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Filtros de aguas grises: Cómo implementarlos
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en algunas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
Por esta razón, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), impulsan en Guatemala la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises.
Estas estructuras...
Guatemala
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Project
Early warning action in Sudan
FAO’s EWEA initiative aims at guiding activities in the country to systematically monitor, through a set of indicators and thresholds, the likely impact of drought on the livelihoods and the food security situation of target groups in Kassala and North Darfur and and Red Sea States. It also links the...
Sudan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO hosts meeting to strengthen collaboration on transboundary animal diseases
In parts of Asia, where animal transport often happens quickly through unregulated and remote border areas, animal diseases are especially difficult to control.
Because of this, and because livestock play a major role in economic growth in the region, it is important to address animal diseases that have the potential to...
2018 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Looking after the soil to bring life and carbon back
Alfred Grand is an organic arable farmer near Tulln, Austria. Minimising tillage and using a rotational cropping system on his 90 ha farm is what he swears by to increase organic matter in his soil. He is part of the Austrian Operational Group BIOBO.
Since 1998 Alfred has reduced tillage and...
2018 - Eip AGRI
Website
La mitad de nuestra fuerza
Aunque las mujeres tienen una participación significativa en las actividades económicas rurales de América Latina y el Caribe, a menudo su trabajo es invisibilizado en las encuestas y los censos nacionales y agropecuarios, así como en sus propias comunidades.
Además, las mujeres reciben una doble carga laboral, siendo responsables de trabajo...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Guidelines
How much do you know about healthy eating?
Let dietary guidelines steer your choices
Diets vary greatly from place to place based on food availability, eating habits and culture. Yet, when it comes to food, there is a lot that we know about what is and what is not good for us and this is true no matter where we live. Societal changes, however,...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
State-Sanctioned Agroecological Transition? The State of Food in France
President Emmanuel Macron launched the General State of Food (GSF), an investigation into the French agrifood system in the second half of 2017. Bringing together different food and farming stakeholders, the aim was to combat the various crises in the agricultural sector and work to build a healthy, sustainable and...
European Union
2018 - ARC2020
Conference paper
One Health: Addressing Transboundary Plant, Animal and Fish Pests and Diseases: A Case for Regional Cooperation
Efforts to build resilience and improve food security, nutrition and livelihoods in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region are often challenged by the continuous threat of transboundary plant (including forests, hereinafter ‘plant’), animal and fish pests and diseases. Increased movement of people, plants and animals, accentuated by conflicts...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Montenegrin meat producers slicing into wider market
Some 5 000 northern Montenegrin farmers still make the traditional dried beef Crnogorska Goveđa pršuta, which, along with the Montenegrin dried and smoked sheep meat Crnogorska Stelja, is poised to receive geographical indication (GI) status, an origin-based label that signals quality, authenticity and tradition.
This development is the result of work...
Montenegro
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conference proceedings
Development of Organic Agriculture in Central Asia
FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan organized the International Conference on Development of Organic Agriculture in Central Asia during 22-24 August 2017 within the framework the project TCP/UZB/3501. The major objectives were to bring together experiences in Central Asian and neighbouring countries, discuss...
Uzbekistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Over 2.5 million hectares committed to the Bonn Challenge by the Caucasus and Central Asia
Over 2.5 million hectare of forest landscape will be restored by countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030. The commitment was made by Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the first Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the Bonn Challenge in...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Building stronger, climate-resilient farming and forest communities
Millions of small-scale farmers and foresters will be able to better protect their lands from the impacts of climate change, and improve their livelihoods thanks to renewed global efforts announced last two weeks ago on the side-lines of World Forest Week (COFO24).
The Forest and Farm Facility initiative - a partnership...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
The contribution of producer organisations to an efficient agri-food supply chain
Against this background, and as a follow-up to the “Conference on the role of interbranch organisations in the food supply chain”, the department for agriculture and rural development organised this conference on “The contribution of producer organisations to an efficient agri-food supply chain” with around 200 invited participants – technical...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Blog article
Food safety risks have the attention of Moldovan authorities
A team of experts from the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority of Romania (NSVFSA) participated this week in the first workshop of a series of activities aimed at strengthening the national capacities of the Republic of Moldova in assessing risks related to food safety.
The five-day workshop is one...
Republic of Moldova - Romania
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Breaking away from industrial food and farming systems
Seven case studies of agroecological transition
How have farmers, entrepreneurs, social movements, and innovative political actors managed to move away from or circumvent industrial agriculture and move towards a sustainable food system? This report describes seven case studies of agroecological transition to draw insights on how the lock-ins of industrial food systems can be overcome, where the key leverage points for transition...
2018 - IPES Food
Manual
Manual de Transición Agroecológica para la Agricultura Familiar Campesina
El propósito del Manual es generar una guía conceptual y práctica para enfrentar desde diversas dimensiones el proceso denominado Transición Agroecológica, que permitirá apoyar y conducir dentro de un contexto real y concreto, a las comunidades, organizaciones o productores individuales, de la mayor parte de la zona de producción agrícola...
Chile
2018 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Blog article
European Commission seeks feedback on planned agricultural promotion policy evaluation
As a first step towards the evaluation of the EU promotion policy for agricultural products, the European Commission has published a summary of the planned assessment, the so-called evaluation roadmap. The aim is to inform and seek feedback from citizens and stakeholders on the different steps of the evaluation.
The European...
European Union
2018 - European Commission DG Agri
Website
Women in Fisheries
New research exploring women’s roles in fishing families officially gets going, as the Women in Fisheries project launches its new website.
In the UK their vessels make up 80% of the nation’s fishing fleet yet they receive only 4% of the total national fishing quota. On the other side of the...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2018 - LIFE Platform, AKTEA, Women in Fisheries
Event
The Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture
The Second Africa Congress on Conservation Agriculture will be held on 9-12 October 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The aim of 2ACCA is to bring together expert knowledge, information, and insights from practitioners from across different sectors and interests groups at all levels of agriculture development in the public, private and...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Building Mountain Resilience: Solutions from the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Faced with a complex and uncertain future, the coming years are even more so for mountains that contend with rising temperatures, dwindling natural resources, and rapidly increasing outmigration. Therefore, the need to focus on affordable and replicable solutions that can affect significant change is more important than ever. The solutions...
2018 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
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