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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
Conference paper
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)
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