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Rural reality check in Serbia
Serbia is still a mainly rural country. 65% of its national territory is in farmland, a further 30% in forestry. Of its 7.2 million people, 58% live in rural areas, and about two thirds of these rely wholly or partly on agriculture or forestry for their livelihood. These industries produce...
Serbia
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Magazine article
Rural reality check in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia gained its independence in 1991 when it peacefully seceded from Yugoslavia. In 2005, the EU recognized it as a Candidate country. Formal negotiations for the country’s accession to the Union were recommended by the European Commission every year since 2009, but have been delayed...
North Macedonia
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Magazine article
Rural reality check in Montenegro
Agriculture dominates the rural economy. Pastures and meadows occupy 90% of the farmland and the remaining 10% is mainly devoted to horticulture, vineyards and orchards. The structure of farming is dominated by small family farms, which provide all or most of their income for over 50,000 rural households, many of...
Montenegro
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Experience in four countries
Taking part in the traveling workshops in Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro were a number of officials and NGO representatives from four other countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Turkey. Ministers or their representatives from these countries attended the Concluding Conference in Brussels on...
Türkiye
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Challenge – the present state of relations between stakeholders and governments
From a bottom-up perspective, the field visits in Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro showed that rural entrepreneurs, and some rural communities, can make good things happen, and that in some cases they do so without much help from government. However, it was also clear that farmers...
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Report
Deepening the transformations and refining the focus in agricultural research
Taking into account the challenges in agriculture, and the responsibility that agricultural researchers and other stakeholders should take to improve the impact of agricultural innovations, the urgency to strengthen the cooperation and innovation partnership, the members of CACAARI and its partners encouraged the initiative of transforming the Association into the...
2014 - CACAARI
Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Opportunity – the road to empowerment of stakeholders and to partnership between stakeholders and governments
The role of different levels of governance is not fully clear. Action at village level is very limited. Mechanisms for connecting governments and stakeholders are emerging. Governments are committed to the further involvement of stakeholders. The groundwork for LEADER-type partnerships is being laid. Rural development networks are in place or...
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Fact sheet
Capacity Development Support to Rural Women on the Socio-Economic and Gender Aspects of Sustainable Rural Development
This project, started in 2014 under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme, was developed to improve services for rural women by enhancing the capacity of institutions and of agricultural extension and rural advisory services staff in Turkey and Azerbaijan. The project’s ultimate objective was to promote rural women’s socio-economic integration and enhance...
Azerbaijan - Türkiye
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Climate change, food prices, malnutrition and sustainable family farming on FAO radar
The impact of climate change on food production figured prominently in the words of Director-General José Graziano da Silva, as he addressed the opening of the UN FAO’s Regional Conference for Europe today. FAO’s emphasis on sustainable family farming was another key theme of Graziano da Silva’s statement, as he...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference proceedings
Voluntary standards for sustainable food systems: Challenges and opportunities. A Workshop of the FAO/UNEP Programme on Sustainable Food Systems
The FAO/UNEP joint programme is catalysing partnerships among United Nations agencies, other international agencies, governments, industry and civil society whose activities, together, can promote the necessary transition to sustainability. An Agri-food Task Force (ATF) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has been established, comprised of representatives of Member States, United...
Costa Rica - Italy
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
Field Days Fair
A learning experience for family farmers in Turkey
During the four-day fair (21- 25 May 2014, Izmir, Turkey), in cooperation with Garanti Bank, FAO Representation in Turkey launched small workshops for participant farmers with the purpose of introducing integrated crop and pest management (IPM) methods and the Farmer Field Schools (FFS) approach.
Türkiye
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a non-profit, scientific facility that conducts research on the most pressing challenges of forest and landscapes management around the world. With our global, multidisciplinary approach, we aim to improve human well-being, protect the environment, and increase equity. To do so, we help...
2014 - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Newsletter article
Celebrating World Food Day in Turkey
World Food day was celebrated in Turkey on 16 October with numerous events taking place across the country. The official celebration took place in collaboration with the Turkish Food and Beverage Industry Employers Association (TUGIS) on 16 October in Istanbul with the high-level participation of Mehdi Eker, Minister of Food,...
Türkiye
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Towards stronger family farms
Voices in the International Year of Family Farming
This publication draws from reports and notes from a series of events in the International Year of Family Farming: Regional Dialogues on Family Farming were organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization in collaboration with the World Rural Forum, the International Cooperative Alliance and the World Farmers Organization to increase the understanding of the family farming context in each region,and...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal
Farming Matters: The many faces of resilience
Poverty and vulnerability combine in a vicious circle for many family farmers. To break that and turn it into a virtuous cycle, resilience must be built into farming and the systems in which farmers operate. There is an urgent need for a change in mindset regarding family farming, agriculture and...
Germany - United States of America
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Policy brief/paper
International Young Farmers’ Manifesto
“To make family farming a solution for the future”
While family farmers comprise 40% of the world's active working population, their livelihood is not given due recognition. Its socio-economic and legal recognition at both a national and international level is crucial to achieving world food security and halting the drastic decline in agriculture-related jobs. Such recognition constitutes the basis...
France
2014
Guidelines
Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP)
A practical guide for smallholders
Pollinators play a key-role in agriculture, for biodiversity protection, ecosystems and climate change adaptation. But globally rapid decline of wild pollinators threatens mankind; honey bees cannot compensate the losses. Central Asia has been identified as the second most vulnerable area worldwide concerning economic loss in consequence of pollinator loss. But...
Uzbekistan
2014 - ICARDA
Website
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Guidelines
Aksakals’ guide on Community-based Landscape Restoration (CLR)
A century ago forests covered large foot hill chains in Uzbekistan and provided manifold benefits. Currently, only 7.3% of Uzbekistan is forested. Specifically villages below mountains or lower ranges suffer from mud flows after hails and even slight rains. Climate change will fuel the serisks, e.g. by increase of hails....
Uzbekistan
2014 - ICARDA
Journal article
Family Farming, Sociologia ruralis, Aug. 2014
The United Nationals declared 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming to highlight the importance of family farms and smallholders farmers (International Year of Family Farming - IYFF). Throughout the world family farms constitute the majority of all farms, which underlines their importance for food security. FAO promotes the...
Lithuania - United States of America
2014
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