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Mujeres rurales en Nicaragua: entre heterogeneidad, continuidad y cambios
Este Informe País aporta datos fundamentales para tener en cuenta en cualquier tipo de discusión, proyecto o iniciativa que implique a las mujeres rurales de Nicaragua, a la vez que propone recomendaciones puntuales para la garantía de sus derechos.
Los Informes País sobre la situación de las mujeres rurales son una...
Nicaragua
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC
Article
German members help saving porpoises from entanglement
Acoustic protection for marine mammals: new warning device PAL
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Fact sheet
Mmomonyoko wa Udongo
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Journal article
Comportamiento de precios de mercados y análisis de volatilidad, para durazno producido en Boyacá, Colombia
En la actualidad, se encuentran diferentes estudios de caducifolios, y en este caso de durazno en temas como producción, cosecha, poscosecha, mercados. Sin embargo al desarrollar la formulación de los proyectos de inversión, no se conoce el comportamiento del precio de la fruta en los últimos años, en los mercados...
Colombia
2017 - Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Audio
Brasil participa da campanha por empoderamento da mulher rural
Coordenada pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), campanha segue até o dia 15 de outubro, Dia Internacional da Mulher Rural
O Brasil Rural desta segunda-feira (9) entrevistou a consultora da assessoria internacional da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) e ponto focal de...
Brazil
2017 - Rádio EBC - Programa Brasil Rural
Video
Profitable Small-Scale Farming: Essential Tools and Techniques
Organic farmer, author, and educator Jean-Martin Fortier hosts a workshop at ASU on profitable small-scale farming. This event was made possible by ASU's Food Systems Transformation Initiative in collaboration with University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, Steadfast Farm and National Young Farmer's Coalition.
European Union
2017 - Global Institute of Sustainability
E-learning
Programa Cultivando Agua Buena…avanzando hacia el desarrollo sostenible de los países de América Latina y el Caribe
Desde el 22-03-17 hasta el 22-03-18. Modalidad Autoaprendizaje
El presente curso se realiza en el marco del Protocolo de Intención de Cooperación firmado por la FAO e ITAIPU Binacional, que busca el fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales y políticas públicas a través de la cooperación sur-sur triangular.
Este curso tiene por objetivo promover la reflexión...
Brazil - Paraguay
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Chinches Fitófagas parasitadas por Moscas Taquínidas
El cultivo de soja ocupa la mayor área de siembra entre los cultivos estivales de la región pampeana; por sus características dicho cultivo es preferido por gran cantidad de insectos, muchos considerados perjudiciales por sus efectos en las plantas, pero también otros tantos que son controladores naturales de las plagas...
Argentina
2017 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias , Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Statement
Rights of peasants – a step ahead for the future of humanity
he International Congress on Peasants’ Rights, which took place from 7 to 10 March in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, brought together close to one hundred peasants and representatives of food producers from all over the world, along with the same diversity of human rights defenders and activists. The Congress concluded with...
2017 - Via Campesina
Newsletter
News from the Deck – April 2017
This Newsletter is a simple snapshot of our external activities. In addition, the LIFE staff in the UK, Brussels, Poland and Spain respond to a vast range of queries related to our sector and continuously develop and promulgate policies related to small scale, low impact fishing and fisheries.
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Book
L'agriculture Ouest-Africaine et le changement climatique
Cet ouvrage qui est le premier d’une trilogie de la série changement climatique en Afrique de l’IFPRI et intitulé L’Agriculture ouest-africaine et le changement climatique: une analyse Exhaustive, examine la façon dont le changement climatique nuira à la sécurité alimentaire dans 11 des pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, à savoir le...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana - Liberia - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Newsletter
Nyéléni newsletter - Oceans and Water
Water is an essential element for life and a crucial component of the human environment [1]. It is also an indispensable natural resource needed for the production of our food and the maintenance of our planet’s basic functions. For these reasons, water has increasingly become a central political element in peoples’...
2017 - Nyeleni
Fact sheet
SEAD apresenta balanço dos programas da agricultura familiar
A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), instituída pelo Decreto nº 8.780, de 27 de maio de 2016, apresentou, na manhã desta quinta-feira (2/2), os resultados dos primeiros seis meses de gestão. A pasta integra a Casa Civil da Presidência da República e tem como missão...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead)
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: From great soil comes great food – a farmers’ story
Andy Cato is a farmer who combines modern animal traction, beef cattle and crops on his farm in the Southwest of France. He shared the story of his experiments to improve his soil and his farm’s productivity, finding ways to limit tillage in the context of organic agroforestry production with...
France
2017 - Eip Agri
Policy brief/paper
Strengthening sector policies for better food security and nutrition results
Fisheries and aquaculture
One hundred million people worldwide earn an income from fisheries and aquaculture and many more rely on fish for a nutritious diet. The policy agenda of the sector tends to be oriented towards commercial interests. Often, food security, nutrition and livelihoods concerns are not well factored into fisheries-related policy measures...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Rutuba ya udongo
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Policy brief/paper
Incentivizing sustainable wood energy in sub-Saharan Africa
A way forward for policy-makers
Woodfuel contributes to more than half of energy consumption in 22 countries of sub-Saharan Africa, and over two-thirds of the households in Africa use wood as their main fuel for cooking, heating and water boiling. While its use is expected to further increase due to population growth and urbanization, there...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Innovation and digitization key for strong and sustainable rural areas
Climate and environmental action, developing the circular and bio- economy, creating high quality jobs in the agriculture sector, for all these issues, involvement of rural areas is crucial to deliver real results. However, speaking at the Agri Innovation Summit 2017 on 12 October, Commissioner Phil Hogan explained that "this potential...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Journal article
Fiji: Women, entry points for gender
Gender mainstreaming processes to achieve the Fiji government’s commitments to gender equality are still not well integrated into the government institutional structure, planning, and budgetary processes. Despite considerable progress made in the various sectors, gaps in the implementation or achievement of government policy on gender are numerous, and need to...
Fiji
2017
Magazine article
Lucha por la emancipación en el semiárido brasileño. Las políticas públicas y las luchas por la emancipación de la agricultura familiar: reflexiones desde la región semiárida de Brasil
La creación del Programa Nacional de Fortalecimiento de la Agricultura Familiar (PRONAF) en 1995 fue un hito en la legitimación oficial de la agricultura familiar; no obstante, fue solo desde 2003, a raíz de la prioridad política que el gobierno otorgó a erradicar el hambre en el país, que un...
Brazil
2017 - AS-PTA Agricultura Familiar y Agroecología
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