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Access Agriculture Panorama - February 2024
Highlights:• New videos: Record-keeping for integrated farming / Tenue de registres pour l'agriculture intégrée• World Bicycle Relief and Access Agriculture team up to support young changemakers in Uganda• From family farm to family firm• Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) at work in India• Editor's choice - How to sell ecological food
Belgium
2024 - Access Agriculture
Working paper
Digital Innovations Supporting Women Agri-entrepreneurs in India: Mapping Good Practices
This report is based on a collaborative project undertaken by the Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as part of the activities of the Evidence module of the CGIAR GENDER Platform. The study is primarily based on insights from in-depth interviews conducted with women...
India
2024 - Centre for Research on Innovation and Science Policy (CRISP)
Newsletter article
Sri Lanka: Facing the Tides
Only when the small-scale fishers of Sri Lanka willingly adopt social security mechanisms can their sector be protected and assured of a sustainable future.
Fisheries play a pivotal role in Sri Lanka’s socio-economic development, providing 50 per cent of the animal protein for the population, contributing to 2.6 per cent of...
Sri Lanka
2024 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Technical report on Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry (G.R.O.W)
This technical report on Greening and Restoration of Wastelands with Agroforestry (GROW) will benefit for taking up restoration projects for achieving national commitments of Land Degradation Neutrality and restoring 26 million hectares of degraded land by 2030, as well as creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion...
India
2024 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Report
Natural Farming Through a Wide Lens - True Cost Accounting Study of Community Managed Natural Farming in Andhra Pradesh, India
Global agriculture and food systems are not on track to achieve the targets set by Agenda 2030 to achieve zero hunger and eradicate malnutrition by 2030. There is an urgent need to develop strategies that can provide enough nutritious food for all in a manner that enhances livelihoods and does...
India
2023 - Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Video
How to manage fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) on smallholder farms
Fall armyworm (FAW), an agricultural pest native to the Americas, was first detected on the African continent in 2016 and has since spread across Africa and Asia. FAW feeds on over 350 plant species but prefers maize and other staples, and hence potentially threatens the incomes and food security of...
2023 - Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry CIFOR-ICRAF
Newsletter article
Asia: The gendered economy of dried fish
Being conducted in six countries across South and Southeast Asia, the Dried Fish Matters project is a first-ever exploration of the gendered social economy of dried fish
Dried Fish Matters: Mapping the Social Economy of Dried Fish in South and Southeast Asia for Enhanced Wellbeing and Nutrition, or DFM, is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant project. The project spans a duration of eight years: 2018-2026, and involves research in six focus...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - India - Myanmar - Sri Lanka - Thailand
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 32 - March 2023
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
2023 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter article
Yemaya Recommends: Women and men in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Barriers, constraints and opportunities towards equality and secure livelihoods; 186 pages; 2022; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Bangkok, Thailand. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9527en. Asia accounts for the highest labour force participation in the small-scale fisheries and aquaculture across all regions of the world. While, historically, the role of women in this...
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Blog article
Untapped Potential: An analysis of international public climate finance flows to sustainable agriculture and family farmers
Small-scale family farmers are the unsung heroes of the global food system. They produce over a third of the world’s food and are key to climate adaptation, yet new analysis reveals they receive just 0.3% of international climate finance.
Climate change is hitting harvests and driving up food prices across the...
2023 - WRF
Project
Resilience-Building Through Agroecology
This project led by the Himalayan Permaculture Center is implemented in the Karnali Province, where the NGO has been working since 2011. In this Province, which has the lowest population density and is home to the poorest and marginalized population in Nepal, the project works to collaboratively design and create...
Nepal
2023 - Agroecology Coalition
Book
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Manual – Evidence in fisheries offences: effective collection and use
This Manual introduces the role and impact of successful evidence gathering and processing in combating illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and describes the pillars for evidence gathering – the national legislation and regional and international obligations. Procedures for gathering the evidence are presented and requirements for arrest are described....
Seychelles
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Policy brief/paper
Strengthening the Contribution of Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education in Mainstreaming Agroecology in the Asia-Pacific
Food systems transformation in the Asia-Pacific depends on the dissemination and mainstreaming of new approaches that foster sustainable agriculture. One such approach is agroecology. Agroecology is fundamentally different from other approaches to sustainable development due to its systemic and holistic nature and by its reliance on localized and bottom-up solutions,...
2023 - APIRAS, APAARI
Blog article
All eyes on agroecology as Vietnam embarks on food system transformation journey
Vietnam is positioning itself as a food innovation hub for Asia, and is building its reputation as a responsible, transparent, and sustainable food provider in the process. As part of this transformation from agri-food systems based on crop monocultures and separate intensive livestock rearing, sustained by environmentally disruptive chemicals, it is...
Viet Nam
2023 - Forests News
Video
Forgotten Foods Cooking Contest: Dry Meat with Bou Khuda (Bangladesh)
Dry Meat with Bou Khuda Prepared by Joshna Begum Gram Unnayan Songostha (GRAUS) #Bangladesh The main ingredient of this dish is rice processed using a husking pedal. It also contains sun-dried meat (beef), which was how people in the old days preserve meat. Due to the availability of electricity, most...
Bangladesh
2023 - Asia Pacific Farmers
Book
Fruit and Nuts of Vietnam - Vietnamese
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...
Viet Nam
2023
Article
Beef cattle production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide
The objective of the study was to describe beef production systems and constraints among subsistence farmers across the Fijian windward–leeward divide. Data were collected from a total of 200 beef cattle owners from windward and leeward locations (100 each) using a structured questionnaire. In both geographical regions, the heads of...
Fiji
2023
Newsletter
FFKP Mothly digest #2 - March 2023
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up-to-date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, small-scale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.
2023 - FFKP Team
Book
Good Gardening and Growing Root and Grain Crops in Vietnam - Vietnamese
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...
Viet Nam
2023
Photo gallery
FISH4ACP Dominican Republic Improving mahi-mahi fishery sustainably, leaving no one behind
FISH4ACP Dominican Republic
Improving mahi-mahi fishery sustainably, leaving no one behind
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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