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Practice of Conservation Agriculture in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
Agriculture is an important part of the economy in Central Asia and contributes significantly to the food security of the majority of population. Sustainable development of agriculture, increase of production and improvement of population welfare largely depend on soil condition and its fertility. Over the past decade, the agricultural lands,...
Azerbaijan - Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
Permaculture/Agroecology system in Timor-Leste National School Curriculum for Basic Education
Timor-Leste is a half Island country with a total population of 1.2 million people; it is geographically situated between Asia and the Pacific region. It is a tropical country and 80 per cent of its population live in rural areas. Agriculture, fishery and forestry are the main economical mainstays.
In 2013,...
Timor-Leste
2016 - Permaculture Timor-Leste
Report
Entwicklung des Gemüsebaus in Deutschland von 2000-2015: Anbauregionen, Betriebsstrukturen, Gemüsearten und Handel
Vegetable production is the most important horticultural sector in Germany, as measured by production area and gross value added. During 2015, open field vegetable production included 115,500 hectares. The annual per capita consumption of vegetables in Germany has increased significantly over the past decades from only 64 kg in the...
Germany
2016 - Thünen-Institut
Practices
Elaboración de figuras de cera de abejas
La cera de abejas puede ser también utilizada para la confección de diferentes accesorios decorativos muy llamativos dentro de los como velas y figuras. Las figuras de cera de abejas son una forma de dar uso a los excedentes de cera más vieja utilizada en las colmenas, que también permite...
Mexico
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Journal article
La société civile appelée à contribuer au développement de la pêche et de l'aquaculture
La priorité actuelle c'est la protection du métier de la pêche artisanale que beaucoup de gens quittent en raison du manque de la ressource et des conflits d'intérêts en mer entre les grands bateaux de pêche et les petits
Algeria
2016
Manual
Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas en el Cultivo de Café para reducir el impacto del cambio climático
Una de las principales actividades económicas que se realiza en estos países es la producción de café, que además de representar un ingreso para los hogares, es un patrimonio natural y cultural en la región.
El café es uno de los productos que más aporta al Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) en...
Mexico
2016 - Instituto Interamericano para la Investigación del Cambio Global (IAI)
Manual
Desarrollo de un sistema de monitoreo ambiental para mejorar la prevención y capacidad de adaptación al cambio climático de las comunidades pesqueras y acuícolas
Caso de estudio estero real Nicaragua
Este documento describe el proceso para diseñar un sistema de monitoreo ambiental integrado en el Estero Real, Chinandega, Nicaragua entre el 2012 y 2014, tendiente a prevenir los efectos del cambio climático en las comunidades pesqueras y acuícolas más vulnerables y poner en práctica un sistema de alerta temprana ante...
Nicaragua
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manual
Farmer Field School Guidance Document
Planning for Quality Programmes
This FFS Guidance Document focuses on the process and critical decisions that are necessary when starting a new FFS programme, and guides the reader through the essential steps required to establish a solid basis for such programmes, in tune with the specific local conditions. It also defines the essential elements...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Call for articles: Strengthening pastoralist societies through improved governance
The December issue of Farming Matters aims to inform pastoralist communities, practitioners, researchers, civil society, policy makers and others about the practices and policies best fitted to strengthen pastoralist societies. Articles should be submitted before September 1.
Pastoralist communities provide meat, hide, dairy, and manure fuel, supporting about 200 million households...
2016 - ILEIA- centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Project
Video-based agricultural extension: Analysis of a pilot project in Ethiopia
Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.1 Digital Green’s approach has the potential to transform extension in Ethiopia via a fairly simple impact pathway. By providing a cost-effective ap-proach to information dissemination, video-based...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Working paper
FAO's and IFAD's Engagement in Pastoral Development Joint Evaluation Synthesis
This joint evaluation synthesis analyses the results of FAO's and IFAD's support to pastoral development between 2003 and 2013. It does so by reviewing the evidence contained in the evaluation reports that both organizations produced during this period. The overriding aim of the Evaluation Synthesis is to draw useful lessons...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
Cambios globales, respuestas locales para el café
Poster "Cambios globales, respuestas locales para el café". La incorporación de buenas prácticas agrícolas en las plantaciones de café ayuda a crear ecosistemas con mejores condiciones ambientales y productivas para enfrentar el cambio climático.
2016 - Instituto Interamericano para la Investigación del Cambio Global (IAI)
Journal article
Comment se construit l’invisibilité des populations pastorales au Sahel : l’expérience de la crise alimentaire de 2005 au Niger
Au Sahel, les systèmes d’information élaborés et perfectionnés depuis les années 1980 n’ont pas suffi aux politiques nationales et aux actions d’urgence internationales pour gérer la spécificité des populations pastorales. Cette inadéquation renvoie aux difficultés historiques des administrations à prendre en compte la gestion commune des ressources naturelles et la...
Niger
2016 - CIRAD
Blog article
Um caso de sucesso: empreendedorismo feminino no campo
Por meio do Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Pronaf), a agricultora familiar Letícia Weigert conseguiu fazer seu primeiro financiamento, em 2009. “Com um investimento de aproximadamente R$ 40 mil, ampliamos a nossa unidade agroindustrial”, conta ela, que recentemente passou a trabalhar com o cultivo suspenso de morangos. A agricultora...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Video
Pure milk is good milk
Modern dairy plants use pure, fresh milk to make milk powder, cheese, yoghurt and other products. The processing plant can only make its products from pure milk. When water is added, the milk is diluted, or weakened, and it is not good for processing into dairy products.
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
Book part
How is the life of family farms in Europe? Presentation of Lithuania
Association of private farming of the Czech Republic organized an International Conference on family farms and Common Agricultural Policy of EU. The event was held in Brno on 4 - 6th of April 2016. 10 European countries attended the conference. Herewith volume 4. Presentation of Lithuania
Lithuania
2016
Case study
La Costanza: Urban Agroecology in a quickly urbanizing place
Let's make a national minga together!
48 million people live in Colombia nowadays. During the last 60 years of internal conflict, the country urbanized. According to the World Bank stats, less than 24% of the Colombian population lives in rural areas. About the 30 largest cities concentrate more than 70% of the population.
The competition for...
Colombia
2016 - La Costanza Cooperative
Working paper
Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa
Evidence from Ethiopia
Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Journal article
FAO : Lancement du projet de réduction des pertes et gaspillage alimentaires
Le projet de «réduction des pertes et gaspillage alimentaires et de développement des chaînes de valeurs pour la sécurité alimentaire», a été lancé mercredi, à Tunis, par le ministère de l'Agriculture, des Ressources Hydrauliques et de la Pêche, en collaboration avec la FAO.
Tunisia
2016
Project
Czech farmers know how to do it - Farm succesion
APF CR is a part of the International project FARM_SUCCESS, which deal with succession at family farms. The main aim of the project is to provide tools and knowledge to young farmers in order to enhance and support succession process in family farms. In mid of September already third meeting...
Czechia
2016 - Association of private farming of the Czech Republic
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