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Zumra Nuru and Awra Amba
a story from 10.000 gardens in Africa
Awra Amba is an intentional community of around 500 people founded in northern Ethiopia to combat poverty, exploitation and gender inequality.
At the heart of this magnanimous project is a simple question: why should any one human being exploit another? This is the question that the founder of Awra Amba, Zumra...
Ethiopia
2018
Website
Environmental Justice Atlas
The EJ Atlas is a teaching, networking and advocacy resource focused on conflicts related to accessing natural resources all around the world. Strategists, activist organizers, scholars, and teachers will find many uses for the database, as well as citizens wanting to learn more about the often invisible conflicts taking place....
2018
Book
Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in Estonia
Estonian agriculture has undergone significant growth and structural change since the 1990s in a policy and regulatory environment that has been mostly supportive of investment. The implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy has contributed to the modernisation of the country's agriculture, leading to high productivity growth with relatively limited environmental...
Estonia
2018 - OECD
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Con un clic las agricultoras venden más
El desarrollo rural requiere de emprendimientos que inviertan en ciencia y tecnología para brindar nuevas herramientas al sector agrícola y ganadero. En la zona Andina de América Latina, hombres y mujeres han tenido un limitado acceso a nuevas tecnologías, limitaciones que se acrecientan si son las mujeres quienes buscan su...
Ecuador
2018 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA)- Ecuador
Policy brief/paper
Ending hunger in the Horn of Africa
Moving from rhetoric to action
Food insecurity and poor nutritional status remain widespread problems in the Horn of Africa (HOA). A multi-pronged nutrition-sensitive approach to development has been shown to be the best route for sustained reductions in undernutrition. One of the objectives of this report was to review Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) coordination...
Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - South Sudan - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Utilisation de pratiques agroécologiques et performances de la petite agriculture familiale : le cas de la Guadeloupe
L’analyse et la quantification des performances de la petite agriculture familiale (PAF) constituent un enjeu au regard de la transition agroécologique. Cet article utilise une méthode combinant enquêtes auprès d’agriculteurs de la PAF de Guadeloupe, typologie et évaluation, à l’échelle de l’exploitation, des avantages qu’ils tirent de pratiques agroécologiques en...
France
2018 - INRA
Journal
Les oasis en Afrique du Nord : dynamiques territoriales et durabilité des systèmes de production agricole
Les oasis sahariennes ont connu des changements particulièrement profonds et déstabilisants dans la seconde moitié du 20e siècle, s’accompagnant de transformations sociales, économiques, agricoles et environnementales. Aux oasis phoenicicoles étagées classiques, viennent s’adjoindre de nouvelles extensions ou projets agricoles à travers des initiatives étatiques ou locales. Dans un contexte où les...
2018 - Cahiers Agriculture
Journal article
How much of the world's food do smallholders produce?
The widely reported claim that smallholders produce 70–80% of the world’s food has been a linchpin of agricultural development policy despite limited empirical evidence. Recent empirical attempts to reinvestigate this number have lacked raw data on how much food smallholders produce, and have relied on model assumptions with unknown biases and with...
2018 - ScienceDirect
Report
Women's self-help groups, decision-making, and improved agricultural practices in India: From extension to practice
This research was undertaken as part of the Women Improving Nutrition through Group-based Strategies (WINGS) study, and was aimed at understanding ways to improve agricultural practices among women farmers in India. Effective agricultural extension is key to improving productivity, increasing farmers’ access to information, and promoting more diverse sets of...
India
2018 - INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE IFPRI
Book
Experiencias, desafíos y propuestas de las mujeres rurales del Ecuador
La Asociación de Mujeres de Juntas Parroquiales y Rurales del Ecuador (AMJUPRE) desde el 2005 viene dando pasos asertivos en la construcción de ciudadanía y conocimiento de mujeres rurales. Con convicción y compromiso aportando incondicionalmente al fortalecimiento de liderazgos y al pleno ejercicio de sus derechos, en la vida cotidiana,...
Ecuador
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Agrifood sector in Europe and Central Asia rated ‘innovative’ and ‘inclusive’
The Thirty-first Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Europe which took place for the first time in the Russian Federation concluded its work today after three days of intense discussions. It was the fifth in a series, following on the heels of spring regional conferences for Africa, Latin America...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Structural features, labor conditions and family succession in dairy production systems in Paraná State, Brazil
Brazil is the fourth largest milk producer in the world. Besides its economic relevance, milk production has an important social function in Brazil. Dairy activity employs a large amount of people and contributes to regional development. But some drawbacks remain, such as poor labor conditions and problems for family succession....
Brazil
2018 - State University of Maringá (UEM)
Journal article
Editorial/Comment: Guardians of the Sea
The Regional Plan of Action for Small-scale Fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea is a model for other regional fisheries management organizations. For the first time since the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (the...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Evolución de resultados económicos enero 2016 - mayo 2018 de un modelo productivo porcino de 60 madres
En esta nota se analizan los resultados de un modelo productivo de ciclo completo de sesenta madres, que produce y vende capones con nivel de productividad de 1.217 kilogramos anuales por cerda madre, con servicio natural dirigido e instalaciones específicas de bajo nivel de inversión, alimentación con maíz de propia...
Argentina
2018 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Book
When Food Becomes Immaterial Confronting the Digital Age
In the span of a few decades, the world has witnessed a technological revolution, which has generated economic and social change at an unprecedented pace. Today, an app on your smartphone can help raise awareness of a social cause worldwide and help a farmer activate the sprinklers to water her...
2018 - Brot für die Welt
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Mercados más justos
Los mercados son mucho más que la relación entre la oferta y demanda de productos: Son los espacios que articulan la producción y reproducción de las actividades económicas desarrolladas por una sociedad.
Se trata de instancias construidas a partir de las interacciones sociales, y por lo tanto, son cercanas a la...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
L’attribution de terres domaniales irriguées aux jeunes ruraux en Tunisie : création d’emplois durables ou mise en place d’exploitations non viables ?
Le chômage des jeunes, particulièrement dans les zones rurales, est un problème que l’État tunisien cherche à résoudre depuis l’Indépendance. Il a ainsi mobilisé une partie des terres domaniales irriguées pour installer des jeunes. À Gaâfour, 98 jeunes agriculteurs ont reçu des lots irrigués de 2,5 ou 3,5 ha. Les résultats montrent...
Tunisia
2018 - INAT
Journal article
SSF - RPOA: Deep-rooted Problems, Great Expectations
On 26 September in Malta, 18 Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal states committed themselves to developing “objectives, principles and concrete actions” to be applied across the region through a regional plan of action (RPOA) and thus “to ensure the long-term environmental, economic and social sustainability of small-scale fisheries”. Such a...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Website
Manos que alimentan al mundo
Las mujeres rurales que se dedican a la agricultura viven el día a día cuidando de sus familias y trabajando la tierra, conservando saberes ancestrales y compartiendo con el mundo sabores que nos recuerdan esas tardes en la casa de la abuela.
El café del desayuno. El ceviche de pescado, la...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
La trajectoire d’institutionnalisation de l’agriculture biologique en Ouganda, success story de l’Afrique subsaharienne
Cet article analyse la progressive institutionnalisation de l’agriculture biologique en Ouganda depuis les années 1990, marquée par l’existence de 200 000 producteurs certifiés biologiques, un mouvement national, ainsi qu’une politique dédiée en cours d’élaboration. Cette success story s’explique par une agriculture au départ « biologique par défaut » (absence d’utilisation d’intrants chimiques de synthèse) et...
Uganda
2018 - Université Paris-Est
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