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Policy brief/paper
Food security and adaptation impacts of potential climate smart agricultural practices in Zambia
This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience (i.e. probability of disastrously low yields) in Zambia using panel data from the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys...
Zambia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
Seeds in the hands of farmers
In this video, Henk Hobbelink of GRAIN contrasts the approaches to seed conservation that have emerged since the so-called ‘green revolution’. He advocates for on-farm, farmer-led conservation which secures the control of seed in the hands of small farmers.
2015 - GRAIN
Newsletter
Boletín Informativo Mensual FAOAR
Boletín Informativo Mensual de la representación de FAO en Argentina de Marzo 2015, que da cuenta de los proyectos y desafíos en ese país, como un recuento de sus principales noticias.
Argentina
2015 - Oficina Nacional de la FAO Argentina
Newsletter article
Siete emprendimientos rurales que dieron que hablar en 2015
Desde pitones de ajo, tallos de ajo, que son procesados, y sirven para acompañar diversos platos gourmet hasta queso con ceniza son parte de las creaciones de los productores del sur.
Chile
2015 - Diario El Austral Osorno
Magazine article
The connection between product and its place of origin, in the European economic context
The European Union is a social and political approach meant to create a space of common values, shared by several states (the member states), aiming to equalise policies of various fields. At the same time, though, there is a constant concern to keep traditions and the different elements between communities,...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Working paper
Are women less productive farmers?
How markets and risk affect fertilizer use, productivity, and measured gender effects in Uganda
African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has...
Uganda
2015 - World Bank
Conference/Meeting
Global challenges, local solutions
Joint learning partnerships for widespread catalyzing practices in food systems and land-use at service of our planet
The conference will bring foundations together with diverse stakeholders (civil society organizations, public, multilateral institutions and others) to look at good practices supported by foundations in the fields of land use and sustainable food systems and to discuss elements of success, replicability and the potential to scale-up. This will be...
Italy
2015 - European Foundations for Sustainable Agriculture and Food
Event
Partenariat privilégié entre la Tunisie et l’UE : quels impacts sur le secteur agricole et rural?
Ce séminaire, qui se tiendra le jeudi 29 octobre 2015 au Parc des Expositions du Kram à Tunis à l’occasion du Salon International de l’Agriculture, du Machinisme Agricole et de la Pêche, aura pour objectif de présenter et mettre en débat le nouveau Plan d’Action entre la Tunisie et l’UE...
2015 - Programme Européen de Voisinage pour l'Agriculture et le Développement Rural (ENPARD)
Policy brief/paper
Directrices voluntarias para lograr la sostenibilidad de la pesca en pequeña escala
En el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza
Las Directrices voluntarias para lograr la sostenibilidad de la pesca en pequeña escala en el contexto de la seguridad alimentaria y la erradicación de la pobreza (en adelante, las Directrices PPE) representan el primer instrumento acordado en el plano internacional dedicado por entero al sector de la pesca en pequeña...
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Conference/Meeting
WTO, Market Access and Fisheries Trade Issues
FAO, in cooperation with EUROFISH and the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture, will provide a capacity-building workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework for fish trade and market access. The workshop intends to address the challenges and opportunities for international and intraregional trade in fish and fishery products, livelihoods, and...
Armenia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
Una alternativa de manejo para una producción agroecológica
Una visita-taller a una quinta del barrio La Garita de Cañuelas fue el marco para que los productores se interiorizaran sobre las técnicas de intercultivo como alternativa de manejo para una producción agroecológica. En este caso se observó una experiencia sobre trigo y lino intercultivado con trébol.
Argentina
2015 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria Argentina (INTA)
Book part
Associations between irrigated farming and improved nutrition in Malawian farm households
Expansion of irrigation is a recurrent objective of the agricultural development plans formulated by successive governments in Malawi. More intensive and continual use of Malawi’s water and agricultural land resources is expected to increase and stabilize production of food and export crops, thereby increasing farm incomes, spurring growth in the...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Magazine article
Examples of European agricultural practices playing a part in environmental protection
Protection and improvement of soil functionality: Cover crops in the Czech Republic, with European support, to prevent soil erosion European soils are wealth providing us with essential services, including water purification and food production. In fact, our soils fulfil important carbon storage functions, playing an essential part in climate regulation...
Czechia
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Statement
Discurso de la presidenta de la República, Michelle Bachelet Jeria, en celebración del "Día del Campesino"
Discurso de la Presidenta Michelle Bachelet en el marco del Día del Campesino y Campesina, realizado en la comuna de Longaví, Región del Maule, el día 28 de julio de 2015
Chile
2015 - Centro de Información de Recursos Naturales
Video
Kenya: L’eau, vecteur de développement
À l’instar des milliers de paysans pauvres qui vivent sur le versant est du mont Kenya, Christine était tributaire de la pluie pour irriguer ses cultures. Aujourd’hui, elle dispose de l’eau courante. Comment ce changement a-t-il été possible?
Kenya
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Working paper
Bangladesh - Scaling up note
Building on its remarkable social and economic performance over the past 20 years, Bangladesh has recently been classified as a lower-middle-income country and aims to reach upper-middle-income country status by 2021. To achieve this, the Government of Bangladesh will need to overcome considerable challenges in agricultural development and rural economic...
Bangladesh
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development
Newsletter
Boletín Informativo Mensual FAOAR
Boletín Informativo Mensual FAOAR Enero 2015, de la representación de FAO en Argentina de Octubre 2014, que da cuenta de los proyectos y desafíos en ese país y de las principales noticias, donde se destaca la promulgada Ley de Agricultura Familiar en el país.
Argentina
2015 - Oficina Nacional de la FAO Argentina
Journal article
La difficile prise en main des petits périmètres irrigués par les agriculteurs en Algérie : cas du périmètre de Ladrat
Un enjeu important pour la re´ussite du transfert de gestion des syste`mes irrigue´s a` des associations d’irrigants est l’appropriation par les agriculteurs de ces nouvelles organisations. Cet enjeu est en particulier pre´sent dans les pays qui ont connu une forte intervention de l’E´tat dans le secteur agricole. En Alge´rie, les...
Algeria
2015
Magazine article
UAE Ministry of Environment & Water announces launch of Middle East Exhibition for Organic & Natural Products 2015
The UAE Ministry of Environment and Water announced today (Sunday, October 25, 2015) the launch of the 13thedition of the Middle East Exhibition for Organic and Natural Products (MENOPE), taking place from November 2 to 4, 2015 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre (DICEC). Supported by the International...
United Arab Emirates
2015
Blog article
Diplomado busca fortalecer capacidades para el desarrollo territorial con identidad cultural de actores latinoamericanos
El Diplomado Internacional en Agroecología y Desarrollo Territorial con Identidad Cultural que impulsa el programa Desarrollo Territorial con Identidad Cultural DT-IC de Rimisp en Colombia, se apronta a desarrollar su segunda versión en el primer semestre del 2016, para fortalecer las capacidades de actores latinoamericanos en el reconocimiento de las riquezas bioculturales...
Colombia
2015 - RIMISP - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural
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