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Supporting the indigenous Mayangna women in Nicaragua
The Mayangna community faces significant problems with illegal timber extraction and agricultural expansion in its territories. The Forest and Farm Facility is working with the indigenous Mayangna forest-farm producer organization MAYARING to improve its organizational, business and natural resource management capacities. This video demonstrates the impact of Forest and Farm...
Nicaragua
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Website
Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
El Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES) es una organización no gubernamental independiente, dedicada a la investigación, acción y promoción de la ecología social. Reconociendo una vinculación recíproca entre grupos humanos con su entorno ambiental, en un contexto histórico, se consideran problemas socioambientales, vinculándose la investigación con la acción, desde...
Uruguay
2017 - Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
Miscellanea
Nature for Sustainable Agriculture
CEEweb for Biodiversity supports creating and maintenance of sustainable farming systems, which can ensure producing safer and healthier food and provide conditions for a thriving countryside with secured livelihoods for farmers. Well-preserved nature is a pre-requisite for those systems, as it delivers a whole array of benefits for farming, including pollination, appropriate nutrient cycling,...
European Union
2017 - CEEweb for Biodiversity
Technical paper
Research for Agri Committee - The Consequences of Climate Change for EU Agriculture. Follow-Up to the Cop21 - UN Paris Climate Change Conference
The Earth’s climate has always undergone periodic changes that have affected the conditions available to life on the planet. Yet recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the highest in history and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are unprecedented in at least...
European Union
2017 - European Parliament
Video
Escuelas Sostenibles. Proyecto Piloto YHÚ, Paraguay
En el distrito de Yhú, departamento de Caaguazú, la Escuela Básica nº 3330 San Miguel Arcángel y en la Escuela Básica nº 1600 Inmaculado Corazón de María, participan de las Escuelas Sostenibles, involucrando un total de 350 niños y niñas.
La iniciativa de Escuelas Sostenibles fue diseñada con el objetivo...
Paraguay
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
The U.N. Aims to Unite Efforts for the Decade of Family Farmers
The U.N. General Assembly has officially declared 2019–2028 the Decade of Family Farming. Initially proposed in October 2017, the resolution passed with 104 co-sponsors and unanimous approval. The Decade aims to inspire the international community to generate a refreshed political commitment supporting family farmers and crafting pro-family farming policies.
The resolution...
2017 - Food Tank
Blog article
Food for Change
At a time when the growing disconnect between production and consumption threatens Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 progress, chefs have a unique opportunity to help reframe food system challenges in a way that resonates with the general public.
This is because chefs are at the heart of the global food system....
2017 - National Geographic
Blog article
Reinforcing rural women’s rights
Gendered threats to rural women’s right to food and nutrition are inextricably intertwined with the pervasive patriarchal norms and practices that discriminate against women and girls, reads a civil society submission to the Commission on the Status of Women.
On the occasion of the 62nd session of the Commission on the...
2017 - FIAN
Blog article
DFDA-PE ressalta papel da mulher na agroecologia
Durante o Seminário Intermunicipal Mulheres na Agroecologia, o titular da Delegacia Federal de Desenvolvimento Agrário de Pernambuco (DFDA/PE), Rodrigo Almeida, destacou a importância das mulheres não só para a agroecologia, mas para a agricultura familiar.
Os debates giraram em torno dos direitos das mulheres do campo e da cidade. E os...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Report
Report on the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation
Advancing Multisectoral Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems Post ICN-2 Agenda for Africa
This report highlights the outcomes of the three-day deliberations of the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation meeting with key recommendations and next steps. The report will be shared as a PDF document. There are no plans to print the document.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Zonas de reserva campesina: una apuesta por la Seguridad Alimentaria y la construcción de Paz
En el marco de la implementación del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de la capacidad de generar ingresos a través de proyectos de innovación en las Zonas de Reserva Campesina”, suscrito entre el Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la...
Colombia
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Conference/Meeting
Primera Conferencia Regional GIPPAF: Hacia una nueva vinculación entre el campo y la universidad
Primera Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores de Políticas Públicas para la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur.
El presente encuentro, tiene como título "Hacia una nueva Vinculación entre el campo y la Universidad), y tendrá como ejes de discusión la Extensión Rural y el acceso a Mercados para la...
Chile
2017 - FOCO RURAL- Universidad de Chile
Case study
Organizational challenges and the institutional environment
A comparative analysis of dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco
The present study focuses on dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco, to explore how and to what extent the institutional environment has been enabling the development and performance of the cooperatives. The focus on dairy generates insights that are relevant for many countries, because it is a sector in which...
Kenya - Morocco
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Report on the International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in China
In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Brazil, Senegal and Thailand. These meetings brought together stakeholders from academia, policy and civil society to...
China
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Flores, alimento e pescaria são atrações de propriedade familiar
Produção de flores tropicais aliada ao turismo rural levam mais de 200 pessoas por semana para o Rancho Paraná, a 50 Km de Brasília (DF)
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Book
Semeando saberes, inspirando soluções: Boas Práticas na Convivência com o Semiárido
Ao longo das últimas décadas, diversos conhecimentos, tecnologias sociais e inovações têm sido criados e experimentados por diferentes atores sociais, dentre estes agricultoras e agricultores familiares, alinhados com a perspectiva de melhor convivência com o Semiárido.
O Programa Semear foi criado para facilitar o acesso a esses saberes, trabalhando a gestão...
Brazil
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperação para a Agricultura (IICA)
Article
Haller, Aquaponics and Urban Farming
The family backyard aquaponic system.
Seeking solutions and income development systems for urban farmers with limited access to water and land.
2017 - The Haller Foundation
Blog article
The Teesta Is Dying, But These Communities Are Rallying To Keep It Alive
About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment.
Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...
India
2017
Blog article
Futuro da produção orgânica é visto com otimismo no Brasil
A produção de alimentos orgânicos tem tudo para render ótimos resultados em 2017. Um levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo (SDC), vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa), mostrou que a área de produção orgânica no país pode ultrapassar os...
Brazil
2017 - Organicsnet
Blog article
Bringing Back Local farming
Sjoerd Wartena – founder of Terre de Liens, a French landrights movement – explains to Elisabeth Winkler from the Biodynamic Land Trust, how he and his wife created a civic organisation.
2017 - Permaculture
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