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COFO/2014/4.4 Rev.1. Committee on Forestry, Forests and family farming, 22nd session, Rome, Italy, 23-27 June 2014
The Committee on Forestry (COFO 22) took place in FAO headquarters this week (23-27 June). In light of the 2014 International Year of Family Farming (IYFF), the topic of forests and family farming is one of the key agenda items this year. The International Year of Family Farming provides an...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
In the words of family farmers: Indonesia
For seaweed farmer Hassan Heremba Basri teaching his children everything he knows about farming will ensure their successful future.
Indonesia
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Manual
Making Agroecology Viable for Small Farmers: Experiences from the Field
"The practices illustrated through these case studies are being extensively shared among farmers from across the country. These local practices are not just ways of thinking or alternatives; they are based on the specialized knowledge and practices of people and communities.They contain insights that when appropriately applied, can help farmers...
India
2014 - Focus on the Global South
Magazine article
Rural Development Programme 2007-2013
Modernization of agricultural holdings, adding value to agricultural products
Mr. Chris Zahra, is a young full time farmer operating a livestock farm in the Virtu’ area. He is engaged solely in the livestock sector rearing a herd of 73 ovines. To improve his operation Chris has invested in his holding and benefitted from Measures 121 and 123
Malta
2014
Newsletter
Boletín Informativo FAOAR
Boletín Informativo Mensual de la representación de FAO en Argentina de Octubre 2014, que da cuenta de los proyectos y desafíos en ese país.
Argentina
2014 - Oficina Nacional de la FAO Argentina
Fact sheet
"CAP in your country" - MALTA
Until 2020, the new CAP is going to invest EUR 134 million in the Maltese farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility was given to Malta to adapt both direct payments and...
Malta
2014 - European Commission
Report
Investment Support under Rural Development Policy
This study analyses three questions in relation to the evaluation of investment support in Rural Development Programmes (RDP) of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Different evaluation methods are classified according to their appropriateness and suitability to measure efficiency, effectiveness and impact of investment support measures. In order to evaluate the...
2014 - European Union
Blog article
Women of Kanem taking the lead in agricultural development
The project has enabled women’s groups to access irrigable and fertile land and farm it in their own names.
In the western Chad region of Kanem, the majority of men from poor rural families have migrated to areas with better economic opportunities to ensure the survival of their families. Women are often left as head of household and assume particularly heavy tasks, including cultivating the land. Agricultural production has...
Chad
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Experience in four countries
Taking part in the traveling workshops in Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro were a number of officials and NGO representatives from four other countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Turkey. Ministers or their representatives from these countries attended the Concluding Conference in Brussels on...
Türkiye
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Book
Where Have All the Small Farmers Gone? The Story of Agriculture and Indian Farmers
"This first booklet in the series – 'Where Have all the Small Farmers gone?' – traces the broad path that agriculture took in India, to see where and how the small farmers are placed in it. It notes the major milestones en route, and underlines the major ups and downs,...
India
2014 - Focus on the Global South
Fact sheet
Small farms, big impacts: mainstreaming climate change for resilience and food security
Climate change threatens the natural resource base across much of the developing world. Climate change accelerates ecosystem degradation and makes agriculture more risky. As a result, smallholder farmers, who are so critical to global food security, are facing more extreme weather. Small-scale farmers are impacted more immediately by droughts, floods...
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article
连接城市和乡村的家庭营养
厄瓜多尔正在经历一场重大的营养转变。一个矛盾的观点表明生产食物的农村家庭通常就 是受营养不良影响最大的群体,加上这次转变,都体现出“现代”农业系统的讽刺意味。它也突出 了围绕家庭营养的,农村和城镇的连接的重要性,其正有助于解决此类矛盾。我们看到位于厄 瓜多尔北部的San Francisco Alto村和 Ambuqui村里有许多家庭正在经历这样的变化。他们采用各 种策略努力实现健康、多样化和富含营养的饮食。
Ecuador
2014 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Conference proceedings
Mainstreaming biodiversity in practice
A STAP advisory document
The objective of the three-day workshop on mainstreaming biodiversity, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, in October 2013, was to review experience and lessons learned during a decade of investment in biodiversity mainstreaming projects in production landscapes and seascapes around the world. Experience was drawn principally from GEF...
2014 - Global Environment Facility
Video
Certificación de competencias para extensionistas rurales
El vídeo presenta el proceso de certificación de competencias como una oportunidad de cambio y desarrollo para los servicios de extensión rural en el Perú.
Peru
2014 - Soluciones Prácticas
Conference proceedings
Priorities for FAO activities in the Near East and North Africa
This report is divided into three sections: Section II outlines how priorities and items requiring follow-up emanating from the previous Regional Conference have been addressed, bringing to the attention of the Members major achievements and aspects requiring further consideration. The section will also draw lessons from the implementation of the...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Book
Estudio comparativo regional de asistencia técnica y extensión rural con perspectiva de género
Programa Regional de Género de la Reunión Especializada de la Agricultura Familiar - REAF
El presente estudio comparativo regional de asistencia técnica y extensión rural con perspectiva de género, convocado por el Programa Regional de Fortalecimiento Institucional de Políticas de Igualdad de Género en la Agricultura Familiar del MERCOSUR, se realizó entre los meses de octubre, noviembre y diciembre de 2013 y principios de...
Argentina - Brazil - Uruguay
2014 - Ministerio del Desarrollo Agrario (MDA), Brasil
Project
Currican: artisanal canning
Three women from Spain set up their own company in Galicia helping to preserve the tradition, particular to the area, of canning local fish and seafood in glass jars and selling their products in specialised gourmet shops.
Spain
2014 - Conservas Currican S.L
Magazine article
Empowering rural stakeholders in the Western Balkans
Challenge – the present state of relations between stakeholders and governments
From a bottom-up perspective, the field visits in Serbia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Montenegro showed that rural entrepreneurs, and some rural communities, can make good things happen, and that in some cases they do so without much help from government. However, it was also clear that farmers...
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development
Report
Deepening the transformations and refining the focus in agricultural research
Taking into account the challenges in agriculture, and the responsibility that agricultural researchers and other stakeholders should take to improve the impact of agricultural innovations, the urgency to strengthen the cooperation and innovation partnership, the members of CACAARI and its partners encouraged the initiative of transforming the Association into the...
2014 - CACAARI
Website
Veckūkuri Farm
The farm Veckūkuri, located in the Strenči County, Jērcēni Rural Municipality, Cālīši, is managed by Ilvija Jakovina, her husband Jānis, and their sons Robins Jānis and Ričards Dāvis. The herd consists of 75 Holstein Black and white cows. The best yield from the highest-yielding cow is 12 000 kg. The...
Latvia
2014 - Baltic Deal
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