) results in social, political and economic empowerment among women farmers in Cameroon. In-depth interviews have been conducted in order to compare the empowerment process in farming cooperatives with the...
Cameroon
2019 - University of Mannheim
Blog article
Campanha de Mulheres Rurais da América Latina visa erradicar fome, pobreza e desigualdade de gênero
Em parceria com a FAO inciativa segue até dezembro com o objetivo de valorizar o trabalho da produtora rural
As mulheres rurais devem ser tema não somente do Estado, mas de todas as pessoas e sociedade. E sem dar atenção às trabalhadoras do campo, os países não alcançarão as metas de erradicação da fome, da pobreza e da desigualdade de gênero que constam nos Objetivos do Desenvolvimento Sustentável até...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo (SAF)
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