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US$ 5 million livestock traceability project gets under way in Georgia
Improved standards for food safety and animal health should make Georgia’s agriculture sector more competitive. That is exactly the objective of a new US$5 million project launched recently by FAO and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture.
The four-year project – financed by the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Austria Development Agency –...
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Conservation agriculture
The main aim is to reduce costs and improve profitability. Soil health is improved as is soil moisture. Zambia is leading the way in Sub-Saharan Africa and this programme shows how the technique is practised.
Zambia
2016 - Access Agriculture
Report
New value chains from multifunctional forests
EU forests serve a wide range of economic, social and environmental purposes and provide around three million jobs. Wood remains the main source of financial revenue and forest biomass represents the biggest source of renewable energy in the EU. However, forests also provide a large range of other products, such...
European Union
2016 - EIP-Agri
Video
Good Growth Happens
The key message of this video is that secure tenure rights provide the foundation for economic growth, enhanced food security and nutrition, reduced conflict, and improved natural resource management while also improving the overall investment environment, thereby fostering increased investment.It addresses the importance of safeguarding land tenure rights in line...
2016 - Food and Agriculture organizations of the United Nations
Event
“Forging the Links - connecting RDP support to the Food & Drink Supply Chain”
The Seminar is part of the ENRD work on ‘Smart and Competitive Rural Areas’ where the main objective is to ‘To maximise the impact that RDPs have on supporting farms and rural firms in accessing emerging markets’.
The main focus for the activity has been on cooperation and investments which increase...
Belgium
2016 - European Network for Rural Development
Video
Film from summermountain farming with goats in Norway, Norsk seterkultur
This short film is showing a bit from the daily life on a summer mountain goat farm I Western Norway. It shows a modern and mechanized summer mountain farm with mechanized milking. The milk is preceded and on the farm. The chesse is sold from the farm and delivered to...
Norway
2016 - Norsk seterkultur
Book
Stories from the Field: Women Working Towards a Non-Toxic Environment
How 25 women farmers are working to reduce pesticides use and shift to agroecology
Cambodia - China - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Myanmar - Thailand - Viet Nam
2016 - Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PANAP)
Report
Transformaciones rurales y agricultura familiar en América Latina: una mirada a través de las encuestas de hogares
El documento tiene como objetivo informar sobre el proceso de cambio estructural en el medio rural en países de América Latina y el Caribe durante la primera década del presente siglo. El documento revisa algunos de los principales cambios estructurales que se han dado en el mundo rural durante las...
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Video
CONSULTA SOBERANÍA ALIMENTARIA PANAMÁ 2016 1
V consulta sobre soberanía alimentaria realizada en Panamá los días 19 y 20 de febrero 2016. Organizada por la Alianza por la soberanía Alimentaria para América Latina y El Caribe.
2016
Video
PGS: A guide to Participatory Guarantee Systems for Organic Agriculture
This educational video presents Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) through practical examples and theory. It is illustrated by 4 PGS initiatives: “Nature et Progres” in France, “Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia” in Brazil, “Bryanston Organic and Natural Market” in South Africa and “Sabeto Organic Producers Association” in Fiji. The video is structured...
2016 - IFOAM
Website
"Steps for..." - brochures for farmers
These is a web site of the Advisory service, national institution for the education and advising in agriculture, forestry and rural development of Croatia. On this part of the web site, titled "Steps To ..." you can find simple explanations on how to start with some new production or a...
Croatia
2016 - Advisory service
Statement
The European CSA Declaration adopted in Ostrava
150 participants and volunteers from 25 countries gathered from Sept 16th -18th in Provoz Hlubina (Ostrava, CZ) for the 3rd European meeting on CSA.
Participants unanimously adopted the European Declaration on Community Supported Agriculture which they will all take home to their respective countries.
Czechia
2016 - Urgenci
Newsletter
Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation
This month's newsletter focuses on Operational Groups (OGs). Hear about some first experiences from people involved in OGs and discover a range of tools and information which are available for you to use on the EIP-AGRI website.
European Union
2016 - EIP - Agri
Blog article
Conference: science has strong positive impact on agriculture
Public funding of agricultural science brings strong social benefits, experts said at last week’s international conference on the impact of research on agriculture in Europe. Participants in the conference, held at FAO headquarters in Rome, called for increased public spending to enable agriculture to respond to today’s challenges.
European Union
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Sowing and thinning sorghum
Increasing plant populations by reducing the planting distance is a key step to achieving a uniform crop stand and a high yield. On the other hand, when plants are too close to each other this can hamper good crop development. The plants will be thin and will be susceptible to...
Mali
2016 - Access Agriculture
Website
Making a difference: helping forest and farm producers meet the SDGs
New information materials (a video and five factsheets) are providing important insight into the Forest and Farm Facility’s (FFF) work at country, regional and global level. The FFF, a partnership comprising FAO, IIED and IUCN hosted by FAO, has developed a model delivery mechanism for multi-stakeholder actors to improve the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Organic farming, climate change mitigation and beyond: Reducing the environmental impacts of EU agriculture
Sustainably feeding the growing world population and preventing dangerous climate change are two of the major challenges facing society today. While there is a growing understanding of the complexity of the links between these challenges and of the global degradation of the environment, the contribution of food and farming to...
2016 - IFOAM EU Group
Fact sheet
Building resilience in Africa’s drylands
Populations in Africa are increasingly exposed to the negative impact of natural and human-induced disasters such as drought, floods, disease epidemics and conflicts which threaten the agriculture production systems and livelihoods of vulnerable communities. The initiative on “Building Resilience in Africa’s Drylands” was developed to enhance the capacity of these...
Burkina Faso - Chad - Ethiopia - Kenya - Madagascar - Mali - Niger - Senegal - Somalia - South Sudan - Uganda - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Burundi El Niño situation report
In an already precarious context characterized by structural vulnerabilities, the socio-political crisis that started in April 2015 has increasingly affected the population in the country with 1.1 million Burundians in need of immediate humanitarian assistance. Access to basic services was restricted and communities were forced to adopt negative coping mechanisms,...
Burundi
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Website
Rural Development Programme of the Republic of Croatia
This website is devoted to the promotion of the Rural Development Programme of the Republic Croatia, financed by the European Union.
Croatia
2016 - Ministry of agriculture
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