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Community Supported Agriculture as a Model for a New Common Food and Agriculture Policy
Local and solidarity-based partnerships for agroecology did not wait for a supportive CAP to develop sustainable food systems. For more than a decade, Community Supported Agriculture has been contributing to creating new jobs that cannot be relocated and to the revitalisation and diversification of the agricultural sector especially in peri-urban areas. The...
2018 - Urgenci
Blog article
Sipaf Mulheres Rurais e Campanha #Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos é a apresentada em Itanhaém
A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) participou do II Encontro da Agricultura Familiar de Itanhaém (SP), realizado nesta sexta-feira (20). Na oportunidade, foi apresentado o Selo de Identificação da Participação da Agricultura Familiar (Sipaf) Mulheres Rurais e a #Campanha Mulheres Rurais, Mulheres com Direitos.
No histórico...
Brazil
2018 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead)
Report
Réserves alimentaires
Utiliser les réserves alimentaires pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle dans les pays en développement
L'étude a pour ambition de clarifier les rôles potentiels des réserves alimentaires (RA) dans l'amélioration de la sécurité alimentaire et nutritio-nnelle dans les pays en développement et d’analyser la substituabilité et la complémentarité entre les RA et d'autres outils.
Ce rapport est l'un des fruits d'une étude commandée par la Direction...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2018 - Commission européenne
Video
Valorization of Forest Products : Marula ,Baobab and Mangetti
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. The tough protective shell that houses a delectable delight earned the Marula fruit the name, HARD NUT....
Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Contract farming arrangement and poor resourced farmers in Zimbabwe
This study sought to understand the impact of contract farming on livelihoods among the small-scale farmers in two study districts of Zvimba and Goromonzi which are located in the Mashonaland Provinces. This was done through examining different levels of income earned between contract and non-contract tobacco growers, food consumption rates,...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS)
Newsletter
Eip Agri August
Eip Agri August Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation
European Union
2018 - Eip Agri
Report
National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods - Ghana
Country Gender Assessment Report
This Country gender profile of the agricultural and rural sectors in Ghana analyses gender-related disparities in access to: credit and financial services;
technologies and innovations; extension and information services; ownership and control of land and farm enterprises; the effect of climate change on farming activities; and social protection to strengthen the...
Ghana
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Smallholder farmer autonomy over seed production
Smallholder Farmer Autonomy Over Seed Production – the final release in a series of six videos from the ACB hosted event, National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, held in December 2017 at Constitution Hill. Smallholder farmers feed the world, providing up to 70% of food consumed globally. The seed is...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Journal article
Fisheries as social struggle: A reinvigorated social science research agenda
Many social scientists in the field of fisheries display a strong concern for the social engineering of environmental sustainability, but also a tendency to identify with the concerns of government. This paper posits that social scientists have their own responsibility in the fisheries field, and that this responsibility includes more attention to...
2018
Blog article
Improvements in nutrition and diversified rural livelihoods key to Indonesia’s quest for high income status
Indonesia can achieve its goal of achieving high income status but in order to do so the country must first create greater access to more nutritious foods and invest in human capital, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said today.
Indonesia’s economy has been growing at a steady pace for many...
Indonesia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
FAO warns that protecting agriculture from extreme weather and climate change must become a priority in Asia and the Pacific
While climate change and extreme weather events are impacting the environment in many ways, agriculture and food production in Asia and the Pacific are among those hardest hit and must be first in line to defend, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.
Droughts, floods and other natural disasters...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Forest Policy Formulation
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. Part of the project includes assisting the government of Zimbabwe in the formulation of a comprehensive forest...
Zimbabwe
2018
Video
Why farmers find FISP (Farm input Subsidy Programmes) problematic
In August 2018, The Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out with SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia (SOUTHERN AFRICA) on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs). FISPs are government agricultural programmes to promote the use of Green Revolution inputs (hybrid seed, synthetic fertilizer...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Report
Overviews of food systems and agro-industry, value chains, and food loss and waste in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Many countries in the region have seen positive changes in agricultural development in recent years associated with countries’ reforms during the transition period after the Soviet Union collapse, as well as due to support from international organizations. This report overviews eighteen countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The report...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Health, Knowledge and Flavours
This document reflects the integrated vision of agrobiodiversity with the role of women as guardians and protectors of foods of high nutritional value. Rural women in the region recover knowledge and practices to prepare healthy and nutritious foods. These practices improve the sustainability of the agricultural sector.
The objective of this...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO in Asia-Pacific re-affirms close collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on regional technical cooperation
Bangkok, Thailand, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), today re-affirmed their close collaboration on technical cooperation work in the region during an annual review of the programme.
The annual review process was “a very valuable occasion that will...
Japan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Project
Combatting potato cyst nematode (pcn) in Kenya
Mainly grown in the highlands of Kenya, potatoes are an important staple food and cash crop and play a significant role in national food security, nutrition, poverty alleviation and income generation. In 2015, Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) was first detected and confirmed in Kenya, posing a serious threat to potato...
Kenya
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
“Farm-Success” Project Newsletter
Since you last heard from us we have been carrying out the final adjustments, tests, and translations to our online training platform. We have also held several multiplier events across Europe in which young farmers and other stakeholders have discussed the importance of succession processes for the sustainability of family farms with leading experts...
European Union
2018 - Farm Success
Blog article
Water institutional scarcity in MENA: guidelines for enhanced governance
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle. Climate simulation models are converging in terms of forecasts for the MENA region, that already suffers scare water quantities and poor quality, with expected higher temperature and decreasing rain fall. While conventional water supply alternatives are getting...
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Technical paper
Sustainable Food Systems – Concept and Framework
A technical brief on the sustainable food systems concept and framework, this document reflects the three first-day modules of the FAO food systems/value chains training program. Colleagues and trainees using the training materials to explore the implementation of trainings wish to refer to the training materials (e.g., the food system...
2018 - FAO
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