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A look back on the smart eco-social villages pilot initiative
The Pilot Project on Smart Eco-Social Villages, initiated by the European Parliament, has been carried out by a consortium consisting of Ecorys, Origin for Sustainability and R.E.D. under the responsibility of the European Commission (Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development). The potential effect of this Pilot Project is to shape...
2019 - Euromontana
Declaración
Declaración de las Organizaciones de Agricultura Familiar y OSCs durante la VI Conferencia Global sobre Agricultura Familiar
Más de 250 participantes de 66 países del mundo, representantes de gobiernos, organismos internacionales como la FAO, FIDA e ILC, asociaciones agrarias y de desarrollo rural, centros de investigación, cooperativas, sindicatos y otras organizaciones de la sociedad civil se dieron cita durante la VI Conferencia Global de la Agricultura Familiar,...
2019 - Organizaciones de Agricultores y Agricultoras y otras OSCs
Artículo de revista
Convocatoria Proyecto Extensión Universitaria: “Acortando DistanCIA Porcinas”
Según Calzada et at., 2018 el 70% del stock de porcinos se localiza en la región Centro de Argentina. Es en este contexto que a partir del 2015 y en el marco de los proyectos presentados en la 8va, 9na y 10ma convocatoria se comenzó un trabajo de identificación, reconocimiento...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias/Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Artículo de boletín informativo
From the editor, Yemaya, 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)
Sitio web
International Year of Plant Health (IYPH) Website
In December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). The year is a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development.
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
Artículo de boletín informativo
South Pacific Islands/ Fiji: Where’s the data?
A recently-concluded meeting of the Women in Fisheries Network-Fiji calls for sex-disaggregated data on the participation of women in the fisheries sector
Fiji
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
Cresce percentual de orgânicos nas compras do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos
Programa que atende pessoas em situação de vulnerabilidade tem priorizado orgânicos e estimulado agricultores a converter produção convencional em orgânica
O percentual de participação dos orgânicos nas compras feitas pela Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), no Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA), triplicou nos últimos cinco anos. Segundo a Conab, no ano passado, 6% dos alimentos adquiridos nas modalidades executadas pela Companhia eram orgânicos. Em 2013, esse índice era de 2,2%.
De 2013 a 2018,...
Brazil
2019 - Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (CONAB)
Boletín informativo
Sustainability News, March 2019
Solidaridad organized several events during International Women's Day to highlight the contributions women make to all our lives. Check out the enthusiasm of women farmers and read the story of one woman who took matters in her own hands.
2019 - Solidaridad
Artículo de boletín informativo
What’s New, Webby?: Families in a Changing World: Progress of the World’s Women 2019-2020
This report provides an extensive and detailed guide for the factors that need to be addressed in order to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment, in regards to the changing landscape of family norms. Policies and laws must be adopted to support these diversities, in particular to hold national governments...
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vídeo
The use of mycorrhizal fungi in horticulture
What are mycorrhizal fungi?
Mycorrhizal fungi form symbiosis with > 90% of land plants
They live in the soil and colonize plant roots
Mycorrhizae provides better absorption of nutrients and increased water uptake to the plant in exchange for carbon supply
They cannot function without living plants
Plants control the symbiosis, root exudates trigger spore...
2019 - Cornell University, United States
Vídeo
La alternativa es la Agroecología
Una de las causas del cambio climático y la pérdida de biodiversidad es la agricultura intensiva, el modo en el que producimos los alimentos. La llave para ver cómo podemos mejorar nuestra alimentación sin destruir el planeta, la "agroecología" propone una producción de forma sostenible.
Emma Siliprandi, Oficial de Agricultura de...
Spain
2019 - RtvE
Artículo de boletín informativo
Global/Network: Expanding the horizons
The 7th Global Conference on Gender in Aquaculture & Fisheries (GAF7) showcases progress towards and challenges to gender equality
2019 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de revista especializada
The impact of long-term organic farming on soil-derived greenhouse gas emissions
Agricultural practices contribute considerably to emissions of greenhouse gases. So far, knowledge on the impact of organic compared to non-organic farming on soil-derived nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4) emissions is limited. We investigated N2O and CH4fluxes with manual chambers during 571 days in a grass-clover– silage maize – green...
Switzerland
2019
Artículo
Creating a new market environment
Kampong Chhnang, Cambodia – The residents of Boeng Leach Village, Sethey Commune, Samaki Meanchey District, Kampong Chhnang mostly grow rice and crops, and raise animals for a living. Their farming tends to rely on traditional methods. There is only limited use of modern techniques and therefore the yields are minimal....
Cambodia
2019 - Farmer and Nature Net (FNN)
Artículo de blog
Causes and Effects of Desertification on People and the Environment
Lands turn to desert due to a number of reasons, but much of the desertification that is occurring around the world today is caused by human activity on lands that are extremely vulnerable to overexploitation and improper agricultural methods.
The following are some of the primary causes and effects of desertification...
2019 - Greentumble
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HLPE Report 2019 - Agroecological and other innovative approaches
In this report, the HLPE explores the nature and potential contributions of agroecological and other innovative approaches to formulating transitions towards sustainable food systems (SFSs) that enhance FSN. The HLPE adopts a dynamic, multiscale perspective, focusing on the concepts of transition and transformation. Many transitions need to occur in particular...
2019
Vídeo
Madagascar : l'agroécologie pour assurer la souveraineté alimentaire des familles paysannes
Dans le Sud de Madagascar, AVSF a contribué à travers 2 projets à la promotion de l'agroécologie, au développement de l'agriculture familiale et l'amélioration de l'accès aux services de proximité et de l'accès à l'eau.
Madagascar
2019 - Agronomes & Vétérinaires Sans Frontières
Artículo de blog
FAO incubates indicators for global goals
FAO enters a new phase to assist the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in Europe and Central Asia through a workshop today in Ankara. Participants will validate an action plan that goes more in-depth on how to implement the 21 SDG indicators related to FAO’s mandate and their own data needs.
In the...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento de trabajo
Food Security and the Formation of Agricultural Grain Stocks in Brazil
Brazil has a long tradition of agricultural policies. Brazil has utilised public procurement programmes and maintained buffer stocks since the Convention of Taubaté (1906), by which the state held coffee purchases from large landowners to regulate international prices. In the “Estado Novo” period (1937- 1945) various public institutions were created,...
Brazil
2019 - European Commission
Artículo de revista especializada
Climate-smart pest management: building resilience of farms and landscapes to changing pest threats
Climate change is affecting the biology, distribution and outbreak potential of pests in a vast range of crops and across all land uses and landscapes. Up to 40% of the world's food supply is already lost to pests; the reduction in pest impact is more important than ever to ensure...
2019 - CABI
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