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Políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar en Argentina durante el período 1990‐2015
Nuevos y conocidos elementos en la agenda de debate
El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar las principales características de las políticas públicas destinadas a la agricultura familiar en dos contextos histórico-políticos de Argentina distintos. La investigación abarca centralmente el período de los años 1990-2015.
Para la realización de este trabajo se recurrió a fuentes documentales, informantes calificados y análisis...
Argentina
2018 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Blog article
FAO helps strengthen community-based fisheries for the Pacific
FAO has been recently approved two projects to strengthen community-fisheries in Tonga and Samoa. The aim of the projects is to strengthen the technical capacity for both countries to improve and streamline their community-based fisheries management programmes.
These programmes play an integral role in ensuring the effective management of coastal fisheries...
Samoa
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Mainstreaming food loss reduction solutions for smallholder farmers
The video is reporting the results of Phase 1 implementation activities of the UN Rome-Based Agencies joint project “Mainstreaming food loss reduction solutions for small-holders farmers in food deficit areas”. Focus of the video is the piloting of recommended solutions in the Burkina Faso (2016-2017)
Burkina Faso
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Experiences of FISPs (Farm Input Subsidy Programmes) in Africa
In August 2018, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out for SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia, on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs).
FISPs are government agricultural programmes that promote the use of Green Revolution inputs produced by multinational corporations. Farmers were not...
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Network Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Network No.5/2018 Newsletter, with a lot of news regarding Rural Development in Romania and EU
Romania
2018 - Romanian National Rural Network
Journal article
The Social Construction of Quality in Agri-food Localized Systems (SYAL)
The Case of the Montpeyroux Wine Arrangement, France
The approach based on localized agri-food systems (SYAL, from the French acronym) has brought about new perspectives for analysis of local productive arrangements, complementing and expanding the theoretical background of clusters and industrial districts. In addressing physical, institutional, cultural and relational factors, SYAL’s approach has enabled a more dynamic view...
France
2018 - Rede Brasileira de Sistemas Agroalimentares Localizados
Policy brief/paper
CAP Key Messages
Food is Life...Life is People
A set of key messages on the EU's Common Agriculture Policy and its benefits for farmers and agri-cooperatives.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
Blog article
Drought hit atolls to receive help
With the effects of climate change and extreme weather events disproportionately affecting people in the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the support of the Marshall Islands government is providing emergency aid to some of the Marshall Islands remote atolls hit hardest by drought.
In...
Marshall Islands
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Alternatives to FISP - Farm Input Subsidy Programmes - in Africa
In August 2018, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out for SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia, on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs). FISPs are government agricultural programmes that promote the use of Green Revolution inputs produced by multinational corporations. These...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Report
Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems
A synthesis of the results and recommendations of TEEB for Agriculture and Food’s Scientific and Economic Foundations Report
The TEEBAgriFood Evaluation Framework has three guiding principles – universality, comprehensiveness and inclusion. As a “universal” Framework, its elements are defined and described in a uniform, methodical and consistent manner, to be used in any geographical, ecological or social context, at the level of society, the firm, or the individual....
2018 - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB)
Blog article
FAO helps develop the curricula for Turkey’s new Farmer Field Schools
Held in Konya, Turkey, between 9 and 12 October, in cooperation with Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, FAO’s Farmer Field School Curriculum Development Workshop hosted wide-ranging discussions on how best to further adopt the Farmer Field School method in the region. The workshop was organized within the context of...
Türkiye
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Agroecology as an alternative (Video four of a four-part series on FISPs)
In August 2018, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out for SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia, on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs). FISPs are government agricultural programmes that promote Green Revolution inputs produced by multinational corporations, such as chemical fertilizers. In...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Policy brief/paper
Contract farming and peasant livelihoods
The Case of Sugar Outgrower Schemes in Manhica District, Mozambique
The focus of the study was to investigate the effect of contract farming on peasant livelihoods in Manhica district, Mozambique. A mixture of approaches which combine qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. The results show that small scale farmers have no control over cane prices and there...
Mozambique
2018 - Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of the Democratic Republic of Congo
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...
Congo
2018
Report
What Works in Rural Advisory Services?
Global Good Practice Notes
The Global Good Practices (GGP) Initiative of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) aims to bridge the existing knowledge gap regarding what works in RAS by looking at experiences of existing good practices and evidence at a global level to create a set of concise briefs – Global...
2018 - Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS)
Policy brief/paper
The role of local communities, smallholders, and indigenous peoples in REDD+ implementation
Local communities, smallholders and indigenous peoples play an essential role in the sustainable management of land and forests and, as such, in mitigating and adapting to climate change. They are the guardians of approximately one-third of the world’s forests and have customary rights over a large proportion of forest lands...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
Livestock and agroecology
Livestock are found in all regions of the world and supply a wide range of products and services such as meat, milk, eggs, fibre, hides and skins, natural fertilizers, fuel, transport and drought power. They are kept by more than half of rural households and are essential to livelihoods, nutrition...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos - Informe Nº28 - Noviembre 2018
Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto "Gestión productiva y económica de pequeños y medianos emprendimientos porcinos de Argentina y Uruguay vinculados al CIAP" presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore la calidad...
Argentina
2018 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Book part
Políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar en Brasil y Argentina
Reflexiones sobre su implementación en el período 2002-2016
Con temporalidades diferentes, en Brasil (desde mediados de la década de 1990) y en Argentina (desde mediados de la década pasada, 2000-2010) se han puesto en marcha un cúmulo de políticas públicas para el sector ahora denominado “agricultura familiar” (AF). Ello ha generado diferentes debates en el terreno académico. Por...
Argentina - Brazil
2018 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Book
Anuario 2018 - Agricultura Familiar en España
EL FUTURO DE LA POLÍTICA AGRARIA COMÚN (PAC)
En la edición 2018 el Anuario de la Agricultura Familiar vuelve a acoger relevantes reflexiones de más de 40 autores y autoras representativos de distintas sensibilidades y ámbitos de estudio. También aglutina más de 300 datos estadísticos de la agricultura, la ganadería, la distribución y el consumo de alimentos en...
Spain
2018 - UPA
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