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Good Gardening and Root Crops in Timor Leste
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...
Timor-Leste
2017 - Food Plant Solutions
Blog article
Georgian farmers to get agricultural tips on their mobile phones
The innovation stems from an FAO project – financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), and the European Union’s Comprehensive Institution Building Programme (CIB). The aim of the initial pilot project was to create a network of agro-meteorology stations that use data on air temperature, humidity and other factors to...
Georgia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Report
National gender profile of agriculture and rural livelihoods - Zimbabwe
The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Zimbabwe from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Access to Land Community and Supported Agriculture - Stories from Europe
This booklet has been written by the European Access to Land network in cooperation with Urgenci, the network for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), based on CSA members’ stories from across Europe.
Land and communities – new building stones for European food and agriculture. In the last 10 years alone, Europe has...
2017 - Access to land network, Urgenci
Policy brief/paper
Social protection and the agricultural sector in the Near East and North Africa region
When countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) achieved their independence, formal social protection schemes established by former colonial powers were, to varying degrees, assimilated or mimicked by the State, particularly pension systems for government and formal-sector workers. These systems, however, have proven to be highly subsidised and...
2017 - International Policy Centre for Inclusive growth (IPC-IG)
Miscellanea
Support from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) - Opportunities for Small-Scale Coastal Fishermen
A leaflet on opportunities for small-scale coastal fishermen in the EMFF.
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Blog article
More support to family farmers needed to meet world's rising food demands, FAO tells G20
The FAO Director-General argued that the world's rural areas will be the key battleground in the push to achieve the 2030 sustainable development agenda, since it is there that poverty and hunger are most concentrated.At the same time, most of the increases in agricultural yields required to feed a world...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Newsletter
TBTI Digest, January 2017
The Too Big to Ignore (TBTI) Digest contains all of the project's recent activities and outputs.
2017
Technical paper
Does Improved Irrigation Technology Save Water? A Review of the Evidence. Discussion Paper on Irrigation and Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Near East and North Africa
Unsustainable water use (over-drafted aquifers, seasonally dry rivers, disappearing lakes and wetlands) is a problem across the world. This is especially true in the NENA region, which includes many of the most water-short countries in the world. This review indicates that there are rather few examples of carefully documented impacts...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Guidelines for public support to organic agriculture
Version adapted for Sub-Saharan African Countries
These guidelines have been prepared by IFOAM-Organics International as part of theGlobal Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture. This is a special adaptedversion of a more complete report. It has been adapted to suit the needs and currentcontext of Sub-Saharan African countries. Country examples are chosen to reflectsituations...
2017 - IFOAM-Organics International
Manual
Secure Livelihoods For South Sudanese Refugees And Host Communities In West Nile Region, Uganda (Migration Project)
The civil conflicts in South Sudan has since 2013 resulted into increased influx of refugees into West Nile, Uganda. As at February 2017, the FAO estimated the total refugee population in West Nile region at 628,000 people (86% women and children, 3% the elderly, and 5 people per household). While...
Uganda
2017 - AFARD and PALM Corps with funding from Austrian Development Cooperation, Bruder und Schwester in Not Innsbruck (BSI) and Caritas Kärnten through HORIZONT3000.
Journal article
Ingénierie de formation et organisations professionnelles agricoles: étude de cas au Maroc
Enseignements de l’étude de deux dispositifs mis en place par des organisations professionnelles agricoles marocaines dans le Tadla-Azilal
L’atelier multi-acteurs, « Rôles des organisations professionnelles agricoles (OPA) dans les services de formation professionnelle et d’appui-conseil pour les petites et moyennes exploitations agricoles des périmètres de grande hydraulique au Maroc », animé par le bureau d’étude Cap Rural, s’est déroulé le 17 septembre 2015 à l’ENA-M. Il a rassemblé...
Morocco
2017 - Fondation pour lágriculture et la ruralitè dans le monde (FARM)
Blog article
FNDE lança concurso para premiar concurso boas práticas de agricultura familiar para a alimentação escolar
Com o objetivo de incentivar e valorizar experiências exitosas da agricultura familiar no ambiente escolar, o Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE), autarquia vinculada ao Ministério da Educação, lançou na última semana o concurso Boas Práticas de Agricultura Familiar para a Alimentação Escolar. Trata-se de um processo seletivo que...
Brazil
2017 - Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação (FNDE)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Cambodia
This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French. The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...
Cambodia
2017
Blog article
Diversificação da produção representa também maior cuidado com o solo
Investir em diferentes tipos de produtos em uma mesma propriedade traz muito mais que benefícios financeiros, representa também benefícios para o meio ambiente. A forma como se cultiva os alimentos faz toda a diferença. A escolha do que plantar, quando plantar e como plantar pode ser fundamental para conservar a...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Report
Fourth Ministerial Meeting on Commodity Markets and Prices
Long-term Commodity Price Trends and Sustainable Agricultural Development
Ministers of Agriculture and Ministers of Trade met on 3 October 2016 at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome to debate and exchange views on policies and strategies within the context of ‘Long-term Commodity Price Trends and Sustainable Agricultural Development’. This...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Food Sovereignty and Fome Zero: Connecting Public Food Procurement Programmes to Sustainable Rural Development in Brazil
The global discourse on food sovereignty suggests several mechanisms for improving food security and agricultural livelihoods, including redistributive land reform and restructuring of markets to improve food distribution and access. In Brazil, the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) social welfare programme has created innovative links between public nutrition and food security programmes and...
Brazil
2017
Website
La voix du paysan congolais
Bimestriel d'informations du monde rural et de l'environnement en République Démocratique du Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017 - Centre National d’Appui au Développement et à la Participation Populaire
Fact sheet
Small-Scale Family Farming
The overall objective of this Regional Initiative is to reduce rural poverty by promoting and supporting inclusive small-scale agricultural development, with special attention to governance and institutions, including improving access of smallholders to social protection, rural services and markets, strengthening the capacities of producers’ organizations and promoting youth employment and...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Agroforestry
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
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