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Global Farmer Field School Platform
Farmer Field School (FFS) is an approach based on people-centred learning. Participatory methods to create an environment conducive to learning: the participants can exchange knowledge and experience in a risk free setting. Practical field exercises using direct observation, discussion and decision making encourage learning-by-doing. The field is the space where...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Applying a social-ecological approach to enhancing provision of public goods through agriculture and forestry activities across the European Union
Public goods provided by different land management practices in European regions have increasingly attained attention in agricultural policy debates. By focusing on the social-ecological systems (SES) framework, the systemic interrelations (e.g. drivers, resources, actors, governance regimes and policy impact) in land management across several case studies in various topographical and...
European Union
2018
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Nepal (Nepali)
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...
Nepal
2018
Blog article
Climate change on your plate
Climate change can still be rather abstract for many amongst us. We hear about melting poles, a global increase in hurricane intensity or rising temperatures. For many Europeans this phenomenon does not seem to affect their daily lives. But this is not grasping the full picture. The food you consume...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Report
Robust & Resilient dairy production systems
The competitive environment of dairy cattle production systems is often linked to increased pressure on animal welfare due to various stress factors. It is argued that there is trade-off between production and animal welfare, which includes animal health. However, this is not always the case. The EIP-AGRI Focus Group on...
European Union
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Fact sheet
Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools
Recurrent drought, degraded rangelands and reduced access to traditional grazing lands have left pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) more vulnerable and facing severe livestock feed shortages. During dry spells, pastoral communities suffer from food and nutrition insecurity, as well as shrinking incomes occasioned...
Ethiopia - Kenya
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
SSF Guidelines The Spirit of Diversity
A review of The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines: Global Implementation. Jentoft, S., Chuenpagdee, R., Barragán-Paladines, M.J., Franz, N. (Eds.) People, not profits, or even fish, are the fundamental feature of artisanal and small-scale fisheries throughout the world. This self-evident truth has for too long been absent in many policies dealing with fisheries...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Video
“Small-scale Aquaculture Extension Project” in Myanmar
The efforts of Department of Fisheries (DOF) to promote small-scale aquaculture as "Farmer to Farmer Extension Approach (FTF)" through the Project for Small-scale Aquaculture Extension for Promotion of Livelihood of Rural Communities in Central Dry Zone (SAEP in CDZ). The project activities are not only to promote farmer's aquaculture...
Myanmar
2018 - JICA
Journal article
Human Rights /Sustainable Oceans: A Fishbowl Approach
An overview of the Danish Institute for Human Rights’ international expert meeting on the contribution of human rights to the sustainable development of fisheries. In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted its resolution, “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” for the overarching goal of poverty eradication...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
European Commission launches Knowledge Centre to fight malnutrition
The new virtual centre, bringing together experts and knowledge from different sources inside and outside the European Commission, will help to tackle the root causes of food insecurity around the world.
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Case study
Cas national sur l'agroécologie au Maroc
Les agriculteurs-trices des zones rurales de montagne au Maroc sont confrontés à de nombreux défis parmi lesquels la pauvreté, la dureté des conditions de vie et la dégradation de l’environnement suite au changement climatique. Le projet d’agro-écologie au Sud du Maroc a été lancé en 2015 par l’Organisation Non Gouvernementale...
Morocco
2018 - MIGRATIONS & DEVELOPPEMENT
Policy brief/paper
The Syrian Arab Republic regional Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan 2018–2019
Seven years into the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic continues devastating lives and forcing millions to flee from their homes. While the intensity of the war may have subsided in 2017, the rate of displacement was higher than the rate of return. In 2018, an integrated humanitarian and resilience...
Syrian Arab Republic
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). Combining agricultural biodiversity, resilient ecosystems, traditional farming practices and cultural identity
For centuries, farmers, herders, fishers and foresters have developed diverse and locally adapted agricultural systems managed with time tested, ingenious techniques. These practices have resulted in a vital combination of social, cultural, ecological and economic services to humankind. “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems” (GIAHS) are outstanding landscapes of aesthetic beauty...
Algeria - China - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Japan - Kenya - Mexico - Peru - Republic of Korea - Spain - Sri Lanka - United Republic of Tanzania
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Indonesia/Coastal Communities: Reclaiming Rights
Problems of access and control over food, and changes in consumption and distribution patterns are behind the poor nutritional intake in Indonesia's coastal communities. In 2016, five infants in Aru Island, Maluku, Indonesia, suffered from malnutrition. The five had to be intensively treated in the Regional Hospital of Cendrawasih Dobo, the...
Indonesia
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Journal article
Desert land reclamation programs and family land dynamics in the Western Desert of the Nile Delta (Egypt), 1960–2010
The agricultural development on newly reclaimed lands has led to many national debates about food security and budget deficits, and the living conditions of the new settlers at the local level. This debate is still crucial for present day Egypt, a country facing major challenges, including food security, agriculture modernization,...
Egypt
2018 - International Center for Agricultural Research in The Dry Areas
Article
Sledge Hammer and Nut
LIFE finds the European Commission’s ambitious proposal to amend the Fisheries Control Regulation excessively prescriptive and ill-suited to crack the nutty problems of small-scale fisheries catch reporting, monitoring and enforcement.
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Book
Agricultura chilena
Reflexiones y Desafíos al 2030
U Una vez más la Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias del Ministerio de Agricultura dirige su acervo institucional y profesional a la reflexión sobre el futuro de la agricultura chilena. No obstante los avances significativos que ésta refleja a través de los más diversos indicadores, el gran dinamismo del...
Chile
2018 - Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA)
Journal article
Brazil/Tenure Rights: Planning Blues
Tenure rights in Brazil's small-scale fisheries are fading in the shadows of irrational, poorly designed, and socially and environmentally unjust 'blue planning' processes
Brazil
2018 - ICSF
Event
The 2018 EU Agricultural Outlook conference
The EU Agricultural Outlook conference has now become the key annual gathering of European stakeholders willing to engage and discuss the future of agriculture in Europe and the challenges which lie ahead.
The fourth edition of the conference will be opened by Agriculture and Rural Development Commissioner, Phil Hogan.
Discussion on day...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Case study
Eco Khalleh - Educational training center on agroecology and organic farming
Agronomic practices and management decisions can have a significant impact on the type and number of weeds on a farm. Understanding this relationship can help organic producers manage weeds through avoidance, and various cultural management practices.
The most important steps of non-chemical weed management are prevention, diagnosis, and a number of...
Lebanon
2018 - Environment and Sustainable Development Unit (ESDU)
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