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Kazakhstan increasing crop area dedicated to oilseeds and pulses
Farmers in Kazakhstan have been increasing the land area devoted to growing oilseed and pulse crops – and it makes good sense from several viewpoints. An FAO-organized seminar on “Pulses and oilseeds: prospects for development” was held here today, one of many forward-looking events on offer this year at Astana...
Kazakhstan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Magazine article
Investment in rural diversification
Rural businesses can develop in very diverse sectors of activity. The local opportunities will usually depend on the specific characteristics of the territory. Targeted investments in areas of local opportunity can create jobs, increase spending power and create sustainable economic growth in rural areas. One growth area in recent years...
European Union
2017 - European Network for Rural Development
Report
Developing an Environmental Monitoring System to Strengthen Fisheries and Aquaculture Resilience and Improve Early Warning in the Lower Mekong Basin
These proceedings report the result of a sub-regional consultation on the existence and effectiveness of environmental monitoring systems for fisheries and aquaculture in the Lower Mekong basin. The document also includes a baseline assessment of environmental monitoring systems in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, and the report of a regional workshop...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Ukraine learning to assess food losses and waste in fisheries sector
A global drive to reduce food losses and waste all along the value chain has arrived in Ukraine, where this week the fisheries and aquaculture sector tackles the issue.
Experts from FAO’s Fisheries Division in Rome, Italy are conducting a training course in Kyiv for representatives of Ukraine’s Ministry of Ecology...
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organizations of United Nations FAO
Blog article
Towards Sustainable Fisheries in the Arab Region
The League of Arab States, Arab Organization for Agricultural Development, and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) jointly organized a side event titled “Developing a Strategic Framework on Fisheries: Towards Sustainable Fisheries in the Arab Region” to present their ongoing collaboration on the implementation of SDG 14 with the aim of...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Liga de Emprendedores: Capítulo 5 | Alimentación
La alimentación consciente ha dejado de ser un tema tabú y se va instalando en las mesas de los chilenos. Por lo mismo las preguntas de dónde viene y como fue cultivada nuestra comida, son relevantes. Así nace en manos de Javier Carriel, Greenequitable, una comunidad de restaurantes saludables para...
Chile
2017 - Mi huerto web
Blog article
SEAD abre edital para a Biofach 2018
A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) abriu nesta segunda-feira (21/08), as inscrições para a chamada pública que levará até 13 empreendimentos da agricultura familiar à Biofach 2018
O evento acontecerá em Nuremberg, na Alemanha, dos dias 14 a 17 de fevereiro do próximo ano, e é considerado a maior no setor de feira de orgânicos do mundo. Para participar, os agricultores devem acessar o link e preencher o formulário até o dia 17 de setembro de 2017.
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Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Policy brief/paper
Cohérence des politiques agricoles et alimentaires au Sénégal pour la période 2010–2015. Série de notes techniques
Programme de Suivi et Analyse des Politiques Agricoles et Alimentaires - SAPAA
Cette note s’emploie à évaluer la cohérence des politiques agricoles et alimentaires mises en œuvre au Sénégal entre 2010 et 2015. L’analyse révèle notamment une hausse et un rééquilibrage des dépenses publiques en soutien à la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition. Toutefois, les politiques agricoles et alimentaires du Sénégal continuent...
Senegal
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Migrant shepherds sustain pastoralism in the Mediterranean
The exodus of young people is one of the main problems of rural communities in Mediterranean Europe. The declining rural population is counterbalanced by migrants that have come to live and work in the countryside. Paradoxically, it is thanks to migrant shepherds that ancient pastoral traditions are kept alive and...
2017 - Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute
Journal article
Polish organic farming on the background of the European Union in light of new regulations
The theme of the development of organic farming in the EU and in Poland was taken up in the study, pointing out that organic production is an element of the EU agricultural product quality schemes. In this sense, organic production pursues the same objectives under the Common Agricultural Policy which...
Poland
2017
Blog article
PRONAF completa 22 anos com números importantes para a história do Programa
O Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), principal política pública brasileira de crédito para as unidades familiares de produção, completa 22 anos nesta quinta-feira (24). Durante pouco mais de duas décadas, o valor total das operações do Programa atingiu R$200 bilhões. Os recursos foram aplicados na efetivação de...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Event
Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar
A partir de la decisión institucional de avanzar en el fomento de la agroecología, INDAP organiza el Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar. Su principal propósito es promover la práctica agroecológica como un modelo de producción sustentable para la Agricultura Familiar Campesina (AFC) de Chile, generando una...
Chile
2017 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Video
EU supports the concept of Smart Villages
Smart villages are the new concept of villages around Europe where the traditional services are improved by using new technologies. Mr Mario Milouchev, Director of DG AGRI for Rural Development Programmes1 and Pre-accession assistance, explains how digital solutions help those villages improve the economic performance of their areas but also...
European Union
2017 - Digital Single Market
Blog article
New food networks in the Czech Republic
Four decades of communism and an overnight transition from socialism to the free market caused dramatic shifts in food consumer – producer relationships across Eastern Europe. In the Czech Republic, a history of cooperatives and local food production contrasts with today’s situation, in which the country is almost entirely dependent...
Czechia
2017 - KomPot
Blog article
The European Union, an agri-food world power
While that number may seem small compared to the business generated by trade in the automotive or energy industries, the agri-food sector is of particular importance to the EU economy and, more importantly, the economy of millions of families.
EU exports of agricultural and food products to third countries – not...
2017 - EurActiv
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)
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