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Guía de análisis costo beneficio
Aplicación para medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay.
El objetivo de este texto es presentar una guía práctica para la evaluación ex ante de políticas y proyectos a través del método de análisis costo beneficio (ACB), en particular para su aplicación en medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario.
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Unicopas se junta à campanha #MulheresRurais, Mulheres com Direitos
A campanha regional #MulheresRurais, Mulheres com Direitos, em 2019, identificará e difundirá experiências e conhecimentos sobre o poder transformador das mulheres rurais, indígenas e afrodescendentes na América Latina e Caribe e sua contribuição para os desafios estabelecidos nos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS).
Uma das prioridades da Unicopas é promover o protagonismo...
Brazil
2019 - União Nacional das Organizações Cooperativistas Solidárias (Unicopas)
Fact sheet
Hacia el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en la región: ¿cómo medimos los avances?
El Proyecto “Fortalecimiento de capacidades en la medición y reporte de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en los países de América del Sur (TCP/RLA/3611)” de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe ha ayudado a los países sudamericanos a desarrollar sus capacidades para informar sobre...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
E-learning
Mais de 100 Municípios podem se inscrever em curso a distância sobre ODS
Para aprimorar os conhecimentos de gestores públicos, representantes da sociedade civil organizada e do setor privado, o Projeto de Territorialização e Aceleração dos ODS oferece vagas a 116 Municípios para custo a distância sobre os 17 Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS). A iniciativa é uma cooperação entre a Petrobras e...
Brazil
2019 - Confederação Nacional de Municípios (CNM)
Event
Intercambio de la experiencia de mesas técnicas agroclimáticas con Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia y Paraguay - Cooperación Sur-Sur y Triangular
Los Servicios Participativos de Información Climática para la Agricultura (SEPICA), como las Mesas Técnicas Agroclimáticas (MTA) en Colombia, Guatemala y Nicaragua o Mesas agroclimáticas Participativas en Honduras y Chile, son estrategias clave de la gestión integral de riesgos de desastres pues proveen insumos para tomar decisiones mejor informadas sobre prácticas...
2019 - Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO)
Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root Crops in Rwanda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Rwanda
2019
Event
Rethinking territorial balances between urban and rural areas in the European Mountains
According to the OECD, territorial relationships have deeply changed in recent decades. Improvements in communication technology, increasing movements of peoples and goods, and changes in land use have reshaped the relationships between urban and rural areas. This is also true for mountain areas, where large metropoles like Milano have recently...
2019 - Euromontana
Blog article
Anders Borgen | Nurd of the Niche
Anders Borgen has been an organic farmer for 35 years and has for the past 15 years working as a private organic plant breeder in Northern Jutland, Denmark. He has studied agricultural science and philosophy and has a Ph.D. in Agriculture. Hannes Lorenzen meets Anders Borgen at the European Cereal Diversity...
2019 - Arc 2020
Article
Advantages of fuzzy k-means over k-means clustering in the classification of diffuse reflectance soil spectra: A case study with West African soils
The amount of data in soil science increased at exponential rates over the last decades, promoted by rapid technological innovation. This development led to a better understanding of processes but also required the introduction of data mininginto soil science. With diffuse reflectance Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy, one of those new methods, soil scientist could build up...
2019 - Elsevier
Website
The International Year of Plant Health
Healthy plants constitute the foundation for all life on earth, making up the oxygen we breathe and over 80% of the food we eat. Plant health is the key to the sustainable intensification of agriculture to feed the growing global population by 2050. Thus, recognition, advocacy and support for the...
2019
Article
Agrobiodiversidad y semillas en la agricultura familiar campesina
En este número LEISA enfoca la agrobiodiversidad como “una amplia y compleja expresión de las interacciones entre sociedad y naturaleza, y parte fundamental del patrimonio biocultural”. Desde esa perspectiva es una tarea actual reconocer y resaltar el rol que cumple la agricultura campesina como creadora incesante de nuevas variedades de...
2019 - LEISA
Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root Crops in Rwanda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Rwanda
2019 - Food Plant Solutions
Blog article
Agroecology Europe Forum | Apo Kinou – Crete’s Full Farm to Fork Social Co-op
Oliver Moore attended the 2nd Agroecology Europe Forum in Crete recently. In the first of three reports from the island and event, he tells us here about one of the field trips. This was a visit to the inspiring Apo Kinou social coop, where production, distribution, and consumption are all under collective...
2019 - Arc 2020
Policy brief/paper
Vinculando los resultados del Informe Especial del IPCC 1.5ºC con la resiliencia climática rural en América Latina
Este Documento de Política Pública tiene como objetivo relacionar la resiliencia climática rural en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) con los resultados del Reporte Especial sobre el Calentamiento Global de 1.5°C elaborado por el Panel Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC, por sus siglas en inglés), poniendo...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Fostering head, heart, hands and health in Kenya’s youth
How the 4-H clubs are helping young people realize their potential in the agricultural sector
For rural youth, many of the opportunities available locally are in agriculture, but young people often view this sector as tedious, risky, low-income and generally, not a worthwhile pursuit. They prefer to migrate to larger cities in the hopes of finding a better life.
To directly address these issues, FAO is...
Kenya
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Statement
Lanzamiento del primer foro por un programa agrario nacional
Más de 60 organizaciones de la Agricultura Familiar, Campesina e Indigena de Argentina comenzaron a reunirse a mediados del año 2018 con las miras puestas en consolidar un Programa Agrario Nacional.
Para debatir los puntos de ese programa se realizará el 7 y 8 de mayo de 2019, en el Microestadio...
Argentina
2019
Event
Innovation week in America 2019. Smart rural communities - ICT evolution and sustainable development
Rural communities are not immune to the challenges posed by new technologies and their contribution to mobilizing local assets to take better advantage of the opportunities that arise in rural territories.
The focus of this alliance between ITU and FAO aims to empower rural communities facing the changes that social, economic,...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Agroecology is more than science, practice and movement
When we introduce Agroecology we tend to throw out our little phrase that it’s ‘a science, a set of practices, and a citizen’s movement’. No, no, no, Agroecology is far more than this. This may be a useful summary at times but we mustn’t get stuck on that. We don’t...
2019 - Cultivate
Audio
Agricultor familiar terá cota em Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia
A Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária (CRA) aprovou projeto de lei (PL 778/2019) que propõe reservar, pelo menos, 10% das vagas dos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia (Ifets) às pessoas ligadas à agricultura familiar. O autor, senador Chico Rodrigues (DEM-RR), defende a qualificação dos agricultores familiares, que...
Brazil
2019 - Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária (CRA)
Book
The making of a blue revolution in Bangladesh
A rapid increase in aquaculture production in Bangladesh has lowered fish prices, increased protein consumption, and reduced poverty. The Making of a Blue Revolution in Bangladesh offers a valuable case study of how this transformation in the fish value chain has occurred and how it has improved the lives of...
Bangladesh
2019 - IFPRI
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