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“A paixão pelo campo vai muito além do salário”, diz extensionista da Bahia
Além da orientação técnica, os extensionistas também incentivaram o trabalho em conjunto no interior do estado da Bahia.
Entre as ações bem-sucedidas estão os Fundos Rotativos Solidários. O processo para aquisição de animais, por exemplo, era simples. Com apoio da Heifer, uma ONG internacional, cada família recebia três ovelhas ou...
Brazil
2016 - Movimento de Organização Comunitária (MOC/BA)
Website
CIAT Annual Report 2015 - 2016
From farmers’ fields to business enterprises and government offices, CIAT’s research targeting development impact demonstrated in many ways the validity of the eco-efficiency concept that has guided the Center’s work for nearly a decade. It also provided the groundwork for the idea of “sustainable food futures,” the theme of this...
2016 - CIAT
Event
Linking Pacific farmers and local businesses to build profits and food security
The 2nd Agribusiness Forum seeks to deepen partnerships to promote specific public–private partnerships to boost local production and value addition," said Michael Hailu, the Director of CTA. "The active engagement of the private sector is critical for the transformation of the agrifood sector in the Pacific to address major challenges...
Samoa
2016
Event
Perspectivas para el Desarrollo Rural Latinoamericano. Economía Campesina, Seguridad Alimentaria y Desarrollo Territorial: Seminario en Homenaje a Alexander Schejtman
Rimisp cumple 30 años comprometido con el desarrollo de los territorios de nuestra región. Momento propicio para reflexionar y analizar los aportes en tres temas principales del entorno rural-urbano: economía campesina, seguridad alimentaria y desarrollo territorial.
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El Seminario es un homenaje al destacado investigador...
2016 - RIMISP - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural
Magazine article
“Agroecology is an epistemological revolution”
Interview
Victor M. Toledo is a Mexican ethno ecologist and social activist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His work focuses primarily on the study of agro ecological and knowledge systems. In this interview, Toledo explains why co-creation of knowledge is an integral part of agroecology and discusses the changes...
2016 - Leisa India
Practices
Beneficial insects and the cotton pests they control
This technology gives an overview of the beneficial insects that might appear in cotton fields in Western Africa. Knowing the pests and beneficial insects present on a cotton plant is a crucial decision-making tool for applying Integrated Pest Management (IPM).
Cameroon
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article
Qui Sont Les Agriculteurs Familiaux ?
Toute réalité, en tant que sujet d'étude, est abordée à l'aide de catégories qui sont le résultat de l'expérience de travaux antérieurs mais il arrive qu’il soit nécessaire de les adapter à des réalités diverses, ce qui peut conduire à la création de nouvelles catégories, lesquelles ne seront pas des...
France
2016 - FranceAgriMer
Journal
Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands
A staggering 70% of the food we consume worldwide is produced by smallholders. Peasant and indigenous communities, who produce a great deal of this food, have been developing and saving seed for millennia—from Guatemala through Senegal to Nepal. However, today seeds are under threat everywhere. Laws are increasingly limiting what...
2016
Policy brief/paper
Reducing rural women’s domestic workload through labour-saving technologies and practices
Gender, targeting and social inclusion
Rural women of all ages spend much of their day engaged in domestic chores, including collecting water and firewood, processing and preparing food, travelling and transporting, and caregiving. These tasks are unpaid and restrict a woman’s time and mobility. Moreover, the drudgery can cause poor health and nutrition for a...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Blog article
Relação de confiança promove grandes mudanças no Rio Grande do Sul
Até pouco tempo, a renda do Luiz Carlos saía toda da plantação de tabaco. Por conta da cultura em produzir o fumo, o agricultor não enxergava outras oportunidades. Mas tudo mudou depois de um trabalho forte de Ater na região, que mostrou que seria possível diversificar a produção. Mesmo ainda...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Website
McKnight Foundation
The McKnight Foundation, a family foundation based in Minnesota, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.
Its teams work in a diverse range of areas toward a shared mission of improving lives.
2016 - McKnight Foundation
Report
Soluções tecnológicas e inovação
Anuário Brasileiro da Agricultura Familiar 2016
O Anuário Brasileiro da Agricultura Familiar 2016 é uma publicação que fornece informações sobre políticas públicas e tecnologias voltadas à área rural com o objetivo de auxiliar técnicos e produtores.
Em sua quinta edição, foram incluídas duas ações em agroecologia desenvolvidas pela Embrapa Meio Ambiente (Jaguariúna, SP).
Sistema agroflorestal em assentamento paulista: Aborda a...
Brazil
2016 - Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária, Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (EMBRAPA)
Article
Fishing livelihoods as key to marine protected areas: insights from the World Parks Congress
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become a widely used tool for marine conservation and fisheries management. In coastal areas, it has become clear that the success of MPAs, and the achievement of sustainable fishery production, requires a combination of effective management and conservation frameworks, maintenance of decent fisheries livelihoods, and...
2016
Event
Central Asia Climate Smart Agriculture Workshop
Although relatively new, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is attracting increasing interest and attention in various parts of the world including in Central Asia. FAO and other partners have a number of on-going and forthcoming projects which deal with different aspects of the CSA approach. Given the importance of conceiving and...
Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations
Article
FoSHoL seed initiative: smallholder farmers and access to market
The article describes a community based seed enterprise for rice seeds, set up as part of a project in the Kurigram region of Bangladesh. The enterprise generates income for the seed growers, processors and traders, but the seed is also cheaper than other seed on the market because of the...
Bangladesh
2016
Policy brief/paper
Managing food security risks and intra-regional trade in Africa
The role of intra-regional trade in managing food price risks in Africa is being discussed in various fora. In response to high food prices, many countries adopted ad-hoc measures to restrict and/or prohibit trade with neighbouring countries. With policy makers, civil society organizations, development partners and other stakeholders as target...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of South Africa
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
South Africa
2016 - Food Plant Solutions
Video
Integrated approach against fruit flies
Fruit flies inject their eggs in fruit. A single fruit fly can lay hundreds of eggs, which turn into white worms that eat the inside of fruit. If no action is taken, fruit flies quickly increase in numbers and can destroy your entire crop. Always combine different methods: • Place...
Benin - Ghana
2016 - Access Agriculture
Policy brief/paper
Securing women's land rights and agrarian empowerment in Zimbabwe
Within and beyond the Constitution
The status of women's land rights in Zimbabwe is the result of various legal interventions and historical, social, economic, demographic and climatic processes within and outside the country. The interventions produced diverse tenure types, cultural practices and resistance that mediate the way in which the processes impact on the specific...
Zimbabwe
2016 - AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AGRARIAN STUDIES
Blog article
Governo Federal destina R$ 52 milhões para entidades públicas de Ater de todo Brasil
Agricultores familiares e extensionistas de todo o país vão ter mais estrutura e condições para o desenvolvimento sustentável no campo. O Governo Federal, por meio da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), vai destinar R$ 52 milhões para fortalecer o serviço de Assistência Técnica e Extensão...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
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