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El futuro está en el monte
Movimiento que impulsa en la región del Gran Chaco modelos de negocios que promuevan un desarrollo sustentable, competitivo e inclusivo, a través de la puesta en valor del capital natural y cultural, combinando la innovación con los saberes locales.
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Paraguay
2019 - El futuro está en el monte
Journal article
Explorer les liens entre agriculture, migration et sécurité alimentaire : une enquête auprès de ménages agricoles diversifiés et multilocalisés du nord-ouest du Nicaragua
This paper presents a survey conducted in northwestern Nicaragua, which aims at understanding how the flows of money and food generated by the diversified and multi-situated activities of farm households intervene in food access and perception of food security. In the study area, family agriculture develops in difficult agro-ecological conditions,...
Nicaragua
2019 - HaL Archives Ouvertes
Book
Tree Foods For Healthy Diets in South Sudan
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...
South Sudan
2019 - Food Plant Solutions
Fact sheet
Agroecology: Key to agricultural resilience and ecosystem recovery
Both the IPCC and IPBES claim that a “transformative” change that can still reverse the catastrophic trends through an agroecological approach.
Within this context, this fact sheet, elaborated by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) calls for an increase in awareness among decision-makers of the significant potential of agroecology to tackle challenges...
2019 - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
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Parliamentarians call for more action on food security and nutrition
FAO puts in practice a multisectoral approach to achieve zero hunger
The Pan-African Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA-FSN) training facilitated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) brought experts from FAO to promote a multisectoral approach to enhance the work of parliamentarians towards fostering an enabling environment to eliminate hunger. The training took place...
South Africa
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Integración regional de redes meteorológicas Gran Chaco Americano
La debilidad de los sistemas de información hidrometeorológica en la región del Gran Chaco es uno de los principales obstáculos para la identificación de áreas de mayor vulnerabilidad a un clima cambiante y para la gestión inteligente de la variabilidad climática.Gran Chaco PROADAPT junto con una diversidad de aliados ha trabajado para...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Paraguay
2019 - Gran Chaco PROADAPT
Journal article
From Transition to Domains of Transformation: Getting to Sustainable and Just Food Systems through Agroecology
The acceleration of ecological crises has driven a growing body of thinking on sustainability transitions. Agroecology is being promoted as an approach that can address multiple crises in the food system while addressing climate change and contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals. Beyond the more technical definition as, “the ecology...
2019
Manual
Guía de análisis costo-beneficio
Aplicación para medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay
Este documento es una guía para la aplicación de la metodología de análisis costo beneficio (ACB), en particular para la evaluación de medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay. Esta metodología permite hacer evaluaciones ex ante de alternativas de políticas, programas o proyectos de inversión,...
Uruguay
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Groups (ARLG)
Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Groups (ARLG) does transdisciplinary and participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology in the United States and Latin America. Research and teaching efforts focus on developing and applying transdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions between agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes. Most of this...
2019 - University of Vermont
Case study
ENRD workshop Biodiversity and the CAP – working together to reach conservation goals
The workshop explored how to ensure the most effective contribution of current RDPs and future CAP Strategic Plans to support the implementation of EU biodiversity policy, by encouraging dialogue and facilitating exchanges among the relevant agriculture and environmental actors involved in biodiversity conservation in rural Europe. Through presentations and group...
European Union
2019 - ENRD
Report
Climate Change and Land
An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
2019 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Conference proceedings
Good practices for the resilience of rural livelihoods for food and nutrition security
The added value of coordination, collaboration and synergy between FAO and WFP
The WFP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the FAO Subregional Office for Mesoamerica, both located in Panama, organized the "Workshop on Exchange of Experiences in Community Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security" in September 2016 in Colombia. The aim was to exchange knowledge, experiences and tools...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda
Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the infl ux of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is diffi cult to increase production and productivity to achieve food...
Uganda
2019 - ESAFF
Blog article
Actualizing climate resilience among Malawian farmers
Malawi is vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change, owing to its significant exposure to climate variability and environmental degradation as a result of human activities over the years.
In a bid to enhance resilience among rural subsistence farmers, who make up 70 percent of total population of about 17...
Malawi
2019 - Greentumble
Blog article
Burkina : Un centre de santé pour Ladiou
Petit village rural de 5 500 habitants - Aujourd'hui, nous vous proposons un document exceptionnel :
1) pour la qualité de l’établissement crée (rien y manque) - et son emplacement en brousse, loin de tout autre centre de santé
2) pour des raisons de proximité :
le lien professionnel entre le président du...
Burkina Faso
2019 - ABC Burkina
Book
Cambio climático y seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe
Impacto de buenas prácticas de producción ganadera con bajas emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en la seguridad alimentaria, la nutrición y el medio ambiente
El objetivo de esta publicación es documentar y sistematizar la evidencia disponible en los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre la relación de la ganadería y el cambio climático con la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, resaltando las innovaciones de producción pecuaria con bajas emisiones y el sustento...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Entre Semiáridos
"Entre Semiáridos" é uma memória dos sentimentos e aprendizagens geradas pelas trocas de saberes entre campesinos e campesinas das regiões do Sahel, na África; do Corredor Seco, na América Central; e do Semiárido brasileiro.
Brazil
2019 - Articulação Semiárido
Blog article
How can we prevent or reverse desertification and save lands from desert encroachment?
Desertification can be prevented. The same strategy that helps to prevent desertification is also effective in addressing problems caused by drought and other forms of land degradation that cause problems with food production from the affected lands.
This article presents the concept of Sustainable Land Management in fighting desertification and lists...
2019 - Greentumble
Fact sheet
ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND ORGANIC FARMING
Agriculture and forestry have to meet the changing needs of society both in terms of consumption and with regards to the environmental issues related to primary production (e.g. biodiversity, habitats, water quality and quantity, climate change, air quality). A deeper understanding of ecological principles is changing perceptions on the functioning...
European Union
2019 - European Commission
Guidelines
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)
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