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Empowering communities and addressing farming challenges through cooperatives: the case of Yen Duong cooperative
Women-led cooperatives have played a role in improving women farmers’ technical know-how, leadership capacities, business skills, and advocacy skills. Women members of Yen Duong Cooperative in Vietnam were trained in agroforestry production, handicrafts making, and tourism and actively participated in advocacy and policy-making activities in their locality. They have successfully...
Viet Nam
2022 - AfA
Vídeo
Home delivery of organic produce
Via social media farmers market their organic produce and customers place orders from ½ to 5 kg of organic produce. Customers receive guaranteed healthy, fresh farm produce delivered to their door. By having a fixed client base, farmers have a regular income and get a higher price for their produce....
India
2022 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de blog
Pathways to promote agroecology
Agroecological approaches are highly location specific as they connect the links between the food needs, livelihoods, local culture, environment and the economics. Education on agroecology is therefore a holistic approach connecting these links, where farmers are in the centre of the entire process.
With the realisation of the ill effects of...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Artículo de blog
Strategies for reviving the agro-ecological approach
The centrality of any education system is knowledge. This article highlights how farmer’s traditional knowledge on millets was explored, revived and documented; how ‘farmer centric research process’ was carried out through participatory varietal trials; and, how the community based knowledge centre for testing, access and spread of knowledge was created.
Agro-ecology...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Boletín informativo
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 20 - March 2022
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de blog
Success Story | Supporting Young Hallilah Who Led Three Villages into Integrated Farming
The European Union-funded United Nations Joint Programme for Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade and in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG) continues to expand its support to rural areas of the Greater Sepik Region, specifically targeting women and youth in capacity building of agri-food value chain. Here, the programme...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Actas de conferencia
Proceedings of the Regional Consultation on Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to Support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia
A two-day virtual regional consultation titled “Engaging with Academia and Research Institutions (ARIs) to Support Family Farmers and Food System Transformation During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia” was held by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Asian Farmers’ Association for...
2022 - FAO, SEARCA
Artículo de blog
STREIT Innovation Fund to promote development of local agripreneurship and innovative solutions in Papua New Guinea
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, has launched an Innovation Fund to stimulate investments in Cocoa, Vanilla and Fisheries businesses as well as to promote development of local companies and entrepreneurs in the Greater Sepik Region of Papua New Guinea.
The Fund...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Acto
Regional Dialogue: The Politics of Knowledge and Evidence for Agroeocology in Asia
This article reflects on the regional dialogue on agroecology held on 12 May 2022 and co-organized by Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF), Asia Farmers Association (AFA), and Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) with technical assistance from the FAO.
The event was a follow-up to the GAFF, 2021 publication entitled The Politics of Knowledge: Understanding the Evidence...
2022
Artículo de blog
The essential role of poultry farming in the equilibrium of farming families
After a particularly complicated and violent period in its history under the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia can boast of having halved its poverty rate between 2014 and 2022. Even if extreme poverty is still far from being eradicated today, this progress proves that it is not inevitable.
Cambodia
2022 - Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF)
Libro
Pro-poor Development Policies: Lessons from the Philippines and East Asia
"This collection of essays provides a wealth of information and analysis about the Philippine economy and the role of agriculture and economic policy in it. The Philippine experience has been quite different from the highly successful Asian economies, with a long period of low growth until the turn of the...
Philippines
2022 - Books on Agricultural Research and Development
Informe
UNDFF Regional Action Plan for strengthening family farming in South Asia 2021–2028
The Regional Action Plan for strengthening family farming in South Asia has been elaborated through a participatory and multi-stakeholder approach in the framework of the UN Decade of Family Farming and in close collaboration with SAARC Agriculture Center, the Asia Farmer Association for Sustainable Rural Development and the International Cooperative...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Emerging avenues in Agroecology Education
Agroecology is not new. It is based on traditional ecological knowledge and can be found in family farmers’ practices, in grassroots social movements for sustainability and the public policies of various countries around the world. However, the education on agroecology has been largely in an informal manner. Given the challenges...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Artículo de blog
Weaving a classroom of hope in the farm
Many passionate farmers are giving back to the society by sharing their knowledge and experience on growing food in an eco-friendly manner. This is how knowledge got passed from generation to generation, traditionally. But, present day farmers are moving a step ahead by integrating the modern technology and social media,...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Documento/nota de orientación
Traditional mountain landscapes: crucial for meeting biodiversity and climate targets
Traditional mountain landscapes governed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) conserve unique wildlife and agrobiodiversity, and strongly support climate change adaptation and mitigation by protecting ecosystem services, including grasslands that store almost 50% more carbon than forests.
But mountain biodiversity and the Indigenous and traditional peoples that sustain it are...
Bhutan - China - India - Kenya - Kyrgyzstan - Peru - Tajikistan
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED
Artículo de blog
Quand les paysans Indiens passent au bio, le pari de l’agroécologie
Dans les campagnes de l’Andhra Pradesh, cet Etat agricole du sud-est qui a lancé depuis 2018 le plus grand programme d’agroécologie au monde. Près d’un million de paysans y sont déjà passés au "natural farming", délaissant OGM, pesticides, fongicides, et engrais chimiques.
India
2022 - https://www.franceinter.fr
Artículo de blog
South-South Cooperation: FAO signs key agreement with Chinese Government
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has signed an agreement with the Chinese Government officially launching Phase III of the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Programme.
The General Agreement was signed by the Director-General of FAO, QU Dongyu and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the...
China
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Acto
Farmer Field Schools for the agroecological transition
This webinar shared the findings of joint work by FAO, CIRAD (Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) and the NGO AVSF (Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières), illustrated with three examples of field school programmes from Togo, Mali and India.
2022 - FAO, CIRAD, AVSF
Vídeo
Regional Dialogue on Family Farming in Asia and the Pacific
During the first three years of implementation of the UNDFF in the RAP region, significant results have been achieved. One can mention for instance the development of the SAARC Regional Action Plan for Family Farming, as well as the development of National Action Plans for Family farming in Indonesia (implementation...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Urban home gardening movement in Kerala – Role of social media collectives
Urban home gardening, limited to private residential spaces, has a potential to address the urban food supply chain, when expanded. In Kerala, urban home gardening, supported by governmental intervention and people’s social media-based initiative has become a wider societal movement.
Light weight designed grow bags are used for rooftop garden
Kerala, a...
India
2022 - Leisa India
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