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Reconocimiento de tierras comunales y gobernanza local en Guatemala. 4. lecciones aprendidas
Este video forma parte de un módulo de comunicación y capacitación sobre tierras comunales desarrollado en Guatemala para fomentar la participación activa e informada de las comunidades rurales en procesos decisionales relacionados con la tenencia de sus tierras.
Este cuarto bloque temático presenta los principales beneficios y lecciones aprendidas en base...
Guatemala
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Magazine article
Family Farming
USA/ Statistically, the family farm makes up ninety-eight percent of all American farms, while farmers in general comprise 2% of the work force in the United States. 40% of the crop market is accounted for by 2.5% of nation's total farms, while family farmers produce approximately twenty-seven percent of the...
South Africa
2016
Magazine article
Agricultura Familiar, Sistemas Agroalimentares Localizados (SIALs) e as Dinâmicas de Desenvolvimento dos Territórios Rurais
Este artigo teve como objetivo principal buscar evidências teóricas de que os Sistemas Agroalimentares Localizados (SIALs) podem ser um importante instrumento de viabilização socioeconômica da agricultura familiar e de desenvolvimento rural. As ferramentas teórico-metodológicas utilizadas são os conceitos e proposições referentes à formação de Sistemas Agroalimentares Localizados (SIALs) e a...
Brazil
2016 - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)
Video
SLM09 Fertility management
Integrated soil fertility management is based on maximising the use of organic fertilizers and minimizing the loss of nutrients.
Mali
2016 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Using Agroforestry to Save the Planet
Agroforestry—the use of trees in farming—benefits both farmers and the environment.
According to a recent report by Biodiversity International, the Center for International Forestry Research, the World Agroforestry Centre, and Charles Sturt University, forests contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1.6 billion people. Yet, 30 percent of the world’s forests...
2016 - FoodTank
Blog article
Se establece un mecanismo regional de diálogo permanente para la agricultura familiar en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
El Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano (CAC), compuesto por los Ministros de Agricultura del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana - SICA (Belice, Costa Rica, Honduras, República Dominicana, Panamá, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador), ha aprobado el establecimiento de un Mecanismo Regional de Diálogo permanente para la Agricultura Familiar en la región. Este Mecanismo,...
Belize - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Nicaragua - Panama
2016 - Foro Rural Mundial
Journal
Revista EnlACe Nº 33
CIMMYT 50
Describe la historia de Norman Borlaug y como inicio CIMMYT.
Mexico
2016 - Centro International de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Case study
Efficiency and effectiveness of participatory research approaches among smallholder farmers in Babati District; Tanzania
Participatory research approaches are widely being used for promoting the uptake of agricultural integrated innovations. The methods encourage greater knowledge sharing among farmers and give them more confidence in the technology being promoted which in turn brings about wide adoption of the technology in question. Therefore, understanding efficiency and effectiveness...
United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Report
Summary: Latin American report 2015
Gender and territory
This Report argues that the possibilities for ensuring women’s economic autonomy are distributed inequitably among the various territories within countries, affecting not only the quality of life of women who live in lagging territories, but also the development processes in the region’s countries.
2016 - RIMISP - Latin American Center for Rural Development
Report
Structural Transformation of Moldovan Smallholder Agriculture: Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity
The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. Not only is agricultural land the country’s main natural resource, the agricultural sector still accounts for 30 percent of...
Republic of Moldova
2016 - World Bank
Video
Reconocimiento de tierras comunales y gobernanza local en Guatemala. 5.Pasos a seguir
Este video forma parte de un módulo de comunicación y capacitación sobre tierras comunales desarrollado en Guatemala para fomentar la participación activa e informada de las comunidades rurales en procesos decisionales relacionados con la tenencia de sus tierras.
Este quinto y último bloque temático presenta lo que pueden hacer las comunidades...
Guatemala
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Guidelines
Guidelines for certification - organic feed processing
The guidelines give an overview of the requirements for the organic feed processing. It describes the main aspects to consider, such as raw material selection, separation, labelling, packaging, transportation, storage, control, etc. This tool is a summary of the certification requirements and the reference regulation EAC 834/2007 (and its implementing...
Spain
2016 - CAAE - Servicio Certificación https://www.caae.es/
Book
Agrobiodiversidad, agricultura familiar y cambio climático
Los artículos reunidos en este documento se basan en las ponencias y comentarios de los expertos que participaron en el seminario regional Agricultura y Cambio Climático: Agrobiodiversidad, Agricultura Familiar y Cambio Climático, realizado el 20 y 21 de agosto de 2014 en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América...
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Website
Discover Tarnava Mare
A Unique Sense of Place - the Tarnava Mare area of South-eastern Transylvania is one of the forgotten jewels in Romania's crown. It is one of the Europe's most important natural and cultural landscapes, including some of the finest pristine wildflower rich grasslands – the result of centuries of good...
Romania
2016 - Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania
Magazine article
Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources for family farmers: Theory and practice
Only a small number of governments have established meaningful and effective farmer-centred measures for the implementation of access and benefit sharing of genetic resources. One reason is the highly complex nature of the international regulatory system. This special issue of Farming Matters magazine presents practical ways in which access and...
Brazil - China - India - Nepal - Peru - Zimbabwe
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Project
Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction. Project Brief
The FAO Youth Mobility, Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction (RYM) project aims at mitigating distress economic mobility in Tunisia and Ethiopia. With the support of the Italian Development Cooperation, the project will promote innovative mechanisms and rural development strategies with the objective of mitigating distress migration for rural youth...
Ethiopia - Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Embajadores de Centroamérica visitan el CIMMYT
Con el objetivo de conocer el impacto que las investigaciones del CIMMYT tienen en el mundo y la importancia de acelerar la adopción de políticas públicas para incrementar la productividad de la agricultura en sus respectivos países, los embajadores de Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua y Panamá, así como el...
Costa Rica - El Salvador - Mexico - Nicaragua - Panama
2016 - Centro International de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Practices
How to process raw honeybee pollen into food for humans
Pollen is one of the products of the beehive that the beekeeper can collect to increase his/her income from beekeeping. Pollen is often called the "super food". High performance athletes are quoted as eating pollen because of its high energetic power. Each pollen grain carries a variety of vitamins, proteins...
Argentina
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Project
Implementing local development strategies
A hazelnut farm in France’s Aquitaine region sought to upgrade and extend its visitor centre to improve access to children and disabled people as well as to provide more facilities. The plan also responded to a rise in overall visitors. The hazelnut farm used EAFRD funding to create an interactive...
France
2016 - THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (ENRD)
Event
FAO Regional Conference for Africa (ARC)
The 29th session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa will be held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, at Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire, from 4 to 8 April 2016. Jointly hosted by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Conference is...
Côte d'Ivoire
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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