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What Future for our Farming Systems?
Environmental Challenges and Integrated Solutions
This conference will seek to encourage debate on the benefits to be gained from more sustainable resource use and greater integration of different land uses on lowland and upland farming systems. It will present the best possible scientific understanding of the complexities associated with how best to achieve such an...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - Scotland’s Rural College
Blog article
National dialogue fortifies Ukraine’s milk industry
Despite political and economic turbulence and global milk prices dropping to an all-time low, Ukraine’s commercial dairy industry has made impressive strides in recent years, producing higher-quality milk and tapping into new markets abroad.
Thanks to an active Ukrainian Dairy Sector Working Group, created in 2013 by the country’s dairy industry...
Ukraine
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Short-Term Outlook for EU arable crops, dairy and meat markets in 2016 and 2017
The slowdown in the economic growth of developing economies, although partially compensated by a recovery in developed countries, contributes to the general decline in commodity prices, including in oversupplied crude oil. Depreciation in some competing currencies limits the competitive advantage of the euro at 1.10 EUR/USD. In 2016, milk deliveries...
2016 - European Commission - Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Newsletter article
Post‐conference report for the 13th Eurasian Grassland Conference 2016 in Sighisoara, Romania
Between the 20th and 24th of September 2016, 85 participants from 25 countries met in Sighisoara in Southern Transylvania for the 13th annual conference of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group. In contrast to the previous 12 “EDGM, European Dry Grassland Meetings”, this year it was decided to change the name...
Romania
2016 - ADEPT Foundation
Blog article
Selo da Agricultura Familiar chega a 1.500 permissionários
Um dos principais instrumentos de valorização e reconhecimento do trabalho dos agricultores familiares, o Selo de Identificação da Participação da Agricultura Familiar (Sipaf) ultrapassou as metas estipuladas para o ano de 2016. Até agora, já foram emitidos mais de 300 selos, número acima do registrado em todo o ano passado,...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Journal
13 éclairages pour comprendre le financement rural et agricole
Zoom microfinance n. 48
SOS Faim édite Zoom Microfinance depuis 15 ans. L’occasion d’aborder de nombreuses thématiques sur lesquelles il est possible de porter à la fois un regard rétrospectif et prospectif avec le prisme du financement rural et agricole. C’est ce que nous vous proposons dans cette publication. Quels défis ? Défis politiques,...
2016 - SOS Faim
Video
Organizações femininas do RN viram exemplo para o Mercosul
El intercambio de Promoción de la autonomía y la igualdad de las mujeres rurales reunió a representantes de siete países en Río Grande do Norte. El encuentro está promovido por la REAF y financiado por el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario.
Brazil
2016 - Reunión Especializada
Practices
Los virus de las abejas
Las enfermedades de virus de las abejas se extienden por todo el mundo. Por lo general son infravaloradas por los apicultores: pueden causar graves pérdidas económicas si se asocian con otras enfermedades de las abejas. La Varroa destructor ha contribuido en gran medida a aumentar la incidencia de enfermedades virales....
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Journal article
L’agriculture périurbaine à Oran (Algérie) : diversification et stratégies d’adaptation
Oran, ville méditerranéenne dynamique et seconde agglomération algérienne, a évolué selon un processus d’urbanisation diffuse. Ses franges rurales périurbaines, aux contours flous, lieux d’importantes transformations, sont actuellement des espaces de production agricole. Une redéfinition de l’agriculture périurbaine s’opère par des initiatives individuelles qui se traduisent par une diversification agricole : développement...
Algeria
2016 - Université d'Oran
Blog article
The EU has announced new actions to respond to the El Niño and food security crisis in the Horn of Africa
Four new actions worth €66.5 million will be funded under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa to address the destructive impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the Horn of Africa region, such as floods and droughts.
2016 - EuropeAid
Report part
CAP CONTEXT INDICATORS 2014-2020
AGRICULTURAL AREA
In the EU-28, the total utilised agricultural area (UAA) was 174 million ha in 2013. France had the largest agricultural area (28 million ha) covering 16% of the total UAA in Europe, followed by Spain (23 million ha) and the UK (17 million ha). 71 % of the total agricultural...
2016 - European Commission - DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Conference proceedings
2016 International Conference on Pulses: Conference program & abstract book
The International Conference on Pulses for Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture in Drylands was held on the occasion of the 2016 International Year of Pulses to provide a platform to various stakeholders, including scientists, policy-makers, extension workers, traders and entrepreneurs, to discuss the various contributions of pulses to food and nutritional security and ecosystem...
2016 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Event
Primera Convocatoria proyecto "Más allá del AIAF 2014: apoyo a Comités Nacionales de la Agricultura Familiar CCNNAF"
Convocatoria a iniciativas de Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil (representativas de la Agricultura Familiar) enmarcadas en el proyecto “Más allá del AIAF 2014: apoyo a Comités Nacionales de la Agricultura Familiar CCNNAF”.
El proyecto de apoyo a los CCNNAF es implementado por el Foro Rural Mundial (FRM), en consorcio con el...
2016 - FIDA MERCOSUR-CLAEH
Fact sheet
INIAP Ñusta nueva variedad. Nueva variedad de cebada de grano descubierto para el Sur del Ecuador
El INIAP desarrolló una nueva variedad de cebada para la zona sur del Ecuador con 13% de proteína y un rendimiento promedio de 4,38 de toneladas por hectárea, presenta tolerancia a roya amarilla, roya de la hoja, escaldadura y el enanismo. El nombre ñusta deriva de la palabra en kichua...
Ecuador
2016 - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP)
Project
Inspirational Ideas - Pulses- superfood for the future
2016 is the UN’s year of the pulse. Watch the video from the FAO then read the article below to find out about how innnovations in food products using pulses, such as ‘pulled oat’ or faba bean yoghurt, combined with the results of research to improve their productivity, means that...
2016 - EIP Agri
Video
Adapting agriculture to Climate Change: a Perspective from Ethiopia
This presentation was held by Million Beley from MELCA-Ethiopia at the World Food Day 2016 event in Stockholm on the 14th of October 2016.
Ethiopia
2016 - SIANI
Case study
Ecologically Integrated Farming System in the South of Vietnam: Rice-Duck-Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province
Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time.
Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues. A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional Asian farming...
Viet Nam
2016 - Seed to Table
Conference paper
La agricultura familiar en las políticas públicas de los países del MERCOSUR:Avances en el posicionamiento en las agendas públicas en los últimos 10 años
El Proyecto Insignia de Agricultura Familiar (PIAF) del IICA y la Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) del MERCOSUR organizan este foro técnico que busca sensibilizar a los funcionarios gubernamentales, del sector privado y personal técnico del IICA en las Américas, acerca de las políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar.
En este enlace se...
2016 - Proyecto Insignia de Agricultura Familiar (PIAF) del IICA
Report
Cereal supply and demand balance for sub-Saharan African countries
Situation as of May 2016
The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) continuously monitors crop prospects and food security situation at global, regional, national and sub-national levels and warns of impending food difficulties and emergencies. Established in the wake of the world food crisis of the early 1970’s, GIEWS maintains...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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