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Hogan: Protecting small farmers my top priority in EU budget negotiations
EU Commissioner for Agriculture & Rural Development Phil Hogan stated that his top priority in the ongoing EU budget negotiation is "protecting the small and medium sized farmer who remains the backbone of Europe's food production and rural communities".
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Journal article
Gênero, Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional e Vulnerabilidade Social
O Programa Mulheres Mil em Foco
A desigualdade de gênero se revela nas questões de educação, renda eacesso a Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional. No Brasil, o Programa Nacional MulheresMil tem como objetivo intensificar o processo de desenvolvimento regional einstitucional, pela melhoria do acesso de mulheres em situação de vulnerabilidade socialà educação e ao mundo do trabalho....
Brazil
2018 - Revista da Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva
Fact sheet
Expanding Africa's Great Green Wall
Info-poster on the activities and results of Action Against Desertification. Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) in support of the Great Green Wall initiative and UNCCD national action programmes to combat desertification, implemented by FAO and partners with funding of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Lineamientos Estratégicos de Política Pública Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria
Este documento presenta una versión resumida y gráfica del documento técnico que acompaña a la Re- solución 464 de 2017 del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo rural, por medio de la cual se adoptan los Lineamientos Estratégicos de Política Pública para la Agricultura Campesina, Familiar y Comunitaria.Por tratarse de un...
Colombia
2018 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural
Blog article
The world’s first international Congress on Agritourism at Eurac
Farm holidays, or agritourism for short, have been experiencing a significant increase in overnight stays for years. At the same time, it is more and more developing into a high-quality holiday offer. The striving for ever more demanding customers is to be seen quite sceptically. All too touristic structures endanger...
Italy
2018 - Euromontana
Blog article
France struggling to phase out pesticides
France has promised to phase out glyphosate at a quicker rate than the EU. However, successive “Ecophyto plans” have not produced any results and meanwhile, the use of phytosanitary products continues to grow.
France
2018 - Euractiv
Journal article
Milestones: Global Gender Gap Report
The new Global Gender Gap Report released by the World Economic Forum, estimates that, especially when it comes to women’s workplace equality, it will be another 217 years before we achieve gender parity. The report ranks a total of 144 countries by economic opportunities, education, political participation and health. The...
2018 - ICSF
Journal article
Biogas plants help farmers in Vietnam
Current approach to manure management for small-scale Southeast Asian farmers
Animal excrements, especially those of pigs, are produced in large volumes in Southeast Asia . Where these wastes are not properly treated, negative impacts on natural environment and health of local inhabitants are a consequence.
Manure is generated in large volumes in the entire Southeast Asia. When properly treated, the volume...
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Newsletter
Romanian Rural Network News no.9/2018
News and meeting about he Common Agricultural Policy post 2020.
Romania
2018 - MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Journal article
Explorer les liens entre agriculture et sécurité alimentaire : une enquête auprès des femmes du gouvernorat de Sidi-Bouzid en Tunisie
Cet article présente et décrit le contenu d’une base de données construite à partir d’une enquête menée dans le gouvernorat de Sidi-Bouzid, situé dans le centre de la Tunisie. Sur ce territoire en transition, le secteur agricole, qui tient une place prédominante dans l’activité économique, est caractérisé par la diversité...
Tunisia
2018
Journal article
Norway: Then and Now—Women in Norway’s Fisheries
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the quota system, significant challenges confront women in Norway’s fisheries. Norway is considered to be one of the largest fishery nations in Europe. Despite this, there are few professional women fishers in the country. According to statistical data released in 2017 by the Norwegian Directorate...
Norway
2018 - ICSF
Fact sheet
Enhancing food security and market access for land constrained women farmers
Agriculture is the mainstay of the Kenyan economy and contributes over 45 percent of government revenue. The agricultural sector is the largest employer, representing 60 percent of total employment. Overall, approximately 80 percent of rural women are employed in agriculture. However, the percentage of agricultural land held by women remains...
Kenya
2018 - ActionAid International Kenya
Report
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World - 2018
This report monitors progress towards the targets of ending both hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2), and provides an analysis of the underlying causes and drivers of observed trends. While the prevalence of undernourishment is at the forefront of monitoring hunger, the prevalence of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Journal article
What’s New, Webby?: Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP)
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) was launched in June 2015 by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FFKP gathers digitised quality information on family farming from all over the world, including national laws and regulations, public policies, best practices, relevant data and statistics, researches,...
2018 - ICSF
Report
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2018
Nature-based solutions for water
As the fifth in a series of annual, theme-oriented reports, the 2018 edition of the United Nations World Development Report (WWDR) focuses on opportunities to harness the natural processes that regulate various elements of the water cycle, which have become collectively known as nature-based solutions (NBS) for water. This is...
2018 - UN-Water
Blog article
Kyrgyzstan advances forest monitoring in support of the Sustainable Development Goals
Meeting for the second time, Kyrgyz stakeholders gathered this week in Bishkek to advance the country’s national criteria and indicator set for sustainable forest monitoring.
The exercise, carried out under a joint project of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and FAO, is especially important today; Kyrgyzstan is currently...
Kyrgyzstan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, April 2018
The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
2018 - Too Big To Ignore - Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
Website
10 iniciativas innovadoras y escalables para el desarrollo rural sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe
La Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) invita a todas las entidades con personalidad jurídica que trabajan en territorios rurales, a presentar sus iniciativas innovadoras para alcanzar el desarrollo rural sostenible.
Con esta primera convocatoria,...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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Scouting for fall armyworms
Spraying pesticides is expensive and usually cannot control this pest. Visit your field twice a week for the first 6 weeks and kill any egg masses and young armyworms by hand. It is important to do scouting because without it, you will not have a harvest at the end of...
2018 - AccessAgriculture
Newsletter
Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA) - Annual Newsletter 2017
Content of this issue:
AARINENA Strategy Toward 2035
Other Activities including the 31st and 32nd GFAR Steering Committee Meeting, 2017 at FAO, Rome, Italy; NENA Regional Workshop on Information for PGR organized in cooperation with the ITPGRFA , 8-12 May 2017, Cairo, Egypt; Regional workshop on: Models and successful stories of Research,...
2018 - Association of Agricultural Research Institutions in the Near East and North Africa (AARINENA)
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