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Sustainability And Organic Livestock Modelling (SOL-M)
Impacts of a global upscaling of low-input and organic livestock production - Preliminary Results
The Sustainability and Organic Livestock model (SOL-m) is a project (see Concept Note) of the FAO Natural Resources and Management Department that has been commissioned to the Research Institute of Organic Farming (FiBL) in Frick, Switzerland. This summary report presents the preliminary results of the SOL-model. Currently, plausibility checks are...
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fact sheet
Inversión pública en agricultura familiar, nuevas oportunidades en México y América Central
En años recientes, una confluencia de tendencias, a nivel regional, nacional e internacional, ha llevado al surgimiento de un entorno de políticas que, aunque lejos de ser favorables a la agricultura familiar, brindan más oportunidades para la incidencia de lo que parecía posible hace una década.
Se proponen cuatro factores que...
El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua
2013 - Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Journal article
Viability of smallholder dairying in Wedza, Zimbabwe
Viability differences in smallholder dairy farming are a result of differences in access to markets and services. It is hypothesized that innovations that improve productivity and market linkages also improve returns and viability. The viability of smallholder dairying in Wedza was characterised by interviewing 52 households using semi-structured questionnaires. Information...
Zimbabwe
2013 - University of Zimbabwe
Video
“New Success Factors” - Honey
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2013 - reterurale
Report
Agroécologie, une transition vers des modes de vie et de développement viables
Paroles d’acteurs
Parler d’agroécologie est équivoque et oppose souvent deux camps. Tantôt présentée comme remède à tous les problèmes, tantôt accusée de mystification ou d’archaïsme, l’agroécologie réellement pratiquée dans le monde ne mérite certainement pas cet excès d’honneur ou cette indignité. Tout simplement, elle existe, et ceci depuis longtemps et de manière...
2013 - Groupe de Travail Désertification
Video
Rural Development Program support helps inspire young people to start-up farming
A young farmer from Lithuania talks about her funding support from the Rural Development Programme and what difference this assistance has made to her business.
Lithuania
2013 - European Network for Rural Development
Project
Development perspectives of rural areas in the City of Zagreb - Brezovica settlement
The area of the City of Zagreb is the only Croatian region (NUTS 3), which is defined as an urban area. Fourteen of the twenty counties are classified as exceptionally rural, and six of them are classified as rural areas. Because of this division, the inhabitants of the rural areas...
Croatia
2013 - Croatian Rural Development Network (HMRR)
Magazine article
An introduction to family farming in Europe
Case Studies - Portugal,Hungary,Ireland,Romania
Being the most common operational farming model, family farming has ensured the growth of Europe’s agricultural sector for centuries. Today’s ambitious European Union (EU) policy framework is designed to take account of the different models of agriculture existing in the EU, including the diverse types of family farming. It focuses...
Hungary - Ireland - Portugal - Romania
2013
Magazine article
Agro-ecology
Beyond food
Some may view indigenous communities as being conservative and backwards. However, the Kabekwa in Costa Rica show that such communities can be adaptable and innovative. In response to changing circumstances, this community has been adapting its farming practices constantly, benefiting from it in multiple ways.
Costa Rica
2013 - AgriCultures Network
Report
Renforcement des capacités des agriculteurs en Afrique de l'Ouest
viabilité d'un service de conseil agricole mis en place par une organisation de producteurs : L'Union des groupements pour la commmercialisation des produits agricoles de la Boucle du Mouhoun (UGCPA/BM) au Burkina Faso.
Depuis 2009, l'Union des groupements pour la commercialisation des produits agricoles de la Boucle du Mouhoun, au Burkina Faso, soutenue par ses partenaires techniques et financiers, a mis en place un service de conseil à l'exploitation familiale (CEF) pour ses membres. Ce service a pour objectif de favoriser l'apprentissage et...
Burkina Faso
2013 - Fondation pour l'agriculture et la ruralité dans le monde (FARM)
Journal article
Development of family agriculture: research on rural issues and the territory as a reference to study the case of Terenos, MS
To understand how is the process of local development in Terenos, located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, we used a theoretical territorialist. Since the 1920s the fi rst family agricultures of European origin were settled in place and your organization gave rise to the Old Colony and...
Brazil
2013 - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS)
Project
Together for Sustainable Development in Croatia
Overall objective
To strengthen the voice of civil sector in shaping, monitoring and evaluating sustainable development policies on local, national and international level through networking, cross-sectorial partnership and capacity building.
Specific objectives
To strengthen capacity and influence of the national civil society networks to make them recognized partners to the public sector in...
Croatia
2013 - Croatian Rural Development Network (HMRR)
Book
Food Plants of Haiti
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...
Haiti
2013
Guidelines
Construyendo una agenda de políticas públicas para las mujeres rurales
Autonomía Económica, Igualdad de Derechos y Lucha contra el Hambre
Por invitación del Gobierno de Brasil, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), en colaboración con la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), impulsó una reflexión regional sobre cómo avanzar en el mejoramiento de las condiciones de las mujeres rurales de...
2013 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Conference proceedings
Consenso de Montevideo sobre población y desarrollo
Representantes oficiales de 38 países miembros y asociados de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) de las Naciones Unidas aprobaron hoy el Consenso de Montevideo sobre Población y Desarrollo, documento que contiene una serie de acuerdos para reforzar la implementación de los asuntos de población y desarrollo...
2013 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Report
L’exploitation agricole familiale
le modèle idéal
Cette année, le rapport de situation s’intéresse aux exploitations paysannes familiales, lesquelles constituent encore et toujours la forme d’exploitation habituelle même si elles sont confrontées à divers problèmes. C’est pourquoi l’ONU a déclaré 2014 «Année internationale de l’agriculture familiale». Les petites et moyennes exploitations familiales produisent 70% de toutes les...
Switzerland
2013 - Union Suisse des Paysans
Report
Agriculture in the EU
After three years of recovery, the EU-28 real agricultural income per labour unit decreased in 2013 by 1.3% year-on-year driven by declines in both factor income and agricultural labour force (-2.1% and -0.9%, respectively). The agricultural income varies significantly across the European Union: the highest increases are estimated in the...
2013 - European Commission - Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development.
Book
Movimentos socioterritoriais, a contrarreforma agrária do banco mundial e o combate à pobreza rural
Os casos do mst, contag e maram: subordinação e resistência camponesa
El presente trabajo es un estudio comparativo del proceso de (des)(re) territorialización del campesinado por medio de la Reforma Agraria de Mercado (RAM) realizada por tres movimientos socioterritoriales en distintas realidades geográficas del Brasil: por la Confederación Nacional de Trabajadores de la Agricultura (Contag) y el Movimiento de Trabajadores sin...
2013 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Book
Yo quinua, vos quinua
Este libro se preparó durante el Año Internacional de la Quinoa, en homenaje a quienes conservaron la semilla a lo largo de cinco siglos, y se presenta en el Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar, como reconocimiento para los hombres y mujeres que la producen en nuestros días. Como todas...
Argentina
2013 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)
Video
La mujer y el mar
Vídeo-estudio sobre la situación de la mujer en el sector pesquero en la Ría de Pontevedra
Spain
2013
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