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Backed by a global accord on climate change, Asia-Pacific forestry leaders gather to set agenda through 2020
Key forestry leaders from Asia-Pacific began deliberations today on a series of critical natural resources issues challenging the region. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and building resilience to the negative impacts of climate change are among the priority topics on the agenda for the five-day meeting that will be the main...
Philippines
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Aziz Akhannouch a dévoilé les premiers détails d’une stratégie de préservation des oasis
Le Ministre de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche Maritime, Aziz Akhannouch, a dévoilé les premiers détails d’une stratégie de préservation des oasis. Cette stratégie a pour ambition de faire revivre des espaces sinistrés. Mais le soutien international est plus que nécessaire pour que la stratégie aboutisse.
Morocco
2016
Report
Mapping Farmer Seed Varieties in Manica, Mozambique
Report on initial investigations into agricultural biodiversity
This scoping exercise was carried on to deepen our understanding of the current context of seed use, main crops and varieties in the research localities, in order to gather evidence of the ongoing importance of farmer seed systems in the agricultural practices and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, to identify cases...
Mozambique
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
Event
Salon international de l'agriculture au Maroc - 11ème edition
Comment répondre au défi qui se pose à notre agriculture : la gestion des sols agricoles, la préservation et l’optimisation de l’utilisation de l’eau, des fertilisants et des produits phytosanitaires,la réduction de l’empreinte environnementale du travail agricole, le confort et la sécurité des agriculteurs, la production d’une énergie renouvelable à...
Morocco
2016
Blog article
Atelier de restitution des résultats des diagnostics : micro-économique, institutionnel et juridique de la petite agriculture en Tunisie
Une petite agriculture plus résiliente fondée sur une Stratégie Nationale prénant une agriculture multifonctionnelle
Dans le cadre d’un projet de coopération entre la FAO et le ministère de l’agriculture, des ressources hydrauliques et de la pêche,la petite agriculture a fait l’objet de débats et travaux de groupes très productifs lors de la tenue de l’atelier de restitution des résultats terrain d’un travail de diagnostic...
Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Making Europe grow with its rural territories
A European political strategy Horizon 2030
Europe is at the heart of a rapid worldwide change marked by global economic changes and environmental challenges. Many States choose to face these challenges by strengthening their urban policies, considering that economic dynamics are mainly based on the competitiveness of urban poles. On the other hand, rural territories are...
European Union
2016 - Rurality-Environment-Development (R.E.D.)
Newsletter
Short-Term Outlook for EU arable crops, dairy and meat markets in 2016 and 2017
The slowdown in the world economic growth, in particular in commodity-exporting emerging economies contributes to a persistent general decline in commodity prices, including in still oversupplied crude oil. The slight re-appreciation of the euro to 1.15 EUR/USD affects the competitive advantage of the EU in the world market. In 2016,...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Event
Foire Internationale de l’Economie Rurale de Madagascar - 18th Edition
FIER MADA (Foire Internationale de l’Economie Rurale de Madagascar) 18ème Edition – 3d to 7th august : participation by TCP on NewCountrySTAT system, EU funded project (AINA) led by FAO, National Task Force for CSA (FAO ensuring executive secretary), TCPs on normative interventions (forestry, land) – Communications’ activities : Photos coverage,...
Madagascar
2016
Video
"From farm to fork - sustainable food for our future"
Budget invested in EU farming (nearly 0.30€/citizen/day) contributes to a stable and sustainable supply of safe food at affordable prices to the citizens in EU's 28 Member States.
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Event
Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture
Providing enough safe, nutritious food to a growing population is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Food and agricultural sectors are central to eradicating hunger and poverty, but current farming practices and climate change are putting pressure on our natural resources.
No organization alone has the ability to solve these...
United Arab Emirates
2016
Event
EIP-AGRI workshop on New Value Chains from Multifunctional Forests
ultifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy.
In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network...
European Union
2016 - EIP Agri
Conference paper
The smallholder development by remittances of migrants
The following pages report the results of our survey conducted among (Malian, Senegalese and Mauritanian) Soninké migrants during the period of 14th to 4 December 2015, living in the social residences of the former home Pinel (first home of migrant workers in France). This survey had to aim to discuss...
Ethiopia
2016 - 5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists
Event
Terra Madre Balkans
“Putting farmers first” is the main theme of Terra Madre Balkans 2016. 350 delegates will be arriving from 13 countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, The Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Italy and Albania).
The Balkan region hosts a wide variety of farmers. For this reason,...
Albania
2016 - Slow Food
Video
Somos la Tierra
Somos la Tierra es una campaña que realizó el INTA para visibilizar la importancia de la agricultura familiar en el todo el país. Para ello se recorrieron casi todas las provincias, relevando diferentes experiencias, entrevistando a gran cantidad de productores y productoras que contaron su historia, explicaron sus saberes y...
Argentina
2016 - Instituto Nacional Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Statement
Declaración ministerial de la CELAC sobre agricultura familiar, 2015
Este documento corresponde a la Declaración ministerial de la CELAC de la II Reunión Ministerial sobre Agricultura Familiar (AF) y el Plan de Acción del Grupo de trabajo de Agricultura Familiar de la CELAC 2016.
2016 - La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC)
Blog article
Aromas que marcan la vida de las mujeres rurales
En el marco de la campaña Mujeres Rurales entrevistamos a Marisa Elizabeth Boschetti, responsable del área de la Mujer en la Confederación de Productores Familiares del Mercosur (COPROFAM) y Coordinadora Nacional de Lechería de FAA (Federación Agraria Argentina).
Nacida y residente en Alicia, esta agricultora argentina de 44 años hace mil malabares para...
Argentina
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
A better balance: Revitalized pastoral livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda
Following years of conflict and national policies aimed at encouraging sedentarization of pastoral populations, international and bilateral actors are increasingly shifting their focus towards supporting animal production systems. This report reviews the state of animal-based livelihoods in the Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda and examines how animal ownership affects a...
Uganda
2016 - Feinstein International Center
Newsletter article
The 2016 European Charter for Mountain Quality Food Products
Euromontana is delighted to present the 2016 European Charter for Mountain Quality Food Products! The Charter is the next step in over fifteen years of work by Euromontana to promote the preservation and valorization of mountain quality food products. We invite you to join us in celebrating this step forward...
2016 - Euromontana
Practices
Traditional feeding of cattle with intercropped forage sorghum
Fodder sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is used for feeding animals in the drylands of India. The forage crop is sown in an intercropping system along with staple crops. The intercropping of the forage sorghum between other crops additionally improves the land-use efficiency, providing diversified yields within a specified area of...
India
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Technical paper
Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa: A fresh look on agricultural mechanization
Much of sub-Saharan Africa’s farmland is (still) cultivated with the hand hoe, and agricultural processing and transport are often done manually. This limits the potential of agriculture in the region. Mechanization can help to alleviate food shortages and enhance agricultural development. However, this implies high levels of investment for farmers...
2016 - German Development Institute
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