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YOF Journey of Hope2 : The Spirit of Young Entrepreneur in Cambodia
Young Organic Farmers, The Journey of Hope #2 : The Spirit of Young Entrepreneur in Cambodia is about fresh graduates in Cambodia who instead of migrating to the city for jobs, they head back home and create jobs for themselves and people in the community.
Cambodia
2018 - ALiSEA Mekong
Case study
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
Blog article
Bees must be protected for the future of our food
On the eve of the first World Bee Day, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has urged countries and individuals to do more to protect bees and other pollinators or risk a sharp drop in food diversity. Bees are under great threat from the combined effects of climate change, intensive...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
Forum on Fisheries Science in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
Bringing together the wider community of scientists and experts working on fisheries and the marine environment in the Mediterranean and Black Sea in order to build a lasting network, discuss advancements in research, integrate scientific knowledge in support of decision-makingand identify research priorities for the coming decade.
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Agribusiness in Southeast Kenya — a light at the end of the tunnel
Farming is not an outdated way of life for young, ambitious, would-be entrepreneurs
A youth group called Mwelekeo Mpya, Kiswahili for New Direction, is indeed pushing young people in Nyamala village, Kilifi County, in a new direction. Here, youth are discovering that farming is not an outdated way of life. Amos Mkare and Dominic Mzungu are both 22 and high school graduates. They are...
Kenya
2018 - World Food Programme
Fact sheet
Small Family Farming in Tajikistan - a country specific outlook
Although only 5 percent of Tajikistan's land area is farmable due to the country's mountainous geography, agriculture accounts for 53 percent of total employment. Among those households that engage in agriculture, almost 90 percent can be classified as small family farms. With 0.2 hectares on average, Tajikistan's smallholders operate on...
Tajikistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Smart villages revitalising rural services
This issue of the EU Rural Review showcases rural communities across Europe taking the initiative to find practical solutions to challenges they face and seize new opportunities.
It explores how digital and social innovation can be used in new, creative ways to improve basic services in rural areas. It further looks...
European Union
2018 - European Network for Rural Development
Blog article
Farmers' Registry - A tool in support of small scale agriculture and rural poverty reduction
The ‘Farmers' Registry - A tool in support of small scale agriculture and rural poverty reduction’ webinar took place on 16 August 2018. The webinar was framed within the context of poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable patterns of consumption and production. The presentations aimed to discuss recent experiences...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
Equilibremos la balanza
Las mujeres rurales representan más de un tercio de la población mundial. Muchas de estas mujeres tienen en la agricultura su principal actividad económica.
Trabajan la tierra y producen los alimentos que nutren al mundo. Con su trabajo, muchas veces invisible en los censos nacionales y agropecuarios, las mujeres aportan a...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
8th International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments
Every two years, ICWRAE – the International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments – brings together a distinguished body of scholars and experts from around the world to share water-related research in a spirit of benevolence and with a global vision.
ICWRAE has the following general objectives:
To exchange knowledge and share...
2018 - International Prize for Water (PSIPW)
Video
Selo de produção da agricultura familiar
A Câmara dos Deputados aprovou a criação do sistema nacional de certificação da produção da agricultura familiar. O projeto também prevê a criação do selo de produção da agricultura familiar, que identifica os alimentos que vêm deste segmento da economia rural. O projeto de lei, do deputado Assis do Couto,...
Brazil
2018 - Agrosoft
Journal
Nature & Faune journal: Creating a forest landscape restoration movement in Africa
This edition of Nature & Faune journal explores the science and innovations (technical, social and policy) that can support the achievement of the African dream of restoring 100 million hectares of its degraded land. Articles in this edition share experiences on challenges, opportunities and successful restoration, including farmer managed natural...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Civil Society report on the use and implementation of the right to food guidelines
The right to food is a fundamental pillar to the right to life. Yet it is also arguably the most violated human right globally. Today, hundreds of millions of individuals – some 821 million – remain food insecure. They lack consistent physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC)
Article
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
Photo gallery
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
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