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Shifting cultivation, livelihood and food security
New and old challenges for indigenous peoples in Asia
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007. Since then, the importance of the role that indigenous peoples play in economic, social and environmental conservation through traditional sustainable agricultural practices has been gradually recognized. Consistent with the...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - India - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Nepal - Thailand
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
SRI cultivates well-being for women
Women from small and marginal farming families doing SRI have been making the news in India for their adoption of a new approach that challenges the age-old beliefs and practices of rice farming. However, rarely one comes across mention of the impact of SRI on their wellbeing and their bodies.
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Cambodia - India - Malaysia
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Documento/nota de orientación
The Policy Advantage
Enabling smallholders’ adaptation priorities to be realized
Policies affect every dimension of the institutional and legal context in which poor rural people pursue their livelihoods. They shape the world they live in and the economic opportunities open to them. This means that supportive policies can go a long way towards providing the conditions in which people can...
Cambodia - El Salvador - Gambia - Mozambique - Sudan
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Libro
Democratising forest business: a compendium of successful locally controlled forest business models
Forests are home to 1.3 billion people, they have to cater to the multiple needs for local goods (access to income, food, clean water, wood energy, construction materials, fertile soils, medicinal and cosmetic products, and recreation) and global goods (climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, hydrological and mineral cycles). Reconciling competing...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Gambia - Guatemala - Indonesia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Mexico - Nepal - Philippines - Thailand - Viet Nam
2015 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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A Review of Women's Access to Fish in Small-Scale Fisheries
Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender-segregated division of labour (men fishing / women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - Solomon Islands - South Africa - Thailand - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Sitio web
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Hoja informativa
FAO’s contribution to reducing and preventing child labour in agriculture 2012-2014
Child labour is work that interferes with compulsory schooling or damages children’s health and personal development. Thanks to continuous efforts at the international and local level, recent global data,1 show that the number of children engaged in child labour worldwide has significantly declined from 215 to 168 million children (40 percent decline...
Cambodia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Malawi - Mali - Niger - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Improving diets and nutrition
Food-based approaches
This book discusses the policy, strategic, methodological, technical and programmatic issues associated with food-based approaches, proposes “best practices” for the design, targeting, implementation and evaluation of specific nutrition-sensitive, food-based interventions and for improved methodologies for evaluating their efficacy and cost-effectiveness, and provides practical lessons for advancing nutrition-sensitive food-based approaches for...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - China - Mexico - Nepal - Philippines
2014
Libro
Trends and impacts of foreign investment in developing country agriculture
Evidence from case studies
It is important that any international investment should bring development benefits to the receiving country in terms of technology transfer, employment creation, upstream and downstream linkages and so on if these investments are to be “win-win” rather than “neo-colonialism”. These beneficial flows are not automatic: care must be taken in...
Brazil - Cambodia - Ghana - Senegal - Thailand - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2013
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Lessons learned note
Gender mainstreaming in small-scale fisheries
This document provides lessons learned (good and bad) from three years of RFLP field activities on mainstreaming gender across the six collaborating RFLP countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste and Vietnam
Cambodia - Philippines - Sri Lanka - Timor-Leste - Viet Nam
2013 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Fishing for the Future
Fishing for the Future is a short film documentary elaborating one of components of the FAO European Union Food Facility Project activities in Cambodia. The film captures own-family-fish-pond culture which the project has been supported through provision of fingerlings, prawn larvae, lime and training to Cambodian farmers. The film also...
Cambodia
2011 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Agroecology and Advocacy: Innovations in Asia
The three case studies presented in this report represent successful approaches, both in terms of the techniques they have applied, and because of the active involvement of farmers’ organizations in changing the policies needed to ensure their success. Agroecological systems, which start from the interplay between the natural environment and...
Cambodia - Indonesia - Philippines
2011 - Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Directrices
Agroecology, best practices
Agroecology is the application of ecological principles to the interactions between human beings and their environment, as well as to their consequences, with the goal of minimising the negative effects of certain human activities. It aims at protecting the environment, ensuring the sustainable renewal of the natural resources (water, soil,...
Angola - Brazil - Cambodia - Congo - Gabon - Haiti - India - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Madagascar - Mauritania - Morocco - Niger - Sao Tome and Principe - Senegal - Sri Lanka
2010 - Agrisud International
Informe
Value Chain Analysis Report - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam
Linking Small Farmers to Market Project
The researchers and studies conducted under the LSFM project were intended to contribute to the process of effectively linking small farmers to market and maximize their benefits from the value chain. In addition, the studies also aimed to help decision-making of the project's in-country anchors and in formulating strategic directions,...
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Informe
Mapping of Marketing Initiatives by CSOs - Cambodia, Philippines & Vietnam
This report is part of the outputs of the participatory market researchers and studies on specific commodities chosen in each pilot in four countries: tea in Vietnam, fresh calamansi fruit in the Philippines, free-range native chicken in Cambodia and organic rice in Indonesia.
Cambodia - Philippines - Viet Nam
2008 - Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia (AsiaDHRRA)
Documento técnico
Increasing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to poverty alleviation and food security
The objectives of this Technical Paper are to highlight the contribution that inland and coastal small-scale fisheries can make to poverty alleviation and food security and to make practical suggestions on ways that this contribution can be maximized. This paper is organized into three main sections. The first section discusses...
Bangladesh - Brazil - Cambodia - India - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Malawi - Philippines - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2007 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Cambodia
The studies aimed to document and explore the understanding that fishing communities have about their rights to fisheries and coastal resources, as well as the obligations and responsibilities associated with these rights, and to document and discuss their initiatives to assert these rights and fulfill their responsibilities. The studies formed...
Cambodia
2007 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Informe
Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Asia - Workshop and Symposium proceedings, 3-8 May 2007, Siem Reap, Cambodia
This publication is a record of the proceedings of the Siem Reap Workshop and Symposium. It provides a bottom-up perspective on how rights are understood, and what rights are seen as important by small-scale fishing communities, if they are to fulfil their responsibilities for managing resources in a sustainable and...
Cambodia
2007 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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In search of excellence
Exemplary forest management in Asia and the Pacific
This publication reflects the outcome of an ambitious initiative to identify instances of exemplary forest management in the region and examine the core components of high quality forest management in an effort to illustrate good forest management to a wide audience and encourage others to take up some of the...
Australia - Cambodia - China - Fiji - India - Indonesia - Japan - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Malaysia - Nepal - New Zealand - Philippines - Republic of Korea - Sri Lanka - Vanuatu - Viet Nam
2005 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Lessons learned by the WIN project on livelihoods diversification and enterprise development
An overview of WIN LDED-related activities in Cambodia, Nepal and Zambia
The Livelihood Support Programme (LSP) evolved from the belief that FAO could have a greater impact on reducing poverty and food insecurity, if its wealth of talent and experience were integrated into a more flexible and demandresponsive team approach. The LSP works through teams of FAO staff members, who are...
Cambodia - Nepal - Zambia
2005
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