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2nd International Symposium on Agroecology - Chair's Summary
This document represents an attempt by the Chair to capture the richness of the contributions presented during the Symposium by different stakeholders and experts, to be more fully registered in the full report of the Symposium to be prepared by FAO, and does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Using agroecology to enhance dietary diversity
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) News
Changes in farming and land-use practices over the last 60 years have resulted in a significant decline in overall agrobiodiversity. This decline in domesticated crop and livestock breeds, as well as edible wild plant and animal species, is occurring at an incredible rate.This paper focuses on the contributions that agroecology...
2018 - United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN)
Fact sheet
Increasing water and land productivities under rainfed agriculture
Nearly 80 percent of seasonal crop areas in the Near East and North Africa Region are rainfed, a system whose water source is highly variable, insufficient to satisfy the crop water demand, and often exposed to drought. These conditions make farming in rainfed areas highly risky and unpredictable, with negative...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Seeds and Indigenous Peoples
Seeds, the beginning and the end of the food growing cycle. Generations of people using generations of seeds. Survival and culture intertwined. This video gives the viewer insight as to the role and importance of seeds for indigenous peoples and the part that their knowledge may play in the years...
2018 - Indigenous Peoples' rights in Asia
Report
Action plan on nutrition: third progress report
This third progress report presents highlights of operational developments in the European Union’s (EU) external assistance concerned with nutrition and provides updates on progress towards its two commitments in nutrition: to support partner countries in reducing the number of stunted children under the age of five by at least 7...
2018 - Directorate-General for European civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations European Commission
Report
Salud y Derecho a la Alimentación - Bienestar, equidad y sosteniblidad a través de las políticas alimentarias locales
La salud y el derecho a una alimentación adecuada son derechos que se encuentran avalados y secundados por numerosos tratados, acuerdos y jurisprudencia desde el nivel internacional hasta el local. Sin embargo, a pesar de los compromisos, nos encontramos ante una situación de emergencia debido al ininterrumpido aumento de la...
Spain
2018 - Fundación Entretantos, con la colaboración de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología
Fact sheet
The Zambia food change lab
Maize is the predominant crop in Zambia, both in terms of production and consumption, and levels of crop diversity on Zambian farms tend to be very low. The country’s maize-centric food system contributes to poverty, malnutrition, and vulnerability to drought, pests and diseases. Growing a wider variety of nutritious crops...
Zambia
2018 - Hivos-IIED
Report
Science for society, science with society
The present report looks into the agricultural knowledge base in Europe, how it needs to adapt and how it can contribute to new challenges. Agricultural science being a “systems” science by nature, in order to act it must broaden its scope and become an efficient problemsolving tool. It also needs...
European Union
2018 - Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission)
Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Network Newsletter
Romanian Rural Network News no.6/2018. a
Romania
2018 - Romanian Rural Network
Report
Políticas Alimentarias Urbanas para la Sostenibilidad
Análisis de experiencias en el Estado español, en un contexto internacional
El informe ha sido elaborado por la Fundación Entretantos, con el apoyo de la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecología y la Fundación RUAF. Consiste en el estudio comparado de políticas alimentarias desarrolladas en once ciudades integradas en dicha Red, partiendo de un análisis de políticas alimentarias urbanas a nivel internacional y...
Spain
2018 - Fundación Entretantos
Newsletter article
Sri Lanka: Outside the net
The lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka. While increasingly, around the globe, women’s participation in fisheries is being captured in government statistical records, the data on active fishers compiled by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Sri...
Sri Lanka
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Fact sheet
The EU rural development policy 2007-2013
The EU's rural development policy evolved as part of the development of the CAP, from a policy dealing with the structural problems of the farm sector to a policy addressing the multiple roles of farming in society and, in particular, challenges faced in its wider rural context.
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Report
Agrobiodiversity in Southeast Europe - Assessment and Policy Recommendations
The three-year project “Rural Development through Integrated Forest and Water Resource Management in Southeast Europe (LEIWW)” is jointly implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Standing Working Group for Regional Rural Development (SWG RRD). The project aims to improve the regional capacities for sustainable management of...
2018
Blog article
Strengthening the capacity of youth to carry out and benefit from responsible investment in agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire
According to FAO estimates, the eradication of hunger and poverty in Côte d'Ivoire by 2030 will require additional annual investments of US $ 3.7 billion, of which almost 40 percent should be allocated to agriculture and rural development. To achieve this, investments should be responsible in order to generate sustainable...
Côte d'Ivoire
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
India: Ships of hope
Innovative boat clinics bring health and hope to thousands of men, women and children, among India’s poorest, who live along the mighty Brahmaputra river. As the monsoon rages, floodwaters ravage the remote island of Lamba Sapori in Dhemaji district in the northeastern state of Assam in India. Trapped in their waterlogged...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Challenges and Action Points to Amplify Agroecology in Europe
Agriculture in Europe results in the production of food for both the European population and for the export sector. Significant environmental and social problems have emerged with the intensification of European agriculture. These include the loss of biodiversity, the contamination of soils, water, and food with pesticides, and the eutrophication...
European Union
2018 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute ( MDPI) - Sustainability
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Wild fruits – innovative supply chain
Wild Fruits is an Operational Group from Germany working on the production and processing potential of wild fruits such as chokeberries (Aronia spp.), roses (Rosa spp.) and flowering quinces (Chaenomeles spp.). There is a high market demand for these fruits which are considered health products, however there are very few...
Germany
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Audio
Mulheres rurais se inspiram em saberes e sabores no resgate da alimentação saudável
Com a ajuda da ecochef Teresa Corção, que é também presidente do Instituto Maniva, hoje nós vamos em busca de "saberes e sabores".
Teresa Corção é júri do concurso promovido pela campanha regional #mulheresruraismulherescomdireitos, que, até o próximo 1º de agosto, vai estar convocando as mulheres rurais de todo o país...
Brazil
2018 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead)
Newsletter article
Profile: Fish, ponds and empowered lives - Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India
Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India, gain greater control over their lives. Women in inland fisheries in the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, started organizing way back in the year 1999, first registering a district level fisherwomen’s cooperative, and then cooperatives at the block or sub-district level throughout Madhubani....
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Manual
The common agricultural policy explained
Today’s agricultural policy is barely recognisable. Not only has the CAP been vastly simplified with the amalgamation of an array of different direct payment schemes into a single farm payment, it is also a more efficient mechanism, meeting more objectives at a lower cost. A policy that once ate up...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
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