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Happy trainers, New Perspectives
Train the trainer event
The “Train the trainer event” was an important milestone of the CSact! Project team, as one of the main activity of the project is the adaptation of the Be part of CSA! Training programme to local contexts. 18 international participants from 7 European countries met in Vác (a small city...
Hungary
2018 - TVE
Technical paper
On Agroecology & the Future of Food
A system as vastly complex as food requires a systems approach. To understand and influence the interrelated economic, ecological, and social drivers of our current food systems we are initially focused on the following three impact areas: agroecology; climate, health, and well-being; and true cost accounting.
We aim to accelerate the...
2018 - Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Event
The 34th session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific
There will be a full schedule of presentations, discussions and activities. Some of the highlights of the Conference include a Ministerial Roundtable on Zero Hunger, a Roundtable on "Imagining future healthy and inclusive food systems in Asia and the Pacific,” an Exhibition honoring the achievements and progress of the 10 Regional...
Fiji
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Meet Iuri Peri, LIFE’s new Project Manager for Italy
In the framework of its three years project “Mainstreaming small-scale low impact fisheries in the Mediterranean” funded by the MAVA Foundation, LIFE plans to reinforce its presence on the ground in order to provide increased support to the small-scale fishing communities in the region. Following a comprehensive interview process Prof. Iuri Peri was selected...
Italy
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Fact sheet
Iraq and FAO
FAO and Iraq have had a significant history of cooperation since the country joined the Organization in 1945. Assistance has targeted a wide range of areas, including emergency and rehabilitation, and has proved to be very successful in establishing agricultural research and extension institutes. Support has also included the provision...
Iraq
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
The future of food and agriculture (FOFA)
The future Alternative pathways to 2050
This report explores three different scenarios for the future of food and agriculture, based on alternative trends for key drivers, including income growth and distribution, population growth, technical progress and climate change.
Building on the report The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges, this publication forms part of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Zero Cool Storage System
One of the main issues of the commercialization of agriculture is the lack of storage capacity for the farmers’ organizations (FOs) especially those that produce fresh vegetables. Without effective storage system, farmers cannot consolidate their produce and manage demand-supply opportunities properly. That is why oftentimes, there is too much supply...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2018 - Lao Farmer Network
Policy brief/paper
The FAO Blue Growth Initiative
Strategy for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Eastern Africa
As part of FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative (BGI) the FAO Member Countries of the Eastern Africa Sub-Region met to agree on a strategy for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture within the Blue Growth Initiative in Eastern Africa (BGI Strategy). The BGI is an FAO flagship initiative that aims at...
Burundi - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Somalia - South Sudan - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Art, Seed Sovereignty and Activism
Weaving New Stories
At the National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, hosted by the African Centre for Biodiversity, smallholder farmers, activists and government officials gathered at the Women’s Jail at Constitution Hill to discuss issues of farmer-seed systems and seed policies and laws. Claire Rousell's bog gives an overview of this event and ots...
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Report
Farmers’ Organizations in Africa
Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP)
The Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP): Main phase (2013 - 2018) is a continental programme which strengthens the institutional capacities, policy engagement and engagement of value chains of African farmers’ organizations (FOs). The programme supports the 5 regional networks of African FOs (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU and UMNAGRI),...
2018 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Statement
IIMRO: PR on the Heritage License
LIFE members from Ireland – the Irish Islands Marine Resource Organisation launch a campaign to ask decision-makers to support a groundbreaking Heritage License Bill that would allow to allocate a small percentage of the Irish national quota to the islands’ fishers, thus preventing island populations from dwindling.
Ireland
2018
Journal
Samudra Report No. 79, August 2018
The opening editorial Comment in the current issue argues that as the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) gets under way, it is imperative to lobby for policies and processes that will empower small-scale fishing...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Book
State of Land in the Mekong Region
The Mekong region has undergone rapid socio-economic growth over the past two decades alongside pronounced transformations in a number of key sectors and relations between the rural majority and increasingly-affluent urban centres. Land—as both a foundation for national development and the livelihood basis for millions of rural and agricultural households—continues...
Cambodia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Myanmar - Thailand - Viet Nam
2018 - Centre for Development and Environment
Journal article
India / Natural Hazards: In the Eye of the Storm
In the wake of tropical cyclone Ockhi, the focus now should be on improving at-sea cyclone preparedness and search-and-rescue co-ordination to save precious lives.
India
2018 - ICSF
Book
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018
The 2018 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture emphasizes the sector’s role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and measurement of progress towards these goals. It notes the particular contributions of inland and small-scale fisheries, and highlights the importance of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
Política de Agricultura Familiar Campesina, Indígena y Afrodescendiente Regional 2018 – 2030 PAFCIA
La Política de Agricultura Familiar campesina, indígena y afrodescendiente PAFCIA, es un instrumento estratégico, con visión de futuro para la toma de decisiones y para dar marco a los procesos de dialogo e incidencia política y técnica, así como para desarrollar y consolidar un modelo productivo diversificado, incluyente y territorializado.
La...
2018 - Diálogo Regional Rural
Journal
Comment/Editorial: From Rhetoric to Reality
As the implementation of the SSF Guidelines gets under way, it is imperative to lobby for policies and processes that will empower small-scale fishing communities
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Food waste accounting
Methodologies, challenges and opportunities
Food waste (FW) reduction is a priority both at global and European level. In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations, there is a specific target (12.3) referring to food waste, and asking - ‘By 2030, to halve per capita global FW at the retail...
European Union
2018 - European Commission
Blog article
FAMILY FARMING ORGANIZATIONS PREPARE FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE DECADE
A public consultation has been launched to participate in the elaboration of the Action Plan for the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028
On October 18th, 2018, an important meeting of the World Coordination Committee of the IYFF + 10 (WCC), the International Committee that led the civil society campaign for the declaration of the Decade of Family Farming, took place in Rome. The WCC is composed by representatives of the organizations ROPPA,...
2018 - WRF
Website
AgriSource - Open Innovation Platform
Agrisource is an open online platform for agriculture. Its content is brought by its worldwide community, and highlights all ideas, projects, innovation that somehow facilitate the achievement of two high stake objectives:
Mitigating the green-house gas (GHG) emissions
Adapting to climate change
The information hosted on the website is very diverse, since it...
2018 - AgriSource
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