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Magazine article
Europe’s organic sector: a natural fit for social inclusion
As organic production grows in Europe, the sector’s focus is on competitiveness and sustainability. Another compelling characteristic of organic farming is its natural tendency towards social inclusion. This facet is to be supported and enhanced by the renewed European Union policy mix and social inclusion has been made one of...
2014
Working paper
The determinants and extent of crop diversification among smallholder farmers
A case study of Southern Province, Zambia
Agriculture is vital to Zambia’s economic development and is a mainstay for the livelihoods of a large proportion of the population. Agricultural production is mainly dependent on rain-fed hoe cultivation with maize as the principal staple food crop. About 18 percent of national maize production comes from Zambia’s Southern province....
Zambia
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Project
Support for Organic Production Boosts Farm Competitiveness in Altmark
The Dihlmann family purchased a farm in the Altmark 15 years ago and converted it into an organic farm. Area-based payments for organic production, namely for ensuring traditional crop rotation, contributed to ensure the competitiveness of the farm.
The members of the Dihlmann family have been farmers for more than 14...
Germany
2014 - EU
Journal article
Farm holdings in northern Nigeria and implication for food security
A remote sensing and GIS assessment
Land is a main life support resource to third world countries. In Nigeria, a major limitation to sustainable land use resources planning, development and management is the unreliable assessment of t available stock and the level of utilization. In particular, the commonly adopted traditional techniques for the evaluation are as...
Nigeria
2014 - University of Lagos
Project
Stockholm fish market – local fishermen take the town
In Stockholm, local fishermen have long been isolated, dependent on long chain marketing and lacking opportunities to sell their fish locally. With the support of the FLAG, fishermen developed the Stockholm fish market: regular urban events where local fishermen can sell fresh, local and traceable seafood directly to urban customers,...
Sweden
2014 - Fiskefrämjandet Stockholms Skärgård Stockholm, Sweden
Video
L'agriculture familiale, un métier d'avenir au Cameroun
A travers divers témoinages d'agriculteurs et agricultrices camerounais , cette video montre comment l'agriculture familiale au Cameroun crée des emplois.
Cameroon
2014 - Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Journal article
Communication for Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Rural Development in Malawi
Smallholder farmers in Malawi account for over 80 percent of the population and if the country is to achieve food security, poverty reduction and sustainable development attention to agricultural extension is a sine qua non. Since 2000, Malawi introduced extension reforms to better serve the needs of smallholder farmers. Some...
Malawi
2014 - Ohio State University
Website
Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo (CLAC)
La CLAC es la red latinoamericana que aglutina y representa a las organizaciones de pequeños productores y asociaciones de trabajadores del sistema Fairtrade International, así como otras organizaciones de pequeños productores de comercio justo del continente.
La CLAC es la red latinoamericana que aglutina y representa a las organizaciones de pequeños...
2014 - Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo (CLAC)
Technical paper
Una mirada integral a las políticas públicas de agricultura familiar, seguridad alimentaria, nutrición y salud pública en las Américas
Acercando agendas de trabajo en las Naciones Unidas
Importantes aspectos económicos, técnicos y políticos subyacen a los actuales problemas agrícolas, sociales y de salud en las Américas. La modernización del sector agrícola se acompaña de una creciente concentración de la tierra en grandes unidades de producción que privilegian unos pocos productos básicos y los monocultivos - por ejemplo,...
2014 - Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS/OMS)
Policy brief/paper
Plan of action: Jordan 2014–2018
Resilient livelihoods for agriculture and food and nutrition security in areas of Jordan affected by the Syria crisis
In November 2013, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) fielded an agriculture programme development mission to Jordan with the objectives of updating and expanding its “Agricultural Livelihoods and Food Security Impact Assessment and Response Plan for the Syria Crisis in the Neighbouring Countries of Egypt, Iraq,...
Jordan
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa
Report
Cuadernos de Mercados Campesinos n°1: Caracterización del proceso mercados campesinos en la Región Central de Colombia (periodo 2011-2013)
Seguridad alimentaria, políticas y nuevos modelos de negocios entre pequeñas/os productores y mercados en tres contextos de América Latina. Proyecto: Acceso a mercados y seguridad alimentaria en la Región Central de Colombia.
El primer cuaderno consolida los resultados de un grupo de investigaciones realizadas con el fin de describir y analizar el proceso Mercados Campesinos. Los estudios abordaron diversos actores que participan en el proceso: hogares campesinos, grupos locales (Comités Campesinos Municipales), promotores locales y coordinadores regionales, compradores de plazas de mercado y...
Colombia
2014 - Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Book
The state of food and agriculture 2014
Innovation in family farming
Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. It argues that family farms must be supported to innovate in ways that promote sustainable intensification of production and improvements in rural livelihoods. Innovation is a process through...
2014
Guidelines
SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture systems) Guidelines (version 3.0)
These Guidelines are the result of five years of participatory development, together with practitioners from civil society and private sector. The Guidelines are the result of an iterative process, built on the cross-comparisons of codes of practice, corporate reporting, standards, indicators and other technical protocols currently used by private sector,...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Family farmers grow fruit and vegetables thanks to irrigation schemes in Rwanda
Popularly known as ‘the land of a thousand hills' – U Rwanda rw'imisozi igihumbi – Rwanda has a beautiful landscape made up of endless undulating hills and valleys stretching as far as the eye can see. The people who work the land are proud of its beauty. But the terrain poses a...
Rwanda
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Project
Women entrepreneurs in Andalusia’s fisheries areas
All seven Andalusian FLAGs participated in a cooperation project to foster women entrepreneurship across the region by studying the experiences of local women and promoting successful female entrepreneurs as role models to others to turn their business ideas into reality.
High unemployment levels in Andalusia and a common objective in the...
Spain
2014 - Huelva, North-East Cádiz, Cádiz Straits, Malaga, Motril-Granada, Western Almeria, Eastern Almeria.
Policy brief/paper
Food Sovereignty Systems
Feeding the World, Regenerating Ecosystems, Rebuilding Local Economies, and Cooling the Planet – all at the same time.
The vast majority (70%) of the world’s population is fed and nourished by local, ecological systems of food production1. But these systems are severely threatened and undermined by industrial systems of agriculture that are controlled by corporations and promoted by governments. These industrial systems have exacerbated or even created the...
2014
Website
Riverland Diary Bio Farm – your first choice for healthy food
Riverland Diary Bio Farm is the success story of Mr. Vassilis Kiprianou who's name already belongs to the community of Cypriots products. After he graduated the A.T.E.i Thesalonikis Greece University he decided to return to Cyprus to follow his passion. Two years he spend locked inside the Government offices when...
Cyprus
2014 - Produced in Cyprus
Report
Propuesta para la reforma al campo en México
El campo como opción, no como condena
El presente texto se divide en dos partes. La primera es un cuadro que resume las buenas prácticas y programas de agricultura familiar en la región y los compara con programas existentes en México, ellos con el objeto de contar con un trabajo que resuma y presente de forma simplificada...
2014 - Red Mexicana por la Agricultura Familiar y Campesina
Case study
Renewable energy for smallholder irrigation
This study summarizes experiences using Renewable Energy (RE) water pumping options as irrigation by smallholder farmers in developing countries. It includes an overview of conventional technologies (petrol and diesel pumpsets),along with an inventory of RE alternatives (wind pumps, solar Photo Voltaic (PV) pumps, solar thermal pumps and biogas) and compares,...
Ethiopia
2014 - SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
Report
The state of food insecurity in the world 2014
Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
SOFI 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Haiti - Indonesia - Madagascar - Malawi - Yemen
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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