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Fact sheet
Grape Mundo: an ecosystem for grape farming
“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...
India
2018 - Rta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Journal article
The determinants of crop yields in Uganda: what is the role of climatic and non-climatic factors?
It is widely accepted that crop yields will be affected by climate change. However, the role played by climate in affecting crop yields vis-a-vis non-climatic stresses, is often unclear, limiting decision choices around efforts to promote increased production in light of multiple stresses.
Uganda
2018 - Agriculture & Food Security
Blog article
Ukraine hosts first regional meeting on sustainable livestock development
Countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia need better engagement in global sustainable livestock processes when developing national policies for their livestock production sectors.
Solving this problem is one aim of meetings begun today in Uman, Ukraine, on the continued development of a Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, gathering myriad stakeholders...
Ukraine
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Miscellanea
Social protection in Lebanon
Reducing rural poverty and strengthening rural resilience
Social protection is the set of policies and programmes aimed at preventing or protecting all people against poverty, vulnerability, and social exclusion throughout their lifecycles, particularly the most vulnerable groups. This poster will serve to demonstrate the efforts - and advancements made - in reducing rural poverty and increasing resilience...
Lebanon
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Valorisation of Mountain Products in Lombardy
ERSAF, the Italian regional agency for agriculture and forestry services, who has been collaborating with Euromontana for many years for the promotion and valorisation of mountain products, started an experimental project, with the Lombardy Region, to implement the use of the optional quality scheme for “mountain products” in some of its...
Italy
2018 - Euromontana
Video
Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI]
Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI] is a non profit making organization operating from Vihiga County in Western Kenya.The organization works with small holder farmers and like minded Non Government Organizations and other associations and networks addressing that focus on raising food using agro-ecological principles and sustainable management of natural resources within...
Kenya
2018 - Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI]
Case study
Rural territorial development
From theory to practice
For 20 years, SOS Faim has been supporting territorial development initiatives, particularly in rural areas. Why is that?
Within a given territory, there is huge potential for a consolidation of the civil society, with the perspective of giving more power, opportunities and resources to citizens, by using socio-economic and political leverage....
2018 - SOS FAIM Belgium
Fact sheet
Co-design of cultivar mixtures
A better use of crop genetic diversity is recognized as an essential leverage for agroecology, as it promotes various ecosystem services, in a context of increasing environmental stochasticity caused by global change. Increasing within field diversity through the use of cultivar mixtures is a timely option, as testified by past...
France
2018 - INRA – CNRS – IRD - AgroParisTEch - The Wheatamix Consortium
Report
Lessons learned from five years of nature conservation and development in South Pacific Islands
This report is a compilation, which captures the experiences of the Project Team during their engagement with their respective governments and various organizations over the 5 years of project implementation. Such experiences were compiled for, shared, and discussed at a workshop specifically organised by the FAO FPAM project and held...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Land Market Development and Small Farms’ Access to Land in the Pre-Accession Countries
This report analyses the land markets’ functioning in the Western Balkans and small farm households’ access to land. For that purpose, survey questionnaires, focus groups, and desk research for each of the targeted Western Balkan countries/territories (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo∗, Montenegro and Serbia), were used. Based on...
2018 - Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group in SEE (SWG)
Book
Republic of Moldova value chain gap analysis
Agriculture and food industry sectors have a major importance for the Moldovan economy. The Republic of Moldova has one of the highest share of rural population among the countries in Europe and Central Asia, and its agriculture sector significantly contributes to the country’s gross domestic product. The Food and Agriculture...
Republic of Moldova
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
FAO and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia sign three-year cooperation agreement
Priorities highlighted in the agreement are closely aligned with the country’s own priorities in the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2014–2020, aiming to support progressive alignment of the country’s agriculture and rural development with European Union accession requirements and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Rakhmanin said. “The agreement matches...
North Macedonia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
Egypt country programming framework 2018-2022
The flyer about FAO's Country Programming Framework in Egypt aims at giving a summarized brief about the priority programming areas for Egypt that FAO will focus on during the period from 2017-2022; the amount of funds required to implement these programmes; and the expected outputs of each programme area.
Egypt
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Policy brief/paper
Agricultural policy incentives in sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade (2005–2016)
Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) synthesis study
The study summarizes the results emerging from the 2017 update of the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) indicators for the 2005-2016 period for 14 sub-Saharan African countries. These indicators - comparable across commodities, countries and years - are commonly used to assess the extent of policy support...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
“Sem feminismo não há agroecologia”: ressignificação das relações econômicas por uma perspectiva feminista
O presente trabalho, objetiva por abordagem decolonial apresentar práticas e vivências da agroecologia, alinhadas à economia solidária que resgatam modos alternativos das relações econômicas, na chamada economia feminista por meio do feminismo comunitário. Para isto, a pesquisa qualitativa trará como sujeitas as mulheres do Sistema Participativo de Garantia da Qualidade...
Brazil
2018 - Centro de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisas em Administração
Policy brief/paper
Drivers and impacts of rural outmigration in Tunisia
Key findings from the research “Rural Migration in Tunisia” (RuMiT)
This brief summarizes the findings of the research report "Drivers and patterns of rural youth migration and its impact on food security and rural livelihoods in Tunisia", developed in the framework of the "Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty" (RYM) project. It provides an overview of the drivers, patterns...
Tunisia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
The future of date palm cultivation in the Lower Jordan Valley of the West Bank
High water consumption and specifc soil requirements warrant a long-term planning for date palm cultivation. Hence, this study presents a detailed procedure to calculate water and land balances that assess the suitability for date palm cultivation in three districts of the West Bank. It applies crop response functions to relate...
Gaza Strip
2018
Journal article
Comparative study on the profile of agricultural holdings without legal status in the development regions north-east and south-east of Romania
The agricultural holdings without legal status, largely overlapping the rural population’s households and providing content to the individual households, namely the peasant households, preserve the continuity of the vernacular village in terms of the community land and in demographic terms, through the families living in the villages, whose main occupation...
Romania
2018 - “Gheorghe Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Book
Organic agriculture in Uzbekistan
This book was prepared under the framework of TCP/UZB/3501: Institutional capacity building to develop organic agriculture and to promote good agriculture practices in Uzbekistan to provide guidance to the stakeholders. This book brings together the status of organic agriculture in Uzbekistan including, market, legal standards, methods, experiences and useful methods...
Uzbekistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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