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Rural responses to the COVID-19 crisis
The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems. In rural areas, farmers, businesses and communities are particularly affected.
This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by...
European Union
2020 - ENRD
Artículo de revista especializada
The Philippines: Being Worker-friendly
The plight of fishworkers on board vessels engaged in commercial fishing operations calls for regulating their conditions of work and providing protection benefits. Concern over the conditions of fishworkers on board commercial fishing vessels was thrown into high relief in the Philippines in 2018. This was during a series of consultations...
Philippines
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Documento técnico
COVID-19: Potential impact on the world’s poorest people
Today, more than 821 million people regularly go to bed hungry, of whom 100-plus million suffer from acute hunger, largely due to man-made conflicts, climate change and economic downturns. These are the people who will experience the unthinkable due to the economic or logistical consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover,...
2020 - World Food Programme
Artículo de blog
La pandemia entre un conflicto en la agricultura familiar y la agroecología: el caso peruano
La vigente crisis sanitaria conlleva a repensar los sistemas de producción local, así como sus beneficios o daños al ecosistema y sus sociedades. En los últimos años, por ejemplo, ha surgido fuertemente el concepto de agricultura familiar para denominar al 70% de aquellos proveedores de alimentos a nivel mundial. Las...
Peru
2020 - Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)
Artículo de blog
How much water is in 1 kilo of beef?
Believe it or not, most of the water we use -actually the 92% of it- is used in food production.
This blog post has nothing to do with vegans or vegetarians. It’s all about realizing how much water is needed to produce just 1 kilo of meat and why we should be cutting off some meat from our diets for many reasons, water included. It is actually a matter of...
Greece
2020 - Food Security Center
Boletín informativo
Mercados mayoristas: Frente al COVID-19: Nº3
En esta tercera edición del boletín ponemos a disposición de sus lectores información actualizada sobre la situación de los mercados mayoristas en América Latina y el Caribe, entrevistas a actores clave y los principales resultados de una encuesta – que contó con la participación de 64 mercados de 15 países...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Sitio web
Rural responses to the COVID-19 crisis
The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected all aspects of life across Europe. In addition to threatening our health, the pandemic is also posing serious challenges to our socio-economic systems. In rural areas, farmers, businesses and communities are particularly affected.
This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by...
European Union
2020 - ENRD
Artículo de boletín informativo
Myanmar: Women’s empowerment through climate action
In Myanmar, FAO’s FishAdapt project is strengthening the adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries-and aquaculture-dependent livelihoods. Women’s empowerment and gender equality have been recognized as necessary conditions for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The SDG Goal 5 – ‘Achieve gender equality...
Myanmar
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
Challenges for emerging small-scale livestock farmers in Nigeria
According to Food and Agriculture Organization, around 60 to 70% more food will have to be produced in the next 35 years, as a result both of population growth and rising incomes. The demand for cereals (both for food and animal feed) is projected to reach some 3 billion tons...
Greece
2020 - Food Security Center
Proyecto
BIOSOCIAL_Small farm organic vegetable production as integrated model between production and local social impact
The proposed operative group (GO) intends to set up a new circular local economy model, which combines the profitability of farms with social productivity: the valorization of horticultural genetic resources will be based on minimum technological input and on production schedule according to the needs of the community expressed by...
Italy
2020
Prácticas
Strategies for improved soil and water conservation practices in hillside production systems
The use of live-barriers has been shown to both increase productivity and control soil erosion at an individual plot or field level. This is especially useful in the more intensive cropping systems of Andean Bolivia, where live barriers may encourage further intensification. Cover crops, such as Phalaris, can play a...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Preservation of strawberries
Strawberries have to be harvested when 75 percent of the fruit surface turns red and the berry is still firm. The strawberry fruit perishes easily and deteriorates within two to three days of harvesting at natural environmental conditions. The temperature is very important for the duration of berry life. Strawberries...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Acto
Zoominar IX: Role of Farmer Organizations in Agri-Food Systems Innovation
In the context of COVID-19 outbreak, FAO RNE is organizing this Zoominar on Farmer organizations’ role in promoting innovation to increase food security, and sustainable rural development. Since the early spread of COVID-19, FAO underscored the crucial role of farmer organizations in increasing resilience and rethinking priorities of food security policies to keep food supply...
2020 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
BOND's Synthesis Report
Highlighting and harvesting collective action benefits: A synthesis reflection on BOND’s regional reports
This document synthesises the principle outcomes of the four regional BOND reports Biodiversity & Locality (for Poland and the Czech Republic), Policies for Family Farming (for Portugal and Spain), Regenerative Food (for Hungary and Croatia) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) (for Romania, the Republic of Moldova and France). These reports above...
Poland
2020 - The BOND Project
Sitio web
Boletines FAO-FLAMA - Mercados mayoristas: Acción frente al COVID-19
La Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe y FLAMA establecerán una estrategia conjunta para monitorear y publicitar las actividades de los mercados mayoristas regionales y centros de suministro durante este período de crisis debido a la pandemia de COVID-19. El propósito de este boletín es...
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Directrices
Surviving Covid-19
The neglected remedy
Covid-19 is a wakeup call to us all. Let’s turn the tide away from over-processed foods that are often grown using chemicals and instead build a healthy norm, by eating a great variety of nutritious, locally produced natural foods, including indigenous crops and vegetables that we have often dropped from...
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo de revista especializada
Sri Lanka: Path to a Policy Upgrade
Incorporating the SSF Guidelines into the national fisheries policy requires several rounds of engagement with state and community stakeholders. The onset of the new millennium saw the process of fisheries development taking a new path globally. It’s one with a strong emphasis on offshore and deep-sea fishing, fish exports and the...
Sri Lanka
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vídeo
Webinar Series: Land Strategies for Agroecology in Europe
This webinar series presents several perspectives on strategies for preserving farmland and supporting peasant agroecology in Europe, from the local to the European level. It results from a pluriannual partnership, bringing together the European Coordination Via Campesina, Eco Ruralis, IFOAM EU, Urgenci, the Transnational Institute, as well as Terre de Liens...
2020
Prácticas
Development an on-farm evaluation of agroforestry livestock feeding systems
In the coffee-based land use systems of the East African highlands, farming systems are extremely complex and intensive. Indigenous trees are commonly preserved on or near farms for a variety of purposes. For fodder, the farm usually plants Napier or similar grasses for feeding for dairy cattle and small ruminants,...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Prácticas
Charka oven for silk reeling industry
A charka is the simplest mechanism for silk reeling, in which both the cooking and reeling operations are carried out in the same basin. No electricity is required to run the charka. The following technology from FAO’s publication Asia Industrial and Institutional Stove Compendium describes how to use a charka...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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