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Local Poultry Paravet Training Manual
To secure technical support in developing small animal sub sector in West Nile region, in 2012, the Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Africa Institute for Strategic Animal Resource Services and Development (AFRISA) a not-For-Profit and autonomous government institution furthering Academic-Community-Private-Public Partnership (ACP3) engagement...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
Article
''Agroforestry helping in addressing effects of climate change''
It all started on the day when I escorted our country director to Rufunsa District, which is located in Lusaka Province in Zambia. We were off to meet the village Chieftainess Mphashya, to talk about our intentions to build a community seed bank in her chiefdom. We were met with...
Zambia
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection
Newsletter
Boletín Mensual Vía Orgánica
Cada mes, Vía Orgánica Asociación Civil, edita un boletín donde aparte de presentar las novedades desde su rancho-escuela, comparte noticias orgánicas, recetas y tips.
Mexico
2022 - Vía Orgánica AC
Report
2022 Young Farmer Agenda
The 2022 National Young Farmer Survey received 10,091 responses, including 4,344 from past, current, and aspiring farmers who self-identified as age 40 and under. Our findings reveal a new generation of farmers answering the call to provide healthy food, steward the land, and cultivate community well-being. They are building diversified...
2022 - National Young Farmers Coalition
Audio
The future of farming: how agroecology can transform the food system
Most of the food we find in the grocery store these days is produced as part of the industrial food system. We’re dependent on large-scale production of just a few varieties for everything from the vegetables we eat, to the cereal we feed our children.
But it wasn’t always this way!...
2022 - SeedChange
Blog article
Pathways to promote agroecology
Agroecological approaches are highly location specific as they connect the links between the food needs, livelihoods, local culture, environment and the economics. Education on agroecology is therefore a holistic approach connecting these links, where farmers are in the centre of the entire process.
With the realisation of the ill effects of...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Blog article
Face à la sécheresse, quel avenir pour l’agriculture et l’élevage ?
Quelles solutions pour l’agriculture face aux épisodes de sécheresses de plus en plus récurrents ? Pour le Cirad, confronté depuis longtemps à ce problème dans ses recherches en partenariat dans les pays du Sud, la question est désormais cruciale avec le changement climatique.
2022 - CIRAD
Article
''Diary of my love for food production – my quest for sustainable agroecology''
Dear Diary
Monday: How did this all begin?
From as early as I can remember, my grandparents inspired me with their love for gardening and growing food. They were enthusiastic, knowledgeable and instinctively knew how to grow vegetables and fruit. As a young child I would spend many days in the home...
Zimbabwe
2022 - The Barefoot Guide Connection
E-learning
Diplomado virtual Agaves-Mezquites: regenerando zonas semiáridas
La Universidad de Guanajuato y Vía Orgánica te invitan a tomar este diplomado virtual de "Agaves y mezquites, regenerando zonas semi áridas" .Aprende a regenerar los suelos utilizando todas las bondades de estas maravillosas plantas.Dirigido a toda persona interesada en transformar su paisaje, en impulsar y desarrollar proyectos productivos basados...
Mexico
2022 - Vía Orgánica
Report
Building a Future with Farmers 2022: Results and Recommendations from the National Young Farmer Survey
The National Young Farmers Coalition’s new report, Building a Future with Farmers 2022: Results and Recommendations from the National Young Farmer Survey, shares the voices of a generation of young farmers who are working hard to feed their communities despite the significant challenges they face, including access to farmland and capital, student...
2022 - National Young Farmers Coalition
Blog article
Reduced tillage in organic farming
For many years, organic farming was and still is based on the use of the plow as the main tool for cultivating the soil. Plowing brings a considerable number of benefits to farmers, such as soil loosening and a phytosanitary effect - the regulation of diseases and pests as well as...
Czechia
2022 - The Czech Technological Platform for Organic Agriculture (ČTPEZ)
Practices
Refugio libertad: una experiencia de tierra, techo, trabajo y conectividad
El pasado viernes 18 de noviembre el CIAP participó de la presentación del proyecto "Refugio Libertad: una experiencia de Tierra, Techo y Trabajo", que fue seleccionado por la convocatoria "Desarrollo Armónico con Equilibrio Territorial".
Acerca del Refugio Libertad
Es una organización de trabajadores y trabajadoras de la economía popular que habitan en...
Argentina
2022 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Blog article
Strategies for reviving the agro-ecological approach
The centrality of any education system is knowledge. This article highlights how farmer’s traditional knowledge on millets was explored, revived and documented; how ‘farmer centric research process’ was carried out through participatory varietal trials; and, how the community based knowledge centre for testing, access and spread of knowledge was created.
Agro-ecology...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter March 2022
Agroecology Newsletter of March 2022
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Recognising the benefits of organic farming
Organic farming has countless benefits for the natural environment and society, but they are often overlooked. This article outlines some of the benefits of organic farming, exploring the role of science, consumers and research and innovation.
2022 - Organic Farm Knowledge
Video
For Feminist Agroecologies
What is the story behind the food you eat? What if people actually valued all the underpaid and unpaid labor that goes into food? What if women were not doing most of the work? And if women and girls weren’t the last ones to eat? What if it weren't mostly...
2022 - CAWR Coventry University
Blog article
Lifting 100 million out of poverty by 2025 still possible, despite recession threat
A flagship UN poverty study released on Monday, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, finds that significant poverty reduction is possible, and new ways of calculating the problem can help humanitarians and governments better target aid.
The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a joint analysis from the UN Development Programme (UNDP)...
2022 - United Nations UN
Blog article
Latin America | Agroecology and the Solidarity Economy
An alternative to the dominant agri-food system approach, ‘EcoSol-agroecology’ denotes a convergence of solidarity economy and agroecology movements. In Latin America, agroecology has been linked to the solidarity economy since the 1990s. Based at the Open University, UK, Les Levidow coordinated the AgroEcos project, which promoted and facilitated Eco-Sol agroecology networks....
2022 - Arc 2020
Fact sheet
Legumes, our best allies for the agroecological transition!
Ahead of the EU food initiatives such as the Sustainable food system law, Agroecology Europe proposes to adopt a food system approach on transition and to give more visibility to systemic solutions to transform our agriculture and food and make them more sustainable, healthy and fair. Among these solutions, increasing...
European Union
2022 - Agroecology Europe
Conference/Meeting
Webinaire - Dialogue africain sur l’agro-écologie : La politique de la connaissance
Mai 2022: AFSA, Agroecology Fund, CCRP, Groundwell International, IPES-Food, et Global Alliance for the Future of Food ont organisé un dialogue africain sur l’agro-écologie le 18 mai 2022. Le replay intégral de l’événement est désormais disponible. Modéré par Mamadou Goïta (IRPAD, AFSA, Mali), il a fait dialoguer plusieurs praticiens, experts, décideurs....
2022 - AFSA
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