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Fact sheet
Organic Agriculture & Food Security
The document explains how organic agriculture supports and enhances ecologically sound systems of food production that can achieve food security.
2016 - IFOAM Organics International
Technical paper
Desarrollo Territorial, Innovación y Comunicación Rural
Hacia un enfoque integrado en apoyo a la agricultura familiar
El Foro Latinoamericano sobre Desarrollo Territorial, Innovación y Comunicación Rural fue una iniciativa de carácter regional liderada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y organizada en colaboración con la Empresa Brasileña de Investigación Agropecuaria (Embrapa), el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario (MDA) y...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
The impact of agricultural extension services in the context of a heavily subsidized input system
The case of Malawi
This paper aims to test this hypothesis and to contribute to better understanding of strategies to revitalize the agricultural extension system in Malawi. Specifically, it examines the interplay between the fertilizer subsidy and access to extension services, and their impact on farm productivity and food security in Malawi.
Results show that...
Malawi
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Book
Perspectivas de la agricultura y del desarrollo rural en las Américas
Una mirada hacia América Latina y el Caribe 2015-2016
Esta edición del documento “Perspectivas de la agricultura y del desarrollo rural en las Américas (2015-2016)” se divide, de conformidad con la estructura de los cinco informes anteriores, en los siguientes cuatro capítulos: Capítulo I: Contexto macroeconómico: Se analizan la evolución y las perspectivas de los mercados financieros y macroeconómicos,...
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Journal article
Evolution of a milkshed and role of alternative milk collection centres in Egypt
In Egypt, an agro-industrial company, in association with a non-governmental organization, began setting up milk collection centres within producers’ organizations in 2011. The project was very active in the Beni Suef Governorate. This article analysesthe milkshed evolution overthe past 50 years and the projectimpact. Using interviews and historical data, a...
Egypt
2016
Video
Collecting fallen fruit against fruit flies
One fruit fly can lay a few hundred eggs during her life. Fruit flies puncture the skin of fruit to lay their eggs, which cause the fruit to drop prematurely and rot. The worms that hatch from these eggs leave the spoilt fruit after one week and crawl into the...
Benin - Ghana
2016 - Access Agriculture
Book part
The African Union policy environment toward enabling action for nutrition in Africa
The current AU policy environment supports efforts by African countries to address malnutrition and can be a rallying point for different interventions at the continental, REC, and country levels. In addition, the accountability processes incorporated into the various declarations create opportunities for monitoring nutrition progress across the continent. The chapters...
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Manual
Orientaciones para el desarrollo cooperativo en la agricultura familiar
El manual tiene como objetivo recoger y sintetizar los conceptos que sobre cooperativismo y asociativismo han sido presentados e intercambiados durante el proceso de trabajo conjunto desarrollado en los años 2014 y 2015. Está destinado a técnicos de consultoras privadas y organizaciones que trabajan en el asesoramiento a productores y...
Chile
2016 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Book part
Family farming to bolster human knowhow and resources
This chapter is an attempt to analyse the characteristic features of Mediterranean family farms, revealing their importance compared with other forms of agriculture. We go on to describe the challenges that they are or will be facing, and their strengths in helping to address these (in terms of food security,...
2016 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Event
The Agri-Food Value Chain: Challenges for Natural Resources Management and Society
The international scientific conference will provide a venue for policy makers, top managers, academics and researches that deal with economic and management issues related to specific issues within the agri-food chains and natural resources management.
Slovakia
2016
Video
La agroecología es posible: caso "Naturaleza Viva"
El 25 de marzo se cumplieron 20 años de cultivos transgénicos en Argentina, los que hoy ocupan la mayor parte del territorio cultivable (más de 75%). Para producir alimentos cada vez se necesitan más agrotóxicos que contaminan el suelo, el agua y a muchos argentinos. Los cultivos transgénicos no ayudan...
Argentina
2016 - Greenpeace Argentina
Conference/Meeting
Changements globaux et Ressources en eau: etat des lieux, adaptations et perspectives
5ème Colloque international du réseau "Eaux & Climats"
Ce colloque est une manifestation qui fait partie de la mobilisation scientifique qui va précéder la tenue de la COP 22 climat, qui aura lieu en novembre 2016 à Marrakech au Maroc. Il est organisé par le réseau « eau et climat au Maghreb » qui regroupe 12 universités et 15 laboratoires...
Morocco
2016 - Université Sidi Mohammed ben Bbdellah - Faculté des Sciences et Techniques
Working paper
Concepts and realities of family farming in Asia and the Pacific
This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in Asia and the Pacific and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. The main objective of the study is to depict family farming’s diversity in the region. Furthermore, it examines the...
2016 - International Policy Centre for inclusive Growth (IPC-UNDP)
Newsletter
Climate Solutions that Work for Farmers
Climate Solutions that Work for Farmers: Success Stories from the Field. This CTA publication written by Charlie Pye-Smith presents 'a review of proven practices, tools or policies that promote resilience and help farmers to address the challenges posed by climate change.
Benin - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Mauritius - Uganda - Zambia
2016 - Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
Blog article
Burkina Faso to host ceremony marking end of the International Year of Pulses 2016
Burkina Faso’s capital city Ouagadougou will host the closing ceremony of the International Year of Pulses, which over the course of 2016 highlighted the exceptional nutritional benefits pulses offer to human diets via a wide range of events, publications, and other activities.
Burkina Faso
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Foods available to African farm households increase with market access and off-farm work
Common foods of Khulungira village, in central Malawi: Nsomba zophika (fish stew), chimanga chophika (boiled maize), nyemba zophika (mixed beans with salt and oil), bowa wofutsa (dried mushrooms with ground groundnuts), nkhwani wophatikiza ndi maungu anthete ndi kachewere wophika (pumpkin leaves, pumpkin blossoms and potatoes) and mazira ophika ndi phwetekere,...
2016 - ILRI News
Technical paper
Panorama Social de América Latina
En esta edición de 2015 del Panorama Social de América Latina se analizan las tendencias de la pobreza según las mediciones propias de la CEPAL. Asimismo, se revisan los cambios registrados en la distribución del ingreso y en algunas otras dimensiones de la desigualdad. Con el objeto de contribuir al...
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Blog article
Cuba: su nueva revolución campesina
Cuba presenta una tasa de mortalidad infantil de 4.3 por mil nacidos vivos, la mejor del continente y mejor ciertamente que la de Estados Unidos. El sistema de salud cubano —gratuito— cuenta con la mayor tasa de médicos por habitante en el mundo entero y es reconocido como sobresaliente a...
Cuba
2016 - GRAIN
Journal article
Vingt ans d’aquaculture en Afrique du Nord : évolutions, bilan critique et avenir
Cet article présente l’évolution de la situation de l’aquaculture en Afrique du Nord au cours des 20 dernières années, ainsi que les potentialités et contraintes spécifiques à chaque pays. Ce travail est un des produits du projet européen Aquamed (2011–2013). L’analyse des évolutions du secteur, y compris les capacités de...
Algeria - Egypt - Morocco - Tunisia
2016
Report
Twenty-Ninth FAO Regional Conference for Africa Report
The functions of the Regional Conference are to hold consultations at a high level, to indicate the special problems of the Region and the priority areas which should be taken into account in preparing the Programme of Work and Budget for the next biennium, as well as in relation to...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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