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The Resources section holds archived publications and multimedia materials related to family farming general issues.

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Magazine article
(Re) Valorización de los alimentos de la agricultura familiar

Límites y particularidades de las estrategias agroalimentarias en el Estado de Río Grande do Sul, Brasil
Los estudios sobre alimentación se inclinan por temas sobre diversos problemas en términos de acceso y de calidad de los alimentos. Al nivel mundial las discusiones advierten sobre el proceso de industrialización de la alimentación y vinculan el tema de lo rural como un potencializador de las nuevas relaciones de...
Brazil
2016 - Agroalimentaria

Blog article
Куры, гуси, утки, индейки — традиционные жители птичьих дворов, а вот фазаны, цесарки и перепела на подворьях стали появляться сравнительно недавно, но с точки зрения хозяйственной полезности очень интересны

Перепелка – самая миниатюрная и скороспелая сельскохозяйственная птица семейства фазановых отряда куриных. Простота содержания и кормления позволяет содержать их и в городе, и в деревне. Дает она до 300 яиц в год. А уникальность пищевых и диетических свойств позволяет практически всем употреблять яйца и мясо перепелок без ограничений.
Russian Federation
2016

Video
الفلاحة الطبيعية : التجاور الزراعي

No descritpion available
Morocco
2016 - Terre et Humanisme

Book
Protocol to detect and monitor pollinator communities: Guidance for practitioners

This publication provides guidance on using a common methodology for monitoring pollinator diversity and abundance, as part of the GEF supported Project “Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture, through an Ecosystem Approach” implemented in seven countries - Brazil, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Pakistan and South Africa. The project...
Brazil - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Pakistan - South Africa
2016 - FAO

Report part
Land and natural resources

Land and natural resources (primarily forests and water) play critical roles in economic and rural transformation. As populations and economies grow, the first natural response is to expand cultivation into former forests and rangelands and use the most readily available water sources in agriculture and the urban sectors. At that...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Blog article
Sustainable agricultural mechanization – transforming rural families’ livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

Over 100 international agriculture and food experts, including from 27 African countries gathered in Nairobi to discuss ways to boost agricultural mechanization for the benefit of smallholder farmers in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Farm mechanization has huge potential for increasing agricultural production and transforming rural families’ livelihoods by reducing...
Kenya
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Scaling up agroecology for food security, empowerment and resilience

This policy brief discusses ways to scale up agroecological approaches and suggests actionable advice tailored for various stakeholders, including policy-makers, private sector, financial partners, research and development community and civil society. The brief focuses on how to design scaling up initiatives and provides success as well as failure stories.
Ethiopia - India - South Africa - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI)

Blog article
PRONAF Eco e PRONAF Mais Alimentos ajudam agricultor a produzir energia renovável

Usar o sol para produzir energia é uma ótima opção para quem quer economizar na conta de luz e ajudar o meio ambiente. Com recursos do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), agricultores têm a oportunidade de financiar tecnologias para produção de energia renovável, como placas fotovoltaicas.  Para incrementar...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Video
Building Pastoral Livelihoods in Afar

This video showcases FAO’s resilience works in Ethiopia’s Afar region in the last few years. 
Ethiopia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Street food in urban Ghana

A desk-top review and analysis of findings and recommendations from existing literature
In Africa street food vending and consumption have proliferated in the last three and a half decades, especially in urban areas. People who face barriers to the formal wage labor market find in street food vending a viable income option, as it requires little start-up capital and no formal education....
Ghana
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Una política agraria y rural de Estado

Cuando las Cortes Generales aprobaron la Ley 45/2007, para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Medio Rural, el objetivo fundamental era llenar un vacío legislativo y político que supliera la ausencia de una legislación y de una política rural propias, que se había cubierto parcialmente con reglamentos y políticas derivadas de la...
Spain
2016 - La Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA)

Event
Segundo concurso buenas prácticas en agricultura familiar

La Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) y el Programa Fidamercosur CLAEH convocan a una nueva edición del concurso Buenas Prácticas en Agricultura Familiar. Este concurso premiará y difundirá experiencias exitosas en sus contextos locales, que puedan constituirse en disparadoras de ideas y experiencias aplicables en otros contextos diversos. Los proyectos...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Ecuador - Paraguay - Uruguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2016 - Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF)

Article
Small-scale fisheries: the exception should not be the rule

Brian O’Riordan, LIFE’s Deputy Director, explains to the readers of Inshore Ireland the consequences of the “tradition of exemptions” and the future steps needed for a correct management of the small-scale fleet in the long term.  
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Video
Making a business from home raised chicks

In this video, we will visit the rooftop brooders of the women in Fayoum – and we will learn from them the key steps for a successful household chick raising business.
Egypt
2016 - Access Agriculture

Blog article
Georgia signs four-year cooperation agreement with FAO

Continuous improvement of Georgia’s agriculture, food safety, veterinary services and plant protection – and its response to climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues – are the priorities set out in a new agreement with FAO
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations

Blog article
UN FAO warns progress to defeat hunger is slowing in Asia-Pacific while obesity is on the rise as diets change

The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 60 percent of the roughly 800 million hungry people in the world. Since 1990, the region as a whole managed to reduce hunger by half – a key objective of the former Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But most of those gains were made in the earlier...
Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report
New entrants into farming

A collection of short examples of initiatives/projects related to new entrants into farming (mostly small scale)
Belgium - Bulgaria - Czechia - European Union - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Slovakia - Spain - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - EIP-AgRI Agriculture & Innovation

Blog article
Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya

Even as many pockets of the state, including its capital, battle the ravages of development and consumerism, a couple of villages visited by the author stand as examples of resilient local economies and lifestyles.  The village is not very old; it all began in 1963 with three families. Nongtraw comprises of...
India
2016 - India Together

Journal article
Agricultura Familiar na América Latina

A Difusão do Conceito e a Construção de Sujeitos Políticos
O presente artigo analisa a “agricultura familiar” na América Latina, como manifestação dos modos de vida e complexidades da região. Debate-se a categoria como “conceito-síntese” das rupturas e continuidades do Agro latino-americano.
Brazil
2016 - Revista Brasileira de Sociologia do Direito (RBSD)

Blog article
Accra hosts 7th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS)

As FAO assesses school feeding facilities in Africa
On the occasion of the 7th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security commemorated in Accra, this year, under the theme “Investing in Food Systems for Improving Child Nutrition: Key to Africa’s Renaissance”, FAO called for multi-stakeholder public private partnerships at national, regional and regional levels to address the problem...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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