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Summary and findings of the first OFF/ROPPA Report
First report of the Regional Observatory of ROPPA (OFF/ROPPA) Family Farms
The first report of the REGIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ROPPA (OFF/ROPPA) FAMILY FARMS deals with four questions that delivers successively (i) a farmer reading of the behavior of the West African family farms during the last two farming seasons; (ii) a status of the proximity support and extension from which these...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Niger - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2017 - Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et des Producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA)
Case study
Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC)
Himalayan Permaculture Centre (HPC) is a grass-roots NGO registered at national and district level. It has a focus on remote/poor/resource depleted farming communities in Surkhet & Humla districts of Western Nepal, and especially marginalised populations (women & low-caste), using low-tech appropriate technologies to increase domestic farm productivity through reducing costs...
Nepal
2017 - Himalayan Permaculture Centre
Blog article
‘Multifunctional’ women could save EU rural areas
In a study of women and their roles in rural areas adopted by the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee and Women’s Committee (28 February), EU lawmakers called for an enhanced role for women in the EU farming sector.
Faced with a number of severe challenges ranging from growing urbanisation to an ageing...
European Union
2017 - EurActiv
Conference paper
Memorias de Talleres de Agroecología y Caficultura en Mesoamérica y República Dominicana
El documento contendrá un resumen de cada una de las presentaciones que se realizaron en los talleres de Agroecología y Roya del Café llevados a cabo en 7 países de la subregión Mesoamérica y Rep. Dominicana. Entre los temas que se podrán encontrar en esta publicación están la relación de...
Dominican Republic
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Let life in the oceans be a priority for ‘blue growth’
Blue growth is considered a miracle cure for stagnating economic growth. It will cure overexploited fish stocks, dwindling resources and feed a growing world population. In the absence of a Planet B it gives a glimmer of hope. Blue economy is a collective term for hopes of creating sustainable blue...
2017 - EurActiv
Report
Potentials of non-Wood Forest Products for Value Chain Development, Value Addition and Development of NWFP-Based Rural Microenterprises in Sudan
There is global recognition that forests are not only about trees but also about the people who live in and around them. Empirical evidence on the role of forests in food security, poverty reduction through income and employment generation, and addressing the challenges of climate change is increasingly being generated...
Sudan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO raises awareness on social protection for rural poverty reduction in the Near East and North Africa region
Beirut, 30 March 2017 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) coordinated a technical meeting to promote and build government capacity for rural poverty reduction through social protection policymaking in the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.
Lebanon
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Myanmar
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Myanmar
2017
Magazine article
How the municipality of Alzen quadrupled its population in 40 years
On April 6th, 2017, Euromontana’s team and members of the South-West Europe Circular Economy Group visited Alzen, a village in the Pyrenées Ariégeoises, in the south-west of France. Alzen has managed to become an attractive destination for new inhabitants, including young people. Indeed, in 40 years, Alzen quadrupled its population....
France
2017 - Euromontana
Case study
Local Seed Bank in Palestine
In the world of agriculture, all too often we stop cultivating a vegetable or raising an animal breed simply because they are not profitable enough. The economic market is oriented to maximizing yields at all costs, concentrating on a small selection of the most “productive” species. Though it may warrant...
Palestine
2017 - UAWC
Blog article
Progress expected on the implementation of the legislation on the OQT “mountain product” in Italy
On February 24, 2017, Elisabetta Parravicini, Vice-President of Euromontana and President of member organization ERSAF (Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste), presented Euromontana’s work and future objectives at a meeting on Italian mountains as driving forces for development. Elisabetta Parravicini began by recounting the history and outlining...
Italy
2017 - Euromontana
Technical paper
Resumen Ejecutivo: América Latina y el Caribe Panorama de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional 2016
El presente texto es el resumen ejecutivo de la edición 2016 del Panorama de la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe, publicación anual preparada por la Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Book
AgroEcological Transitions: Changes and Breakthroughs in the Making
Around the year 2010, the research field of “transition studies” was gaining increasing attention and was developing into a true research community with the advent of the “Sustainability Transitions Research Network” (STRN), the organisation of annual international sustainability transition (IST) conferences, and the launch of a scientific journal, named “Environmental...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2017 - Wageningen University & Research
Report
Potentials of Non-Wood Forest Products for Value Chain Development, Value Addition and Development of NWFP‑Based Rural Microenterprises: Tunisia
The rationale of the study of NWFPs is to improve the livelihoods of local rural communities living within forests. The aim of the study concerns the promotion of small and medium enterprises exploiting the state’s forest products in order to contribute towards creating employment in disadvantaged forest governorates. The selection...
Tunisia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
“The Regenerators” - New Zealand Farmers leading a progressive transition towards agroecology
The profile features farmers in New Zealand who came to the idea of regenerative agriculture due to an awareness of the ecological limits being breached by New Zealand agriculture. They believe that while farming is responsible for many of the environmental problems faced by their country, they also believe that better...
New Zealand
2017 - Greenpeace New Zealand
Blog article
CoR Opinion on the future CAP under preparation?
The Committee of the Regions hosted a conference and a public hearing on the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on March 8th, 2017. Agriculture represents 14 million farms and 46 million jobs in the European Union and the CAP is one of the oldest EU policies. Vice-President Timmermans...
European Union
2017 - Euromontana
Manual
Cartilha Produção agroecológica
A cartilha técnica sobre agroecologia apresenta o que é o sistema, traz informações e conceitos da atividade e ensina o passo a passo das práticas, além de orientar o agricultor sobre como ter acesso a essa política pública. O agricultor vai aprender a como produzir biofertilizante natural e adubos orgânicos,...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria do Desenvolvimento da Agricultura e Pecuária - SEAGRO - Tocantins/Brasil
Report
Non-Wood Forest Product Value Chains in Lebanon
This report triangulates qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary data to analyze Lebanon’s main NWFPs value chains: pine nuts – Pinus pinea -, honey, Syrian oregano and sage – Origanum syriacum and Salvia fruticosa -, and laurel - Laurus nobilis. For each value chain, the report proposes recommendations for the...
Lebanon
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
The ins and outs of the European food chain
The 44 million workers in the EU’s food chain are vital to ensuring European citizens have access to sufficient quantities of high-quality food. From farmers to retailers, the sector is constantly evolving to keep up with the major challenges of the future.
European Union
2017 - EurActiv
Blog article
Acting big for rural development and action plan for the implementation of Cork 2.0
Six months after the Cork 2.0 event and the publication of the Declaration “A better life in rural areas”, Copa and Cogeca (farmers and agri-cooperatives), CEJA (young farmers) and CEPF (forest owners) organised a joint event in Brussels, on March 22nd, 2017. The event, entitled “Cork 2.0 Declaration – Acting...
European Union
2017 - Euromontana
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