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Programa de investigación y formación en sistemas agroecológicos andinos – segunda cohorte
El Programa Colaborativo de Investigación en Cultivos (Collaborativecrop Research Program) de la Fundación Mcknight financia investigaciones colaborativas entre pequeños productores, investigadores y promotores de desarrollo para generar conocimientos que contribuyan a lograr sistemas agroecológicos sustentables.
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) es una institución internacional no- gubernamental con status asociativo...
2019 - The Collaborative Program of Research in Crops (CCRP) of the Mcknight Foundation and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Journal
Sustainable family farming agriculture in south Asia through partnerships
South Asia, comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to about 1.8 billion people -- nearly 25% of the world’s population. But with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers, or some 1% of the world’s area, South Asia is the most densely...
2019 - Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Blog article
A New Global Agriculture: Using Big Data to Bring Farmers Together
For thousands of years, farmers have looked to the clouds for the next sign of rain to irrigate their crops. Now farmers are also looking to another cloud—the digital cloud—for insights that can make a critical difference for their operations. Through this network of servers, satellites, and mobile devices, the...
2019 - FoodTank
Blog article
Década de esperança e ascensão para a agricultura familiar
FAO promove Plano de Ação da Agricultura Familiar que começa neste ano e segue até 2028
Os próximos dez anos reservam à agricultura familiar um tempo de ascensão e destaque mundial. A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO), agência que lidera esforços para a erradicação da fome e combate à pobreza, lançou a Década da Agricultura Familiar entre os dias 27 e 29 de maio neste ano,...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo
Blog article
Social innovation in organic farming to revitalise rural areas
Traditionally, extensive farming has been one of the activities that has fixed more population in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and the Mediterranean. Moreover, it creates jobs and shapes most of our ecosystems. However, isolation and depopulation in these areas translate into the loss of their activities and the landscapes...
2019 - SIMRA
Book
Peru: Deforestation in Times of Climate Change
This book comprises a total of 14 articles addressing the issue of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and its impacts, not only on the Amazonian environment and wildlife but particularly on the communities inhabiting the area. These impacts are being facilitated by informal dynamics for which the state is largely...
Peru
2019
Video
Strengthening food security and nutrition in Caucasus and central Asia
The FAO project “Strengthening food security and nutrition in Caucasus and Central Asia” has proven to be an innovative initiative that is concretely contributing to the eradication of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition of the most vulnerable communities in the region. Funded by the Russian Federation, the project is working...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Avances del trabajo de investigación: “Territorios, instituciones y huellas discursivas relacionadas a programas para el agro: un trabajo interdisciplinario”
El avance de este trabajo fue presentado en formato poster en las Jornadas de Ciencia y Técnica organizadas por la UNR en 2018, y también se realizó un artículo con lo trabajado hasta ese momento en el mismo año. Esta investigación interdisciplinaria, sobre las formas de expresión con relación al...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias/Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Website
E-agriculture
The e-Agriculture is a global community of practice where people from all over the world come to exchange information, ideas and resources related to the use of ICTs for agriculture.
In this context, a number of activities are carried out such as Capacity Development; Good Practices; Blogs and Webinars. These activities are...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) - Annual Report 2018
AFSA continued the work started in 2017 with more training courses on bio-fertiliser production and saw a growing demand and uptake of the technologies. Trainees have been energised to pass on the knowledge to others, and have recognised through practice and on-farm trials that this technology is a success, and...
2019 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Report
EU Agricultural Outlook 2019-2030
This report provides a medium-term outlook for major EU agricultural markets and agricultural income to 2030. It is based on a set of coherent macroeconomic assumptions deemed most plausible at the time of the analysis, including the continuation of current agricultural and trade policies. The analysis relies on information available...
European Union
2019 - European Commission
Website
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in Africa, international organizations which support the...
2019 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Report
ICBA at 20: A Look at History
Every day since the early 1990s some 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas across 75 countries have been degraded by salt. Over the years not only the scale but also the range of threats to food, water and income security of vulnerable communities around the world...
United Arab Emirates
2019 - ICBA
Technical paper
PLAN NACIONAL DE AGRICULTURA FAMILIAR - Republica Dominicana
Constituye un honor para la República Dominicana, y para el Ministerio de Agricultura, en particular, presentar el Plan Nacional de Agricultura Familiar 2019-2028. El Plan es el fruto de un amplio proceso de discusiones entre diversos actores que, de manera participativa e incluyente, formularon una estrategia nacional para la agricultura...
Dominican Republic
2019 - MINISTERIO DE AGRICULTURA
Book
Handbook for the evaluation of agroecology : A method to evaluate its effects and the conditions for its development
Agroecology is increasingly evoked at the core of international discussions on the future of food and agricultural systems across the world, emerging as one of the pertinent responses to major global challenges in terms of economic & social development and the environment, largely reflected in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):...
2019 - AGRISUD AgroParisTech AVSF CARI CIRAD GRET GTAE IRD
Event
International Forum on Water Scarcity in Agriculture
The objective of the forum is to identify concrete - practical, innovative and collaborative - solutions to address water scarcity in agriculture in a changing climate.
With a focus on Small Island Developing States and West African countries, the forum is expected to illustrate how water scarcity in agriculture can be...
Cabo Verde
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Report of capacity development workshop on the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication for indigenous peoples of Central America
For centuries, fishing has been an activity of great importance for indigenous peoples. They inhabit and relate to water ecosystems, which conserve their cultural heritage, food sovereignty (the right to access healthy and culturally appropriate food) and in many cases are a main source of income. In Central America the...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
Guidelines
SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY DIETS
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Two of the major challenges of our times are malnutrition in all its forms and the degradation of environmental and natural resources. Both are happening at an accelerated pace. The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report (SOFI 2019) shows that the number of the undernourished has...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Why do we keep losing agricultural land to the city?
The urbanisation trend raises very salient questions for food security and agriculture next to the cities. However, surprisingly, even if the phenomenon is well documented, there had not been, to date, any thorough literature review on its causes.
2019
Blog article
Kyrgyz youth camp teaches sustainability in practice
Young people have key roles to play in helping achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. With this in mind, FAO is actively trying to involve young people in taking actions for a better future.
One of the ways recent FAO has done this is through an annual youth camp held...
Kyrgyzstan
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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