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Journal article
Vietnam / Fisheries Legislation: Re-visiting the Law
The government of Vietnam seeks to empower the country's fishermen through the landmark passage of an amended fisheries law
Viet Nam
2018 - ICSF
Case study
Initiative of the system of rice intensification
In 2005, we began experimenting with SRI methods at Al-Mishkhab Rice Research Station (MRRS) in Najaf. With SRI practices, roots grow larger and deeper and do not degenerate for lack of oxygen in the soil as occurs when rice fields are kept continuously flooded. SRI is considered as a methodology...
Iraq
2018 - Agricultural research Office and Association to Protect Human and Environment
Manual
The 10 elements of agroecology
Guiding the transition to sustainable food and agricultural systems
Today’s food and agricultural systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of food to global markets. However, high-external input, resource-intensive agricultural systems have caused massive deforestation, water scarcities, biodiversity loss, soil depletion and high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Despite significant progress in recent times, hunger and extreme poverty persist...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Small producers and vulnerable populations could benefit from food hubs in Kyrgyzstan
Agricultural development in Kyrgyzstan is being hampered by farmers’ lack of access to quality seeds, finance and market information, according to a new FAO assessment of value chains and the agribusiness environment.
Additional factors slowing the development include scattered production and the prevalence of production cooperatives over service ones, said the...
Kyrgyzstan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Gender, agriculture and rural development in Georgia
FAO is committed to reducing gender inequalities through its interventions, and this gender assessment has been produced as part of its broader efforts to generate evidence and knowledge in compliance with its Policy on Gender Equality. This assessment highlights the challenges, gaps and practices in the area of gender and...
Georgia
2018 - Food and Agriculture of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Future of CAP: Building a sustainable future for Europe and beyond
The common agricultural policy (CAP) has been supporting European farmers for over 50 years, but its reach goes far beyond the 28 member states. Many other countries across the globe look at the CAP as a possible model for their own agricultural sector, while in Europe the focus is now...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Journal article
Review/Book: Women Rising
A critical look at Towards Gender-equitable Small-scale fisheries Governance and Development: A Handbook by Nilanjana Biswas, published by the FAO, in 2017
2018 - ICSF
Report
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2018
Addressing the threat from climate variability and extremes for food security and nutrition
This year’s edition of the Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition reports that the food security situation on the continent continues to worsen. For Africa, 20.4 percent of the continent’s population – 257 million people – are undernourished, up from 19.7 in 2016 – 241 million people. In...
2018 - FAO
Video
Making a vermicompost bed
With empty fertilizer bags you can sew a container. Place layers of decomposable material in the container and water it. Put the earthworms in after one week. Cover the top of the bed with gunny bags and water it regularly. Make sure the compost is shaded from direct sunlight.
2018 - AccessAgriculture
Newsletter article
News from the Deck - May 2018
The monthly newsletter of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
European Union
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Journal article
Roundup: news, events, briefings and more. Samudra Report No.79
The Roundup includes recent publications, films added to our Documentation centre, meetings coming up, websites which are important to small-scale fisheries, flashback of editorial from old issues of samudra report related to the theme and Endquote from the world of literature related to fisheries.
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Building resilience of smallholder farmers in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt – The 2018 annual meeting of scientists and leadership from ICARDA and Egypt’s ARC, short for Agricultural Research Center, was an opportunity to take stock of the results that have been achieved in the past three years thanks to the partnership. It was also a chance to renew...
Egypt
2018 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Video
Forest and farm producers’ comparative advantages in fighting hunger, poverty, climate change
Charles Nyanjul describes the comparative advantages of forest and farm producer organizations that make them so well placed to fight hunger, poverty and climate change. Citing from the experience of the Farm and Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya, he cites how members are encouraged to grow fruit trees as...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Without farmers’ control over their seeds, no real food sovereignty!
Control over seeds allows control over the entire food chain. Access to peasant seeds, the collective rights to use, produce, preserve, exchange and sell them, as well as the autonomy of peasant seed systems, are major issues for peasant organizations and civil society activists for peasant agroecology and people’s food...
2018 - La Via Campesina
Journal article
Africa/SSF Guidelines: Co-operate to Move Forward
An Africa Workshop focused on creating awareness about the SSF Guidelines, lobbying for their implementation, and aligning them with national fisheries policies
2018 - ICSF
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: "Semi-short" supply chain offers fair price for farmers
French association les Eleveurs de Saveurs Iséroises connects all partners in the food system
In 2009, livestock farmer Clément Guillaud from the Isère region in France saw his meat prices drop. Knowing he could no longer live on his current income, he knew he had to rethink his supply chain in an innovative way. He wanted to increase profit and reduce costs without compromising...
France
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Case study
Farm to systems
In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...
India
2018 - Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
Journal article
Impacts of climate on technical efficiency in the Hungarian arable sector
The aim of this study is to estimate the influence of climate factors on the technical efficiency of Hungarian arable farms. The technical efficiency of farms is affected by several factors such as the technology used, the relative factor abundance, the institutional reforms with the input and output market environment,...
Hungary
2018
Blog article
News from the CSA Network in Australia and New Zealand
Another international CSA network has evolved in the South Pacific to serve and develop a growing food movement. The Community Supported Agriculture Network Australia and New Zealand (CSAAUSNZ) is an advocacy group dedicated to highlighting, growing and supporting CSAs in Australia and New Zealand....
Australia - New Zealand
2018 - Urgenci
Blog article
FAO helps Ukraine’s food safety system for fishery products meet EU standards
Ukraine, due to its geographical closeness to the European Union and its recently signed Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area agreement, has committed to aligning its food safety and quality systems with EU standards.
The needed changes in legal requirements and in Ukraine’s official food safety control system bring with them...
Ukraine
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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