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Journal article
Hemmed In by Development
Odxel, Cacra, Nauxi, Bambolim and Siridao are small fishing villages running from north to south along the western coast of Tiswadi taluka (an administrative district for taxation purposes) of the Indian state of Goa. They lie on the banks of the Zuari river, which, at 92 km in length, is...
India
2016 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Fact sheet
FAO en Sudamérica: Desafíos en agricultura y alimentación
Folleto que describe brevemente cómo la FAO contribuye a los esfuerzos para la erradicación del hambre y la pobreza en diez países de Sudamérica: Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay y Venezuela.
Se presentan las prioridades identificadas para el programa de trabajo de la FAO en apoyo...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Event
15th Summer Academy on “Social Economy and Sustainable Rural Development”
Social enterprise is a dynamic and inspiring way of doing business. Social enterprises are innovative, independent businesses that exist to deliver a specific social and/or environmental mission; they form a diverse community and their approach, which seeks more-than-profit, is adopted by a huge range of organisations of every size, operating...
Greece
2016
Blog article
Farm profile: slow grown chickens at fosse meadows
Over the last few months I’ve been out and about with my camera profiling some of the small independent farmers and foodmakers who supply Farmdrop – a local food business on a mission to fix the food chain. In the first of the series I meet chicken farmers Nick Ball...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - Indie Farmer
Conference proceedings
FAO shares recipe for more food-secure cities
An overhaul of food systems – production, distribution and consumption – to make them more sustainable, will be needed to meet the food needs of a growing and ever more urban world population. That will mean attacking food waste, which is especially high in urban areas.
Germany
2016
Conference proceedings
Shaping social innovation for marginalised rural areas
As the Coordinator of the H2020 project “Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas” (SIMRA), I am very pleased to share the news that the 1st Workshop of the H2020 SIMRA Social Innovation Think Tank (SITT) that took place on October 26th – 28th 2016 in Bratislava and was endorsed by...
2016 - SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas)
Blog article
Marzo: mes de la mujer
Visibilizar la importancia de las políticas de desarrollo rural con enfoque de género
Para conmemorar el Día Internacional de la Mujer, y con el fin de proveer información específica sobre las brechas de género en áreas rurales, la Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR) junto a la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura en Argentina (FAO) lleva adelante en...
Argentina
2016 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)
Journal article
Caught in a Net
Small-scale fishing communities in South Africa have to cope with unequal power relations as they seek effective means for the implementation of the SSF Guidelines
South Africa
2016 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Manual
Guía de cultivo de la quínoa
La presente guía de cultivo busca mostrar en forma sencilla y clara los diversos pasos a seguir en el cultivo de la quinua, dando en primer lugar información sobre el medio ambiente en que se desarrolla la zona productora de quinua, la morfología de la planta y la fenología o...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
How to process the raw beeswax into value added products
Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The worker bees produce wax to use it for comb structural stability, to form cells for honey-storage and larval and pupal comfort and protection within the bee hive. Beeswax offers the opportunity to the beekeeper to generate...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference paper
Presentación: Mujeres Rurales y enfoque territorial en América Latina
El 17 de junio se realizó el Seminario Equidad de Género para el Desarrollo Territorial en la Cineteca del Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda en el que, frente a más de 100 personas, se presentaron dos documentos: el Informe Latinoamericano sobre Pobreza y Desigualdad 2015: Género y Territorio, elaborado por...
2016 - RIMISP - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural
Technical paper
Agrobiodiversidad, agricultura familiar y cambio climático
El V seminario regional “Agricultura y cambio climático: agrobiodiversidad, agricultura familiar y cambio climático”, se realizó el 20 y 21 de agosto de 2014 en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en Santiago de Chile. El seminario tuvo como objetivo general “promover el...
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Book
Social relations and dynamics shaping the implementation of the voluntary guidelines on small-scale fisheries (SSF guidelines) in South Africa
Integral to achieving the SSF Guidelines goal of targeting the most vulnerable and marginalized persons and eliminating discrimination is the need to have adequate understanding of the power relations and intersectionalities that shape access to and control over marine and other resources according to gender, age, race, ethnicity, labour and...
South Africa
2016
Practices
Fish and their byproducts
Fish is a unique source of micronutrients. However, many parts of larger fish, such as the head and the bones, are discarded during fish processing despite the high levels of nutrients, and particularly micro-nutrients found in these parts. Thus, the promotion and use of fish byproducts to create low-cost, high-quality...
Singapore
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Project
$3 million project targets Turkey’s vulnerable steppe lands
Farms and communities in Turkey’s Anatolian steppe will soon have help in coping with the damaging impacts of climate change. A two-year, $3 million FAO project – co-financed by the European Union and Turkey – aims to restore healthy ecosystems, promote environmentally friendly agricultural practices, and raise levels of knowledge...
Türkiye
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
How can we help smallholder farmers seize opportunities in Africa?
Smallholder farmers continue to dominate African agriculture although some countries--for example, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia--are experiencing a rise of medium-scale farms of between five and 100 hectares as part of the region’s broader economic transformation. Smallholder farmers still control the largest areas for production. They employ 70% of the work...
2016 - World Bank
Magazine article
Changing the narrative
A first required step to improving the integration of refugees and migrants s to increase understanding between host communities and new arrivals. Such approaches aim to ‘change the narrative’ around migration, increasing the likelihood of more positive outcomes for all.
European Union
2016 - European Network for Rural Development
Case study
Inspirational ideas: Delivering local food to consumers in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Matching the logistics of a farmers' cooperative with consumers' needs can be a real challenge. The Jarina farmers’ cooperative has found and tested several solutions over the past 12 years. It first started as an initiative to improve quality of life in the municipality of Litija, by promoting local agribusiness...
Slovenia
2016 - EIP - Agri
Newsletter
Yemaya - Icsf’s Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
Addressing gender inequalities and the concerns of women is an urgent need in this context. The SSF Guidelines are an important starting point towards this agenda. The next steps would be to take forward the campaign to include provisions of the Guidelines as part of policies for small-scale fisheries, particularly...
2016 - The International Collective in Support of Fish workers (ICSF)
Blog article
Shortening the hungry season in Senegal
Farmer Coumba Ndoffen Sene used to struggle to feed his family, but now he can pay his children’s school fees and buy them new clothes. He has also started a business raising chickens. Sene takes part in the IFAD-funded Agricultural Value Chains Support Project in Senegal.
One of the ideas behind...
Senegal
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
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