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Artículo de revista especializada
Small-scale actors in agri-food value chains: How and why do they access the services of agricultural mechanization hire enterprises
Agricultural mechanization hire enterprises, commonly known as hire services, are service businesses that provide human, animal and mechanical-driven power technologies and equipment services. Much has been documented over the decades about such services at the farm level, but little has been documented on the role that hire services can have...
Tunisia
2018
Documento/nota de orientación
National Gender Profile of Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods – Botswana
Country Gender Assessment Series
The objective of the assessment is to analyse the agricultural and rural sector of Botswana from a gender perspective at the macro (policy), meso (institutional) and micro (community and household) levels in order to identify gender inequalities in access to critical productive resources, assets, services and opportunities. In particular, the...
Botswana
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Efficiency of Polish organic and conventional farms
The main objective of this study is to compare the efficiencies of organic and conventional farms in Poland. As shown by the conducted analysis, acting in compliance with the essential production principles, organic farms practiced extensive farming which resulted in reduced efficiency of productive inputs. The efficiency of land and...
Poland
2018 - Studies in Agricultural Economics
Actas de conferencia
Proceedings of the XI European Mountain Convention
From 25 to 27 September 2018, nearly 200 mountain stakeholders from all over Europe gathered in Vatra Dornei, Romania, to participate in the European Mountain Convention on “Cultural Heritage as an Engine for Creativity, Innovation and Socioeconomic Development of Mountain areas”, organised jointly by Euromontana and several Romanian organisations, including the Mountain Areas Agency and...
European Union
2018 - Euromontana
Sitio web
Forest&Farm Facility Achievements 2012-2017
The first Phase of the FFF (from December 2012 to December 2017) has focused on strengthening FFPOs as a primary unit, delivering major impacts through support to 937 FFPOs on the ground in 10 countries: Bolivia, Guatemala, Liberia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, The Gambia, Vietnam and Zambia.
It has also engaged...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
The Caribbean Islands: Celebrating Women in Caribbean Fisheries
The Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk Organisations works on the implementation of the SSF Guidelines with a special focus on gender
The Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk Organisations (CNFO) is a regional network of national and local level fisherfolk organisations and individual fisherfolk leaders. It operates throughout the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) comprising mainly the English-speaking countries and territories. In 2006, the CNFO was informally established through fisherfolk capacity building and strategic planning,...
2018 - ICSF
Artículo de revista especializada
Entrepreneurship in farming: What is the current status of knowledge in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?
The main objective of the paper was to conduct an exploratory research, using the literature review methodology, to ascertain the current status of knowledge on entrepreneurship in farming (agripreneurship) in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). The literature review found many definitions of agripreneurship and who is a farmer entrepreneur...
Iraq
2018
Prácticas
Agroecology research by agriculture and agri-food
In many regions of Canada, the footprint of agriculture is increasing. This often results in excessive losses of wildlife habitat and biodiversity, increases in GHG emissions and carbon losses, and degradation of water quality and soil resources. This project aims at conserving, protecting and valuing natural features, such as riparian...
Canada
2018 - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Estudio de caso
Catálogo latinoamericano de experiencias en agricultura familiar TEC 2018
El Catálogo latinoamericano de experiencias en agricultura familiar TEC 2018 presenta 31 soluciones innovadoras, que han logrado consolidarse como tecnologías sociales, o avanzan en tal dirección.
Entendemos por tecnología social la innovación social estructurada por el conjunto de conocimientos, prácticas, métodos e instrumentos que han resuelto una problemática en una comunidad....
Colombia
2018 - Parque Científico de Innovación Social (PCIS)
Documento/nota de orientación
Global goals, localized action. Celebrating 40 years in Egypt
On the occasion of FAO Egypt's 40th Anniversary, this booklet is produced to highlight FAO's achievements and support to the Egyptian Government over the past 40 years. It will give a glimpse on how FAO started its work in Egypt and will also highlight the main projects that made a...
Egypt
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Directrices
Realizing women’s rights to land in the law
A guide for reporting on SDG indicator 5.a.2
Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” recognizes the fundamental role of women in achieving poverty reduction, food security and nutrition.
Target 5.a aims to “Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Regional meeting aims to improve social protection for rural Western Balkans
Social protection plays a crucial role in accelerating progress in the fight against hunger, malnutrition and rural poverty, with the potential to transform the lives of rural women and men by improving their well-being and livelihoods.
Still, evidence shows that social protection is lacking for the majority of the food insecure...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Profile: Dream Big, the Sea is the Limit: K.C. Rekha: Seagoing Fisherwoman from Kerala, India
Taking a road less travelled is not easy. Sometimes the whole of society stands against you. But no such fear deterred Rekha K.C. of Koorkenchery, a village in the Thrissur district of Kerala, India, the first woman in the country to go fishing in the deep waters of the outer...
India
2018 - ICSF
Artículo de blog
The Italian “Mountain product” logo is now available
With the release, by the Ministry, of the common logo, Italian mountain producers have now all the normative references for the use of the optional quality term “Mountain product”.
Italy
2018 - Euromontana
Artículo de revista especializada
The Tunisian Experience in Olive Production and Marketing and How to Benefit From it in the Egyptian Case
Olive and olive oil production, which is widespread throughout the Mediterranean region, plays an important social, economic and environmental role in producing countries. Although Egypt has a comparative advantage in the production olive crop, which generates a distinct economic return, whether marketed locally or exported, Egypt occupies the 10th place...
Egypt - Tunisia
2018
Estudio de caso
Terre et Paix. Promoting access to productive land by young people as conflict prevention
Terre et Paix is an EU funded project which has been implemented since February 2015 by the Italian NGO COSPE in partnership with the three national farmers’ platforms of Senegal, Mali and Niger, (CNCR, CNOP and PFPN), under the auspices of ROPPA (Réseau des organisations paysannes et de producteurs de...
Mali - Niger - Senegal
2018 - COSPE Onlus
Informe
Upscaling climate smart agriculture
Lessons for extension and advisory services
Extension and advisory services (EAS) can play a very important role in scaling up Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). EAS contribute to the realization of all three objectives of CSA (food security, adaptation and mitigation), but are currently focused on the first of these, namely food security through enhanced productivity. EAS...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Agroécologie : méthodes pour évaluer ses conditions de développement et ses effets
Actes de l'atelier d'échanges et construction méthodologique des 14 et 15 décembre 2017
Ce document présente les travaux de l’atelier d’échanges organisé les 14 et 15 décembre 2017 par le Groupe de travail sur les Transitions Agroécologiques (GTAE), créé par AVSF, Agrisud, CARI et Gret, et consacré aux méthodes pour évaluer les performances de l’agroécologie et conditions de son développement. L’évènement a réuni une...
2018 - AGRISUD, AVSF, CARI, GRET
Artículo de revista especializada
Tanzania: Networking for Strength
A newly established network of women fish processors and traders promises to improve the prospects of women in Africa’s post-harvest sector. The vast fish resources of the African continent offer many benefits. Fishery and aquaculture products supply food, nutrition, income and livelihoods to hundreds of millions of people; they help earn...
United Republic of Tanzania
2018 - ICSF
Artículo
Caracterización socio-cultural de sistemas ganaderos del centro-sur de Santa Fe
Los continuos cambios que se produjeron desde la década del 80' con el avance de la sojización en la pampa húmeda argentina, han condicionado la permanencia de ciertos sistemas de producción que compiten con este cultivo en especial por el recurso suelo. Este proceso de transformación social provocó importantes consecuencias...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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