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Le dromadaire et l’oasis : du caravansérail à l’élevage périurbain
Les relations entre le dromadaire et l’oasis relèvent d’une certaine ambiguïté car le dromadaire, animal du nomade par excellence, marque les territoires désertiques de sa mobilité alors que l’oasis est, par essence, un point d’attache. Si, au cours de l’histoire, le dromadaire ne pénétrait en ville que pour les étapes...
2017
Artículo
SALT farming is a boon for Meghalaya farmers
Growing crops is a challenge in the hilly terrain of Assam-India. To counter this, Sloping Agriculture and Land Technology (SALT) has been introduced as an alternative farming method to the farmers in place of jhum. Farmers are trained on - A-frame or making the contour line by using the A-frame;...
India
2017 - Asian Farmers' Association
Libro
Living in and from the forests of Central Africa
Living in and from the forests of Central Africa is intended first and foremost as a full-scale extension tool concerning NWFPs in Central Africa. It is a work on the groups who have always lived in these forests, forests that contribute to every aspect of their daily lives, both material...
Cameroon - Central African Republic - Chad - Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Equatorial Guinea - Gabon - Rwanda - Sao Tome and Principe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Partnerships for improving pastoral policies in Tunisia
A new ICARDA project works on updating Tunisian pastoral code
The current Tunisian Code on Forests that applies to the common rangelands does not reflect the complexity of the land tenure status of common rangelands nor does it effectively support the needs of these dryland communities. Furthermore, Tunisia lacks a national strategy of rangeland management and a functioning coordination between...
Tunisia
2017 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),
Artículo de blog
Commission approves new promotion programmes for EU agri-food sector
Fifty-two new programmes aimed at promoting EU agri-food products in Europe and across the world have been approved by the European Commission. Covering a wide range of foods from dairy products and olive oil to fruit and vegetables and meat products, these programmes are supported by grants from the EU's...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Aprendizaje en línea
Trade, Food Security and Nutrition
The relationship between trade and food security is attracting increased attention on both the trade and development agendas, with trade recognized as one of the means for achieving the SDGs. The linkages between these concepts are highly complex and have been subject to intense debates. While on the one hand,...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Boletín informativo
FAO Viet Nam Newsletter
Swift Actions to Safeguarding Livelihoods from Potential Intrusion of H7n9 Virus
Viet Nam
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de revista especializada
Avances de la agricultura urbana, suburbana y familiar
Fundado a fines de 1987, manteniendo un 200 accionar el Movimiento de Agricultura Urbana, y Suburbana (AUSU) es uno de los siete programas más importantes del Ministerio de la Agricultura (MINAG) y contribuye al autoabastecimiento alimentario local, mediante tecnologías agroecológicas, con profundo carácter de sostenibilidad y seguridad alimentaria local, aún en...
Cuba
2017 - Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropica (INIFAT)
Acto
Drylands, Deserts and Desertification 2017 International Conference
The International Conference on Drylands, Deserts and Desertification (DDD) has emerged as an important global gathering of scientists, practitioners, industry and government representatives and decision-makers, members of CSOs, NGOs, and international development aid agencies and other stakeholders from over 60 countries concerned about land and environmental degradation in drylands and...
Israel
2017 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Artículo de blog
Países assinam carta para promover desenvolvimento social da Região Amazônica
Documento aponta os compromissos dos países para promover justiça social, igualdade e o uso sustentável dos recursos naturais da região
Após cinco dias de debates, termina, nesta sexta-feira (31), em Belém, o Seminário Pan-Amazônico de Proteção Social. O evento, o maior encontro internacional voltado para a região, reuniu representantes do Brasil, da Bolívia, Colômbia, Equador, Guiana Francesa, Peru, República da Guiana e Suriname.
O objetivo do encontro, que começou na última segunda-feira...
Brazil
2017 - Portal Brasil
Vídeo
Indigenous peoples are key to protecting wildlife and rural livelihoods
Actively involving indigenous peoples and local communities in wildlife conservation is key to maintaining biodiversity and ensuring sustainable rural livelihoods.The urgent challenges that the world faces in maintaining biodiversity worldwide requires that indigenous peoples are empowered to act at the national level with assistance from the international community.Sheila Wertz, FAO...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Artículo de blog
Improving livelihoods of indigenous women in Nicaragua
Over 370 million indigenous peoples live in more than 70 countries across the world. While they constitute about five percent of the world’s population, they account for approximately 15percent of the world’s poor. Such is the case with indigenous Mayangna women living in the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northern Nicaragua,...
Nicaragua
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
New Rural Policy: Linking Up For Growth
The New Rural Paradigm was a response to changing conditions in rural areas. Statistical evidence shows that agriculture is not the main source of rural jobs and incomes anymore and that several rural regions perform in line with urban regions in terms of economic growth. This, in turn, led to...
2017 - OECD
Artículo de blog
FAO and Songhai Center in partnership for a rich and prosperous Africa
24 African young producers on six weeks' training in Benin
Twenty-four young producers from Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Kenya and Zambia have followed a special capacity-building program initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. This six-week program should enable participants to be more productive and dynamic in the agricultural entrepreneurship business. It is from the observation...
Benin - Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Mali - Zambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Harnessing the role of rural organizations in social protection
An inventory of practices
This study presents an inventory of practices highlighting the role rural organizations play in: (i) delivering member-based social assistance and insurance, and other complementary services; and (ii) collaborating with national and international counterparts in the delivery of national and international social protection programmes. The inventory builds on an initial review...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Trip for exchange experience of Ghanians fish operators in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vídeo
Supporting indigenous women in Nicaragua: the Mayagna women of the Mayaring Cooperative
he Mayagna group is the second-largest indigenous group in Nicaragua, with over 18 000 people located mostly in or near the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve. Their community faces significant problems with illegal timber extraction and agricultural expansion in its territories. FAO's Forest and Farm Facility works with the Mayagna community, including the Mayaring Cooperative,...
Nicaragua
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Two new projects to give a boost to rural areas in Moldova
Berry production and the development of rural areas and livelihoods will be the focus of two new FAO projects starting soon in Moldova.
One of the projects will help build capacities in the area of agriculture and rural development policy – for policy makers, local officials and others who will be...
Republic of Moldova
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
The Future of food?
'Farm-to-fork' is not just a trendy buzzword but an exciting new ethos for how we eat that's taking hold in all walks of Irish life - from an urban farm in Dublin to an open prison in Cavan and a Michelin-star restaurant in Galway
2017 - Life Food & Drink
Artículo de blog
Após 25 anos, Governo Federal retoma investimento no serviço estatal de ATER
O Governo Federal, depois de 25 anos, anuncia a retomada os investimentos nas entidades públicas estaduais de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER), as Emateres. A Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD), através da Agência Nacional de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ANATER), levará o serviço...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
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