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Workshop on interactive radio for family farming and food security in Asia-Pacific
FAO reported in 2015 that 490 million people are still suffering chronic hunger in Asia and the Pacific region, which is also home to almost 62 percent of the world’s undernourished. “The challenge facing the region is not only to produce more food from the increasingly limited natural resource base...
Thailand
2016 - The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Conference proceedings
Workshop on policy dialogue and strengthening of the capacity of pastoralists’ networks and organizations
This summary report documents the results of the workshop convened by the African Union Commission AUC) from 29 June - 01 July 2016 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The workshop was organized under the theme “Resilience and adaptation to drought conditions and pastoralists systems in Africa” and was attended by representatives ...
2016 - The African Union – Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
Policy brief/paper
Grünbuch Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Ländliche Räume
The “Grünbuch Ernährung, Landwirtschaft, Ländliche Räume" defines measures andguidelines for a sustainable policy for food, agriculture and rural areas.
Germany
2016 - Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Case study
Agroecology for home and market: a winning combination for rural Communities in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
The main cause of food insecurity for many communal households in Zimbabwe is their reliance upon a form of subsistence-based agriculture which is dependent on a limited range of inputs often poorly suited to local conditions. The current agricultural system prioritizes monocropping and grain yield over other factors of food...
Zimbabwe
2016 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Case study
Seeding the Way with Systems of Rice Intensification in Cambodia
Mrs Tea Sarim is one of the participating farmers in a European Union funded multi-country (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Vietnam and Thailand) project called "Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for Innovation and Learning around the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in the Lower Mekong River Basin" (http://www.sri-lmb.ait.asia/). Mrs Sarim is from...
Cambodia
2016 - Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Report
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2015-2024
The Agricultural Outlook 2015-2024, is a collaborative effort of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It brings together the commodity, policy and country expertise of both organisations and input from collaborating member countries to provide an annual...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
México comprometido con la reducción de emisiones de CO2 en la agricultura
Con un trabajo interinstitucional que incluye especialistas, investigadores, operadores de políticas y representantes de instancias internacionales, la Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa) impulsa acciones para mitigar los efectos del cambio climático en el sector agropecuario del país a través de la difusión de conocimiento científico...
Mexico
2016 - Centro International de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Policy brief/paper
Resilience analysis in Sudan: a policy brief
Since 1950s, Sudan has been intermittently devastated by civil wars and, in 2011, has split into two different nations, the Republic of Sudan (subject of the analysis) and the Republic of the South Sudan. Nowadays, almost half of the population of the Republic of Sudan is at or below the...
Sudan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Practices
Prácticas de conservación del suelo y del agua para la reducción de la erosión del suelo y reforzar la conservación de agua
Este conjunto de tecnologías integradas trata de conseguir un cultivo adicional durante la estación seca a través de la combinación de la recolección de agua de lluvia, uso controlado del agua, caballones siguiendo las líneas topográficas y mulching (cobertura del suelo con materia orgánica). Todas ellas en conjunto aumentan la...
Saint Lucia
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Lomas de resguardo ganadero en Bolivia para épocas de inundación y de sequía
Las lomas de resguardo ganadero son montículos o plataformas altas de tierra construidas a pulso y se utilizan para resguardar al ganado y salvaguardar productos agrícolas en tiempos de inundación. También permiten enfrentar tiempos de sequía, porque están rodeadas periféricamente por un canal con capacidad de almacenamiento de alrededor de...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Report
Distribution of the added value of the organic food chain
Over the last decade the organic market in the EU has grown faster than the organic agricultural area, which raises the question to what extent organic supply chains function effectively. Therefore, this study investigated the creation and distribution of added value in a number of organic supply chains in different...
2016 - European Commission
Article
Achats Institutionnels
En Afrique de l’Ouest, les achats institutionnels de produits locaux prennent de l’ampleur. On peut citer par exemple la modification des procédures d’achats du Programme alimentaire mondial (Pam) pour s’approvisionner en partie localement ; la constitution par certains États (Bénin, Mali, Niger, Togo) de stocks tampons pour les produits alimentaires...
2016 - ROPA
Magazine article
Editorial - Co-creation in the practice, science and movement of agroecology
Knowledge building is central to agroecology rooted in family farming. But why? What type of knowledge, and whose knowledge is mobilised? This issue of Farming Matters explores what we really mean by co-creation of knowledge in agroecology, why it is so essential for today’s challenges, and how it takes place around the world.
In agroecology, farmers continuously build situation-specific knowledge that allows them to develop under unpredictable and changing circumstances. There are no fixed prescriptions in agroecology about how to produce, process, market or store food, feed, medicine and fibre. Rather, different practices work in different ways depending on each specific context and ecosystem....
India - Mexico - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Rwanda
2016 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Working paper
Farm Transition and Indigenous Growth
The Rise to Medium- and Large-Scale Farming in Ghana
This paper characterizes the transition from small-scale farming and the drivers of farm size growth among medium- and large-scale farmers in Ghana. The research was designed to better understand the dynamics of change in Ghana’s farm structure and contribute to the debate on whether Africa should pursue a smallholder-based or...
Ghana
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Conference paper
Small-scale Farmers and Women Empowerment in the Near East and North Africa Region
In the framework of the 33th FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East, this discussion paper is dedicated to small-scale agriculture. The majority of agricultural activities in the NENA region involves small-holders (small-scale farmers, pastoralists, forest keepers, fishers and aquaculture farmers) who produce the bulk of fresh food supply. The paper analyses the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Economics of land degradation and improvement
This book on Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement provides with valuable knowledge and information both at the global, regional, and national levels on the costs of land degradation and benefits of taking action against land degradation. A key advantage of this book is that it goes beyond the conventional...
Argentina - Bhutan - China - Ethiopia - India - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Russian Federation - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania - Uzbekistan
2016 - Springer International Publishing
Video
IYFF+10: Global Action for Family Farming
After the remarkable results of the International Year of Family Farming IYFF-2014, celebration preceded by intense global campaign coordinated by the World Rural Forum, the central objective of the IYFF+10 initiative will remain improving public policy in favor of Family Farming. This campaign, recently launched by the FRM, will have,...
2016 - World Rural Forum
Blog article
Good agricultural practices in Mashreq
Good agricultural practices emerged as a common priority in Egypt and Lebanon during the initial meetings that were held as part of the ENPARD South Support Programme. Following which, there was a mutual agreement between ENPARD, the Egyptian and Lebanese think tank to organise in each country a national workshop...
Egypt - Lebanon
2016 - European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD)
Magazine article
Valuing un-cultivated foods
Commodification of forests in an era of climate crisis has reduced them to mere ‘carbon stocks’. Forests are also food reservoirs and many rural poor communities depend on forests for meeting their food needs. Given the right support, uncultivated foods can be a solution for addressing the issue of food...
2016 - Leisa India
Report
Resilience analysis in Sudan
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been on the front line of resilience measurement since 2008. Together with other key partners, FAO has been pioneering resilience measurement and analysis with respect to food insecurity through the Resilience Index Measurement and Analysis (RIMA) (FAO, 2015) model....
Sudan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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