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Key factors influencing food security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and the role of cassava as a strategic crop
Due to beneficial characteristics of cassava such as robustness and versatility for multiple uses, it can have a major role in contributing to local food security. The objective of this study was to find out whether and how the cultivation of cassava benefits smallholder farmers in the regions of Dodoma...
United Republic of Tanzania
2018
Blog article
Malawian farmers fight climate change head on
Due to the challenging couple years for Malawian farmers, government and other stakeholders have started teaching local farmers on the climate change resilience farming methods that are making a difference in securing small farmers' livelihoods.
Malawi
2018 - Greentumble
Blog article
Montenegro’s culinary riches enticing tourists
Montenegro is building on its rich cultural and food heritage and well-preserved natural beauty to become a destination for sustainable tourism. The country’s fast-growing tourism industry already accounts for nearly a quarter of Montenegro’s gross domestic product, with most of that tourism concentrated along the Adriatic coast.
Keen to attract visitors...
Montenegro
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Project
Improving agricultural production in the Gaza Strip
The agriculture sector in the Gaza Strip faces a number of systemic issues; most prominent is the depletion of its coastal aquifer, which is the only source of freshwater. The aquifer is also extremely polluted; and high groundwater salinity leads to poor plant performance for some of the most produced...
Gaza Strip
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Event
UN Decade of Family Farming: from global challenges to regional and national action
Through the contributions of some of the actors that led the campaign for the Declaration of the Decade (governments of Costa Rica and Italy, WRF, COPROFAM) the event will address family farming in the context of the results achieved by the IYFF 2014 and their role within the SDGs framework,...
2018
Newsletter
Eastern Africa Field Schools' Newsletter
The first issue of the Eastern Africa Field Schools' Newsletter focuses on the launch of the Eastern Africa Field Schools Support, training on managing the Fall Army Worm and farmer’s testimonies on Field Schools.
2018 - African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS)
Journal article
Food systems for sustainable development
Our starting point is that agriculture and food systems’ policies should be aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This calls for deep changes in comparison with the paradigms that prevailed when steering the agricultural change in the XXth century. We identify the comprehensive food systems transformation that is...
2018
E-learning
Pobreza Rural, Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional y Sistemas Inclusivos de Protección Social en América Latina y el Caribe
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y Agricultura (FAO), en colaboración con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) y con el apoyo de la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo y la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Website
Urban Agriculture in the Gaza Strip
There are multiple constraints which limit the development of more sustainable and resilient urban agriculture in the Gaza Strip (and the West Bank). Current urban development policies, land use classification systems and planning have ignored to recognise urban agriculture as a land use category and urban development strategy. Furthermore, there...
Palestine
2018 - the Gaza Urban & Peri-Urban Agriculture Platform (GUPAP)
Conference proceedings
Des performances et modalités de cohabitation des systèmes d’élevage au Sénégal et Sahel
Table ronde organisée à l’occasion des 40 ans d’AVSF sous le haut patronage de Madame Aminata MBENGUE NDIAYE, Ministre de l’Élevage et des Productions Animales
Au Sénégal, comme dans toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest et dans le monde entier, la cohabitation de différents systèmes agricoles et d’élevage est un fait : au Sénégal,...
Senegal
2018 - AVSF
Miscellanea
Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia
FAO ’s three Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia address interlinked issues to ensure the contribution of agriculture to achieve the universality of the Sustainable Development Goals. For this reason, technical teams in the region and at FAO headquarters work in close collaboration to support countries in achieving their...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
The role of forest producer organizations in social protection
This study reviews the literature on the provision of social protection by forest producer organizations, with a specific focus on their role and practices in this regard, the types of benefits they provide, the factors that may enhance or hinder the provision of benefits and the opportunities for taking advantage...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Working paper
Water management in fragile systems
Building resilience to shocks and protracted crises in the Middle East and North Africa
Fragility has become the reality in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Armed conflict and forced displacement are taking an enormous toll on human lives, with the region accounting for about 60 percent of the estimated global total of battle-related casualties since the turn of the millennium....
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
The 2018 family farms barometer
By supporting family farms there will be enough to feed the world, and fight poverty while respecting planetary boundaries
2018 - SOS Faiml Belgium
Website
Agroecology Case Studies
This website from the Oakland Insitute collects thirty-three case studies on the success of agroecological agriculture in Africa.While agroecology promotes low use of external inputs, it is a very knowledge-intensive system. Transmission of this knowledge, adaptation to local contexts, and appropriation by farmers and government technicians, are essential steps for...
2018 - Oakland Institute
Case study
Agroécologie : capitalisation d'expériences en Afrique de l'Ouest, facteurs favorables et limitants au développement de pratiques agroécologiques.
Evaluation des effets socio-économiques et agro-environnementaux
Le Projet CALAO - Capitalisation d’expériences d’acteurs pour le développement de techniques agroécologiques résilientes en Afrique de l’Ouest - a été mis en œuvre au cours de l’année 2017 dans le cadre du Projet d’Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest (PASANAO), financé par l’AFD et dont la...
2018
Guidelines
Seguros agrícolas para la agricultura familiar en América Latina y el Caribe
Lineamientos para su diseño e implementación
Los eventos climáticos extremos representan el 70% de los desastres que ocurren en América Latina y el Caribe, siendo el sector agrícola (incluyendo ganadería, pesca y actividad forestal, además de la agricultura strictu sensu) el que concentra la mayor parte de los daños y pérdidas que estos ocasionan. A medida...
Brazil - Chile - Mexico - Uruguay
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Calm before the storm
Hearing in the European parliament on the state of play of the landing obligation before its full implementation in January 2019 proves lack lustre.
European Union
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
E-learning
Promoción del empleo productivo y el trabajo decente en las áreas rurales
El presente curso es una iniciativa de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y la Agencia Sueca de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (SIDA), adaptado para Latino América y el Caribe por el Núcleo de Capacitación en...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Conference paper
Agroecology: Adapting to Climate Change in Semi-arid Areas for a Sustainable Agricultural Development
The ability of the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region to attain significant progress towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) will largely hinge on sustainable management of agricultural water and adaptation to a changing climate. Agricultural transformation in the NENA region has followed a specific...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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