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Pacific leaders alarmed over climate change’s negative impact on food systems and food security
Climate change poses an alarming threat to food systems and food security in the Pacific islands, warned leaders of nine small island developing states (SIDS), representatives of regional development bodies, New Zealand and Australia at a meeting chaired by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva today.
The meeting took place ahead...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Small farmers contributing with school feeding
Boosting the economy of small farmers through School Meals
Small-holder farmers also contribute with school meals, delivering fresh and locally produced foods that improve the academic performance and school permanence of children, while at the same time, strengthen the local economy.
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Ecuador is working with the Ministry of Education to complement the National Government’s...
Ecuador
2017 - World Food Programme (WFP)
Blog article
Adopción de Directrices para el Reconocimiento e Identificación de la Agricultura Familiar en el Ámbito de la CCAF
En el marco de la Reunión Extraordinaria de Ministros del Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano-CAC, que se llevó a cabo en San José, Costa Rica, el 28 y 29 de junio de 2017, se adoptaron las Directrices para el Reconocimiento e Identificación de la Agricultura Familiar en el ámbito de la Comisión...
2017 - Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano (CAC)
Journal
L’oléiculture au Maroc de la préhistoire à nos jours : pratiques, diversité, adaptation, usages, commerce et politiques
Ce numéro propose une relecture de la place de l’oléiculture dans l’histoire de l’Ouest méditerranéen et plus particulièrement le Maroc. L’olivier y est considéré comme un modèle des relations sociales et environnementales : la distribution de la diversité génétique, les flux de gènes entre oliviers et oléastres, ou l’équilibre entre...
Morocco
2017 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM)
Blog article
CAP post-2020: what are the recommendations of the Committee of the Regions?
The Committee of the Regions’ (CoR) opinion on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post-2020, commissioned by European Commission Vice-President Timmermans, will be discussed during the next plenary session of the CoR in July 2017 (see our previous news post from 3 April 2017, “CoR Opinion on the future CAP under...
European Union
2017 - Euromontana
Blog article
Future of Croatian horticulture is focus of Zagreb forum
Croatia imports a large part of the fruits and vegetables it consumes. Yet, with a rich national tradition of fruit and vegetable production – and optimal climate and soil conditions for it – the country has real potential to produce more. It could meet the demand for high-quality produce at...
Croatia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Technical paper
The returns to empowerment in diversified rural households
Evidence from Niger
Niger is a landlocked Sahelian country, two-thirds of which is in the Sahara Desert. Although only one-eighth of the land considered arable, the overwhelming majority of Niger’s households is involved in rain-fed agriculture largely for subsistence. Given erratic rainfall and low soil fertility, most smallholders fail to produce enough food...
Niger
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Policy brief/paper
Reflexiones sobre el sistema alimentario y perspectivas para alcanzar su sostenibilidad en América Latina y el Caribe
El presente documento es producto de un proceso de investigación documental y reflexión colectiva de varios años y tiene como objetivo aportar conceptual y metodológicamente al abordaje de los sistemas alimentarios en la región, desde una mirada más integral que resalte su rol determinante en el fortalecimiento de la seguridad...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Review of the livestock/meat and dairy value chains and the policies influencing them in West Africa
ECOWAS is an economic, social and political organization pursuing the vision of an integrated West Africa. The population of this vast economic block is about three hundred million. The demand for meat and milk was estimated at 3.84 million tonnes of meat (12.3 kg per capita) and 19.83 million tonnes...
Burkina Faso - Mali - Niger
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Los agricultores contribuyendo a la alimentación escolar
Dinamizar la economía de los pequeños agricultores por medio de la Alimentación Escolar
Los pequeños agricultores también contribuyen con las comidas escolares, incluyendo así alimentos frescos y localmente producidos que mejoran el rendimiento académico de niños y niñas y su permanencia en los centros educativos, al mismo tiempo que fortalecen la economía local.
El Programa Mundial de Alimentos en Ecuador (PMA) trabaja, de manera...
Ecuador
2017 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA)
Report
Food Insecurity a Pressing Issue Amidst Urban Growth in Africa
“Food and nutrition insecurity certainly has a socio-spatial dimension that is highly influenced by the degree of urbanity along the urban-rural continuum and is related to urban, periurban and rural agriculture” reports Dr. Takemore Chagomaka in a new study entitled “Food and Nutrition Insecurity Mapping (FNIRM) in Urban and Periurban...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Event
Regional initiatives and capacity strengthening in communication for rural development
The International Centre for High-level Studies on Communication in Latin America (CIESPAL) and the UN Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) invite you to this special session on experience sharing and learning opportunities in the field of rural Communication for Development (ComDev).
Ond@Rural: ComDev initiative in Latin America
Onda Rural is meant...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Nourishing the world, organically - The story of Sylvia Kuria, organic farmer in Kenya
Sylvia Kuria, an organic farmer from Kenya, shares the story of her organic farm."I’ve got so many reports where they say, you know, your kale, your spinach, your carrots are so sweet. I tell them it’s because they are just growing in the natural way that they were supposed to...
Kenya
2017 - IFOAM Organics International
Blog article
New FAO data highlights gender gap in food insecurity across regions
Women are more likely to be food insecure than men in every region of the world, according to FAO’s latest report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017.
The report, which was released earlier this month, is the result of a collaboration between the Food and...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Report
Rural Africa in motion
Dynamics and drivers of migration South of the Sahara
This Atlas includes maps, callouts and infographics on migration and related topics, including: rural migrants’ profile, main migration routes and migration patterns by countries and sub-regions, numbers of internal and external migrants, domestic and international remittances, main rural out-migration drivers and determinants.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Project
Generational change in family farms - The FARM SUCCESS project
The transfer of the notion of generational change to family farms is really a very important a issue for us, which we have devoted a great deal of attention to in the long term. It is not so much a surprise that we (now more than two years ago) have...
Czechia
2017 - Association of Private Farming of the Czech Republic
Blog article
How a dairy cooperative in Slovenia became one of the leading producers of high quality fresh milk and cheese
A dairy plant in Slovenia created a local mountain supply chain with high added value that resulted in having a positive impact on the local economy and promote the long tradition of the area in dairy production. By modernizing and improving its production technology, the dairy effectively transformed the plant...
Slovenia
2017 - Euromontana
Journal article
Los residuos orgánicos como alternativa para la alimentación en porcinos
Las pérdidas y desperdicios de alimentos (PDA) se originan en el campo hasta su transformación y consumo, generando un impacto negativo en los recursos naturales (agua y suelo) y pérdida de nutrientes (energía y proteína). Las PDA pueden emplearse en la alimentación animal mediante su transformación y enriquecimiento, favoreciendo la...
Colombia
2017 - Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. Ibagué, Colombia
Guidelines
The Barefoot Guide 5
Mission Inclusion Stories and Practices of Building a World where All Belong
Everyone agrees that inclusion is hard, that reaching the poorest and most marginalised is difficult. The layers and reinforcing cycles of exclusion defy the conventional development project approach. Something else, something qualitatively different is needed.
Many organisations, large and small, are tackling the deep challenges of exclusion and coming up with...
2017 - The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)
Conference proceedings
Conclusions from the meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture and Rural Development of the countries of South East Europe (SEE) and the representatives of the national bodies in charge for animal health, 25th January, 2017 in Podgorica, Montenegro
Ministers of Agriculture and Food from South Eastern Europe (SEE), Heads of Delegations and representatives of the national bodies in charge of animal health, gathered on 25th of January 2017 in Podgorica at the extraordinary ad-hoc meeting organized under the joint auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development...
2017 - SWG
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