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FAO Policy Series: Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries
Capture fisheries support the livelihoods of over 120 million people. Small-scale fisheries produce two-thirds of all catches destined for direct human consumption and provide 90% of the employment in the sector.Nicole Franz, Fisheries Planning Analyst and Yvette Diei Ouadi, Fishery Industry Officer of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department explain...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Shashe Agroecology School: A true centre of Agroecology and practical food Sovereignty
The experience of the Shashe community in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, is a microcosm of the broader vision of La Via Campesina (LVC). Shashe is a community of peasant farmers who gained their land first through a land occupation, and were then benefitted by the Fast Track Land Reform Program implemented...
Zimbabwe
2016 - La Via Campesina
Event
Foro público: Acciones sociales para la defensa del maíz frente a los cultivos transgénicos en Colombia
El foro tiene por objetivo formar opinión, generar debate y alertar a diferentes sectores sociales, sobre los impactos producidos por los cultivos transgénicos y las leyes de semillas en Colombia; y visibilizar acciones sociales y de incidencia para la defensa de las semillas y la soberanía alimentaria.
En el sitio del...
Colombia
2016 - Corporación Grupo Semillas Colombia
Event
GLOBAL FOOD FORUM 2016
The Global Food Forum will gather passionate political and business leaders willing to share insights on their vision, as well as on possible pathways for future developments, aiming to enhance both economic performance and environmental sustainability –around 250 participants representing key influencers of the EU debate will participate, including many MEPs and...
Italy
2016 - FarmEurope
Blog article
Food security in the face of climate change: Impossible without water
Development agencies must use the momentum from COP22 to prioritise water infrastructure projects and help mitigate the effects of climate change and extreme weather events in Africa
2016 - EurActiv
Event
2016 Youth Agribusiness, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship Summit on Innovation (YALESI 2016)
Youth employment and hunger are two key issues that have been impacted by the economic crisis. This is particularly true for youth living in developing countries, representing 85% of the world youth. In an attempt to address these issues, the Global Youth Innovation Network, GYIN, has initiated its second Global Youth Summit called the...
Senegal
2016 - Global Youth Innovation Network
Case study
Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya
Food and nutrition insecurity has been a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With land frontier closing, farmers in SSA must intensify and diversify food production to alleviate food and nutrition insecurity. In the face of climate change, African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) can offer opportunities to diversify production systems and...
Kenya
2016 - Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM)
Conference proceedings
Proyecto de Informe: 34ª Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y El Caribe
El informe describe las principales conclusiones de la Conferencia Regional de la FAO para LAC, acotencida del 29 de feberero al 3 de marzo en ciudad de México.
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste
The EU and Member States are committed to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), adopted in September 2015, including a target to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level by 2030, and reduce food losses along the food production and supply chains. The most recent estimates...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
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Knowledge sharing and innovation in agriculture and rural areas
The European Union (EU) has introduced new policy instruments such as the EIP-Agri and multi-actor partnerships in an attempt to stimulate innovation in agriculture. In addition, Leader has been replaced by the multi-funded Community-Led Local Development approach. These initiatives are being implemented across the EU despite the great variety of...
Hungary
2016 - The European Rural Development Network (ERDN)
Blog article
2nd Nyéléni Europe Forum for Food Sovereignty
The biggest convergence for cooperation and creating common strategies on food and agriculture for food sovereignty movements across more than 600 participants from 42 countries in Europe and Central Asia. It is the second time such a broad forum for food sovereignty has taken place in Europe, after the first...
Romania
2016 - Nyeleni
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Experiencias de gobernanza de tierras comunales en Guatemala. Chuamazán y Baquiax, Totonicapán
Este corto documental presenta la experiencia de las parcialidades Chuamazán y Baquiax, en el municipio de Totonicapán, que han logrado fortalecer su sistema de gobernanza entorno a la toma de decisión y participación de los miembros, la administración de derechos y obligaciones relacionadas con la tierra, y el manejo colectivo...
Guatemala
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
Celebration of the International Women’s Day at the African Union Headquarters
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8th March around the world. On this day, the African Union (AU) joins the international community to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, while also reviewing past progress of women’s development and looking ahead at future opportunities for women,...
2016 - African Union
Technical paper
Improved rainwater harvesting for fodder shrub production and livestock grazing: the Vallerani micro-catchment system in the Badia of Jordan
The Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region is characterized by a wide variability in rainfall and temperature. In these areas, evapotranspiration largely exceeds the amount of rainfall, leading to droughts with low forage production and water availability. The concurrent increase in human population with the growing demand...
Jordan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
TAILORING RURAL ADVISORY SERVICES FOR FAMILY FARMS
Family farming is a predominant form of farming in various countries around the globe. Considering its importance, the year 2014 was declared as the International Year for Family Farming (IYFF) by the United Nations. This policy paper by FAO and GFRAS “Tailoring Rural Advisory Services for Family Farms” has been...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Managing vegetable nematodes
Nematodes are dreadful worms that live in the soil and in the roots of many different crops and weeds. Nematodes are easier to prevent than to control. The secret is to: grow healthy seedlings; destroy all sources of nematodes in and near your vegetable field; rotate with crops that are...
Benin
2016 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
The peasant farmers of India: the need to classify and recognise their rights
India is the land of farmers. Agriculture being the prime occupation of the masses, the sector consists of a big number of farmers who are either into the agricultural or allied activities. The present legal system consists of the laws which are scattered both in their application and approach to...
India
2016
Blog article
Effort to modernize Tajikistan irrigation systems gets under way
Irrigation systems in Tajikistan – and the ways in which they are managed – should see improvement under a two-year FAO project just getting under way here.
Valued at US$ 468,000, the new project is aimed at modernizing irrigation systems and increasing agricultural productivity in a country that is highly dependent...
Tajikistan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Preparing low-cost concentrate feed
In this video, we will learn from farmers how one can save money by making their own concentrate feed for their livestock and fish. Many farmers do not have enough good feed, they can buy concentrate feed that is rich in nutrients, but such feed is costly.
By making a base...
2016
Book
Las compras públicas de la agricultura familiar y la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe
Lecciones aprendidas y experiencias
Las compras públicas de la AF son una de las principales innovaciones en las recientes estrategias de erradicación del hambre y de la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC). Diversos países han desarrollado políticas de SAN incluyendo en sus estrategias las compras de productos de la AF.
La...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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