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Farm-Success project second transnational meeting,
The second transnational project meeting for the Farm-Success Project took place in Jaén, Spain on the 21-22nd April 2016. Representatives from each of the Project’s eight partners attended the transnational meeting; the second meeting of many transnational meetings held throughout the duration of the Project. This second meeting, provided a...
2016
Journal article
Caracterización de la agricultura familiar a partir de un programa de desarrollo rural
El caso de los destinatarios del PRODERNEA (1999‐2007)
En el actual debate sobre la agricultura familiar confluyen miradas contrapuestas respecto de quiénes son los sujetos que la integran, el tipo de apoyo que se les debe dar y el rol que este sector debería cumplir en el desarrollo regional. El presente artículo pretende contribuir a este debate, analizando...
Argentina
2016 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)
Report
Facts and figures on organic agriculture in the European Union
This report has been prepared by DG Agriculture and Rural Development with the support of Eurostat, as well as FIBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft mbH for data on Germany and the Ministerium für ein Lebenswertes Österreich for data on Austria.
The organic sector in the EU has been...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Blog article
Royal Government of Cambodia honors FAO efforts on country natural resource protection
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) awarded the Royal Order of Sahametrei to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Cambodia for outstanding services to the King and the people of Cambodia. The award, signed by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen, is given in recognition...
Cambodia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa
Ghana country case study report
This study took place in Ghana (Accra and Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipal District) 20- 30 April 2015. The study was led by Luke Harman of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) along with local partners Dr Kofi Marfo and Mrs Joyce Haleegoah. The Ghana country study set out to focus particularly on the...
Ghana
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Elaboración de velas con molde de plástico o silicón
En la siguiente tecnología se describen los pasos para confeccionar velas en un molde (de silicón u otro) en base de cera de abejas. Esta tecnología proporciona una nueva forma de ingreso de recursos donde se utiliza la cera de abejas que recicla el apicultor. Esta manera de confeccionar velas...
Mexico
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Converting to Organic Farming
This video is a documentary featuring a European farmer who converted his farming system from conventional farming to organic farming to show the pros and cons of the process from a personal perspective. The farmer describes the different stages which the older system underwent and mentions which channels of distribution...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Newsletter
STATE OF THE ART in small-scale fisheries
In May 2016, a total of 1702 records were available in the SOTA ISSF layer. Among them, 61% are found to be peer-reviewed papers, 20% reports, 10% books or books chapters, and 3% conference proceedings. Information on SSF are also disseminated through newsletters, PhD theses, documentaries, monographs, handbooks, or teaching...
2016 - SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES OF THE WORLD
Blog article
Caravana de agricultura familiar no Paraná aborda o uso de energias renováveis
Transformar a luz solar, o ar ou substâncias orgânicas em energia pode ser uma ótima opção para os agricultores familiares. Além de ajudar na preservação do meio ambiente, a prática impacta positivamente no bolso. Energia renovável foi um dos temas discutidos na III Caravana da Agricultura Familiar promovida pela Federação...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Journal article
Climate change and the loss of organic archaeological deposits in the Arctic
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average with overlooked consequences for the preservation of the rich cultural and environmental records that have been stored for millennia in archaeological deposits. In this article, we investigate the oxic degradation of different types of organic archaeological deposits located in...
2016 - Scientific Reports
Article
Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review
Central Asia is geopolitically and strategically important because of its geographic position. The Central Asian states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan are situated in the heart of the Eurasian continent and form a trade link between China, the Middle East, and Europe. Upon entering into membership in the Shanghai...
2016 - French National Institute for Agricultural Research
Report
Poverty in a rising Africa
This report begins by evaluating Africa’s data landscape to monitor poverty. It maps out and assesses in detail the availability and quality of the data needed to track monetary poverty (expenditures, prices, GDP) and also reflects on the governance and political processes that underpin the current situation. Carrying the work...
2016 - World Bank
Working paper
Contracting by Small Farmers in Commodities with Export Potential
Assessing Farm Profits of Lentil Growers in Nepal
This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in a...
Nepal
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Report
EU Dairy Farms Report
This annual report provides an overview of EU dairy farms based on the latest available data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) for 2013. It provides trends in milk margin per tonne and in income per work unit from 2004 to 2013, and estimates of gross milk margins for...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Practices
Apiculture: utilisation d’un enfumoir métallique à soufflet
L’utilisation du feu et de la fumée pour extraire le miel des ruches ou de colonies naturelles permet une protection des piqûres d’abeilles. Cependant cette pratique non seulement nuit à l’environnement et à la santé des colonies mais impacte de manière négative la qualité du miel. L’utilisation d’un enfumoir métallique...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report part
Adapting to Climate Change in Smallholder Agriculture
Most of the world’s poor and hungry are rural people who earn meagre livings from agriculture. In 2010, some 900 millions of the estimated 1.2 billion extremely poor lived in rural areas. About 750 million of them worked in agriculture, usually as smallholder family farmers (Olinto et al., 2013). While 200 million rural poor...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Event
Curso: Rabia de los herbívoros y "Una Salud"... Avanzando hacia una gestión sanitaria integrada
Este curso de autoaprendizaje y gratuito ha sido diseñado principalmente para Médicos Veterinarios y Técnicos Pecuarios de los Servicios Veterinarios Oficiales (SVO), vinculados a los programas nacionales de prevención y control de la Rabia Paralítica Bovina, y en particular para aquellos que desarrollen acciones sanitarias en terreno. El alcance también...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Common Ground - Securing land rights and safeguarding the earth
A Global Call to Action on Indigenous and Community Land Rights
Up to 2.5 billion people depend on indigenous and community lands, which make up over 50 percent of the land on the planet; they legally own just one-fifth. The remaining five billion hectares remain unprotected and vulnerable to land grabs from more powerful entities like governments and corporations. There is...
2016 - Oxfam International,
Video
Bending over the maize
A traditional Central American practice is to bend over the maize stalk to help dry the maize and to protect it from disease and pest damage. If you do this at just the right time, you will harvest more. Maize grains keep growing until a black spot appears at the...
Guatemala
2016 - Access Agriculture
Manual
Consolider la resilience à l’insécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle au Sahel et en Afrique de l’Ouest
Foire aux savoirs. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Au Sahel, environ 65 pour cent de la population active travaillent dans le secteur agricole et leurs conditions de vie sont ainsi tributaires des aléas climatiques, des marchés et des facteurs environnementaux. Plus de la moitié sont des femmes. Les crises récurrentes constituent de réelles préoccupations pour l’atteinte d’une sécurité...
Burkina Faso
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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