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Potentially Important Food Plants of Tanzania - Kenya Swahili
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
United Republic of Tanzania
2018 - https://foodplantsolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Potentially-Important-Food-Plants-of-Tanzania-Translated.pdf
Photo gallery
Transformation of the Macedonian pepper
Red pepper is the most important type of produce for the Macedonian food industry, with some 70 000 tonnes processed every year. Ajvar is usually prepared in late summer and early autumn. It is a regular element of the winter menu because the ingredients are available in abundance, and it...
North Macedonia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
New partnership to help Ukraine close gaps in food safety
Representatives of three major organizations gathered in Kyiv recently to tackle issues of food safety and sanitary service in Ukraine.
Hosted by Volodymyr Lapa, the head of the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection, the meeting was attended by Marta Everard, head of the World Health Organization...
Ukraine
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Tanzania - Kenya Swahili
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Kenya
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
Blog article
FAO report offers hope for improved food value chains in Azerbaijan
The Soviet Union collapsed nearly 30 years ago, but its effects linger in the fragmented farm structures and market channels that plague food value chains throughout Europe and Central Asia.
A series of FAO publications is dedicated to improving this issue by revealing a path forward to a system that is...
Azerbaijan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Sustainable management of Miombo woodlands
Food security, nutrition and wood energy
The Miombo woodland is a vast African dryland forest ecosystem covering close to 2.7 million km2 across southern Africa (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). The woodlands are characterized by the dominance of Brachystegia species, either alone or in association with Julbernardia and Isoberlinia...
Angola - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Malawi - Mozambique - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, March 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
Blog article
FAO, GEF launch project to nurture natural resources in Central Asia and Turkey
In the past 50 years, the population of the Central Asia region has tripled. With the need to feed a larger number of people amid increasingly limited water resources and highly vulnerable climatic conditions, the region faces serious food security challenges.
A newly launched regional project from FAO and the Global...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Azerbaijan Value Chain Gap Analysis
The Value Chain Gap Analysis Report on Azerbaijan is meant to fill the “gap” in professional literature via providing a snapshot on how the government, the private sector and donor organizations work on creating an enabling environment to support value chain (VC) development. The report won’t answer any particular questions...
Azerbaijan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
Festival of northern fishing traditions brings global small-scale and indigenous fishermen to north
Co-organised by Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish and Snowchange Cooperative, the Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions has wrapped up successfully in Tornio, Finland. Over 150 small-scale and Indigenous fishermen around the world joined forces to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, governance and direct exchanges on common challenges.
Finland
2018 - Interreg Nord Summer Whitefish
Policy brief/paper
LIFE position on Eel
LIFE reacts to the Commission’s proposal on Eel ahead of Monday’s Council
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Report
The impact of the common agricultural policy on developing countries
Being the biggest world agri-food importer and exporter, the European Union plays an important role in international agricultural markets. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has considerable influence on international agri-food market. With the CAP 2014-2020, the distortive effect of the policy have been dramatically reduced. However, voluntary coupled support are...
European Union
2018 - European parliament
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
Video
Las políticas públicas para la gobernanza de la Tierra
Video sobre las políticas públicas para la gobernanza de la tierra y algunas reflexiones sobre la agricultura familiar en Uruguay
Uruguay
2018 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Practices
Comunicar buenas prácticas de agricultura familiar en Guatemala
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en muchas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
En Guatemala, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) impulsan la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises, una práctica que permite filtrar el agua...
Guatemala
2018 - Onda Rural
Policy brief/paper
Christmas Council Annual Quota Carve Up: Getting the Balance Right
Life calls for a more level playing field and a fairer allocation of quota between larger scale and smaller scale fisheries.
2018 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Policy brief/paper
Employment, work and time use in agricultural contexts: what data do we need for gender analysis?
All over the world, women contribute enormously to rural development through their work in agriculture. As a result of male outmigration from rural areas and the growth of commercial farming, women’s roles in agriculture are expanding in many countries (FAO, 2017), with significant consequences for food systems and rural societies...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, May 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
Conference proceedings
Underutilized Crops for Food and Nutritional Security in Asia and the Pacific
In order to address the issue of hunger and malnutrition through nutrient rich and climate resilient underutilized crops, the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), a unique voluntary, membership-based, self-mandated, apolitical and multi-stakeholder (70 members) organization in the Asia-Pacific region planned a multi-stakeholder “Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized Crops...
2018 - Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI)
Video
Progrès Herbe: Trois éléments pour garantir le bon fonctionnement des estivages jurassiens
Le potentiel des pâturages d’estivage jurassiens est très bon. Il est possible de produire 20kg ou plus de lait par vache rien que sur la base d’herbage de qualité. 3 facteurs sont toutefois pour exprimer ce potentiel ; les accès doivent être facile et pratique, bien aménagés, l’approvisionnement en eau...
2018 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
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