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Analyse de l’impact des investissements agricoles réalisés dans le cadre du Plan National de Développement Agricole (PNDA) sur l’évolution des techniques de productions laitières, céréaliaires et oléicoles en Algérie : étude de cas dans la wilaya de Tizi-Ouzou

Depuis leurs indépendances, l’Algérie, le Maroc et la Tunisie ont suivi diverses politiques agricoles sans réussir à garantir la sécurité alimentaire par la production agricole locale. En Algérie, une politique agricole à travers le plan national de développement agricole (PNDA) fut mise en oeuvre a partir de l’année 2000 afin...
Algeria - Morocco - Tunisia
2015 - Academie D’aix Marseille Universite d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse

Blog article
Heifer Foundation goes to Guatemala

Foundation trustees and staff recently visited Heifer families in Guatemala whose livelihoods have been affected by climate change. Drought and disease are severely hurting their coffee crops, and it can take them years to recover.  
Guatemala
2015 - Heifer Foundation

Video
Private sector approaches for more inclusive value chains and agricultural policies

This video has been produced on the occasion of the Private Sector Forum on Food Security in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region that was held in Barcelona on 5 and 6 May 2015. While family farming and small businesses have always been vital to food security and economic development,...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Sustainable development of food production systems through the promotion of agroecological practices.

The work aims to develop sustainable systems of food production by promoting agroecological practices. This experience was developed in rural communities of the People's Council Zaragoza, municipality of San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque. Action-participation, based on philosophy of popular education and university extension - the investigation was used as...
Cuba
2015 - Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical (INIFAT)

Journal article
Gaining identity as farmers: A case of women collectives in Kerala

The Kerala State provides a different picture of the success of women in farming. Collective power of women groups, integration of local self governments and proactive credit schemes have enabled landless women to emerge as commercial organic farmers in Kerala. Women are now visible as major farmers in the State,...
India
2015 - AME Foundation

Magazine article
A young man from Harghita sets his mind to win the Europe markets with the lambs he raises

As a child, he would spend his holidays with his grandparents in Tomești, Harghita county, and with the ones in Stânceni, Mureș county, whose yards he would fill with animals he would “collect” from the village. He went to high school far away from his parents, in Gheorghieni, because that’s where...
Romania
2015

Manual
Manual Nº 4: Riego parcelario

Provee de información básica necesaria para la capacitación en riego parcelario a las organizaciones de usuarios de agua con fines agrarios, especialmente acerca de los conceptos básicos para realizar el riego a nivel parcelario, lo cual se resume en tres aspectos fundamentales: la preparación del terreno, construcción de composturas y...
Peru
2015 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Riego. Dirección General de Infraestructura Agraria y Riego

Policy brief/paper
Smallholder productivity under climatic variability

Adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania
This brief summarizes the results of a novel analysis that examines the determinants of adoption of agricultural practices to improve food security and their productivity implications in Tanzania. Conducted by the FAO Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture Programme (EPIC), the approach integrates historical Climate data with a rich...
United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Pescadores de La Guajira y Chocó intercambian conocimientos y experiencias para potenciar la pesca artesanal

Desde el mes de noviembre de 2015, un grupo de pescadores artesanales del Departamento de La Guajira, han tenido la oportunidad de reunirse con otros pescadores de Nuquí y Bahía Solano en el Chocó con quienes han venido compartiendo experiencias y conocimientos relacionados con ordenamiento marino-costero, pesca sostenible y responsable,...
Colombia
2015 - Plataforma Diversidad Biocultural y Territorios para el Desarrollo Sostenible e Inclusivo

Video
Video informativo sobre las campañas por la Agricultura Familiar, desde el AIAF2014 hacia el AIAF+10

El Comité de Impulso Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar en Colombia fue parte de la campaña del Año Internacional de la Agricultura (AIAF) 2014 y ahora como parte de la Campaña por la Década de la Agricultura Familiar AIAF10 difunden una serie de vídeos cortos explicando algunos detalles sobre las...
Colombia
2015 - Comité de Impulso Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar en Colombia

Newsletter
Open Farms - Bridging the gap between country and town

Open Farm Sunday is an annual event involving almost 400 farms that organise activities for over 200000 visitors. Since it began in 2006, over 1350 farmers have opened up their farms, welcoming more than 1.25 million visitors and creating a high-profile national event that attracts major sponsors. Farmers are provided...
2015 - European Union

Journal article
Discusiones en torno a las políticas públicas para la soberanía alimentaria y la agricultura familiar en Misiones (Argentina)

El objetivo del trabajo es analizar las políticas para la soberanía alimentaria en Misiones y su relación con las demandas de organizaciones de la agricultura familiar, teniendo en cuenta distintas visiones sobre el tema que tienen los actores involucrados y las acciones que se proponen desde algunas dependencias del Estado...
Argentina
2015 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Book
Suelos para la vida

"La erosión de suelos es un problema que afecta a la productividad de los agroecosistemas. Los suelos de los trópicos de América Latina son contaminados y sufren la depredación de su biodiversidad debido a la deforestación y otras acciones generadas por actividades extractivas. Esta edición de LEISA se enfoca en...
2015 - La Asociación Ecología, Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes

Technical paper
Development of rural territories in Central America to benefit from new geospatial information

Before year’s end, the countries in what is known as the Central American Dry Corridor, as well as the Dry Arch area of Panama, will be able to access an online platform and a knowledge network being created to assist them in deciding how best to develop their rural territories...
2015 - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)

Website
Gran Chaco Proadapt

Una alianza trinacional integrada por la sociedad civil organizada, el sector privado, el sistema de ciencia y tecnología, los gobiernos locales y la inversión climática nacional e internacional para contribuir en la capacidad adaptativa de los grupos sociales más vulnerables del Gran Chaco Americano y a una mayor resiliencia de...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Paraguay
2015 - Fundación Avina

Blog article
La Red Mexicana por la Agricultura Familiar y Campesina hace un llamado a impulsar políticas para mejorar suelos en México

En el marco del Año Internacional de los Suelos, la Red Mexicana por la Agricultura Familiar y Campesina hace un llamado a las autoridades, legisladores y tomadores de decisiones para impulsar políticas públicas y acciones para mejorar el estado de los suelos en México. Considerando que los suelos son fundamentales para...
Mexico
2015

Blog article
CELAC aprueba declaración especial sobre seguridad alimentaria durante la Cumbre celebrada en Quito

Las Jefas y Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de América Latina y el Caribe, reunidos en Quito con motivo de la IV Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), aprobaron una declaración especial sobre Seguridad Alimentaria en una reunión que contó con la presencia del Director...
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Video
Climate change adaptation and neglected crops in Malawi

Neglected crops like cowpea, finger millet and yam are important in mitigating climate change in Malawi. This is the message and the main topic of this video. Mr Mwendo Phiri. Team leader, for the Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund project PR 219 in Malawi, explains that this is a two-year project that...
Malawi
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Ecological Farming: The seven principles of a food system that has people at its heart

Greenpeace's Food and Farming Vision
Greenpeace’s Food and Farming Vision describes what Ecological Farming means, and how it can be summarised in seven overarching, interdependent principles – based on a growing body of scientific evidence on agroecology. Ecological Farming combines modern science and innovation with respect for nature and biodiversity. It ensures healthy farming and healthy food....
2015 - Greenpeace International Ottho Heldringstraat 5 1066 AZ Amsterdam The Netherlands

Blog article
Producers and policy makers committed to an agenda for agroecology in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Regional Meeting for Africa on Agroecology for food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa brought together for two days in Dakar over 300 participants, representing social movements and producers, the private sector, the academia and agronomic research institutes, as well as indigenous peoples and grassroots communities from across Sub-Saharan...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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