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FAO hosts meeting to strengthen collaboration on transboundary animal diseases
In parts of Asia, where animal transport often happens quickly through unregulated and remote border areas, animal diseases are especially difficult to control.
Because of this, and because livestock play a major role in economic growth in the region, it is important to address animal diseases that have the potential to...
2018 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Montenegrin meat producers slicing into wider market
Some 5 000 northern Montenegrin farmers still make the traditional dried beef Crnogorska Goveđa pršuta, which, along with the Montenegrin dried and smoked sheep meat Crnogorska Stelja, is poised to receive geographical indication (GI) status, an origin-based label that signals quality, authenticity and tradition.
This development is the result of work...
Montenegro
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Actas de conferencia
Development of Organic Agriculture in Central Asia
FAO in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Uzbekistan organized the International Conference on Development of Organic Agriculture in Central Asia during 22-24 August 2017 within the framework the project TCP/UZB/3501. The major objectives were to bring together experiences in Central Asian and neighbouring countries, discuss...
Uzbekistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Over 2.5 million hectares committed to the Bonn Challenge by the Caucasus and Central Asia
Over 2.5 million hectare of forest landscape will be restored by countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia under the Bonn Challenge by 2030. The commitment was made by Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan at the first Ministerial Roundtable on Forest Landscape Restoration and the Bonn Challenge in...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Food safety risks have the attention of Moldovan authorities
A team of experts from the National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority of Romania (NSVFSA) participated this week in the first workshop of a series of activities aimed at strengthening the national capacities of the Republic of Moldova in assessing risks related to food safety.
The five-day workshop is one...
Republic of Moldova - Romania
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Libro
Building Mountain Resilience: Solutions from the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Faced with a complex and uncertain future, the coming years are even more so for mountains that contend with rising temperatures, dwindling natural resources, and rapidly increasing outmigration. Therefore, the need to focus on affordable and replicable solutions that can affect significant change is more important than ever. The solutions...
2018 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Artículo de blog
Eastern Europe’s fisheries sector seeks access to lucrative international market
Fish and fish products are among the most widely traded food commodities in the world, with trade totaling around US$ 145 billion per year. Demand is especially strong in Europe. Market access and regional trade in fish products in Eastern Europe – especially with regard to the World Trade Organization...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Civil society seeks to influence future of agriculture in Europe and Central Asia
Civil society organizations want to influence the future work of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Europe and Central Asia. With this in mind, a two-day consultation opens in Budapest today, with some 50 participants from several countries of the region.
The Consultation will aim to concentrate positions among...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Montenegro’s culinary riches enticing tourists
Montenegro is building on its rich cultural and food heritage and well-preserved natural beauty to become a destination for sustainable tourism. The country’s fast-growing tourism industry already accounts for nearly a quarter of Montenegro’s gross domestic product, with most of that tourism concentrated along the Adriatic coast.
Keen to attract visitors...
Montenegro
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Miscelánea
Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia
FAO ’s three Regional Initiatives for Europe and Central Asia address interlinked issues to ensure the contribution of agriculture to achieve the universality of the Sustainable Development Goals. For this reason, technical teams in the region and at FAO headquarters work in close collaboration to support countries in achieving their...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Diversité des contributions des systèmes dʼélevage de races locales. Les points de vue des éleveurs de trois races ovines méditerranéennes
La diversité des contributions fournies par les systèmes d’élevage s’appuyant sur des races locales, au côté de la production de biens alimentaires et non alimentaires, est rarement abordée de front, bien qu’elle soit essentielle pour comprendre les modalités de gestion de ces races. Ce travail de recherche fait le point...
2018
Artículo de blog
Online discussion: Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas – obstacles and opportunities in the Mediterranean region
As part of the publication “Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas: obstacles and opportunities” (September 2018) and the conference “Women4Mediterranean Conference 2018 – Women build inclusive societies” (Lisbon, Portugal, 10- 11 October 2018), during which the “Empowering Women in Rural and Agriculture Areas” (UM-CIHEAM) workshop will...
2018 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Estudio de caso
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Artículo de blog
FAO supports the reduction of food loss and waste in southeastern Europe
In Europe and Central Asia, and particularly in countries not part of the European Union, food loss and waste have major implications on food nutrition and security through inefficiencies in the food value chains. FAO is now working with four southeastern European countries to develop strategies for food loss and...
Armenia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Álbum de fotografías
Syrian refugees harvest greenhouse vegetables in Turkey
For nearly as long as the civil war in Syria has been ongoing, 36-year-old Sena Hamad has been living in a refugee camp with her three daughters and husband on the outskirts of the city of Osmaniye in southern Turkey.
Today, she is among the first group of 25 trainees to...
Türkiye
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Cultivating vision and networks to untap rural women’s and girls’ potential in the Mediterranean
Last March in New York the sixty-second Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) took place with a priority focus on ‘Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls’. The Commission recognized in its conclusions «the crucial contributions of rural women to local and...
2018
Artículo de blog
Rural women in Kyrgyzstan receive assistance from Swedish funds
A programme that helps rural women in Kyrgyzstan gain access to new economic opportunities has received significant financial support from the Swedish government.
The USD 5 million contribution from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will help expand the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural...
Kyrgyzstan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Cooperatives key to fruit and vegetable integration in Montenegro
Today, a number actors in Montenegro’s fruit and vegetable value chains – including producers, retailers, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development – came together at a workshop in Podgorica, Montenegro, to discuss the benefits of agricultural cooperatives.
The workshop was organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the...
Montenegro
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
FAO works to increase SDG awareness in Armenia
Agriculture is one of the key sectors defining the sustainable development of Armenia. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Armenia, which is responsible for implementing and monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to food and agriculture, identifies targets, aligns policy planning documents and, together with the Statistical...
Armenia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vídeo
Food is Life...Life is people. The #FutureofCAP and the #EUbudget
Italian MEP Paolo De Castro and Copa-Cogeca Secretary General Pekka Pesonen sit down for an important exchange of views on the future of the Common Agriculture Policy and the EU budget.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
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