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The Horticulture Report
Extended analyses and latest results of the Horticulture Network you find in the Horticulture Report 2014.
Germany
2014 - agri benchmark
Artículo
Food in the Desert? Israel’s Salad Trail
A great tomato from the heart of the desert? All thanks to the Salad Trail, a working farm and interactive museum designed to teach visitors about the techniques used to farm a desert – techniques that have helped Israel become almost entirely agriculturally self-sufficient. And for a population that is...
Israel
2014
Libro
Farmers' rights in practice
Synthesis of the case studies on sustainable use of agrobiodiversity: focus on European experiences
This report presents the synthesis of case studies analysed by the action-research activity. The aim is to give a description of the practices carried out by farmers, individually or collectively, which can be considered as sustainable ways to use plant genetic resources with the purpose that these practices be spread...
France - Hungary - Italy - Romania - Senegal - Spain - Tunisia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Lesotho
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...
Lesotho
2014
Estudio de caso
Shashe Agro-ecology School for Farmer-to-farmer Training, Zimbabwe
In 2000, twelve smallholder farming families, which had gathered extensive experience on agroecological methods by working closely with a grassroots organization called the Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC), organized themselves into a group. They initiated a project to set up a school for farmer-to-farmer training in Zimbabwe which...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Libro
Escuela Nacional de Agroecología (aprendiendo de la experiencia en Ecuador)
Llámese agroecología, agricultura orgánica, agricultura natural, agricultura sostenible con bajos insumos externos, etc., [lo fundamental es] especificar los principios ecológicos, sociales y políticos que el movimiento defiende, [que se] basan en la recuperación de los métodos de la agricultura campesina tradicional, la innovación en las nuevas prácticas ecológicas, el control...
Ecuador
2014 - Fundación Heifer Ecuador
Libro
As sementes tradicionais dos Krahô
uma experiência de integração das estratégias on farm e ex situ de conservação de recursos genéticos
Essa publicação, que faz parte da série "Sementes locais: experiências agroecológicas de conservação e uso", realizada pela ANA em parceria com a Associação Brasileira de Agricultura Biodinâmica, vem trazer ao público exemplos relevantes de conservação e uso da agrobiodiversidade junto a agricultores familiares e povos e comunidades tradicionais.
Nesta edição é...
Brazil
2014 - Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento
Manual
Formación de promotores y promotoras
Guía Metodológica de Agroecología
Heifer Ecuador junto con Organizaciones de Segundo Grado de los Cantones Cayambe y Pedro Moncayo, impulsó la formación de promotores/as locales en Agroecología, con el objetivo de fortalecer las iniciativas de producción más sana y amigable con el ambiente. Los procesos de capacitación a los promotores/as están direccionados para que...
Ecuador
2014 - Fundación Heifer Ecuador
Documento/nota de orientación
Scaling up agro-ecological approaches: what, why and how?
Discussion paper on scaling up agro-ecological approaches: In recent years, especially since the agriculture prices spike in 2008 that sparked ‘food riots’ across Africa, Asia and Latin America, a growing consensus has emerged on the need for proceeding to major changes in agricultural and food systems in order to ensure...
2014 - OXFAM
Artículo de revista especializada
Benefits of Short Food Supply Chains for the Development of Rural Tourism in Romania as Emergent Country During Crisis
The current paper analyses the way the short food supply chain can positively influence the development of the rural tourism, with economic, social and environment benefits, as well as the harmonious and sustainable development of the rural communities. Numerous examples offered by the developed countries prove that, for the well-known...
Romania
2014
Documento técnico
Diseño de un sistema de calificación para productores de la agricultura familiar campesina de la región sierra dentro del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca
El presente trabajo de tesis se justifica por la necesidad del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca (MAGAP) así como de otras instituciones del Estado, de contar con un registro de productores de la agricultura familiar campesina que les permita direccionar apropiadamente la política pública hacia el fomento y...
Ecuador
2014 - Universidad Central del Ecuador
Estudio de caso
Analyse des activités agricoles et forestières en forêt dense d'Afrique Centrale
Etude réalisée dans le Nord-Est du Gabon, qui est couvert par une forêt équatoriale dense relativement intacte. C'est une zone peu peuplée avec des villages regroupés le long des principaux axes routiers, dont les habitants vivent d'activités agricoles et forestières traditionnelles, telles que l'agriculture sur abattis-brûlis avec des champs associant entres autres...
Gabon
2014 - Institut national d'études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier Sup Agro)
Informe
Sustainable Agriculture Land Management
CLIMATE CHANGE with uncertain weather conditions constitute one of the main challenges for small-holder farmers in the East African region. Vi Agroforestry works with farmers and farmers’ organisations to increase their environmental awareness, helping farmers to adapt to climate change, increasing the use of sustainable energy and prevent and reduce...
2014 - VI AGROFORESTRY
Vídeo
Agroecology: farmer's perspectives
The video outlines three case studies of farmers utilizing agroecological practices in their farming systems. It focuses on complex adaptive rice systems in the Easter part of the island of Java, Indonesia; on a large-scale farm in the Netherlands applying sustainable soil management practices; and on social aspects of agroecology...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vídeo
Fédération des AMAP de Picardie - Nos valeurs
Le partenariat entre producteurs et amapiens est illustré ici par de nombreux témoignages, qui montrent les valeurs fortes en jeu : solidarité, engagement, compréhension mutuelle, transparence. Les relations établies dépassent le cadre habituel d’achat, elles permettent aux agriculteurs de partager leurs réalités, et aux amapiens de s’engager pour une agriculture nourricière,...
France
2014 - AMAP
Estudio de caso
Agroecology for home and market
A winning combination for rural communities in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe
The primary objective of this project has been to promote a shift to agroecological farming. This involves rebuilding soil organic matter and protecting it from further depletion, and promoting are turn to productive diversity through intercropping and rotation. By increasing biodiversity and habitats, farmers are restoring the balance between pests...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Estudio de caso
Saving the bambara nut in Mutoko, Zimbabwe
The local farmers in Mutoko, Zimbabwe, face constant food insecurity due to a number of factors which include the loss of biodiversity and traditional food crops. One of the traditional crops that has dwindled in production over the years is the Bambara nut. In the resettlement sector in Mutoko, Bambara...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Libro
Estrategias de reformas institucionales en inversiones para los sistemas de extensión y transferencia de tecnología en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
Para la FAO, un sistema de extensión pertinente, efectivo y sostenible constituye una herramienta fundamental para alcanzar las metas de erradicación del hambre, disminución de la pobreza rural y fortalecimiento de los sistemas sostenibles de producción agropecuaria, metas que responden a las demandas de la Conferencia Regional de la FAO...
Dominican Republic
2014 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Peasant to Peasant: The Social Movement Form of Agroecology
After the electoral defeat of the Sandinistas in 1990, former land owners returned to Nicaragua from the USA and began to take back their former estates, through legal and less than legal manoeuvering. This ‘agrarian counter-reform’ as it became known left many hundreds of rural people landless in its wake...
Nicaragua
2014
Hoja informativa
Lutte agroécologique contre les ravageurs des cultures de haricot katché et toura (niébé) dans la région de Djougou (Bénin)
Au hameau de Kpayéroun, situé au Nord du Bénin (Commune de Djougou), les cultures principales sont l’igname,le manioc, le haricot africain (Vignaunguiculata) et le sorgho. Fondée en 2009, l'association ORAD (Organisation des Ruraux pour une Agriculture Durable) est composée d’agriculteurs du hameau (autour de 45 adhérents) qui ont constaté les...
Benin
2014 - Fondation Sciences Citoyennes
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