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Estudio de caso
Innovations in Agroecology – a case study from the Netherlands
In Noord-Brabant, a region in South-West Netherlands, Govert van Dis and his wife Phily Brooijmans are running an organic arable farm of around 100 hectares. They run the farm together and actively follow innovations in agroecology. Crops are grown without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, therefore crop rotation...
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Hoja informativa
Greening Measures in the Common Agricultural Policy
It has been known for centuries that nature and agriculture nourish each other. Before intensive agricultural practices became widespread throughout the world during the second half of the 20th century, agricultural areas represented not only food sources for the human population, but also areas thriving with a diversity of plant...
European Union
2017 - CeeWeb for Biodiversity
Artículo de revista especializada
Non-farming entrepreneurship in the farm activity diversification process
The article shows the scale and reasons of regional disparities in the development of selected activities in multifunctional farmers in Poland, which are a an example of the diversification of farm activities. Moreover, they presented the benefits for farmers as a result of taking up and pursuit of selected multifunctional...
2017
Artículo de revista especializada
Farm Typology in the Berambadi Watershed (India): Farming Systems Are Determined by Farm Size and Access to Groundwater
Farmers’ production decisions and agricultural practices directly and indirectly influence the quantity and quality of natural resources, some being depleted common resources such as groundwater. Representing farming systems while accounting for their flexibility is needed to evaluate targeted, regional water management policies. Farmers’ decisions regarding investing in irrigation and adopting...
India
2017
Informe
Preliminary Observations Special Rapporteur on the right to food
According to the World Bank, since 2005 Zambia has experienced impressive economic growth at an average of around 6-7 % per year, although this has decreased to less than 3 percent in recent years. This decline has been driven by drought and a fall in the price of copper, one...
Zambia
2017 - United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
Revista especializada
Agricultural transformation in Africa: The role of natural resources
This issue of the Journal highlights the unique features of Africa's agriculture, including (i) the urgent need for improving productivity; (ii) the importance of the agricultural sector in Africa's economies in terms of employment; and (iii) the climate-resilient opportunities within agriculture to cope with climate change challenges. It draws attention...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Orgânicos: da saúde ao bolso do agricultor familiar
Filho, neto e bisneto de produtor rural, nascido e criado na roça, Valdir conta que era “veneneiro puro” até receber assistência da Emater-DF para dar início à transição agroecológica.
As políticas públicas da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) e o Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) contribuem...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
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Étude sur l’agriculture familiale à petite échelle au Proche-Orient et Afrique du Nord. Pays focus: Maroc
La Petite Agriculture Familiale (PAF) est fortement fragilisée par la conjonction de plusieurs facteurs; d’abords le foncier avec la complexité des statuts, les problèmes des héritages, indivision et morcellement. Ensuite les marchés ; en dehors de la production laitière et des produits de terroirs (récemment impulsés par le Plan Maroc...
Morocco
2017 - Organisation des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO)
Revista especializada
Revista EnlACe Nº39
En este número de la revista Enlace presenta una serie de artículos que ayudan a entender mejor las interacciones económicas, científicas y hasta culturales que permiten que el trabajo de mejoramiento de maíz pueda realizarse. Además, busca que, al terminar de leerlo, el lector tenga un conocimiento más profundo sobre...
Guatemala - Mexico
2017 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo, CIMMYT
Artículo de blog
FONTAGRO anuncia la Convocatoria 2017 de proyectos de innovación para la intensificación sostenible de la agricultura familiar ante el cambio climático
Convocatoria 2017
FONTAGRO anuncia la apertura de la Convocatoria Ordinaria 2017 para la presentación de proyectos sobre “Innovaciones para la intensificación sostenible de la agricultura familiar ante el cambio climático”, el 17 de abril próximo.
La convocatoria apoyará plataformas de innovación constituidas por agentes públicos y privados que comparten visión, misión y objetivos,...
2017 - FONTAGRO
Estudio de caso
Route d'apprentissage. Garantir les droits à la terre et à l’eau dans des systèmes d’irrigation à travers des outils novateurs et des solutions pratiques: les cas du Sénégal et de la Mauritanie
L’objectif principal de la Route est d’améliorer la compréhension, parmi les projets du FIDA et les principales parties prenantes, des problématiques liées à la garantie des droits à la terre et à l’eau dans des systèmes d’irrigation pour une meilleure productivité agricole, et ainsi améliorer les moyens d’existence des personnes...
Mauritania - Senegal
2017 - Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA,
Estudio de caso
Organic Best Practices in Italian National Parks
Organic and eco-sustainable farming is particularly suited to farms situated within parks, because it does not harm local ecosystems as it does not use pesticides and promotes biodiversity, improving biological links and creating ideal habitats for animal life. It also promotes grants that reward farmers for acting as “guardians/stewards of...
Italy
2017 - AIAB and IFOAM-International
Informe
Pastoralism, The Backbone of the World’s Drylands
Over half of the world’s land area is grazed in various ways: in mixed farming systems, ranching, by wildlife and through pastoralism. Pastoralism is practised mainly on the grasslands that cover about a quarter of the world’s surface (Follet & Reed 2010). It is also closely associated with mobile herds...
2017 - Vétérinaires Sans Frontières International
Artículo de revista especializada
Migraciones internacionales en América Latina: miradas críticas a la producción de un campo de conocimientos
Presentación del dossier
Este texto presenta una reflexión sobre las lógicas epistemológicas y políticas que atraviesan los estudios sobre las migraciones en América Latina desde tres dimensiones: 1) la creciente heterogeneidad de flujos y la necesidad de repensar las categorías conceptuales con las que se aborda las migraciones; 2) el diálogo y apropiación...
2017 - FLACSO Ecuador
Documento de trabajo
Women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi
A case of Msaka (Lake Malawi) and Kachulu (Lake Chilwa)
This paper helps to fill an important gap that exists in gender responsive fish value chains by analysing the factors that influence women’s participation in fish value chains and value chain governance in Malawi. The study was based on the premise that there is limited information on how fish trade...
Malawi
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Artículo de revista
Investment in the agri‑food sector
Supporting farm businesses is a key priority of the Rural Development Programmes (RDPs), notably through investments in physical assets (Measure 4) and farm and business development (Measure 6). Such investments can help farms to modernise their processes or diversify their activities, enabling them to survive in the modern economy by...
European Union
2017 - European Network for Rural Development
Artículo de blog
Small scale farmer and big future thinker
What started out as an aspiration to be self sufficient, has evolved into a vision to grow and support young farmers into a profession that has enormous reward, alongside huge risk, immense challenges and a great deal of fulfillment. What’s more Joel can see the future in small-scale farming and...
Australia
2017 - OURFOODSYSTEM
Artículo de blog
UN report calls for end to industrial agriculture
The UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food has issued a damning indictment of the harmful effects of pesticides on flora, fauna and human beings.
2017 - EurActiv
Manual
Récupération biologique des terres dégradées (BDL)
Convertir les sols dégradés en champs fertiles par la combinaison des moyens biophysiques
Zone climatique géologiquement très ancienne, la zone soudano-sahélienne a vu son sol profondément transformé sous l’effet du climat chaud et humide des temps très anciens. Ceci a eu comme résultat une désagrégation et une érosion du sol avec la formation d’une croûte latéritique imperméable qui empêche l’infiltration de l’eau et...
Niger
2017 - L’Institut International de Recherche sur les Cultures des Zones Tropicales Semi-Arides (ICRISAT)
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A Comprehensive Overview of Investments and Human Resource Capacity in African Agricultural Research
This report assesses trends in investments, human resource capacity, and outputs in agricultural research in SSA, excluding the private (for-profit) sector. The analysis uses information collected by Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI)—led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) within the portfolio of the CGIAR Research Program on...
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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