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Artículo de blog
Transición ecológica en la agricultura
Han pasado casi 44 años y hoy enfrentamos colosales desafíos mundiales, los efectos devastadores del Cambio Climático, el incremento de las desigualdades sociales, la disolución de los lazos comunitarios, la aceleración del desarrollo tecnológico (generado por las TIC, la biotecnología, la nanotecnología y las ciencias cognitivas), la crisis de representación...
Chile
2017 - Instituto Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Documento/nota de orientación
Rural poverty in the European Union
In 2015, 119 million European citizens, representing almost a quarter of the EU population, were at risk of poverty and social exclusion. Statistics show that the average poverty rate is slightly higher in rural areas, with very contrasting situations across the Union as some countries display a huge poverty gap...
European Union
2017 - European Parliament
Manual
Kudhibiti wadudu waharibifu na magonjwa
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Estudio de caso
Dual purpose sorghum and cowpea intercropping in Mali
In Mali, agriculture is the main source of employment. Over 80% of the population is engaged in agriculture that is mostly carried out by small farmers with income of less than US$1 per day. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important cereal grain used as food and animal fodder...
Mali
2017 - Institut d’Economie Rurale (IER)
Estudio de caso
Innovations in Agroecology – a case study from the Netherlands
In Noord-Brabant, a region in South-West Netherlands, Govert van Dis and his wife Phily Brooijmans are running an organic arable farm of around 100 hectares. They run the farm together and actively follow innovations in agroecology. Crops are grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, therefore crop rotation...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Preliminary Observations Special Rapporteur on the right to food
According to the World Bank, since 2005 Zambia has experienced impressive economic growth at an average of around 6-7 % per year, although this has decreased to less than 3 percent in recent years. This decline has been driven by drought and a fall in the price of copper, one...
Zambia
2017 - United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
Vídeo
Orgânicos: da saúde ao bolso do agricultor familiar
Filho, neto e bisneto de produtor rural, nascido e criado na roça, Valdir conta que era “veneneiro puro” até receber assistência da Emater-DF para dar início à transição agroecológica.
As políticas públicas da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) e o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) contribuem...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Estudio de caso
Organic Best Practices in Italian National Parks
Organic and eco-sustainable farming is particularly suited to farms situated within parks, because it does not harm local ecosystems as it does not use pesticides and promotes biodiversity, improving biological links and creating ideal habitats for animal life. It also promotes grants that reward farmers for acting as “guardians/stewards of...
Italy
2017 - AIAB and IFOAM-International
Informe
Pastoralism, The Backbone of the World’s Drylands
Over half of the world’s land area is grazed in various ways: in mixed farming systems, ranching, by wildlife and through pastoralism. Pastoralism is practised mainly on the grasslands that cover about a quarter of the world’s surface (Follet & Reed 2010). It is also closely associated with mobile herds...
2017 - Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International
Artículo de blog
Small scale farmer and big future thinker
What started out as an aspiration to be self sufficient, has evolved into a vision to grow and support young farmers into a profession that has enormous reward, alongside huge risk, immense challenges and a great deal of fulfillment. What’s more Joel can see the future in small-scale farming and...
Australia
2017 - OURFOODSYSTEM
Estudio de caso
Agroecology program in Xuan An and Ngoc Son, Vietnam
Located about 70 km north east from Hanoi, Vietnam, the villages of Xuan An and Ngoc Son (Bac Giang province) include 285 households. Rice is the main staple crop. Local rice and vegetable production strongly relies on synthetic inputs specifically Nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides which increase production costs and raise...
Viet Nam
2017
Estudio de caso
“The Regenerators” - New Zealand Farmers leading a progressive transition towards agroecology
The profile features farmers in New Zealand who came to the idea of regenerative agriculture due to an awareness of the ecological limits being breached by New Zealand agriculture. They believe that while farming is responsible for many of the environmental problems faced by their country, they also believe that better...
New Zealand
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Guia Prático de PANC - Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais
A sigla PANC significa Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais. Em outras palavras, quer dizer “todas as plantas que poderíamos consumir, mas não consumimos”. Imagine todas as plantas comestíveis que existem. Uma pequena parcela delas nós conhecemos, produzimos e comemos no dia a dia, sendo chamadas de plantas alimentícias convencionais. As que...
Brazil
2017
Estudio de caso
Agroecological Transition in Mexico: ANEC’s Journey to a Better Farm and Food System
La Asociación Nacional de Empresas Comercializadoras de Productores del Campo (ANEC) was founded in 1995 in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ANEC offers member farmers, a diverse array of small and medium commercial grain farmers from 17 different Mexican states. Initially, ANEC assisted in the...
Mexico
2017 - IATP and ANEC
Documento de trabajo
Urbanisation, rural transformations and food systems
The role of small towns
Small towns are an essential but often-neglected element of rural landscapes and food systems. They perform a number of essential functions, from market nodes to providers of services and goods and non-farm employment to their own population as well as that of the wider surrounding region. In demographic terms, they...
2017 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Hoja informativa
Shamba Mfuko
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Artículo de blog
Kazakhstan increasing crop area dedicated to oilseeds and pulses
Farmers in Kazakhstan have been increasing the land area devoted to growing oilseed and pulse crops – and it makes good sense from several viewpoints. An FAO-organized seminar on “Pulses and oilseeds: prospects for development” was held here today, one of many forward-looking events on offer this year at Astana...
Kazakhstan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Acto
Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar
A partir de la decisión institucional de avanzar en el fomento de la agroecología, INDAP organiza el Primer Simposio Nacional de Agroecología para la Agricultura Familiar. Su principal propósito es promover la práctica agroecológica como un modelo de producción sustentable para la Agricultura Familiar Campesina (AFC) de Chile, generando una...
Chile
2017 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Hoja informativa
Mbolea Mboji
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Hoja informativa
EIP-AGRI Factsheet on Ecological Focus Areas
All the information from the EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Ecological Focus Areas at a glance
European Union
2017 - EIP - Agri
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