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TOPS Permagarden Toolkit
The permagarden method combines components of permaculture, an agricultural approach using design principles to utilize natural systems for production, and bio-intensive agriculture, an agricultural approach to maximize production on a small amount of land through sustainable practices that increase biodiversity, to create a highly productive garden using a small amount...
2017 - The TOPS Program
Blog article
Farmers target growth through direct sales and short supply chains
Farmers in France are seeking growth through direct sales, short supply chains and local agriculture, targeting a burgeoning market in local produce.
In 2014, a study on French citizens and local consumption found that 75% of people wanted to buy more products from their local area. Short supply chains are reassuring...
France
2017 - EurActiv
Fact sheet
Enabling land management, resilient pastoral livelihoods and poverty reduction in Africa
Historically, pastoralists have been marginalized, and policies have been geared towards encouraging, and in some instances forcing, their settlement and sedentarization. Misunderstanding of their livelihoods has also led to abandonment of their customary institutions and practices. However, scientific evidence shows that mobile pastoralism is the most sustainable way of using...
Algeria - Chad - Eritrea - Kenya - Mali - Somalia - Sudan - United Republic of Tanzania
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Blog article
Embrapa lança novo sistema de produção de agricultura integrada
Fruticultura integrada com lavouras e hortaliças. Essa é a base de um novo sistema de produção de agricultura integrada desenvolvido pela Embrapa: o Sistema Filho. O nome do sistema faz referência às iniciais das palavras Fruticultura, Integrada, com Lavouras e Hortaliças, as quais designam a sua aptidão.
“Essa tecnologia tem tudo a...
Brazil
2017 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA)
Video
Aportes de las mujeres en las pesquerías de pequeña escala (Traditional Knowledge, Costa Rica)
Aportes de las mujeres en las pesquerías de pequeña escala
2017 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Revue des filières bétail/viande et lait et des politiques qui les influencent au Niger
Pays sahélien à vocation pastorale, le Niger fonde en grande partie son économie sur la valorisation des produits de l’élevage. En 2012, l’effectif du cheptel du pays est constitué de 10 125 767 bovins, 10 369 520 ovins, 13 760 687 caprins et 1 676 319 camelins. L’apport du secteur...
Niger
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Event
High-Level International Meeting on the Global Blue Growth Initiative for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Blue Growth Initiative (BGI) encompasses global programmatic efforts and structured actions around the logic of FAO's new strategic framework. Its central objective is to achieve food security and nutrition, poverty alleviation and economic growth through the sustainable use of living aquatic resources and the conservation of biological resources and marine,...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Audio
Campanha incentiva empoderamento e garantia de direitos das mulheres rurais
Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos! Esse é o nome da campanha que será lançada hoje em Brasília com o objetivo de empoderar essas trabalhadoras que, apesar de fundamentais na dinâmica camponesa, ainda não são devidamente valorizadas, nem tampouco remuneradas na proporção do esforço que empreendem em nome de um desenvolvimento...
Brazil
2017 - Reunião Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar no Mercosul (REAF)
Blog article
Future of CAP: Climate change on your plate
Climate change can still be rather abstract for many amongst us. We hear about melting poles, a global increase in hurricane intensity or rising temperatures. For many Europeans this phenomenon does not seem to affect their daily lives. But this is not grasping the full picture. The food you consume...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Video
Strengthening the strategic role of women in rural communities
The Common Agricultural Policy, particularly in its second pillar, contains measures and resources to improve gender equality and women’s access to work and economic activity. The gender equality gap is wider in rural areas than in cities.
More and more women are finding empowerment through agriculture. In turn, they guarantee the survival of...
European Union
2017 - EurActiv
Journal article
Doing more with less
In essence, ‘doing more with less’ is about reducing the pressure on existing resources and avoiding economic and environmental costs associated with excessive resource use. Avoiding over-exploitation can ensure that resources are still available to future generations. At the same time, promoting more efficient resource use can ensure that sustainable...
European Union
2017 - ENRD
Event
VIIth International Conference of La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina International Conferences are the highest-level space for proposing and making decisions within the movement. From July 16th to 24th, 2017, La Via Campesina will gather in Derio, Biskaia in the Basque Country to re-affirm the commitment of member organizations to build a common path towards food sovereignty...
2017 - La Via Campesina
Project
Improving Feed for Increasing Smallholders Income
A new project implemented by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), in collaboration with the Tunisian Office of Livestock and Pasture (OEP), aims to improve the red meat value chain by eliminating feed gaps and providing adaptation strategies to drought. The project promotes:
Development of business...
Tunisia
2017 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Video
Traditional Knowledge (Conocimiento Tradicional Última versión): Costa Rica
Traditional Knowledge, Costa Rica
Costa Rica
2017 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Nueva Ley de Alimentación Escolar se aprueba en Guatemala
La ley contempla un aumento a la asignación por estudiante, menús saludables y adaptados localmente, compras a la agricultura familiar y huertas escolares pedagógicas.
Más de 2.2 millones de niños y niñas de Guatemala que asisten a 33.000 centros educativos públicos se beneficiarán con la nueva Ley de Alimentación Escolar aprobada recientemente por el Congreso Nacional.
“Se trata de un gran paso adelante que institucionaliza y formaliza por primera vez el programa de alimentación escolar y que...
Guatemala
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
The EU must take the lead in linking agricultural trade to the SDGs
Trade in agriculture must now also play a central role in implementing many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by the United Nations in autumn 2015. The SDGs will have a direct and profound effect on trade in agriculture. Agriculture, in turn, will have a key role in...
Ethiopia
2017 - EurActiv
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Staying in tune with farm performance
Teagasc (Ireland) has developed an online benchmarking tool to help Irish farmers identify the areas which need improvement on their farm. Dairy, cattle, sheep, tillage and pig enterprises can use the “eProfit Monitor” to analyse key financial and physical data from their farm and compare this to results from other...
Ireland
2017 - EIP-Agri
Audio
Políticas para mulheres rurais brasileiras são apresentadas no Chile
A importância do enfoque de gênero para a gestão de riscos de desastres ambientais e mudanças climáticas esteve em foco nas estratégias discutidas durante uma reunião técnica que aconteceu dias 22 e 23 de fevereiro, no escritório regional da Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO)...
Brazil
2017 - Reunião Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar do Mercosul (REAF)
Article
Small Farmer Dreams Big with Natural Farming Techniques
Hle Gu, Myanmar – Saw Htoo Baw is a young farmer from Tha Bite Kone village, Hle Gu Township in Myanmar. In 2015, the Agricultural Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) visited his area and met with him. Saw Htoo Baw expressed his concern about the increasing use of synthetic and chemical...
Myanmar
2017 - Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar (AFFM)
Blog article
Chaco: cambio climático y agricultura familiar
Noticia sobre el INTA y la UCAR, donde se realata que a través del Proyecto Adaptación y Resiliencia de la Agricultura Familiar del NEA ante el Impacto del Cambio Climático y su Variabilidad, continúan realizando actividades de capacitación tendientes a mejorar el acceso al agua, la producción y por ende,...
Argentina
2017 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Argentina
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