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Best Practices for Fall Armyworm Management in Africa
World Experiences and Best Practices for Fall Armyworm Management in Africa South-South Technical Cooperation Meeting This video was produced under the auspices of the FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa, Bukar Tijani. The video also captures an interview with the Director, Plant, Production and Protection division of FAO...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
INDAP realiza Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar
En un trabajo conjunto con las organizaciones campesinas, INDAP realizará los días 6 y 7 de septiembre próximo, en la sede de la Oficina Regional de la FAO en Santiago, el Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar, instancia que busca promover esta práctica como un modelo de...
Chile
2017 - Instituto Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Blog article
The mountain leaders rural women are
Wherever you go, whatever you produce, whatever you believe in, Women of the mountains are determined to lead their societies for survival.
Lebanon
2017 - SIMRA
Journal article
Can Values-based Food Chains Advance Local and Sustainable Food Systems? Evidence from Case Studies of University Procurement in Canada and the UK
This article asks whether the concept of values-based food chains (VBFC) can help explain and advance processes fostering sustainability transitions in the food system of the Global North. The VBFC concept is contested in the context of the author’s research into Canadian and UK university food procurement experiences designed to...
Canada - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2017
Fact sheet
¡Antes de sembrar, el suelo debe analizar!: procedimiento para la toma de muestras y análisis de suelos
El presente folleto da a conocer el procedimiento para la toma de muestras y análisis de fertilidad de suelos, para evitar la poca rentabilidad de un cultivo y determinar las necesidades de adición de fertilizantes o enmiendas para suplir dichas necesidades y corregir las condiciones adversas, sirviendo como herramienta de...
Colombia
2017 - Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria - AGROSAVIA
Blog article
Abandoned terraces adopted to support mountains
The project “Adotta un terrazzamento” [“Adopt a terrace” in English] aims at regulating and expanding mountain farming activities by giving any interested person the opportunity to adopt a terrace and provide direct or long-term support to the mountains of the Brenta Valley, in the Alps region in Italy.
Italy
2017 - SIMRA
Guidelines
Le Conseil Agricole au Maroc: Guide Méthodologique
La nouvelle stratégie relative au développement du « Conseil Agricole » a été élaborée par le Département de l'Agriculture avec pour objectif l'accompagnement des agriculteurs et le transfert du savoir-faire agricole sur le terrain.
Cette stratégie vient pallier les nombreuses déficiences constatées dans le dispositif dit de " vulgarisation", qui pêchait...
Morocco
2017
Blog article
Thousands already have their say on future of food, farming and rural areas
The consultation is open for a further six weeks until 2 May, and then the hard work of analysing and assessing the many thousands of responses can begin ahead of a conference to present the results planned for 7 July in Brussels.
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Blog article
When preserving the wool means preserving the territory
Extensive livestock farming is the most important population-fixing activity in Iberian rural areas. This is so because, unlike other activities, it requires people to take care of the animals every day. Furthermore, in many marginal rural areas, extensive livestock farming is often the only possibility that the territory has to...
Spain
2017 - SIMRA
Journal article
Values in Motion: The Local Organic Food Co-ops Network in Ontario, Canada
Values-based food chains (VBFCs) are gaining recognition as people seek alternatives to the unsustainable environmental and social outcomes of the corporate food system. One example of a VBFC can be found in the Local Organic Food Co-ops (LOFC) Network, a coalition of cooperatives that specialize in locally and sustainably produced...
Canada
2017
Blog article
Digital innovation can transform Africa’s smallholder farming
Digital innovation and policy reforms offer the greatest prospects for transforming the smallholder farming sector, SACAU president Dr Theo de Jager and CEO Mr Ishmael Sunga told delegates while presenting at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Smart Farming convening recently which was also attended by philanthropist Bill Gates.
The SACAU leadership...
2017 - Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)
Blog article
Adopt your cow and encourage mountain farming
“Adotta una mucca”, (“Adopt a cow” in English) is an Italian initiative from the Valsugana Valley in the Trentino province. Its objective is to introduce tourists, children and families to mountain life and culture. Adopters can visit various Alpine huts, learn how mountain products are made faithfully following old recipes...
Italy
2017 - SIMRA
Event
Envisioning Mountainous Sustainable Food Systems
During the event, participants will explore the richness and the dynamism of mountainous territories, and their innovative initiatives for building sustainable food systems.
2017 - EUROMONTANA
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Mixed farming in the Aveyron river basin
In the Aveyron river basin (France), the low-lying, fertile lands are usually used for monocultures, and the higher, less fertile areas for livestock. Recently, a research project has led to the construction of a scenario in which crop farmers would introduce alfalfa into their rotations, in response to more frequently...
France
2017 - Eip Agri Agriculture&Innovation
Blog article
Counting down to 2030 – Asia-Pacific countries encounter obstacles, data and knowledge gaps as they attempt to monitor progress toward achieving the 17 SDGs
While the world’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals are clear in their targets, accurately measuring progress to reach them is proving to be more of a challenge, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said today.
An FAO survey in the Asia-Pacific region found considerable gaps in progress toward implementing internationally accepted norms...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Timely seed distribution in eastern Ukraine boosts community resilience
FAO is about to complete one of the largest seed distribution campaigns in the history of ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine, aimed at helping farmers get ready for the next planting season.
The FAO team continues to deliver humanitarian aid in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine, with a focus on rural people living...
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
The discursive brand analysis of the accommodation units from the touristic basin of Sucevița (Bucovina region, Romania)
In the rural areas where there is an economic potential clearly defined by the agricultural or commercial activities, tourism is the business key within reach. Under the circumstances, the socio-economic reflex takes the form of developing projects for tourist services, especially in the places with tourist potential. Further, the local economy, at...
Romania
2017 - “Gheorghe Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Report
Child labour in agriculture in Lebanon
A guide for practitioners
This guide will serve as a significant tool for practitioners in Lebanon and the Arab countries who are attending to the issue of child labour in agriculture. Moreover, it represents a pillar for present and continuous collaborative efforts between two sister UN agencies (the ILO and FAO) and their national...
Lebanon
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Strategic work of FAO to Reduce Rural Poverty
FAO helps countries achieve SDG1 (No poverty) and SDG2 (Zero hunger) by improving the livelihoods of poor and extreme poor rural people, including smallholders and family farmers.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
The day I adopted an olive tree
A year ago this week, I adopted an olive tree. I called it Carmen, after my grandmother. Whenever I want to know about my tree I just need to open an app that I have installed on my mobile phone. I can see pictures of it and whether it has...
Spain
2017 - SIMRA
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