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MEL Handbook for SDG 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are one of the leading initiatives for addressing the critical, complex and often inter-related issues of our world. SDG 14 — Life below water — focuses on our oceans, estuaries, rivers and watersheds, and the human systems that intersect with them. Unfortunately, it has struggled...
2019 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Artículo de blog
How Extension and Advisory Services Can Tackle Natural Disasters
Natural calamities and disasters of various of varying magnitudes impact our lives.
From April 26 to May 5, the cyclone Fani hit eastern Indian states, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka, with winds as high as 215 km/h (three minutes sustained) and 250 km/h (one minute sustained). This caused severe distress to farmers in affected areas of...
India
2019
Artículo de revista especializada
Observatorio Santafesino de Suelos (OSS)
El aumento de la población mundial generó un incremento global de alimentos y un mayor acceso a bienes de consumo que sumado a nuevas tecnologías y formas de gerenciamiento terminan provocando una mayor presión sobre el ambiente. Este nuevo escenario desencadenó un desbalance entre las tasas de degradación por usos...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Artículo de blog
Enhancing food systems dialogues in Central Asia and Caucasus
A recent sub-regional symposia - Symposium on sustainable food systems and nutrition governance for healthy diets in Central Asia and Caucasus – was held from 24-26 April 2019 in Astana, Kazakhstan. During the event, several countries acknowledged the need to shift to more sustainable production patterns, including a shift away...
2019 - UNSCN
Informe
Sin feminismo no hay agroecología
Hacia sistemas alimentarios saludables, sostenibles y justos
El presente documento tiene por objeto fundamentar las posiciones del MSC hacia el futuro proceso de políticas del CSA sobre agroecología y otras innovaciones. Una versión más breve de esta perspectiva figura también en la nueva edición, de 2019, del Observatorio del Derecho a la Alimentación y a la Nutrición...
2019 - Mecanismo de la Sociedad Civil y de los pueblos indígenas (MSC) para las relaciones con el Comité de Seguridad AlimentarioA Mundial de NU (CSA)
Conferencia/Reunión
Ph. D Miguel Altieri dictará curso sobre agricultura agroecológica en Centro Ceres
En colaboración con la Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA), la Fundación CIPAV (Centro para la investigación en sistemas sostenibles de producción agropecuaria) y el Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Agroecológicas (CELIA), el profesor emérito de la Universidad de California – Berkeley, Ph.D Miguel Altieri, dictará una nueva versión del curso...
Chile
2019 - Centro Regional de Innovación Hortofrutícola de Valparaíso
Artículo de blog
A song to fight rural depopulation
Molina de Aragón is located at the heart of the biggest European demographic desert. Re-named as ‘Serranía Celtibérica’, this desert unites rural territories from different Spanish provinces, such as Saragossa, Teruel, Cuenca, Soria or Guadalajara. Having an area double that of Belgium, this desert hosts only 487,417 inhabitants at a...
2019 - SIMRA
Vídeo
SERIE DE DOCUMENTALES: Hacemos agua
La serie de documentales “Hacemos Agua”, realizados por nuestro contribuidor permanente Universidad Nacional del Rosario (UNR), a través de UNICANAL, el cual aborda la problemática del agua: un requisito básico para la vida de las personas y un derecho humano. Investigadores y expertos analizan distintos aspectos del elemento esencial y...
2019 - UNICANAL - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)
Documento/nota de orientación
Land rights: the missing link for food security in Cameroon
For decades food insecurity has been a challenge in Cameroon's Far North region, mainly due to extreme weather and weak land legislation. Now the problem is escalating.
The current humanitarian crisis caused by the Boko Haram insurgency has resulted in over 87,000 refugees and 340,000 internally displaced people in the region....
Cameroon
2019 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Artículo de blog
10 Sustainable Agriculture Methods and Farming Practices
Unlike intensive agriculture, sustainable farming has a great potential for benefiting the environment and preserving natural resources. There are more methods that overlap in many principles that are sustainable in the long-run and may be 100 percent organic or at least from the biggest part. The following ten sustainable farming...
2019 - Greentumble
Estudio de caso
Agroecological alternatives to industrial livestock production
Case studies compiled recently by Global Forest Coalition (GFC) members and allies in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Paraguay underline the role of agribusiness in peasant farmers´ and Indigenous Peoples´ lives. These examples help to deconstruct the myth that large-scale, industrial agriculture is "feeding the world", and that it is compatible with other...
Brazil - Chile - Mexico - Paraguay
2019 - Global Forest Coalition (GFC)
Artículo de blog
FAO launches training courses to help farmers stop land degradation in Ukraine
10 training courses on sustainable management of natural resources in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Ukraine to provide aid in achieving neutral level of land degradation
The problem of land degradation is crucial for Ukraine, as it affects 20 percent of the country’s arable land, or 6.5 million ha in...
Ukraine
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Boletín informativo
ARC2020 May Newsletter
What is the state of play for rural Europe? Are rural places still lagging behind – forgotten, disadvantaged and in need of extra supports? Or is there a rural renaissance of sorts occurring, from smart villages to innovation hubs?
Life is becoming increasingly unaffordable and, in many ways, unbearable in cities...
2019 - ARC2020
Artículo de blog
In the Year of the Pig, UN’s FAO urges safer practices in livestock trade across the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks.
Representatives from China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as delegates from FAO, the World Organisation for...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Advanced International Course on Social Innovation in Rural Areas
A one-week training course will be organised in the framework of the H2020 EU-funded project Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA) (www.simra-h2020.eu) at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM) on 18-22 November 2019 to address the importance of social innovation in less-favoured rural areas. Social innovation has been...
2019 - SIMRA
Informe
Compendio para la evaluación de la agroecología
Método de evaluación de sus efectos y de las condiciones de su desarrollo
Este compendio se compone de diferentes partes:
– Una introducción general.
– Una primera parte, relativa a los principios metodológicos generales, a saber:
• los principios y desafíos de la evaluación,
• las diferentes situaciones de uso y los distintos objetivos de la evaluación,
• los efectos y los criterios de evaluación propuestos en el...
2019 - Grupo de trabajo sobre transiciones agroecológicas (GTAE)
Sitio web
SEMA II project on multifunctional agriculture website
The SEMA II project on multifunctional agriculture gathers case studies and training material on how farmers can divserify their activities. It is accessible to everyone and the information is posted as video clips to make it more engaging.
2019 - CEJA
Artículo de blog
Myanmar and UN’s FAO agree a wide-ranging framework to improve nutrition and food security
The Government of Myanmar and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today signed a multi-year framework agreement that will create an enabling environment to improve nutrition and food security in Myanmar, while safeguarding and sustainably managing the use of natural resources.
The Country Programming Framework (CPF) was signed by U...
Myanmar
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Sisters of the land
Spring is in the air, and a seed is germinating and fighting to grow. On its own, it begins to make its way, breaking earth, little by little, following the rhythms of the sun, it will go on growing. But it needs water to sprout and grow. And if the...
2019 - SIMRA
Boletín informativo
Yemaya Newsletter No.59, June 2019
Women in fisheries and aquaculture are witnessing a curious paradox today. While on the one hand, women’s lack of visibility, capacity and resource access is being discussed increasingly and in ever-widening spaces, there is arguably little evidence that the response of national and international policy is in any way proportionate...
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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