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Aquaculture/Occupational Safety: Towards Healthy Work
An FAO project examines global occupational health and safety policies, practices, standards, problems and challenges in aquaculture occupational safety and health (AOSH)
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
Agroforestry offers a way to stand against climate change
Increasing agricultural productivity by over 20 percent just by using a negligible percent of arable land for creating forest areas sounds like a good deal. As practice shows, this is achievable with agroforestry – the practice of integrating woody vegetation with crops or animal systems. And the real bonus is...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
Using seasonal forecasts to support farmer adaptation to climate risks
FAO Agricultural Development Economics Policy Brief 14
The brief uses a unique set of data from Zambia collected from smallholders before and after the 2015/2016 ENSO event, which was widely anticipated by regional and global forecast services to contribute to dry conditions in southern Zambia and an overall shorter growing season. Three findings emerge from the analysis....
Zambia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Boletín informativo
AIRCA Newsletter #8
This is the Newsletter of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture, www.airca.org.
This edition showcases examples for the use of Information and Communnication Technologies in agriculture research and development.
2018 - AIRCA
Revista especializada
Sri Lanka/Co-operatives: Wellbeing Aspirations
Fisheries co-operatives in Sri Lanka need to be restructured into true co-management platforms to ensure the sustainable use of coastal zone resources
Sri Lanka
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Documento/nota de orientación
Ensuring equal access to improve livelihoods
Poor rural people are often excluded from markets and do not benefit from tailored technologies and rural advisory services. These constraints lower their agricultural productivity, perpetuating poverty and hunger. To achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agriculture needs to become more inclusive, sustainable and productive. FAO helps countries meet...
Cambodia - Georgia - Tajikistan - United Republic of Tanzania
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Soil and nutrients loss in Malawi: an economic assessment
Soil and nutrients loss are among the major impediments to a stable and sustainedagricultural development in Malawi. They have historically affected the country but thehigh population growth, rapid deforestation, overgrazing and ploughing, combined withthe impacts of climate change, such as temperature increases and changing precipitationpatterns, are increasing the impact of...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Prácticas
Ferme École agroécologique de Kaydara
Érosion, désertification, salinisation, à Fimela, delta du Saloum, 30 % seulement des terres agricoles restent cultivables. C’est la cause du bradage des terres et de l’exode rural vers les villes ou vers l’étranger. Pour remédier, l’ambition de Jardins d’Afrique est de former des jeunes à la pratique d’une autre agriculture,...
Senegal
2018 - Jardins d'Afrique
Revista especializada
Human Rights/Slavery: Don't Jump Ship
The Seafood Slavery Risk Tool helps inform businesses about abuses of labour and human rights in their seafood supply chains
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Manual
Model agreement for responsible contract farming
The Model Agreement for Responsible Contract Farming is a simple and practical legal tool to support the implementation of global principles and guidelines and make responsible investment a reality. It is designed to address some of the inequalities in contract farming that disadvantage producers; to help create more equitable and...
2018 - International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Revista especializada
Building Back Better
A workshop on Cyclone Ockhi, which swept through parts of south India, discussed ways to make coastal fishing communities more resilient to natural disasters
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Informe
Gender opportunities and constraints in land-related agricultural investments
Synthesis Report
This report presents a synthesis of the main findings from case studies carried out in six countries in Africa (Ghana, Sierra Leone, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia) and Asia (Laos and Philippines). The findings were disseminated and discussed in multistakeholder initiatives at regional and country level. The report illustrates...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
India/Cyclone Ockhi: A Stitch in Time
Cyclone Ockhi, which hit southern India late last year, brought out the need to empower communities to manage risks through locally owned and locally appropriate approaches
India
2018 - ICSF
Libro
FAMILY FARMING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT THE CPLP
Family Farming and Sustainable Development at the CPLP
Angola - Brazil - Cabo Verde - Guinea-Bissau - Mozambique - Portugal - Sao Tome and Principe
2018 - CPLP
Libro
Promoting Indigenous Knowledge and Good Agricultural Practices in Climate Change Adaptation
Climate change is one of the most important challenges to sustainable development in the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam.
IK is also used in cultivation techniques in extreme climatic conditions. With cultivation conditions are mainly sloping land, many traditional techniques have been applied to limit soil erosion due to heavy rainfalls...
Viet Nam
2018 - ALiSEA
Parte de un informe
A review of participatory plant breeding and lessons for African seed and food sovereignty movements
There is growing awareness of the unique and important role smallholder farmers around the world play in conserving, using and enhancing biodiversity. Conventional breeding has created a separation between farmers and specialised breeders. Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is a field of action developed over the past 25-30 years to overcome...
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Libro
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Rwanda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Rwanda
2018
Revista especializada
IFISH5: Connecting the Dots
The largest conference on occupational safety and health in the fishing industry returns after a gap of nine years
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Vídeo
Filtros de aguas grises: El problema del agua
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en algunas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
Por esta razón, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA), impulsan en Guatemala la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises....
Guatemala
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Artículo de revista especializada
Competitividad de la exportación de la soja en el Paraguay
El objetivo de este trabajo de investigación fue evaluar la competitividad de las exportaciones del grano de la soja en el Paraguay en el periodo de 2005 a 2014. Se utilizó el modelo Constant Market Share para tal fin, con la base de datos de UNContrade; el modelo descompone en tres efectos el...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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