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Inspirational ideas: Data sharing through Farmbench
The digital revolution is now upon us and more and more technologies are available to the agricultural sector. Farmers in the UK, for example, can use Farmbench (farmbench.ahdb.org.uk).
Farmbench collects and shares data from across the UK, providing farmers with useful indications on potential changes to their farm management practices which...
European Union
2017 - Eip Agri
Libro
Impacto de la Gestión Comunitaria del Agua en el Desarrollo de Costa Rica
Gestión comunitaria del agua, noble labor que ejercen grupos de vecinos que se organizan de forma voluntaria para contribuir a la gestión del sistema de agua de su comunidad, además de la protección de sus fuentes y la sostenibilidad del recurso hídrico. Hacen un importante aporte para cerrar la brecha de acceso al...
Costa Rica
2017 - Fundación Avina
Artículo de revista especializada
Contribution of organic farming to public goods in Denmark
The potential contribution of organic farming to the public goods, ‘Nature and Biodiversity’, ‘Environment’, ‘Energy and Climate’, ‘Human Health and Welfare’ and ‘Animal Health and Welfare’ in Denmark is guided and partly secured by the principles and specific requirements of the EU Organic Regulation. However, other factors, such as the...
Denmark
2017
Artículo de blog
Intercâmbio de experiências entre produtores e profissionais de Ater
Poder ver de perto diversas tecnologias e formas de produção aplicadas em diferentes partes do país é uma ótima opção para quem quer aprimorar os negócios da agricultura familiar. Há mais de 10 anos, a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD), por meio da Subsecretaria de...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Artículo de blog
Oxford Real Farming Conference, January 2016
Urgenci was present at the “Oxford Real Farming Conference” (ORFC) in Britain, a conference that started as a small alternative conference to the “Oxford Farming Conference” (supported in 2017 by Bayer, BASF and others) but that now has overtaken the conventional farming conference in both the number of delegates and...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2017 - URGENCI
Artículo de blog
La comunidad de países de lengua portuguesa aprueba las directrices de apoyo a la agricultura familiar
La Comunidad de Países de Lengua Portuguesa-CPLP (conformada por 9 estados) ha aprobado las Directrices de apoyo a la Agricultura Familiar en la II Reunión extraordinaria del Consejo de Seguridad Alimentaria celebrada el pasado 8 de junio en Brasilia (Brasil). Además, en la misma reunión se ratificó la decisión de conferir...
2017 - Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur
Acto
Congreso Internacional de Alimentación Escolar: Construyendo caminos para la educación alimentaria y nutricional
En el marco del proyecto de Fortalecimiento de Programas de Alimentación Escolar en América Latina y el Caribe, del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasi-FAO, se llevará a cabo del 3 al 5 de octubre, en Brasilia, Brasil, el Congreso Internacional de Alimentación Escolar: Construyendo caminos para la educación alimentaria y nutricional. El...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Libro
Innovative risk management strategies in rural and agriculture finance
The present study reviews recent trends in rural finance and investment in general, and in the agricultural sector in particular, within the Asian region. The analysis of these trends aims to offer a critical perspective on some of the main constraints to achieving more inclusive rural financial systems in developing...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de revista especializada
The role of science and technology in enhancing food security in Arab countries
The Arab world is the largest food deficit region in the world due to the major challenges facing increasing food production despite the high potential to increase agriculture production in most Arab countries. In 2013 the Arab world imported 85.6 million tons of cereals compared to 65.3 million tons for...
2017
Miscelánea
EAthink 2015 Educational Apps
The path to a healthy, sustainable and fair food consumption starts already during our early years of childhood and youth. For this reason the EAThink 2015 project has developed two interactive educational games targeting Primary and Secondary school students, in order to help them better understand the different mechanisms of...
2017 - Urgenci
Artículo de blog
FAO at COP23: agroecology helps achieve climate commitments
A sustainable and holistic approach to agriculture and the environment is being promoted by FAO at this week’s global climate change event in Bonn, Germany.
Together with the governments of Hungary and France, and with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), FAO is presenting “agroecology” as a way to produce...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Learning Journey on LSPA in Lebanon, November 2017
Press release, Monday, November 27, 2017
Learning Journey on Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers in Lebanon, November 22-25, 2017.
Urgenci, the international network of Local Solidarity Partnerships for Agroecology between producers and consumers (LSPA) and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Food and Agriculture Organization of...
Lebanon
2017 - Urgenci
Artículo de blog
Pasture management reforms yielding good results in Tajikistan
Tajikistan’s roughly 3.8 million hectares of pasture – almost 29 percent of its total land area – feed the country’s meat-producing livestock. But these natural resources, particularly year-round pastures near villages, are being depleted and degraded.
Since 2013, FAO and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have been working with...
Tajikistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Hoja informativa
Fortalecimiento a los Sistemas Públicos de Comercialización y Abastecimiento de Alimentos
Un sistema alimentario reúne todos los elementos y actividades relacionados con la producción, elaboración, distribución, preparación y consumo de alimentos, así como los productos de estas actividades, incluidos los resultados socioeconómicos y ambientales (Grupo de alto nivel de expertos en seguridad alimentaria y nutrición – HLPE, 2014). Los sistemas alimentarios...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Ecuador - Mexico
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Acto
IV FORO INNOVAGRO 2017. Cambio Climático, resiliencia, agricultura sustentable e innovación
En este sitio web se encuentra información del "Foro INNOVAGRO" en su versión 2017, en el que se analiza a fondo las consecuencias del cambio climático para la agricultura.
En esta ocación, el seminario se realizara en Valparaíso el 21 de agosto, en Coquimbo el 23 de agosto y en Biobío el...
Chile
2017 - Fundación para la Innovación Agraria (FIA)
Artículo de blog
Income security for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Revamping rural livelihoods in the face of climate change
In Zimbabwe, over 70 percent of the population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change is threatening agricultural productivity and exacerbating some of Zimbabwe’s key agricultural challenges: low soil fertility, reliance on rain-fed systems, poorly functioning markets, and farmers’ limited access to credit, knowledge and best practices. To address...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
The nexus between food and nutrition security, and migration
Clarifying the debate and charting a way forward
The report underlines the important role played by policies and actions that make human mobility a pillar of sustainable food systems and inclusive territorial development. This would also be a way to mainstream complex migration dynamics into interventions targeting FNS. Such policies and actions necessarily imply a focus on inclusive...
2017 - European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Declaración
Declaración Final REAF: Carta Olmué
1° Conferencia Regional de Agricultura Familiar del MERCOSUR Ampliado XXVI REAF - Presidencia Pro Tempore de Argentina en el MERCOSUR 20 al 23 de junio 2017, Chile
La REAF (Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur), ha dado un importante paso hacia la elaboración de las Directrices Regionales de apoyo a la Agricultura Familiar a través de la ratificación del compromiso político de los estados participantes durante los eventos celebrados entre el 19 y 23 de junio...
2017 - Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del Mercosur
Libro
La asociatividad en la gestión comunitaria del agua
La Gestión Comunitaria del Agua y Saneamiento en Latinoamérica y el Caribe ha venidojugando un rol preponderante para lograr que millones de personas tengan acceso al agua para consumo humano en las zonas rurales, periurbanas y en algunos casos urbanas en la región de las Américas.
Investigaciones recientes, realizadas por AVINA y la...
Costa Rica
2017 - Fundación Avina
Artículo de blog
New drought risks in Ethiopia put recovery at risk
FAO targets pastoralists in southern regions facing failed rains on heels of a calamitous El Niño
New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today.
While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...
Ethiopia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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