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Technical paper
Legal pluralism, women’s land rights and gender equality in Mozambique
Harmonizing statutory and customary law
Throughout history, land has been considered a main source of wealth, social status and power. This publication analyses the impacts of legal pluralism on women's land rights in Mozambique arguing that despite Mozambique's progressive legal framework, efforts are still needed to fully achieve gender equitable and socially just outcomes on...
Mozambique
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Production of on-farm fertilizers
A practical case in the Midwest
Producing on-farm fertilizers based on local organic residues is an empowering action for family farmers. For this reason, we conducted the project “Development of alternative fertilizers to support the agroecological management of family-based agriculture production systems in Goiás, Midwest Brazil”, from June 2014 to May 2017, aimed at developing and...
Brazil
2018 - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Journal article
Crossroads at sea: Escalating conflict in a marine protected area in Malta
his article illustrates how the creation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in Malta is failing to adequately include stakeholders in the configuration of conservation targets and measures, leaving local fishers increasingly disempowered. Through a series of interviews and long-term participatory observation, it has been found that the leaders who represent local...
Malta
2018
Manual
Televisión comunitaria
Canal 22, voz e imagen, de la autonomía
Un canal de televisión comunitaria es un medio de comunicación local. Sus contenidos son propuestos y producidos por la comunidad de acuerdo a sus necesidades e intereses.
Somos un proyecto de comunicación alternativa, localizado en la costa norte nicaragüense, que promueve la información en distintos idiomas (miskitu, criollo, mayagnas y español)...
Nicaragua
2018 - Iniciativa basada en compromisos (CBI) "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra"
Blog article
FAO report details gender inequalities in rural Georgia
Breeding livestock, producing crops and household goods, fetching water and firewood, housework, cooking for family, looking after children, caring for the elderly and sick members of the family – this is the short list of rural women’s obligations in Georgia.
However, the contribution of women to agricultural production remains invisible and...
Georgia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Website
New "Grow No Thrown campaign promoting the initiatives from the agriculture sector for fighting food waste
COPA COGECA new project GrowNoThrown promoting various initiatives from the farming sector fighting Food Waste in EU
European Union
2018 - Copa & Cogeca
Article
Agroecology: Innovating for sustainable agriculture & food systems
A background paper for decision makers
There is an international consensus about the unprecedented and pressing challenges that the world is facing in the 21st century, such as hunger and how to feed a growing population, eroding livelihoods of smallscale urban and rural food producers and workers, diet-related diseases, natural resource depletion, environmental degradation and climate change (FAO, 2017). It is also recognized worldwide that...
2018 - Friends of the Earth International
Article
Integrated Shed Houses for Topical Farming
Champasack, Laos – In recent years, the shed house was introduced to farmers as an alternative technology for growing vegetables during rainy season because the shed house is roofed with transparent plastic. However, due to the use of plastic, the temperature in the house increases, which is not suitable for...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2018 - Lao Farmer Network (LFN)
Miscellanea
Five finalists and their projects from the 2018 European Innovation Award for Women Farmers
The Women’s Committee of Copa is organising the fifth Innovation Award for Women Farmers! The theme of this year’s edition is “Innovative solutions for farming sustainability”. The prize is awarded on the basis of criteria such as the use of new know-how, new methods or new forms of technology in...
European Union
2018 - Copa & Cogeca
Project
Combatting animal diseases in Zimbabwe
By engaging farmers, technical staff, and public institutions in capacity building and awareness raising, the project enhanced the recognition, prevention and control of tick-borne diseases (TBDs) and transboundary animal diseases (TADs) among stakeholders. Cattle vaccines were procured and administered, and materials on animal diseases were produced in English and IsiNdebele...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Bringing Farming Back to Nature
Farming the land as if nature doesn’t matter has been the model for much of the Western world’s food production system for at least the past 75 years. The results haven’t been pretty: depleted soil, chemically fouled waters, true family farms all but eliminated, a worsening of public health and...
2018 - The New York Times
Article
The Value Chain Way of Thinking
Pacific Islands – Today, if you talk to farmers’ organisations, government agricultural officers or agricultural development practitioners in the Pacific, there is a good chance you are going to hear them talking about value chains. In fact, it is likely that you will also hear farmers, exporters, and agro-processors also...
2018 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
Journal article
Pathways for the amplification of agroecology
A transition to an agriculture based on agroecological principles would provide rural families with significant socioeconomic and environmental benefits. If agroecology has such great potential to feeding the world, why it is not adopted more widely by farmers? Most research analyzing factorsneeded for scaling up agroecology focuses on the social...
2018 - Agroecology and sustainable food systems
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Working on resilient dairy farming
Dairy farming is currently facing a number of challenges. On the one hand, the products have to meet high environmental standards and animal welfare requirements, on the other hand the market demands cheap products. Kirsten Wosnitza, who runs a farm of 120 dairy cows in Schleswig-Holstein with her husband Gerd...
Germany
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Manual
Unlocking the potential of agriculture innovation for family farmers: A thematic catalogue of successful innovations
Thematic catalogue for smallholder farmers to promote innovation
From Capacity Development to Natural Resources Management, this catalogue summarizes the successful innovations for smallholder farmers. Accessible to all and illustrated, the technologies and techniques presented can help bring a real positive change for family farmers all around the world.
The publication presents a set of eleven technologies and practices across...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
World Food Day 2018
This year’s World Food Day (WFD) slogan is Our Actions are our Future. A #ZeroHunger world by 2030 is possible. The theme calls for action across nations, continents, sectors and professions to get back on track and reverse negative trends caused by prolonged conflicts, climate change and economic slowdown. A...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
"We hope to reach an agreement on UTPs by the end of the Austrian Presidency" Josef Plank
Josef Plank, Secretary-General at the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism, was invited by Copa and Cogeca at the European Farmers Congress 2018 to present the ambitions of the Austrian Presidency of the European Council on farming issues (UTPs, CAP.
European Union
2018 - Copa & Cogeca
Blog article
The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
Review
Tales of desertification across the world’s drylands are a recurrent theme in policy discourse. This book takes issue with many of the assumptions around desertification, with cases ranging from Central Asia to West Africa to the Mediterranean to the American West. It is edited by Roy Behnke, an anthropologist with...
2018
Blog article
ASF - Copa-Cogeca launches a series of conferences on biosecurity
Copa-Cogeca together with the UECBV and APCPR organised a meeting in Bucharest aimed at increasing awareness and sharing good practices on biosecurity among European pigmeat farmers. As one of the countries that is most severely affected by African Swine Fever (ASF), Romania was the ideal place to host this first...
European Union
2018 - Copa & Cogeca
Report
Food sovereignty and the regeneration of terraced landscapes
The emerging food sovereignty paradigm offers a viable alternative for food, farming and well−being in terraced landscapes and the territories they are embedded in. This paper first defines ‘food sovereignty’ and briefly describes the origins and history of this policy framework for food and agriculture. The second part of this...
2018 - Annals for Istrian and Mediterranean Studies
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