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Potentially Important Food Plants of Vietnam
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Viet Nam
2016
Magazine article
Hidden harvests
There are certain crop plants that are not cropped but edible, containing high nutrients and medicinal value. These crops also called as hidden harvests are capable of providing essential nutrients to our diets besides contributing to household income.
2016 - Leisa India
Article
Shiyan Smallholder Agribusiness Development Project
This project's goal is to sustainably reduce poverty and improve livelihoods for small farmers involved in agricultural value chains in the target areas. Its specific objectives are to empower the rural poor to participate in commercial farming and to increase farm family incomes while decreasing income variability.
China
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Magazine article
Past for the present
Revival of agro biodiversity that characterizes traditional agriculture is crucial for addressing food and nutrition security. Bringing back millets, pulses, coarse cereals etc. into the cropping systems can help fill the nutritional gap that is ever widening in the present rural communities.
India
2016 - Leisa India
Policy brief/paper
Forty years of community-based forestry
A review of its extent and effectiveness
Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Pursuing Rice Agroecology - The APCO model
Rice is the Philippines’ most important food crop and a staple food in most of the country. It is produced by two million farmers in four million hectares of land. It is one of the early adaptor countries of the Green Revolution. Impact studies of the Green Revolution revealed that...
Philippines
2016 - PAKISAMA
Blog article
贵州:脱贫攻坚瞄准山地农业
493万贫困人口、山区土地支离破碎、农业比较效益受到挤压、资源环境约束趋紧等实际困难,“十三五”时期贵州该怎么办?在近日召开的贵州省委农村工作会议上,贵州省提出要立足实际,不断厚植发展优势,以创新、协调、绿色、开放、共享五大发展理念为引领,推动现代山地特色高效农业发展、一二三产业融合发展、无公害绿色有机农产品大省建设、农业园区发展、农民生活改善和脱贫攻坚实现新跨越。
China
2016 - 中国农业新闻网
Case study
Agroecology in Extensive Rangeland Pastoralism in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia
Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population.
Dundgobi...
Mongolia
2016 - Mongolian Alliance of Nomadic Indigenous Peoples (MANIP),
Policy brief/paper
Exploring the concept of water tenure
The purpose of this paper is examine the notion of tenure in connection with water resources and to explore whether the concept of water tenure has the potential to make a useful contribution towards resolving the world’s water resources challenges. It seeks to provide answers to the following questions: (a)...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
Role of inland fishery and aquaculture for food and nutrition security in Nepal
Fish as a food is generally acceptable to all regardless of region, religion, race, gender and age across Nepal. The aquaculture and open-water capture fishery contributes about 2 % of agricultural gross domestic production; this share of fisheries sector is tiny but promising having a fastest 8–9 % annual growth rate. Nevertheless,...
Nepal
2016
Case study
Seed Mothers
The Adivasi communities of Odisha, India, have experienced substantial losses of many natural resources from their area, which are key elements ensuring their food and livelihood security. Many farmers from the Adivasi communities have lost diverse varieties of traditional local crops like millet based mix crops while trying out market...
India
2016 - Organisation for Rural Reconstruction & Integrated Social Service Activities (ORRISSA)
Event
Regional Workshop on Institutionalization of Farmer Field Schools at the Local and National Level
The purpose of the regional workshop is to share and learn from country experience and lesson learnt on institutionalization of FFS at the local and national level, develop guidelines and recommendations on the institutionalization of FFS in relation to the concerned chapter in FAO’s Guidance Document on FFS, assess needs...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Magazine article
The knowledge shop
De-centralized knowledge service is vital for empowering the knowledge deprived poor people. Aiming to provide contextualized and localized knowledge for the poor communities and developing a channel of reliable information for its various clients, Practical ActionBangladesh promotes grass root Knowledge Centres called GyanerHaat.
Bangladesh
2016 - Leisa India
Report
Investing in rural people in China
China's government is increasing its investment in rural areas, especially in infrastructure, irrigation, education and health. It is also introducing supportive policies, including agricultural tax exemptions; subsidies for agricultural production and increased agricultural procurement prices; and expansion of social protection and social security coverage. Such investments aim to create a...
China
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Practices
Enfermedades de las abejas: Nosemosis
La nosemosis es una enfermedad de las abejas adultas causada por hongos unicelulares pertenecientes a la Clase: Microsporidia, Familia: Nosimatidi, Género: Nosema. Existen dos subespecies diferentes de Nosema que afectan a Apis mellifera con diferente prevalencia dependiendo de la zona: Nosema apis y Nosema ceranae, responsables de dos formas diferentes de la enfermedad. Ambos...
2016
Case study
Agroecology in Extensive Rangeland Pastoralism in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia: Below the Eternal Blue Sky
Mongolia is located in Central Asia in between Russia and China. Only 1% of the arable land in Mongolia is cultivated with crops. The agriculture sector therefore remains heavily focused on nomadic animal husbandry with 75% of the land allocated to pasture, and cropping only employing 3% of the population.
Dundgobi...
Mongolia
2016 - MANIP
Case study
A change made by women-friendly agro-markets
The building of a zinc shelter in the market at Morahang, Nepal, has helped hundreds of women farmers to trade their produce. The initiative came as a result of reform of the market management committee to be led by local women.
Nepal
2016 - ActionAid Nepal
Video
Farmers’ testimonies on Conservation Agriculture in Timor-Leste
Eight small-scale Timorese farmers (four men and four women) from four municipalities explain their experiences in testing and adopting conservation agriculture in Timor-Leste.
Timor-Leste
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Video
Well dried seed is good seed
Farmers face great difficulties with drying their seeds because seed absorbs moisture from the soil. As a result, seed quality deteriorates, and no-one can expect good yields by using poor quality seed. In this video you can see how farmers of Maria village solved this problem. Now they are no...
Bangladesh
2016 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
Beyond ‘voting with your chopsticks’: Community organising for safe food in China
This paper describes the recent emergence of alternative food networks in China in the context of widespread food quality concerns. Drawing on interviews and public blog posts, we illustrate how participants in these networks are moving beyond instrumental market relations and developing the collective agency necessary to participate in shaping...
China
2016 - Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
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