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Comment fabriquer une ruche a barrettes « la grande »
Cette fiche présente un modèle de ruche à barrettes fabriqué par la Plateforme des Apiculteurs des Cataractes, en RDC. Vous y trouverez des schémas bien détaillés, des photos et conseils permettant à tous de se lancer dans des essais de fabrication de ce modèle de ruches à barrettes utilisées par...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Views and statement Farmer Organization on Draft Presidential Regulation Agrarian Reform
Farmers’ organizations welcomed the plan of the Ministry of Agricultural and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) the Republic of Indonesia to create a Presidential Decree (Decree) of Agrarian Reform as part of the political promises contained in the Nawa Cita. Actually, we think this is a...
Indonesia
2016 - Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) Farmers Association of Integrated Pest Management Indonesia (IPPHTI)
Blog article
INIAP y CIMMYT promueven la Intensificación Sustentable de la agricultura en Ecuador
Después de un año de trabajo colaborativo entre el Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias de Ecuador (INIAP) y el Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT), ambas instituciones concluyeron que Ecuador reúne las condiciones idóneas para abordar una estrategia nacional orientada al impulso de una agricultura más productiva...
Ecuador - Mexico
2016 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Report
Food and nutrition security and role of smallholder farms: challenges and opportunities
How smallholders may contribute to food and nutrition security remains a key challenge in many developing countries. Despite being the main rural actors, smallholders are frequently the most food insecure, given an array of biophysical and socioeconomic challenges that were addressed during the workshop. These proceedings discuss the potential role...
2016 - European Commission
Video
Farming Nature: France - Using EU funds to promote best grazing practices
A video about the management of open landscapes by extensive livestock farmers in the French Causses-Cévennes
France
2016 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Newsletter article
Projeto de piscicultura começa a mudar a vida de famílias indígenas
Comunidade indígena tem na criação de peixe uma atividade de subsistência alimentar, com comercialização do excedente
A piscicultura faz parte de um projeto de sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento econômico nas comunidades indígenas de Roraima. O projeto é de suma importância não só para os indígenas, envolvidos diretamente, como também ao Estado, por receber e consumir peixe de qualidade. A economia da comunidade foi favorecida com o recebimento do projeto,...
Brazil
2016 - Folha de Boa Vista
Working paper
Agricultural mechanization and south-south knowledge exchange: What can Ethiopian and Kenyan policymakers learn from Bangladesh’s experience?
While Bangladesh is more advanced in terms of agricultural mechanization, Ethiopia and Kenya can repeat the same success. Indeed, Ethiopia is one step ahead of Bangladesh in that it has developed an agricultural mechanization strategy – something Bangladesh has not done. This strategy is now being used to address the...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia - Kenya
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Conference/Meeting
Farmers' Congress Appeal 2016
On June 2, 2016 the delegates, gathered for the Georgian Farmers’ II Congress held in Tbilisi and discussed problems related to the following three main issues: 1. Market access for smallholder farmers and cooperatives; 2. Smallholder farmers and agricultural cooperatives’ access to investment funds and financial resources; 3. Effects of...
Georgia
2016 - Biological Farming Association ELKANA
Newsletter
Women family farmers at the center of poverty reduction efforts
Family farming is the predominant form of food production in Asia and the Pacific which is home to 70 percent of the world’s family farmers. Family farmers produce 80 percent of the region’s food, 1 working on 85 percent of the total arable land2 and largely relying on the contribution...
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Central Europe discovers the potential of bioeconomy
Slovak Minister of Agriculture Gabriela Matečná said that the bioeconomy is a necessity. But Central and Eastern Europe is still lagging behind in its uptake, but the key to the transition may be in the regions.
European Union
2016 - Eur Activ
Report
Progress report on the implementation of Outcome 1 of the Project Brazil & Africa
Fighting poverty and empowering women via South-South Cooperation
In recent years, social protection has emerged worldwide as a major new focus in efforts to reduce poverty and vulnerability. Since the early 2000s, conditional and unconditional cash transfer programmes have gained significance as key elements of social safety nets throughout Africa. The UN-supported Social Protection Floor Initiative (SPF-I) has...
Brazil - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Blog article
COLOMBIA BEGINS COLLECTING SIGNATURES TO LAUNCH A REFERENDUM ON NATIONAL FARMING AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION
The petition for a Referendum on National Farming in Colombia is intended to collect signatures backing a referendum to amend articles 64, 65, 66 and 100 of the Constitution, thus requiring Colombia to adopt special protection measures for national agri-food production, to guarantee credit, and to protect the work and...
Colombia
2016 - family farming campaign
Report
Impact of the Ebola virus disease outbreak on market chains and trade of agricultural products in West Africa
Using the outcomes of a technical consultation meeting organized by FAO in December 2014 in Dakar, Senegal, with the support of CIRAD, and building on past studies conducted by FAO and other partners, the report presents an analysis of the impact of the EVD outbreak on agricultural market chains. Seven...
Guinea - Liberia - Sierra Leone
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Book
Superación del hambre y de la pobreza rural
Esta publicación es una herramienta valiosa para mejorar el intercambio de las prácticas, sobre todo, en el marco de la cooperación Sur-Sur. Al reunir por primera vez, de una manera didáctica e informativa, las políticas de éxito comprobadas en el campo de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, da un nuevo...
Brazil
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Climate Action in Uganda
In a country like Uganda where 80% of the population relies upon agriculture for its livelihood, putting agriculture at the heart of plans for climate change adaptation is essential, for which there is full political support.
Uganda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Innover pour des mécanismes inclusifs de financement agricole et d’atténuation des risques
L’exemple de Tamwil El Fellah au Maroc
La présente étude de cas décrit un modèle particulièrement innovant de fourniture de services financiers aux ménages ruraux les plus pauvres dépendant de l’agriculture – le modèle Tamwil El Fellah (TEF), société créée par le Groupe Crédit Agricole du Maroc (GCAM).
TEF s’est fondée sur la longue expérience du financement du...
Morocco
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
Morte de insetos põe agricultura em risco e pode custar bilhões ao Brasil
A população de abelhas e outros insetos polinizadores está diminuindo em todo o mundo, o que faz cientistas correrem para calcular o impacto na agricultura e de propor possíveis soluções.
Segundo as contas feitas por pesquisadores de Minas Gerais e do México, o Brasil poderá perder de 16,5 a 51 milhões...
Brazil
2016 - Folha de São Paulo
Blog article
Medida Provisória propõe nova fase da reforma agrária no País
Para modernizar, dar mais transparência e simplificar os trâmites burocráticos para a reforma agrária no País, o governo federal encaminhará Medida Provisória com mudanças no programa de titulação de terras. A MP será enviada ao Congresso Nacional e, posteriormente, assinada pelo presidente da República, Michel Temer.
O documento atualiza as leis 8.629/1993, que...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Report
Global analysis of food and nutrition security situation in food crisis hotspots
This report provides a global overview of the food insecurity situation due to different crises and natural disasters, to support the programming of the Pro-resilience Action (PRO-ACT) funding mechanism, a component of the Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC) thematic programme of the European Union. The analysis covers the period...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Manual
Brasil Agroecológico
Plano Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica - Planapo - 2016/2019
As atividades relacionadas à produção agrícola estão entre as que mais têm gerado impactos sobre o meio ambiente. A produção intensiva é grande consumidora de energia, além de fonte de contaminação da água, ar e solo, por meio, especialmente, de resíduos de pesticidas e de fertilizantes. A expansão das fronteiras...
Brazil
2016 - Cámara Interministerial de Agroecología y Producción Orgánica (Ciapo)
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