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“Smart farming: Harvesting the digital dividends across the EU”
Though still associated with bucolic imagery, farmers confront a steep challenge: produce 60% more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 while using scarce natural resources more efficiently and adapting to climate change. Luckily ICT is here to help: sensor-based, data-intensive ‘smart’ farming will potentially add $10b per...
Belgium
2016 - DIGITALEUROPE
Report
Sustainable High Nature Value (HNV) farming
High Nature Value (HNV) farming is a relatively new concept that has been developed since the early 1990s as a policy tool to describe those farming systems in Europe which are of greatest biodiversity value. Instead of focusing only upon the maintenance of rare or endangered species and habitats on...
2016 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
Blog article
New support for Kenya to focus on smallholder agriculture
Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica, signed financing agreements with Kenya, together with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The support provided will focus, amongst others, on supporting smallholder agriculture through access to finance, training or market integration.
Kenya
2016 - European Commission
Journal article
Characterization of production system and breeding practices of sheep producers in Doyogena district, Southern Ethiopia
An exploratory survey was undertaken in Doyogena district of Southern Nation Nationalities Peoples region of Ethiopia to understand the sheep production system, the breeding practices, selection criteria and sheep production constraints in order to develop a sheep breeding strategy. Data were collected from 107 households using semi-structured questionnaire and group...
Ethiopia
2016
Fact sheet
Monitoring EU Agri-Food Trade: Development until June 2016
The monthly value of EU agri-food exports in June 2016 reached EUR 10.9 billion and, thus, slightly exceeded the export values in June of previous years. EU agri-food imports went down from EUR 9.8 billion in June 2015 to EUR 9.5 billion in June 2016; thus the net trade surplus...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Report
2015–2016 El Niño
Early action and response for agriculture, food security and nutrition
El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific, which occurs roughly every 2 to 7 years, lasting from 6 to 24 months. While the main threat to food production is reduced rainfall and drought in some regions, El Niño can also cause heavy rains and...
El Salvador - Ethiopia - Haiti - Honduras - Indonesia - Lesotho - Malawi - Mongolia - Mozambique - Nicaragua - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Somalia - South Africa - Timor-Leste - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO opens new subregional office in Lebanon to tackle effects of crises
Conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Yemen are the prime culprit behind the doubling of undernourished people in the Near East, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today as he visited Beirut, where FAO is opening a new sub-regional office.Lebanon and 14 other countries in the Near East and North...
Lebanon
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
Water harvesting for agriculture: Status, performance and scope assessment in Uganda, Burkina Faso and Morocco
This assessment targets agricultural water extension agents and technical experts, providing them with clear indications on how to improve water harvesting (WH) capacity for agricultural production in the three case study countries, as well as how to select feasible and suited WH techniques for different geographical areas. It is an...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Age of the Farmer
65 is the average age of farmers, and there are not enough young farmers to replace them. How did we get here?
2016
Event
Atelier international sur la bactérie « Xylella fastidiosa » et « Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS)
Du 19 au 22 avril 2016 se tient un « atelier international sur la bactérie « Xylella fastidiosa » et « Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS) : Syndrome du déclin rapide des oliviers’. Cet atelier est organisé par la FAO et la Convention internationale de la Protection des Végétaux (CIPV / IPPC) et le...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Convention internationale de la Protection des Végétaux (CIPV / IPPC), CIHEAM IAM- Bari
Journal article
Managing Flexibility and Expectations: Gendered Experiences of Spatial-temporal Relations in Swedish Family-based Dairy Farming
In recent decades, the Swedish agricultural sector has been reshaped by economic change and the restructuring of the labour market, but it is still dominated by family farms dependent on the labour and time of family members. To date, the concept of temporality and time has attracted limited attention within...
Sweden
2016
Video
West African women defend traditional palm oil
In the last century, industrial oil palm plantations expanded around the world, first in Asia, then in Latin America. The development of high-yielding oil palms and new processing techniques—which transformed the traditionally viscous red liquid into a colourless, odourless oil suitable for global markets—made oil palm plantations a lucrative investment....
Benin
2016 - GRAIN
Blog article
Smart farming trying to find its feet in EU agriculture
The EU Common Agricultural Policy after 2020 should mobilise both direct payments and rural development pillars, in order to pave the way for the introduction of much-needed digital technologies in the farming sector, experts in precision agriculture told.
The rising demand for agricultural products, combined with the need to protect the...
European Union
2016 - EurActiv
Journal article
Les systèmes d’élevage de petits ruminants en Tunisie Centrale : stratégies différenciées et adaptations aux transformations du territoire
En Tunisie centrale, l’élevage ovin reste très présent, malgré les nombreuses perturbations auxquelles il fait face depuis les années 1970 : aléas climatiques, évolutions socio-économiques et culturelles, développement des cultures. Ces évolutions entraînent une diminution des ressources issues des parcours. Il s’agit de comprendre comment des familles maintiennent une activité d’élevage...
Tunisia
2016 - Institut National Agronomique de Tunis
Website
El clima está cambiando y nos estamos adaptando
El Programa Mundial de Alimentos en Ecuador, el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente (MAE), en coordinación con el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuicultura y Pesca (MAGAP), trabajan junto a los gobiernos locales desde el 2011 para mejorar la resiliencia de las comunidades frente a los efectos adversos del cambio climático para...
Ecuador
2016 - Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA Ecuador)
Blog article
Rural development in Poland will focus on smallholders’ poverty
Supporting small and family-owned farms is among goals of the Common Agricultural Policy for the period 2014-2020. Poland stands as one of the primary beneficiaries of this focus.
Poland has one of the highest shares of small farms in its agricultural sector, yet the number of working poor smallholders is high.
73%...
Poland
2016
Manual
Mainstreaming Gender into Forestry Interventions in Asia and the Pacific
Gender mainstreaming, as a formalized concept, was established by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995 and grounded upon international frameworks – both obligatory and voluntary – that provide rationale and commitments upon United Nations (UN) Member States for its implementation. Gender mainstreaming is not an end in...
2016 - Food and Agriculture organizations of the United Nations
Fact sheet
South Africa implements a national strategy to support community seed banks
Farmers have traditionally maintained local seeds, and through them biodiversity, using indigenous knowledge passed through generations. Farmers select, plant, harvest, clean, and store seeds to feed their families today and in the future. They also exchange and share seeds with their neighbors, friends, and relatives. However, these traditional practices are...
South Africa
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Conference/Meeting
Farm-Success project third transnational meeting
The third transnational project meeting for the Farm-Success Project took place in Rome, Italy on the 15-16th September 2016. Representatives from each of the Project’s eight partners attended the transnational meeting; the third of many transnational meetings held throughout the duration of the Project. This third meeting provided a platform...
2016
Case study
Green Gate Organic Farm
The Green Gate Organic Farm is the farm operation part of the National Environment Centre (NEC), a vocational education facility part of TAFE NSW Riverina Institute in New South Wales, Australia. The farm was set up in the mid 1990’s. In the process of planning a number of uncertainties were...
Australia
2016 - TAFE Riverina Institute
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