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Artículo de blog
Online discussion: Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas – obstacles and opportunities in the Mediterranean region
As part of the publication “Strengthening the role of women in rural and agricultural areas: obstacles and opportunities” (September 2018) and the conference “Women4Mediterranean Conference 2018 – Women build inclusive societies” (Lisbon, Portugal, 10- 11 October 2018), during which the “Empowering Women in Rural and Agriculture Areas” (UM-CIHEAM) workshop will...
2018 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Informe
Producción hidropónica familiar de verduras de hoja bajo cubierta, análisis socioeconómico y financiero
La agricultura familiar abarca a un grupo grande de personas que tienen distintos orígenes y una amplia diversidad cultural, pero que mantienen en común la producción de alimentos como forma de vida.
La hidroponia o cultivo sin suelo es una técnica cuya importancia reside en su alta producción por metro cuadrado,...
Argentina
2018 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Vídeo
Farmers Diversify Food Production in Malawi with New Crops
This brief 3-minute video reportage highlights the International Treaty’s first field visit with a high-level donor representative, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Agriculture & Food, into rural Northern Malawi to visit a Benefit-sharing Fund project. It explains the problem and how the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund is supporting farmers...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Manual
Agrobiodiversity - a training manual for farmer groups in East Africa
Farmers play a crucial role in the preservation and sustainable use of agrobiodiversity. In fact, the diversity of species that support our current agricultural production systems has been carefully managed and shaped by farming communities, over the course of the history of humankind. Farmers act as custodian of the Earth’s...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Les savoirs et savoir-faire des mesureurs d’eau des foggaras ou aiguadiers du Touat-Tidikelt
L’élément concerne le savoir et les savoir-faire des mesureurs d’eau des foggaras (système d’irrigation), ou aiguadiers, des communautés ksouriennes du Touat et du Tidikelt. Les mesureurs d’eau participent à différentes opérations qui vont du calcul des parts d’eau à la réparation des peignes de répartition des eaux et la conduite...
Algeria
2018 - INESCO
Informe
State of the forest sector in Central African Republic (2016)
The Central African Republic (CAR) has a total land area of 623,000 km2 of which close to 23 million hectares, i.e. 37%, is composed of forested lands. In the southwestern part of the country all forest operations are industrial. At present there are 11 logging companies, with an average annual...
Central African Republic
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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FAO’s work on agroecology
A pathway to achieve the SDGs
Featuring cases in different sectors and countries around the world, this publication introduces the agroecology approach to linking food, livelihoods and natural resources, presents 10 Elements of Agroecology, and looks at ways of scaling up the people-centred approach to ensure its potential impact is fully realized, promising a brighter future...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Vídeo
Empowered by collective marketing in Kenya
In semi-arid areas in Kenya, FAO is supporting smallholder farmers to increase yield of high-value grain like sorghum and to market their produce as group. Purity Njeru has seen firsthand how this program has improved lives and livelihoods.
Kenya
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Yemen Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan 2018
The Emergency Livelihoods Response Plan (ELRP) 2018 guides FAO’s response in Yemen to prevent the levels of food insecurity and malnutrition from worsening. It sets out key emergency agricultural livelihood interventions to be implemented within the framework of the 2018 Yemen Humanitarian Response Plan. The overall goal is to improve food...
Yemen
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Audio
FAO launches guide to tackle Fall Armyworm (FAW) in Africa head-on
FAO launched a comprehensive guide on the integrated pest management of Fall Armyworm on maize. Designed for Farmers Field Schools, the guide will help smallholder farmers and frontline agricultural staff to manage FAW more effectively amidst fears that FAW may push more people into hunger. Central and Southern Africa are...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Cambios sociales y de producción en 3 localidades de la Patagonia argentina
Cuando hablamos de territorio, no sólo delimitamos una región geográfica, sino que incluimos en él, las problemáticas que sus habitantes tienen, atravesados por la historia de la que son parte. En este trabajo de investigación se toman como referente tres localidades de la Región Patagónica Argentina (El Bolsón, Lago Puelo...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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Zambia Country Gender Assessment Report
The country gender profile analyses the gender gaps, good practices and way forward in empowering women in agriculture, value chains and food and nutrition security. It provides a baseline for monitoring the implementation of the SDGs, Malabo Declaration and National Agricultural Investment Plans. It will inform advocacy, research, and capacity...
Zambia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
FAO supports the reduction of food loss and waste in southeastern Europe
In Europe and Central Asia, and particularly in countries not part of the European Union, food loss and waste have major implications on food nutrition and security through inefficiencies in the food value chains. FAO is now working with four southeastern European countries to develop strategies for food loss and...
Armenia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Water institutional scarcity in MENA: guidelines for enhanced governance
Climate simulation models are converging in terms of forecasts for the MENA region, that already suffers scare water quantities and poor quality, with expected higher temperature and decreasing rain fall. While conventional water supply alternatives are getting more and more limited, it has been shown through many studies that water,...
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vídeo
Spiritual and Cultural Value of Seed
The seed, like the big bang, or evolution, or the atom … bears the mystifying tale of a beginning. We fill our bellies on the seed, heal our wounds, build our homes.
Upon sight, or smell, or taste, perhaps we let our minds drift to the smallscale farmer who prepares...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Artículo
Inspiring a Community to Do Organic Farming and Mushroom Cultivation
Sagain, Myanmar – Chan Law is a Naga ethnic form Sagain Division, Lay Shi Township, Panset Village, Myanmar. Currently, he lives in Naw Phu village. Law comes from a family of farmers. Since he was a child, he had been helping farm his parents’ land. In 2010, He graduated with...
Myanmar
2018 - Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar
Vídeo
Large scale restoration for small scale farming in Africa's Great Green Wall programme
The successful approach of FAO’s Action Against Desertification programme to large-scale restoration is making degraded drylands productive again for small-scale farming, and providing economic opportunities in the Sahel region where migration has become a tradition. Key elements of the approach include consultation with village communities for their selection of species...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
The difficult escape from dualism: the Green Morocco Plan at a crossroads
This article analyses the development effects of a foreign-owned almond farm in Morocco from the perspective of its role in affecting the dualism present in the Moroccan agricultural sector. The farm was situated on lands owned by the State, leased under the framework of the Green Morocco Plan and aimed...
Morocco
2018
Vídeo
Improving the resilience of family farmers to climate change
FAO, IFAD and national governments are supporting family farmers from West and Central Africa to adapt small-scale irrigation systems to climate change to be more resilient. A survey was carried out among 691 households in 21 sites in this region, to assess how farmers are coping with climate change. Watch...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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