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Políticas públicas de Tierras en Paraguay
En el Paraguay, el problema de la tierra sigue siendo un aspecto determinante de las condiciones de vida de la mayor parte de la población. La actual estructura de tenencia de la tierra, caracterizada por una enorme concentración en un pequeño grupo de propietarios, es fruto de un largo y...
Paraguay
2015 - Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS)
Newsletter
Thriving not just surviving, support for new entrants into farming
The recently launched EIP-AGRI Focus Group ‘New entrants into farming’ is looking into which patterns characterise new entrants in farming and what can be learnt from them to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture. Agnès Papone, one of the Focus Group experts and a recent convert to the farming profession,...
European Union
2015 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
Article
III Cumbre de Presidentes de la CELAC anuncia plan contra el hambre
Noticia que da cuenta de la III Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y del Caribe (CELAC), en donde los presidentes de América Latina y el Caribe dieron su apoyo al Plan para la Seguridad Alimentaria, Nutrición y Erradicación del Hambre 2025 de la CELAC, desarrollado por los países con el...
Costa Rica
2015
Magazine article
Modernization, a vital necessity in a competitive environment
From a transition enterprise to a successful story: a Slovenian unit for sorting and packing fruit was modernized with EAFRD financing. This project is the story of an important regional producer, respectively of a company providing one third of the fruit in Slovenia. Placed in the South-East of Slovenia, in...
Slovenia
2015
Statement
Carta abierta de la Plataforma Nacional de Agricultura Familiar (PAF-Perú)
Por los Derechos de todos los ciudadanos y ciudadanas, por Justicia e Inclusión Social y Desarrollo Sostenible en el Perú.
Carta dirigida a congresistas de Perú, desde PAF-Perú, integrada por la Alianza de Organizaciones Agrarias - AOA, Convención Nacional del Agro Peruano - CONVEAGRO, el Consorcio Agroecológico Peruano –CAP y el Colectivo Perú por Seguridad Alimentaria con Soberanía, que agrupan a más de cien organizaciones, gremios agrarios e instituciones de la...
Peru
2015 - Plataforma Nacional de Agricultura Familiar (PAF-Perú)
Book
Hacia la construcción de la soberanía alimentaria
Desafíos y experiencias en Paraguay y Argentina
Este material, además de compartir algunos elementos claves para comprender la propuesta de la soberanía alimentaria, sistematiza la visión y las experiencias que tienen sobre la soberanía alimentaria las organizaciones paraguayas que en la actualidad son integrantes y se encuentran activas en la Vía Campesina-Paraguay: la Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres...
Argentina - Paraguay
2015 - BASE-IS, Equipo de Educación Popular Pañuelos en Rebeldía, CIFMSL
Article
Agricultura familiar en boca de todos
La Agricultura Familiar no es un tema reciente ni desconocido, ya se ha estudiado desde hace varios años. Sin embargo actualmente comienza a estar en boca de todos como concepto revolucionario, esperando llegar a nuestras bocas (literalmente) en forma de bienes de consumo. Por ello, para abordarlo es preciso antes...
Brazil - Colombia
2015 - Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS)
Book
Vulnerability and social resilience of family farming at the High Guaporé (Mato Grosso) in the context of contemporary environmental change
This thesis aims at identifying and understanding the main factors underlying the formation of the situations of vulnerability and social resilience among farmers living in the Alt o Guaporé region in the state of Mato Grosso, in relation to the contemporary environmental changes. Within the theoretical framework developed here, reactions...
Brazil
2015 - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Report
Warrantage paysan au Burkina Faso
Accès au crédit par le biais des stocks de proximité
Au Burkina Faso, les organisations paysannes mettent en pratique depuis quelques années le warrantage paysan. Les paysans et paysannes stockent une partie de leurs récoltes et les utilisent comme garantie pour accéder aux crédits collectifs octroyés par les institutions de micro-finances. Cette activité permet, d'une part, l'accès au crédit pour...
Burkina Faso
2015 - Oxfam International
Statement
Agricultural Outlook Conference - EU
Speaking in front of over 400 stakeholders from the agricultural sector, Commissioner Hogan today presented his vision for agriculture in the European Union and the future of the Common Agricultural Policy.
2015 - European Union
Magazine article
Constructing autonomy, territory and peace
In the decades-long conflict in Colombia, agroecology has emerged as a strategy that helps women to cope with the war and to feed their families. AMOY, a women farmers organisation, not only promotes agroecological activities, but also supports women to counteract the cruelty of war by providing a space to express fear and sadness, to find refuge, and to protect themselves from armed groups.
In the past 50 years, around 5,2 million Colombian farmers have been displaced from their lands, and about 8 million hectares of farmland were taken from their owners due to Colombia’s internal armed conflict. The war and neoliberal policies caused suffering, especially for women farmers. In order to overcome this...
Colombia
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Case study
Between city and country: domestic workers building food sovereignty
In Latin America and the Caribbean, domestic workers make up 18% of the female labour force. Migrating from rural areas to work in the city, many maintain both rural and urban identities. With strong connections to their family’s farm on one hand, and playing a key role in buying and...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Blog article
FAO participa en la Semana de la Agricultura Familiar Chilena en Expo Milán
Funcionarios de la FAO tomaron parte ayer y hoy en las actividades de la Semana de la Agricultura Familiar Chilena, organizada por el Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario de Chile (INDAP) en el marco de la feria mundial Expo Milán 2015.
Las actividades, que se desarrollarán durante cinco días, apuntan a sensibilizar...
Chile
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Case study
Reclaiming life in marginal areas and fragile ecosystems through innovative solutions
The case of bocage perimeters in Burkina Faso
A bocage is a balanced environment, created to combine trees, crops and livestock. The concept of a bocage perimeter is created to solve the problems associated with extensive agriculture (overgrazing, erosion, fires etc.). A bocage perimeter is the result of land consolidation at the request of owners of a site....
Burkina Faso
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Video
Burkina Faso: En attendant la pluie
Dans la région du Sahel, des techniques simples d'amélioration des sols et de rétention de l'eau ont aidé les agriculteurs du pays à reverdir près de 300 000 hectares de terres menacées de sécheresse.
Burkina Faso
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Blog article
Why do we need sustainable agriculture?
It is becoming clearer by the day that we need to reform our food system. From droughts, to challenges in energy demand, to the lack of transparency in our food choices, there are many reasons why we need to change from a conventional industrial food system to one that is...
2015 - Greentumble
Conference/Meeting
EU leads efforts to tackle agricultural export competition at 10th WTO Ministerial Conference
Addressing agricultural export competition has been a longstanding demand from many countries, notably developing and least-developed countries. Advancing on this issue would make the multilateral trading system fairer, it would support farmers world-wide, and it would create a more level playing field for trade across the globe.
2015
Magazine article
SLOVENIA - “Without the funds for rural development it would have been hard to achieve everything we aimed for”
The Slovenian farm, Puhan, has 11 hectares of arable land, three acres of grape vines and a hectare of forest. Its tourist offer is based on a wide variety of food and drink healthy, mostly local products. The farm is a member of the association “DISI Prekmurje po” (Scent of...
Slovenia
2015
Case study
From slash and burn to ‘slash and mulch’
In semi-arid cropping regions of West Africa, fallow periods are getting shorter. As land becomes more scarce, farmers are not able to give their soils enough time to rest. This is leading to depletion of soil organic matter, severely threatening soil fertility and damaging soil structure. In the worst cases,...
Burkina Faso
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Website
Semilla Andina
Este grupo se define como promotores de un estilo de vida sostenible, acompañando procesos de emprendimiento comunitario urbano y rural y de fortalecimiento de consumo y producción de comida sana y nutritiva. Su piedra angular es la agricultura orgánica y actualmente coordina el Mercado Agroecológico Tierra Viva en donde se integran más...
Colombia
2015 - Semilla Andina
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