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Magazine article
Bois com origem na agricultura familiar

Para disputar todo o volume de biodiesel comercializado nos leilões bimestrais da Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP), as indústrias do país precisam do Selo Combustível Social, conferido pela Secretaria Especial da Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD). Até 2014, o selo só era dado às indústrias...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Magazine article
Género y globalización

Una mirada desde el Sur global
Las mujeres constituyen hoy un nuevo proletariado internacional. Y esta es solo una de las constataciones «de género» del proceso de globalización, que incluye la feminización de las migraciones, la pérdida de tierras y las tradicionales asimetrías entre centro y periferia. Si bien el proceso de globalización ha dado lugar...
2017 - Nueva Sociedad. Democracia y Política en América Latina

Fact sheet
Mbolea Mboji

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)

Fact sheet
EIP-AGRI Factsheet on Ecological Focus Areas

All the information from the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Ecological Focus Areas at a glance
European Union
2017 - EIP - Agri

Manual
Manual del cultivo de la papa en Chile

La papa (Solanum tuberosum) es una planta perteneciente a la familia de las solanáceas, originaria de Sudamérica y cultivada por todo el mundo por sus tubérculos comestibles. En nuestro continente, este cultivo evolucionó y se cruzó con otras plantas silvestres del mismo género, lo que dio como resultado una gran...
Chile
2017 - Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA)

Journal article
La planification locale, outil de durabilité environnementale : le cas des zones humides méditerranéennes

La mise en place des normes internationales de développement durable incite les pays à organiser la planification à une échelle locale et de façon participative. L’objectif de cet article est de montrer de quelle manière l’environnement est pris en compte à cette échelle dans 19 documents de planification de trois...
Algeria - Lebanon - Morocco
2017

Blog article
Strengthening national capacities of producer organizations tops the FAO regional inception workshop in Oman

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held a two-day inception workshop in Muscat on the regional technical cooperation project entitled “Strengthening National Capacities of Producer Organizations in the Near East and North Africa”, which will focus on three countries from the region: The Sultanate of Oman,...
Lebanon - Oman - Sudan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Blog article
Social cash transfers help break poverty cycle and foster productivity in Zambia

Evaluating the impact of cash transfer programmes and their effect on poverty levels and food security.
Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer (SCT) Programme is implemented by the Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health and has been operating in Zambia since 2003. As of December 2014, the programme reached 150,000 households across 50 districts and there are concrete plans to scale it up nation-wide in the...
Zambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Caisses de résilience in Mali

Promoting women’s empowerment and improving nutrition for vulnerable households through an integrated approach
In Mali, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is implementing the “Caisses de Résilience” approach with a strong focus on nutrition to support 3 000 vulnerable households in 64 villages in the Mopti region (district of Bandiagara). The three-year programme, launched in February 2015, aims to...
Mali
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
National Policy on Agroecology and Organic agriculture in Brazil

A figting path for a sustainable rural development
The report reviews the history and construction of the National Policy on Agroecology and Organic Production in Brazil (Política Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica no Brasil, Pnapo), a policy that originated from the claims and initiatives from the sovil society and was collectively built. Thanks to the newly created spaces...
Brazil
2017 - IPEA

Blog article
O Selo Combustível Social

O Selo Combustível Social é um componente de identificação criado a partir do Decreto Nº 5.297, de 6 de dezembro de 2004, concedido pela Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) ao produtor de biodiesel que cumpre os critérios descritos na Portaria nº 337, de 18 de setembro de 2015....
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Report
Regional gender strategy and action plan 2017–2019 for Asia and the Pacific

Progress towards gender equality is key to meeting global goals of eradicating poverty and eliminating hunger and malnutrition. Women make important contributions to agriculture and rural livelihoods and play a vital role in the care and reproduction of households and communities. However, persistent gender inequalities, such as unequal access to...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Journal article
Evaluación de impacto de la incorporación de un sistema de instalaciones en establecimientos de productores porcinos familiares

El desarrollo tecnológico de la agroindustria generó modelos basados en economías de gran escala productiva, fomentando un marginamiento de los modelos tradicionales de producción. Sin embargo, en Argentina, la necesidad de implementar tecnologías alternativas de desarrollo para el sector semi-intensivo o familiar aumentó en la implementación y la divulgación de...
Argentina
2017 - Facultad de Agronomía. La Plata

Case study
Organic Best Practices in Italian National Parks

Organic and eco-sustainable farming is particularly suited to farms situated within parks, because it does not harm local ecosystems as it does not use pesticides and promotes biodiversity, improving biological links and creating ideal habitats for animal life. It also promotes grants that reward farmers for acting as “guardians/stewards of...
Italy
2017 - AIAB and IFOAM-International

Blog article
Alimentos brasileiros com risco de extinção

É comum encontrar diferentes pacotes de arroz branco nos supermercados, mas você sabia que existe arroz vermelho? O produto, assim como a baunilha do cerrado e o milho crioulo, não é tão comum em gôndolas ou mercearias. Mas estes são apenas alguns dos variados produtos brasileiros que estão na lista...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Setting up short wood supply chains using hedgerows

Roadside and farmland hedgerows in Normandy (France) were disappearing. Local inhabitants wanted to preserve this traditional landscape feature. So they decided to generate an economic value for the hedgerows and set up a short wood supply chain. Involving all local groups in this was essential.
France
2017 - EIP Agri

Report
INFORME 2016: Acceso a la tierra y territorio en Sudamérica

El objetivo del Informe acceso a la tierra y territorio en Sudamérica es disponer de una herramienta que facilite una visión de la dinámica actual del acceso a la tierra y al territorio y estimular procesos de diálogo e incidencia en favor de la población campesina, indígena y afro descendiente;...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Colombia - Ecuador - Paraguay - Peru
2017 - Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamerica (IPDRS)

Newsletter article
Produtos orgânicos deverão ser inseridos na alimentação escolar

O governador sancionou a lei 10.530/2017 que é de autoria do presidente da Assembleia Legislativa.
Agora é obrigatório. Com a lei 10.530/2017, os produtos de origem orgânica serão inseridos como integrantes da alimentação escolar em Mato Grosso, preferencialmente aqueles produzidos pela agricultura familiar e no município onde esteja localizada a unidade educacional. Os produtos serão adquiridos de cooperativas e associações de produtores da agricultura familiar, sempre atendendo...
Brazil
2017 - 24 horas news

Event
Peasants' Rights Declaration 15-19 May

The 4th session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas began in Geneva.  With this, the bottom up process to strengthen the legitimacy of the demands of rural peoples around the world has reached a crucial...
Switzerland
2017 - European Coordination Via Campesina

Report
Inserción laboral de los jóvenes rurales en América Latina

Grupos de Diálogo Rural, una estrategia de incidencia
Este documento se desarrolla en el marco del proyecto “Jóvenes Rurales, Territorios y oportunidades: Una estrategia de diálogo de políticas” de RIMISP, Centro Latinoamericano de Desarrollo Rural. El proyecto tiene la finalidad de contribuir a mejorar la calidad de las estrategias, políticas e inversiones dirigidas hacia la juventud rural y...
Colombia - Ecuador - Mexico - Peru
2017 - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP)
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