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Assessing the Impact of Collective Marketing of Paddy Rice in Innovation Platforms by Smallholder Producers in Benin
Market access is a major constraint of smallholder rice producers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). There is increasing evidence that acting collectively offers one way for smallholders to participate more efficiently in the market. This chapter aimed to identify the determinants of participation in collective marketing of rice in innovation platforms...
Benin
2018 - IntechOpen
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, November 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
Guidelines
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
The EAFRD holds a budget of €96.4 billion and is available for co-financing rural development projects in the 27 EU Member States. Governed by Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, the EAFRD is focused on three main types of rural development activities. These are: • Improving the competitiveness of agriculture and forestry;...
2018 - European Network for Rural Development
Blog article
We need transition farming in the EU
European tastes are changing and so must farms, therefore we need to support a transition away from industrial animal farming
European Union
2018 - EurActiv
Book
Stories of Change
Read the latest publication by Tropical Agriculture Platform – Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (TAP-CDAIS) project on stories of change. This relates to many stories of personal change, organizational change, changes in attitudes, changes in practice and improvements in livelihoods. Some examples of rich learning experiences started with the...
Angola - Bangladesh - Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Guatemala - Honduras - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Rwanda
2018
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, December 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
A new EP study on the impact of wolves on farmers in rural regions of Europe has been published
In the context of the recent recolonization of many European areas by large carnivores, the European Parliament has commissioned a study presenting the state of play in EU Member States. The study gathers the most recent data available on large carnivores’ populations in the EU’s Member States, evaluates the impact...
2018 - Euromontana
Book
Queijo Minas Artesanal
Valoriznado a Agroindústria Familiar
Este livro abrange os resultados da pesquisa desenvolvida pela Embrapa sobre os Queijos Minas Artesanal, um levantamento das normas estabelecidas para o produto, bem como uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o assunto. Além disso, são propostas recomendações para o aprimoramento da qualidade do QMA das regiões tradicionais do estado de Minas...
Brazil
2018 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
Blog article
The fight to save our oceans
With the health of our oceans at stake, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has quickly become a monumental problem. The term “IUU fishing” is used for any fishing activities that operate outside of the law. There are many types of IUU fishing, for example, fishing without license or authorization,...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Supporting family farmers is key for providing healthier diets, preserving the environment and creating rural prosperity
Over the next 10 years the United Nations Decade of Family Farming will help focus efforts around the world to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, lift rural people - many of whom are women - out of poverty, and safeguard natural resources, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, said.
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Fact sheet
Conect-e sharing traditional ecological knowledge
International treaties and conventions encourage national governments to recognize, protect, and promote traditional knowledge, including traditional agroecological knowledge. Following this mandate, a multidisciplinary team of Spanish scientists from 7 universities and research centers have worked together with the Spanish seed network ‘Red de Semillas: Resembrando e Intercambiando’ to develop CONECT-e....
Spain
2018 - Contect-e
Website
OK-Net Arable - exchange knowledge, enhance organic farming
New project – OK-Net EcoFeed – aims at helping organic pig and poultry farmers in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed.
A key objective of organic farming is that animals are fed with feed produced at or near the farm. Yet, this is difficult to achieve...
European Union
2018
Case study
Study tour to Bangladesh fosters knowledge-sharing on rice-fish systems
Rice-fish systems are common in many South and Southeast Asian countries as well as some areas of Africa. The systems are diverse, spanning capture fisheries and aquaculture, with fish and rice growing concurrently in rice fields and canals or, alternatively, fish raised between rice crops.
FISH has developed several approaches to...
Bangladesh
2018 - World Fish
Blog article
Romania has a new Mountain Law!
On Thursday 19 July 2018, the Romanian President signed the decree passing the Mountain Law.
Long awaited by the Romanian mountain communities, the law comes to regulate the ways to protect and develop the mountain area in an inclusive and sustainable manner, through: valorizing the human and natural resources, increasing the...
Romania
2018 - Euromontana
Guidelines
Collaborate to innovate
EIP-AGRI Operational Groups are innovative projects that aim to find practical solutions to problems or opportunities which European farmers and foresters are currently facing. More than 3200 are planned by national and regional Rural Development Programmes for the period 2014-2020. Operational Groups can benefit from networking and collaborating with organisations...
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
Fact sheet
FarmOS: free and open source farm management software platform and development community
Scaling soil health and biologically based landscape restoration is knowledge rather than input limited. The FarmOS system leverages existing global, open-source hardware and software communities to provide tools to all scales and production systems. It is free to download, use and modify. Farmers control their own secure data to choose...
United States of America
2018 - FarmOS
Blog article
FAO launches mobile application to support fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa
The application is vital for early detection of Fall Armyworm and guiding best response
FAO launched a mobile application to enable farmers, agricultural workers and other partners at the frontline of the fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa to identify, report the level of infestation, and map the spread of this destructive insect, as well as to describe its natural enemies and the measures that...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Réaction des éleveurs bovins des régions semi-arides algériennes face aux contraintes économiques et climatiques
Les évolutions socioéconomiques récentes de l’Algérie et l’accentuation de l’aridité du climat local induisent des transformations dans les pratiques et les stratégies des exploitations agricoles. Cette étude analyse la réaction des petites exploitations familiales d’élevage bovin des régions semi-arides de Sétif face aux contraintes économiques et aux incertitudes du milieu....
Algeria
2018
Book
What gender mainstreaming means in practice
Cases from selected countries of the European Union
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has continuously demonstrated within its work that gender equality is not simply a matter of human rights, but is key to eliminating poverty and hunger. It is only by closing the gender gap that sustainable agriculture and rural development can...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Case study
Constructing markets for agroecology
An analysis of diverse options for marketing products from agroecology
The purpose of this study is to explore whether and how products from agroecological production systems are being valued in markets. The study is based on a meta-analysis of 12 case studies (Benin, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda), mainly from...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Colombia - Ecuador - France - Kazakhstan - Mozambique - Namibia - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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