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The Haller Farmers App - improving the lives of millions of smallholder farmers
The Haller Foundation is a UK based charity that was set up in order to educate rural farmers in East Africa on sustainable pioneering farming techniques to maximise their food production and to help build self-sustaining communities. Since our launch back in 2004, we have worked with over 25,000 people...
Kenya
2020 - The Haller Foundation
Vídeo
Organic Poultry production in Denmark
This video has been produced as a replacement for a field trip to the farm Gothenborg that was originally planned to take place during the OK-NET EcoFeed meeting in Billund in May 2020. Due to the COVID19 situation, instead the meeting was held online. The video replaces the farm visit...
Denmark
2020 - ICROFS
Artículo de blog
Giving life to Slovenian grasslands
Biodiversity decline in agricultural landscapes has been problematic for decades in Slovenia, and extensive grasslands are one of the most threatened habitats in the country. The LIFE project “Conservation and Management of Dry Grasslands in Eastern Slovenia” (also known as ‘LIFE to grasslands’) addresses biodiversity conservation in agricultural environments.
European Union
2020 - Euromontana
Artículo de blog
Coronavirus: Commission stands ready to continue supporting EU's agri-food sector
Following the outbreak of coronavirus, the European Union's agri-food sector is showing its resilience and continues to provide Europeans with high quality and safe food. Nonetheless, farmers and producers are facing difficulties and increasing pressure. Ensuring food security and an effective food supply chain across the continent remains one of...
European Union
2020 - European Commission
Acto
Consultation - Rural development – long-term vision for rural areas
The Commission has committed to developing a long-term vision for rural areas. To achieve such a vision, it is necessary to assess what life is like in the rural areas of Europe and map out what is key for their prosperity. This public consultation will contribute to this process by...
European Union
2020 - European Commission
Acto
1st meeting of the ENRD Thematic Group #Rural2040 on the Long Term Rural Vision
The first of four meetings of the ENRD Thematic Group (TG) contributed to developing the EU 'Long-Term Vision for Rural Areas' announced by the President of the European Commission. The Vision should 'enable rural communities to make the most of their potential and support them in facing up to their...
European Union
2020 - ENRD
Aprendizaje en línea
European MSc Agroecology: ISARA-Lyon, France and Norwegian University of Life Sciences
The European MSc Agroecology is coordintated by a consortium consiting of FESIA, France and NMBU, Norway. For the two-year programme a double degree is delivered.
The European MSc Agroecology is a two-year programme, professionally oriented, to study interactions among agricultural, food and environmental sciences in a socially oriented and action driven...
France - Norway
2020 - ISARA-Lyon, France (on behalf of the FESIA consortium, France) and Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway
Informe
Europe and Central Asia: Regional food market situation and policy bulletin in response to the COVID-19 pandemic - #2
Based on the FAO’s latest forecast, world cereal production in 2020 is set at 2 790 million tonnes, which would surpass the record high reached in 2019 by as much as 3 percent (81.3 million tonnes) and which would be 5 percent above the five-year average from 2015–2019. The forecast...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis upon the Consumer Buying Behavior of Fresh Vegetables Directly from Local Producers. Case Study: The Quarantined Area of Suceava County, Romania
The present paper intends to address the impact of COVID-19 crisis upon the consumer buying behavior of fresh vegetables directly from local producers as observed 30 days later, after enforcing the state of emergency in Romania within a well-defined area, namely, the quarantined area of Suceava. The study relies on...
Romania
2020 - Biotechnology Department, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
Artículo
Social media for the organic food consumer’s behaviour and its impact upon the development of digital tools for small farmers in Romania
The small entrepreneurship on the Romanian food market is facing a series of concerns closely connected to the particular issues of an emerging economic sector. The entrepreneurial reactions are, quite often, intuitive, fall within a relation with the consumer which has been historically shaped in the zone of merchant behaviour,...
Romania
2020 - "Gh. Zane" Institute for Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch
Artículo de revista especializada
Participatory research for sustainable agriculture: the case of the Italian agroecological rice network
Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge.
The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...
Italy
2020 - European Journal of Futures Research
Informe
Market opportunities for artisanal and small-scale fisheries products for sustainability of the Mediterranean Sea Towards an Innovative Labelling Scheme
With consumers and in value chains, small-scale fisheries are struggling to get the recognition they deserve. LabMAF has detailed the factors contributing to the weak position of small-scale fishers in the markets and identified innovations that respond to existing challenges. By connecting existing various market initiatives and encouraging new ones...
European Union
2020 - Euro-Mediterranean University
Boletín informativo
Eip-Agri November 2020 newsletter
Eip Agri Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation
European Union
2020 - Eip Agri
Artículo de blog
Multi-actor projects: scientists and farmers creating solutions together
Multi-actor projects are projects in which end users and multipliers of research results such as farmers and farmers’ groups, advisers, enterprises and others, are closely cooperating throughout the whole research project period.
The EU has allocated around one billion euros to fund around 180 multi-actor projects of interest to agriculture, forestry and rural development...
2020 - Eip Agri
Vídeo
Trashumancia: "Andando y sembrando" un futuro sostenible
Breve documental grabado en la Fiesta de la Trashumancia 2019, Madrid. Un proyecto de: Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza Proyecto Dehesa y Montado en la Península Ibérica WWF España, WWF Portugal
Spain
2020 - Asociación Trashumancia y Naturaleza
Artículo de blog
The village hunter
Regulations to curb the indiscriminate and dangerous use of pesticides on seed and in fields must go hand in hand with other measures, such as promoting hedgerows that fulfil important ecological functions for birds and pollinators. Also, environmentally-friendly alternatives could be further investigated and promoted. Green, innovative technologies, such as...
Belgium
2020 - AgroInsight
Artículo de revista especializada
Food supply pressure in France and Germany during COVID-19: Causes from manufacturing
The food supply has been disrupted by COVID-19. Shopping in supermarkets and grocery stores in the pandemic may not be a pleasant experience, as it can often lead to disappointment and anxiety since a lot of food items are not available or out of stock. The pandemic’s impact on the...
Germany
2020
Boletín informativo
Romanian Rural Network Newsletter No.42 - 1/2020
From the topics: AgriFish Council of 27 January 2020, Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, News from the Ministry of Agriculture of Romania and many more.
Romania
2020 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Artículo de blog
SALSA policy briefs to guide policy interventions in support of small farms
SALSA - Small Farms, Small Food Businesses and Sustainable Food Security, is an EU-funded research project of the Horizon2020 program which run from April 2016 to March 2020 with the aim to provide a better understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in meeting the sustainable food and nutrition...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Free online training increases capacity of veterinary laboratories in the region
Healthy animals are the basis of successful, profitable, and sustainable livestock production. Especially in the case of poultry, the help of veterinary laboratories is essential to protect the health of flocks.
Still, several laboratories in Europe and Central Asia are using outdated and unreliable technologies, as modern and preferred diagnostic methods...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
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