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Case study
PGS – enabling organic production system for small holders
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) have been established to help the hundreds of smallholder farmers in India who are unable to gain cost-prohibitive certifications for organic farming. These systems allow access to a fair and transparent market system and grant farmers a direct stake holding in the supply chain of clean...
India
2017
Blog article
Raising awareness of pulses in Brava and Boa Vista Islands
Cabo Verde celebrates a successful International Year of Pulses
School teachers and managers, community leaders and local stakeholders came together in Cabo Verde in the last weeks of December to celebrate the International Year of Pulses (IYP) with several awareness raising events.
This awareness-raising campaign aimed at educating children and adolescents about the importance of healthy nutrition habits, including the...
Cabo Verde
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Against the odds, smallholder farmers maintain agricultural biodiversity in South Africa
This report is a result of research conducted in partnership with Tshintsha Amakhaya, Farmer Support Group, TCOE Zingisa and Surplus People Project. The report investigates the state of farmer-managed seed systems in rural South Africa. Through 3 case studies in Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, the report highlights both...
South Africa
2017 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Blog article
Building resilience to climate change in Laos
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is highly susceptible to climate change and natural hazards, particularly to flood and drought conditions which seriously affect the country’s agricultural production. Although gradually declining in terms of its contribution to GDP in recent years, agriculture continues to play a major role in Lao...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Policy brief/paper
Small-scale soya farming can outperform large-scale agricultural investments
Agriculture is an important engine for economic growth in Africa, but effective agricultural strategies to support rural development and poverty alleviation are scarce. State investment in the small-scale farming sector is minimal and the entrepreneurial family farm sector remains underrepresented. Meanwhile, large-scale land investments are advocated as means to bring...
Mozambique
2017 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Video
FAO and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus working together to achieve Zero Hunger
he Global Indigenous Youth Caucus (GIYC) met with FAO from April 5 to 8 in Rome headquarters with sixteen participants across seven world regions to discuss partnerships between FAO with Indigenous peoples worldwide. This is the first time the GIYC members have had the opportunity to meet with FAO representatives....
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Newsletter
Bulletin bimestriel d’informations de la FAO - Niger: N° 001 du 10 mars 2017
Le bulletin traite de la célébration de la journée mondiale de l'alimentation 2016 et de la journée internationale des légumineuses, de la protection sociale, du lancement du projet de réduction du travail des enfants dans l'agriculture, de l'évaluation du programme pays de la FAO, des clubs dimitra, de l'appui aux...
Niger
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Farming + Forests = Food security
Integrated landscapes offer hope of sustainability in Asian uplands
Forests have, historically, had a very important role in food security in upland areas of South and Southeast Asia – both as sources of wild food and as sites for grazing, planting food trees and bushes, and various types of shifting agriculture. However, since at least the early 20th century,...
Nepal - Thailand - Viet Nam
2017 - Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)
Working paper
Targeting farmers in institutional procurement programmes
Case study of the PAA Africa Programme in Senegal
This paper presents the targeting system adopted in Senegal to implement food purchases using procurement preferential treatment for small-scale family farming food outputs. The study provides a detailed description of the selection of farmers producing rice in the Kédougou region and discusses how it influenced the performance of food purchases...
Senegal
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Event
30ª Reunión de la Comisión Forestal para América Latina y el Caribe (COFLAC)
Con base en las prioridades nacionales y regionales de los países, de las iniciativas regionales de la FAO, y de los acuerdos y diálogos internacionales en materia forestal, el mandato de la COFLAC es asesorar a la FAO sobre el programa forestal a ser desarrollado en la Región. Esto incluye...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Shocking the fish
Shocking the fish off the seabed
Precaution is needed prior to promoting electric pulse fishing as a more sustainable alternative for traditional beam trawling.
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Report
Food from the Oceans
How can more food and biomass be obtained from the oceans in a way that does not deprive future generations of their benefits?
The ocean is one of the main systems of our planetary biosphere. It accounts for almost half of the planet's biological production, but a much smaller proportion of human food – about 2% of overall calorie intake and 15% of protein intake. This is no longer tenable given the nutritional...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Case study
Abundance. A cooperative project for agroecological family farming
The farmland structure of the Misiones province (Argentina), unlike many other regions in the country, gravitates around numerous small farmsteads –typically less than 30 ha, which are the home of 60,000 families dedicated to forestry, agriculture, livestock raising, fisheries and beekeeping. In this context, the ‘Abundance’ cooperative was established in...
Argentina
2017 - Cooperativa Agropecuaria Biodinámica La Abundancia Ltda.
Blog article
Flood-Ravaged Islands of Sundarbans Need Women-Centric Interventions
After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island in the Sundarbans in West Bengal have to struggle for survival, losing land and livelihood to floods and erosion.
In Mousuni Island, salinity ingress has rendered agricultural land uncultivable for years. Tidal flooding that occurs twice a month makes it difficult for...
2017
Article
Nord Bénin : Variabilité climatique et stratégies d’adaptation des maraîchers urbains et péri-urbains de la commune de Parakou
L’instabilité du régime pluviométrique affecte la production maraîchère dans la commune de Parakou située au Nord du Bénin. Cet article vise à analyser la variabilité pluviométrique et à identifier les stratégies d’adaptation développées par les producteurs maraîchers.
Benin
2017 - IED Afrique
Project
Cultivar más con menos (SICA)
El arroz es un alimento básico en ALC donde el consumo per cápita es de 30 kg/año y la demanda supera la producción. Los rendimientos, costos y rentabilidad dependen de factores agroclimáticos y tecnológicos siendo esencial la innovación en el cultivo. El proyecto SICA, ejecutado por el IICA en República...
Colombia - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - Nicaragua - Panama
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) - Costa Rica
Audio
Agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável mobilizam mulheres rurais
Agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável mobilizam mulheres rurais
Viva Maria continua abraçando a campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. A embaixadora do norte, Maria Julia Serrim, fala sobre o trabalho com agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável como forma de conectar e empoderar as mulheres rurais.
Se como Maria Julia Serrim você,...
Brazil
2017 - Radio Agencia Nacional
Article
Genetically Engineered Disappointments
Genetic modification of crops through natural evolution or artificial crossbreeding has been happening for millennia, giving rise to more productive or resilient crop species. Thus, the term ‘genetic engineering’ more accurately refers to the artificial introduction of genetic material to produce new GE varieties. Advocates of genetically engineered (GE) crops...
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Event
Simposio regional sobre sistemas alimentarios sostenibles para la alimentación saludable
El Simposio se centrará en discutir en torno a los esfuerzos para abordar los múltiples desafíos que representa la malnutrición en todas sus formas y determinar las oportunidades para hacerles frente en los próximos decenios, a través de tres áreas temáticas que proporcionan una visión regional de los sistemas alimentarios...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Journal article
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor
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Like many problems in the global South, the global food system issues can be traced back to a colonial history. Back in 1989 two sociologists, Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, developed a useful concept in their work on agrarian studies: Global food regimes. They described two key periods where the...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
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