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Syrian refugees harvest greenhouse vegetables in Turkey
For nearly as long as the civil war in Syria has been ongoing, 36-year-old Sena Hamad has been living in a refugee camp with her three daughters and husband on the outskirts of the city of Osmaniye in southern Turkey.
Today, she is among the first group of 25 trainees to...
Türkiye
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo
Áreas críticas para la gestión local de fitosanitarios
Construcción de índices locales
La falta de planificación para la transformación de tierras destinadas a actividades agropecuarias en proyectos inmobiliarios, genera conflictos sociales, ambientales y económicos. Dichos conflictos se hacen muy visibles en las áreas periurbanas, entendiéndose por periurbano a una zona de transición entre el sector rural y el urbano, donde conviven áreas...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Vídeo
Floating vegetable gardens
As our land remains under water during the rainy season, our ancestors were already thinking of ways to produce crops in order to survive. They invented the floating garden by using crop residues. We do not need any chemical fertilizers or pesticides, because the floating bed is fertile by nature....
Bangladesh
2018 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de blog
Towards stronger EU-Africa cooperation
With a population expected to double by 2050 from 1.2 billion to around 2.5 billion predominantly young people, the African continent will need to foster job creation and economic growth through sustainable development.
The agricultural sector can play a key role in this, having the capacity to provide jobs and growth...
2018 - European Commission
Conferencia/Reunión
International training course for the Design of Resilient Farming Systems in face of climate change in Dry Regions
This course will be conjointly organized by the SEMIARID project partners: IAV-Hassan-II-Morocco, ENSA-Algeria, INRA-Morocco, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA-France, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM, an international research centre of the CGIAR (ICARDA), which contributes through staff-time and direct support to trainees, and University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic-Rabat and the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP-Morocco) by...
Morocco
2018 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Sitio web
Organic conversion planner
Contemplating transitioning to organic? Check out this tool!
This tool helps farmers contemplating conversion their agricultural enterprise. The tool requires the internet to download the desktop application. The data entered by individuals is stored exclusively on the user’s computer and can only be viewed there. The target group of the tool...
2018 - KTBL - Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft
Informe
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for developmentProceedings of the exchange and methodological construction workshop on the 14th and 15th of december 2017
This document presents the work of the exchange workshop organized on December 14 and 15 2017 by the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (GTAE in french - created by...
2018 - AGRISUD AVSF CARI GRET
Prácticas
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of limited amounts of water to essentially rainfed crops to improve and stabilize yields when rainfall fails to provide sufficient moisture for normal plant growth - is an effective response to alleviating the adverse effects of soil moisture stress on the yield of rainfed crops during dry spells. Supplemental irrigation, especially during critical crop growth...
2018 - ICARDA
Aprendizaje en línea
Participatory Plant Breeding and Smallholder Farmers
Participatory Plant Breeding and Smallholder Farmers video – the third in a series of six videos from ACB’s National Seed Dialogue and Celebration
At the National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, hosted by the African Centre for Biodiversity at Constitution Hill in December 2017, this session on Participatory Plant Breeding and...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Hoja informativa
Agricultural services and digital inclusion in Africa
On the occasion of the conference "Youth employment in agriculture as a solid solution to ending hunger and poverty in Africa" (Kigali, Rwanda, 20−21 August 2018), FAO showcased a digital service portfolio, consisting of 10 innovation projects. This factsheet presents four new apps bring agricultural services closer to farmers, providing...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
A sustainability comparative assessment of Tunisian organic and conventional olive growing systems based on the AHP methodology
This work aims to assess, in a comparative way, the sustainability of organic and conventional olive growing systems in the Sfax region (Tunisia). This assessment will be undertaken based on I) a multidimensional perspective considering the three classical dimensions of sustainability – environmental, economic and socio-territorial – and II) on...
Tunisia
2018
Aprendizaje en línea
Hacia la promoción de Sistemas agroalimentarios inclusivos: Mecanismos y programas de adquisición de alimentos de la Agricultura familiar
Las compras públicas o contratación estatales, son mecanismos de adquisición de productos o servicios para abastecer a las instituciones y programas financiados o ejecutados por el Estado (consumo de organismos públicos, programas sociales, fuerzas armadas, obras públicas, etc.). Pero también se reconocen a las compras públicas como un instrumento de...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manual
Elaboración práctica de chacinados artesanales
Para autoconsumo y emprendimientos
Consideraciones y recetas para la elaboración de chacinados artesanales.
Argentina
2018 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Artículo de blog
Producción orgánica, turismo rural, arraigo y familia en San Rafael
El caso de los Camargo en la bodega Familia Camargo
El cierre de la planta en la que trabajaba y luego un paso de cuatro años por otra empresa vitivinícola fueron los disparadores tras los cuales Carlos y su familia se decidieron a iniciar un emprendimiento en una finca en Las Paredes, Mendoza. Comenzaron plantando uvas y elaborando vinos de...
Argentina
2018 - Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA)
Artículo de revista especializada
Vertical relationships and food supply chain coordination: The case of processing tomato sector in Algeria
This paper analyzes the vertical relationship between growers and processors in the Algerian tomato processing industry. We use extensive data on production contract outcomes for processing tomato growers (including 3,740 coordinated contracts) to examine the performance of grower-processor vertical contracts. The results indicate that the tomato grower-processor vertical relationship undergoes...
Algeria
2018
Vídeo
La historia de Delia, una artesana peruana
Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, en el marco de la campaña regional #MujeresRurales, #MujeresconDerechos nos presenta #HistoriasqueEmpoderan.
Este video es de Delia, quien talla calabazas de forma artesanal mediante una técnica artística peruana llamada burilado. Con el apoyo de la Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Delia ha logrado que sus hijos puedan estudiar y mantener viva...
Peru
2018 - Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA
Artículo de revista especializada
Cultivating vision and networks to untap rural women’s and girls’ potential in the Mediterranean
Last March in New York the sixty-second Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) took place with a priority focus on ‘Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls’. The Commission recognized in its conclusions «the crucial contributions of rural women to local and...
2018
Artículo de blog
Rural women in Kyrgyzstan receive assistance from Swedish funds
A programme that helps rural women in Kyrgyzstan gain access to new economic opportunities has received significant financial support from the Swedish government.
The USD 5 million contribution from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) will help expand the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural...
Kyrgyzstan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo
Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi
Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased rainfall variability. Given these projections, there is a need to identify effective strategies to help rural communities adapt to climatic risks. Yet, relatively little research has examined...
Malawi
2018 - Cambridge University Press
Artículo de blog
Reviving Iraq through Conservation Agriculture
ICARDA has been expanding conservation agriculture in Ninawa province in northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Conservation agriculture is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, while simultaneously preserving and enhancing the environment. Through a combination of reduced tillage, crop rotations, and stubble retention, conservation agriculture allows farmers...
Iraq
2018 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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