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Agroecology to cool the planet
This report elaborated by ‘’Ecologists in Action’’ discusses how climate change affects food production and makes an assessment of the proposed strategies in the framework of international negotiations on climate change. Different issues responsible for climate change are described: among these we find land use change; industrial animal husbandry as another...
2020 - Ecologistas en Acción
Artículo de boletín informativo
Gender: Small-scale fisheries and food security
A brief overview of relevant global findings and processes on the contributions of small-scale fisheries and rights to food and nutrition security, with a focus on the FAO. In fact, the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) endorsed by...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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FAO-WFP early warning analysis of acute food insecurity hotspots
As acute food insecurity levels appear to be reaching new highs globally, also as a result of the socio-economic fallout of measures imposed to contain the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), this joint FAO-WFP report aims to raise an early warning on 20 countries and situations - called hotspots...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
Legal considerations in the context of responses to COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of food insecurity
In the wake of the global pandemic, COVID-19, Countries are taking measures to halt its spread. However, such measures can have unintended consequences for food security, namely availability, access, utilization and stability of food supplies at global, national, local levels. Therefore, countries need to know and take into account the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Innovation bleue: L'intelligence artificielle contre la pêche illégale
En 2013, la FAO a lancé l’Initiative Croissance bleue visant à stimuler le développement économique et social des communautés qui dépendent des ressources aquatiques pour leur alimentation et leurs moyens d’existence. Ces dernières années ont vu l’émergence d’une nouvelle vague d’innovateurs Croissance bleue qui luttent contre la pêche illégale qui...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Sack gardens for improved urban diets and livelihoods
The problems related to the lack of land and financial capacity to buy agricultural inputs, especially in slums can be solved by using sack gardens. Earth-filled sacks are placed on doorsteps and used to grow vegetables in. Sack gardens do not require much agricultural land nor much water. They are...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Vegetated earth-banked terraces
In Spain earth-banked terraces are constructed on moderately gentle slopes by agricultural machines to reduce slope gradient and length and improve soil organic matter and structure. Terraces reduce the formation of gullies and retain water from upslope and often stones are used to reinforce the terrace ridge. The terrace ridges...
Spain
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de blog
Joint letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy
Together with others, URGENCI, the international network of Local and Solidarity -based Partnerships for Agroecology, has asked European Union Commissioners and their teams to provide guidance and a clear perspective of the road forward, meeting citizens’ expectations across Europe, by publishing the #EUFarm2Fork by end of April 2020
European Union
2020 - URGENCI
Artículo de blog
Project strengthens food safety systems in five countries of Europe and Central Asia
Unsafe food is a major threat to human health and economies globally. A new project has been kicked off to strengthen official food safety control and risk communication systems in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey.
Implemented under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture, funded by Turkey,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Systémes agroalimentaires nationaux et la covid-19 en Côte D’Ivoire
Effets, réponses politiques et implications à long terme
Ce rapport décrit: (i) les mesures politiques adoptées par le Gouvernement pour contenir la propagation de la covid-19; (ii) les politiques et mesures visant à stabiliser le fonctionnement des systèmes agroalimentaires; (iii) les effets potentiels des politiques sur les systèmes agroalimentaires et les groupes vulnérables. Enfin, ce profil évalue également...
Côte d'Ivoire
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Obituary/Sidney Holt: A Towering Intellect
With the death of Sidney Holt late last year, the world lost a man blessed with a towering intellect, boundless curiosity and an unwavering commitment to conservation. Sidney began his professional life in 1947 at the Fisheries Laboratory in Lowestoft, UK. Michael Graham was the lab’s director then and he set...
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Les mesures prophylactiques mises en place au domaine du Satyre (viticulture – prophylaxie)
Noémie Graff du domaine du Satyre à Begnins (VD) nous présente l’importance des mesures prophylactiques pour la conduite de la vigne en bio. La suppression des pampres et l’aération précoce de la zone des grappes sont essentielles pour optimiser la protection en bio de la vigne et limiter les interventions...
2020 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
Documento de trabajo
Engaging ASEAN Youth on Responsible Agriculture Investments
The food crisis in 2007-2008 triggered a global race among large agribusiness corporations for the acquisition and control of large tracts of agricultural lands in developing countries in Africa and Asia. Coinciding with growing global demand for food, mainly due to rapid population growth, and the dominance of the growth...
2020 - ASIADHRRA
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Empowering young agri-entrepreneurs to invest in agriculture and food systems
Measures that empower young agri-entrepreneurs should be a key component of a sustainable development-centred investment promotion strategy. The very realization of future generations’ food security, the sustainable transformation of food systems and the combat against unemployment and distress migration all depend upon the successful implementation of strategies that make the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Small level bench terraces
Bench terraces with narrow beds are built on hillsides cleared from forests and used for growing tea, coffee and horticultural crops. This technology describes how terraces can be used to improve crop cultivation on hillsides.
Thailand
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Libro
El Censo Agropecuario Nacional 2020-2021 y su deber de aplicar la Consulta Libre, Previa e Informada con pueblos indígenas
El Consentimiento Libre, Previo e Informado (CLPI) es un derecho específico de los Pueblos Indígenas reconocido en la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas (UNDRIP, por sus siglas en inglés). A través del CLPI los Pueblos Indígenas pueden dar o negar su consentimiento a...
Panama - Papua New Guinea - Paraguay
2020 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Family farmer project in Bahia
A project that has made a difference in the lives of thousands of people living in the semi-arid region of Bahia, helping to produce and even export the most adapted to the biome and adverse climatic conditions, was considered the best in the world by the United Nations (UN).
Brazil
2020 - Revista Globo rural
Artículo de boletín informativo
Indonesia: Coping with COVID
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has introduced multiple challenges in the lives of small-scale fishers in Indonesia. The COVID-19 pandemic that affected Indonesia in early March 2020 has impacted coastal communities, fisher households and fisher women. Information collected by women fisher activists in 12 provinces revealed that the pandemic has dealt...
Indonesia
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Prácticas
Soybean production training manual
• Soybeans are a major food crop in the world and they are grown in some parts of Uganda and form an integral and important component in the human and animal nutrition.
• It is successful in areas where rainfall is moderate to light during the latter part of the growing...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Declaración
Declaración del Comité de Coordinación Mundial de la Sociedad Civil para el Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura Familiar
En el contexto de la crisis generada por la pandemia del Covid-19, nosotras, Organizaciones de Agricultores y Agricultoras Familiares y otras OSCs comprometidas durante décadas en el fortalecimiento y la promoción de la Agricultura Familiar y los Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles en diferentes regiones del mundo, queremos hacer el presente llamamiento...
2020 - Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil
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