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AgriResearch Conference - Innovating for the future of farming and rural communities
The EU AgriResearch Conference is dedicated to scientists, farmers, rural communities, industry, advisors, policy-makers, citizens and NGO representatives who wish to learn about EU agriculture and rural R&I activities and achievements and to have their say on how to shape the future of agriculture R&I after 2020. The conference will...
Belgium
2018 - European Commission
Project
Accountability Systems for Sustainable Forest Management in the Caucasus and Central Asia
This capacity building project has been accepted for funding by the United Nations Development Account (UNDA), under the 10th tranche. The timeframe of the project is 2016-2019.
The objective of this project is to strengthen the national capacity of five target countries (Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan) to develop national...
Kyrgyzstan
2018 - United Nations Development Account (UNDA)
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, June 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
Article
New study confirms the need to better prioritize rural youth in political agendas
The IYFF+ 10 World Coordination Committee (WCC) launches a new study that analyzes and highlights the common and global challenges faced by rural youth from all 5 continents.
The recently published study on Young People and Family Farming stresses the need to prioritize youth in the political agenda by strengthening a comprehensive approach at the institutional level tailored to the needs and demands of rural youth. This study has been carried out by the IYFF+ 10 World Coordination...
Afghanistan
2018 - WRF
Statement
Cultural heritage: an asset rooted in the territory synonymous with attractiveness and the future for our mountains !
It is time to better preserve and valorise mountain cultural heritage and to turn it into a driving force for future development, to revitalise mountain areas and strengthen their attractiveness.
From 25 to 27 September 2018, nearly 200 mountain stakeholders from all over Europe gathered in Vatra Dornei, Romania, to participate...
European Union
2018 - Euromontana
Journal
EU rural review
This edition of the EU Rural Review focuses on the resource efficiency challenge and examines what the concept of ‘doing more with less’ means for rural development in this regard.
The Earth’s natural resources are fundamental to health, well-being and quality of life on the planet. As the global population approaches...
European Union
2018 - European Network for Rural Development ENRD
Fact sheet
Cobertura de suelo o “MULCH” como práctica sostenible ante el cambio climático
El folleto describe qué es MULCH o cobertura de suelo, sus beneficios, la forma en cómo se realiza, los materiales que requiere y los efectos fisicos, quimicos y biológicos para el suelo.
Costa Rica
2018 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG)
Video
Family Farming Campaign: Understanding the importance of small scale farming in Kenya
NTV Kenya. discussion about the practice of family farming and its benefits, and food security with Elizabeth Wanja, Anne Maina, Matthew Muendo, Kate Kibarah and Nelson Mungala.
Kenya
2018 - Inades
Journal article
Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and food security threats: Effects of land tenure in Zambia
Food security threats in Zambia
Among environmental challenges, sustainable agricultural practices (SAP) are imperative to attain better agricultural productivity and food security status of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Zambia. To understand the adoption behavior of SAP of Zambian farmers in more depth, the study determines factors that influence the adoption probability of SAP. In...
Zambia
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Journal article
Working together in small-scale fisheries: harnessing collective action for poverty eradication
This paper builds on lessons learned from case studies of organization-building and collective action as a means of eradicating poverty in small-scale fisheries. The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, endorsed by FAO Member States in 2014, recognize that addressing...
2018
Journal article
Europe / AKTEA Network: Perils and Prospects
Twenty years of organising by women in Europe’s fisheries have led to important gains, challenges and opportunities. In Europe, fisheries are considered a male activity, as men represent the main labour force on fishing vessels. This stereotype has dominated European society for many decades, despite the fact that several social scientists...
European Union
2018 - ICSF
Video
Abejas mexicanas. Dulce miel de nuestra tierra
Las abejas meliponas y trigonas son especies de abejas sin aguijón y son importantes polinizadores de flora nativa y cultivada. Lamentablemente la deforestación de selvas, manglares y el uso de insecticidas, son factores que contribuyen a la desaparición de estos importantes insectos voladores.
Mexico
2018 - Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
Blog article
7 success factors to empowering rural women through ICTs
The digital revolution has changed the way we work, access information and connect with each other. It offers opportunities to those who can use the new technologies, but also presents new challenges for those who are left behind.
Often referred to collectively as Information and Communications Technologies or ICTs, these technologies...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
10 Contributions parliamentarians can make towards achieving "Zero Hunger¨
Eliminating hunger by 2030 will require appropriate legislation backed up by the necessary budgets and proper monitoring, allowing a just and long-lasting legal framework to be created. This document presents ten ideas for areas where members of parliament could direct efforts aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2):...
2018 - FAO
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, July 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
Blog article
High-tech marine research vessel arrives in Asia’s Andaman Sea to improve knowledge on marine biodiversity and ecosystems – UNFAO
A Norwegian research vessel, working for the EAF-Nansen Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has made a port call in Thailand as part of a regional survey of marine resources, ecosystems and environment in the Bay of Bengal.
The port call marks the beginning of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Safe, sustainable, quality: citizens share their views on EU food and farming
Following the publication last November of the European Commission's Communication on the Future of Food & Farming, the latest EU-wide Eurobarometer survey of public opinion about the common agricultural policy show that just over 60% of respondents believe that the common agricultural policy (CAP) benefits all citizens and not just...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Journal article
India: Beach Profiling for Community Resilience
Women and men in fishing communities in South India work together to generate important beach related data. India’s 7,500 km coastline is a hotbed of transformation. The ‘Territorial Sea’, where fishing is allowed, provides an exclusive economic zone in the ocean, 60 per cent the size of its land area....
India
2018 - ICSF
Practices
Producing machines for organic and small-scale farming systems
UNACMA is the only association, at a national level, representing traders and repairers of agricultural machinery, and of machinery for the maintenance of green areas. It is associated with CONFCOMMERCIO MOBILITA and carries forward its objectives mainly in institutions at regional, national and European level. It carries out training and...
United Republic of Tanzania
2018 - Unione Commercianti Macchine Agricole
Video
De la milpa a la mesa, la riqueza de la milpa
Este video explica con el apoyo de expertos qué es la milpa, su diversidad y su importancia como cultivo funcional. Además siguiendo el hilo conductor de la sopa de guías con chepiles de Oaxaca, la combinación de ingredientes de la milpa, para lograr una combinación de sabores y platillos ricos...
Mexico
2018 - Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
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