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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)
Video
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)
Event
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
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