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L'agroécologie, un modèle qui tient la route ?
Un nouveau modèle agricole semble devoir s’imposer. En Amérique du Nord, en Europe, mais également dans certains pays d’Amérique du Sud et d’Asie, les systèmes de production agricole ont connu une véritable révolution pendant la deuxième moitié du vingtième siècle. Avec une production agricole standardisée, des rendements fortement augmentés et...
Burkina Faso
2017 - SOS FAIM
E-learning
Developing Country Capacity
This course aims to guide actors in member countries in effectively enhancing country capacity and to ensure that programmes and projects lead to truly effective and sustainable change. It consolidates existing knowledge, tools and lessons learned from FAO’s work.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal
Journal of Law and Rural Development
IFAD recognizes that securing the land and natural resource rights of its target groups is critical for the outcomes of the projects and programmes it supports, and in general for inclusive rural development and poverty eradication. Over the years, IFAD has supported a range of national, regional and global initiatives...
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Blog article
Tajikistan farms to get new, high-yielding varieties of wheat
If there’s one thing wheat farmers agree on, it is the importance of sowing high-quality seeds. More than 50 farmers in Tajikistan last week attended an FAO field day where new wheat varieties were introduced – part of a project to improve access to high-quality seeds by producing them right...
Tajikistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Book
¡Compartiendo la cosecha!
Sharing the Harvest!
Ecologistas en Acción finally published the e-book : Compartiendo la cosecha: Agricultura Apoyada por la Comunidad, una guía ciudadana, a Spanish version of Sharing the Harvest, by Elizabeth Henderson y Robyn Van En. In this Spanish translation of the thoroughly revised and expanded classic, Elizabeth Henderson provides us with valuable...
2017 - Ecologistas en Acción
Journal article
Une innovation incrémentielle : la conception et la diffusion d'un pivot d'irrigation artisanal dans le Souf (Sahara algérien)
On observe depuis une vingtaine d'années l'émergence de bassins de production maraîchère dans le Sahara algérien par la mobilisation des eaux souterraines profondes, en marge des oasis traditionnelles. Dans la vallée du Souf, les agriculteurs se sont orientés vers la culture de la pomme de terre, irriguée par des petits...
Algeria
2017
Blog article
Brasil assume Presidência Pro Tempore da REAF pelos próximos seis meses
Criada em 2004, a Reunião Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar do Mercosul (Reaf) é formada por Argentina, Bolívia, Chile, Equador, Paraguai, Uruguai, além do Brasil, representado pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead). O foco da Reaf é propor ações que fomentem a agricultura familiar nesses países....
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Video
Building Resilient Livelihood: Stories from the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Located in the extreme southeastern part of the country, the districts that comprise the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are both geographically and socio-culturally distinct from the rest of Bangladesh. Food insecurity is both chronic and widespread, and nutrition levels are among the lowest in the country.
In 2013, FAO began activities in CHT...
Bangladesh
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Website
Red Costarricense de Agricultura Familiar (REDCAF)
La REDCAF tiene como propósito promover la articulación, la coordinación y el diálogo nacional para la incidencia, la construcción e implementación y el seguimiento de políticas públicas diferenciadas para la Agricultura Familiar; mediante acciones y estrategias que contribuyan con la asignación de recursos y con el fortalecimiento de las unidades...
Costa Rica
2017 - Red Costarricense de Agricultura Familiar (REDCAF)
Event
National on-job training for phytosanitary laboratory staff on pest diagnostic using modern laboratory equipment
FAO REU is continuing to support the NPPO of Belarus in addressing the lack of knowledge and skills on the use of modern laboratory equipment and inspection tools by provided trainings with involvement of high-level international experts. This is done by enhancing knowledge of specialized laboratory staff on modern laboratory...
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
Caractériser les formes d'interaction entre filières agricoles et territoires : quelles méthodes ?
Le processus de globalisation s’accompagne d’une importante restructuration des filières agricoles, se traduisant par une déconnexion de plus en plus forte entre opérateurs des filières et ceux des territoires, et entre lieux de production et usages des ressources locales. Les opérateurs des filières utilisent des ressources des territoires, mais n’y...
2017
Journal article
Sustentabilidade nas pequenas propriedades rurais
Um estudo exploratório sobre a percepção do agricultor
O objetivo deste artigo foi analisar a percepção dos agricultores familiares brasileiros sobre o tema sustentabilidade em pequenas propriedades rurais. A questão central é como manter pessoas no meio rural estimulando o uso racional de recursos naturais e provocando o menor impacto ambiental possível com suas práticas produtivas sem que...
2017 - Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (CPDA/ICHS/DDAS)
Video
Women on board
“Women on board” is the result of a research and participative observation from the interior of a long distance fishing vessel, the objective is an evaluation of the possibilities of the inclusion of woman in on board tasks
2017 - Women in Seafood
Website
Mi huerto web
Emprendimiento social Mi Huerto Web que ayuda a la agricultura familiar campesina a comercializar sus productos dentro de un marco de sustentabilidad, comercio local, comercio justo y negocios inclusivos.
Plataforma con gran valor para la vinculación territorial entre comunidades rurales y consumidores.
Permite potenciar el desarrollo de las comunidades en el largo...
Chile
2017 - Mi huerto web
Event
Foro de alto nivel sobre: Empoderamiento de las mujeres indígenas para la erradicación del hambre y la malnutrición en América Latina y el Caribe
El foro tendrá por objetivo hacer recomendaciones de políticas públicas con un enfoque de derechos que (i) promuevan la igualdad de género y el respeto de los derechos de las mujeres indígenas; (ii) fortalezcan la toma de decisiones de las mujeres indígenas; y (iii) reduzcan la brecha de pobreza y...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - Ecuador - El Salvador - Honduras - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
Regional Symposium: Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets in Europe and Central Asia
Achieving healthy diets, adequate nutrition, good health and wellbeing for all in a sustainable manner while managing responsibly natural resources are at the core of the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals. Economic growth and rising incomes have nearly eliminated hunger and undernutrition in Europe and Central Asia. However, malnutrition...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Cerdo costero criollo: INTA AMBA trabaja para que sea accesible al productor familiar
Proyecto en el que participan: INTA AMBA. la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias (UNLZ), la Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche de Florencio Varela, productores familiares y una empresa metalúrgica.
"El cerdo criollo costero (CCC), forma parte de la cultura popular de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Se utiliza para producir carne y chacinados...
Argentina
2017 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Journal article
A brief history of agroecology in Spain and Latin America
Our journal, with the word “agroecology” in the title, is an indication that the field of agroecology has emerged as an important approach for moving food and farming systems toward sustainability. We have become a site for the publication of participatory, action-oriented, and transdisciplinary research that has a goal of...
Spain
2017 - Journal Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
Blog article
Funai lança Centro de Monitoramento das Terras Indígenas
O Centro de Monitoramento Remoto (CMR) da Funai é um portal na web desenvolvido para monitorar as ocorrências de desmatamento e degradação nas terras indígenas e acompanhar as mudanças de uso e ocupação do solo. O CMR utiliza imagens de satélite (Landsat-8) para gerar informações diárias das terras indígenas localizadas...
Brazil
2017 - FUNAI
Report
Kuña ha yvy. Desigualdad de género en el acceso de a la tierra en Paraguay
El informe de investigación Kuña ha yvy. Desigualdades de género en el acceso de la tierra en Paraguay expone las principales brechas que afectan a mujeres rurales, campesinas e indígenas cuando buscan acceder a la tierra y a otros recursos productivos.
“Entre 1940 y 2008, las mujeres apenas recibieron el 13,6%...
Paraguay
2017 - ONU Mujeres Paraguay
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