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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
Article
Instalaciones porcinas Orientado al pequeño y mediano productor del NEA y NOA
Uno de los aspectos que ha evolucionado mucho técnico e industrialmente han sido las instalaciones, referido a diseños y equipamientos – En este marco, la evolución mundial de a robótica, la ingeniería industrial, la ingeniería electrónica, la ingeniería hidráulica, la parición de sensores, la existencia de chips y poder contar...
Argentina
2018 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuario Centro Regional Chaco - Formosa
Practices
Grape Mundo: an ecosystem for grape farming
“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...
India
2018 - Rta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Blog article
Brasil y Colombia en misión por la agricultura familiar
Se presentan los principales hechos de la visita de una delegación brasilera a Colombia para avanzar en la construcción y formulación del marco conceptual para formular un proyecto de cooperación entre ambos países en Agricultura Familiar.
Como insumo de información técnica se destacó el documento «Criterios Generales para la Agricultura Familiar»...
Colombia
2018 - Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (UPRA)
Journal
Brazil - Indigenous Rights: Shoved out
The Guaranis, indigenous people of Morro dos Cavalos in Brazil, are being displaced from their lands to satisfy the interests of politicians and businesses
Brazil
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Policy brief/paper
Public food procurement from smallholder farmers
Literature review and good practices
This publication addresses some of the research gaps in the area of smallholder participation in public food procurement. It identifies good practices, reviews the global body of available literature and draws lessons learned. The findings of this paper have informed the Guidance Note on Public Food Procurement and can assist...
2018 - International Policy Center for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG)
Guidelines
Abordar la agricultura, la silvicultura y la pesca en los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación
Directrices complementarias
La publicación Abordar la agricultura, la silvicultura y la pesca en los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación: Directrices complementarias (Directrices PNA-Ag) proporciona orientación específica para la Planificación Nacional de la Adaptación en los sectores agrícolas. Esta se constituye en una guía útil para los planificadores nacionales y los tomadores de decisiones...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Prácticas pre-profesionales en el Tambo. Novedades sobre los sistemas de crianza artificial
Los estudiantes avanzados en la carrera de agronomía de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (FCA-UNR), participaron en una Práctica Pre-Profesional denominada “Seguimiento, evaluación y toma de decisiones en la crianza de un módulo de producción lechero” bajo la dirección y coordinación de la Ingeniera...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
E-learning
Land Resources Planning Toolbox to promote sustainable land management and combat land degradation
The rising demands by decision-makers to address the emerging challenges in safeguarding natural resources, enhancing food security and promoting effective and sustainable responses to land degradation, call for more knowledge sharing on tools and approaches available to support integrated land use planning.
The LRP Toolbox is a freely accessible online ''global...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
L'atelier paysan: a network for farmer-driven technologies and practices
Small-scale agroecological and organic farming systems require appropriate machinery and technologies, and a change of paradigm in the way they are conceived, produced, sold and patented. The mainstream agricultural model has led to machines that are getting increasingly bigger and more expensive and complicated, and thus inaccessible for many farmers...
France
2018 - L’Atelier Paysan
Event
Week of Agriculture and Food: Future challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean
Rural societies and the agri-food sector are the scenarios where the vast majority of the environmental, social and economic goals of the Sustainable Development Goals must be achieved. Without the rural and agri-food world, there will be no sustainable development. But to achieve those goals, rural societies and the actors...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
Aquaculture/Occupational Safety: Towards Healthy Work
An FAO project examines global occupational health and safety policies, practices, standards, problems and challenges in aquaculture occupational safety and health (AOSH)
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Agroforestry offers a way to stand against climate change
Increasing agricultural productivity by over 20 percent just by using a negligible percent of arable land for creating forest areas sounds like a good deal. As practice shows, this is achievable with agroforestry – the practice of integrating woody vegetation with crops or animal systems. And the real bonus is...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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