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Register to AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) and start using its content!
AGORA is one of the four programmes making up Research4Life coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on behalf of its many public and private partners. Since its launch in 2003, AGORA's goal has been that to provide free (complementary to open access) or low cost access to peer-reviewed journals and e- books in agriculture and related biological, environmental and...
2017 - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA)
Artículo de revista especializada
A holistic approach to studying social-ecological systems and its application to southern Transylvania
Global change presents risks and opportunities for social-ecological systems worldwide. Key challenges for sustainability science are to identify plausible future changes in social-ecological systems and find ways to reach socially and environmentally desirable conditions. In this context, regional-scale studies are important, but to date, many such studies have focused on...
Romania
2017 - Leuphana University Lüneburg
Estudio de caso
Agroecology program in Xuan An and Ngoc Son, Vietnam
Located about 70 km north east from Hanoi, Vietnam, the villages of Xuan An and Ngoc Son (Bac Giang province) include 285 households. Rice is the main staple crop. Local rice and vegetable production strongly relies on synthetic inputs specifically Nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides which increase production costs and raise...
Viet Nam
2017
Álbum de fotografías
Silk Tradition Prospers in Azerbaijan
Silk manufacturing is as an ancient tradition in Azerbaijan, and spring is silkworm season. The Otharashvili family in Gakh region have a long, enclosed porch that they dedicate to the care and feeding of these distinctive white larvae. Care means maintaining the right temperature and humidity in the room. Feeding...
Azerbaijan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
African small-scale farmers carve a giant message for world leaders in the very soil they farm
“Invest more in smallholder agriculture”. That's the message a group of farmers and villagers from Kasama, Zambia – a landlocked country in Southern Africa – set out to tell the world when they created an investment report like no other. Carved into the very land that farmers use to feed...
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Estudio de caso
“The Regenerators” - New Zealand Farmers leading a progressive transition towards agroecology
The profile features farmers in New Zealand who came to the idea of regenerative agriculture due to an awareness of the ecological limits being breached by New Zealand agriculture. They believe that while farming is responsible for many of the environmental problems faced by their country, they also believe that better...
New Zealand
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Informe
Etat des lieux des liens entre migration, transferts et résilience au Sénégal
Aujourd’hui, le changement climatique est une menace qui vient exacerber la vulnérabilité des ménages déjà mis à l’épreuve par une conjoncture économique difficile. Les bouleversements environnementaux n’arrêtent donc pas d’être des facteurs décisifs dans l’émigration des Sénégalais car continuant de représenter des déclencheurs et/ou des accélérateurs des migrations.
Cependant, par leurs...
Senegal
2017 - Innovation, Environnement, Développement en Afrique (IED Afrique)
Libro
Plan Estratégico Institucional 2015-2030
Un INTA comprometido con el Desarrollo Nacional
El Plan Estratégico Institucional 2015-2030 del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (PEI 2015-2030), establece los lineamientos que regirán las actividades de nuestra Institución en los próximos quince años en el marco de las políticas públicas del Gobierno Nacional.
La expansión y los cambios en la demanda mundial de alimentos, el cambio...
Argentina
2017 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) Argentina
Informe
Gender, agriculture and rural development in Armenia
Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment...
Armenia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Miscelánea
Natural Water Retention Measures
“NATURAL WATER RETENTION MEASURES (NWRMs) are multi-functional measures that aim to protect water resources and address water-related challenges by restoring or maintaining ecosystems as well as natural features and characteristics of water bodies using natural means and processes. The main focus of applying NWRM is to enhance the retention capacity...
European Union
2017 - CeeWeb for Biodiversity
Documento técnico
Defining Smallholders To Monitor Target 2.3. of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Despite the central position occupied by smallholder agriculture in the current development debate, a general and operational definition of smallholders still does not exist. The question “what is a small farm?” keeps receiving different answers depending on the context in which is posed. Alternative ways of defining smallholders reflect heterogeneous...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Libro
Guia Prático de PANC - Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais
A sigla PANC significa Plantas Alimentícias Não Convencionais. Em outras palavras, quer dizer “todas as plantas que poderíamos consumir, mas não consumimos”. Imagine todas as plantas comestíveis que existem. Uma pequena parcela delas nós conhecemos, produzimos e comemos no dia a dia, sendo chamadas de plantas alimentícias convencionais. As que...
Brazil
2017
Actas de conferencia
Use of Treated Wastewater in Agricultural Production in Arab World: Current Status and Future Prospective
This report provides a brief summary of the proceedings and recommendations of the "Use of Treated Wastewater in Agricultural Production in the Arab World: Current Status and Future Prospective" conference , held in Dubai during January 2014 under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy...
2017 - International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Agricultoras familiares e movimento afro comemoram entrega de Selos Quilombolas
A garantia da procedência atestada pelo Selo Quilombos do Brasil vai agregar valor e aumentar a competitividade dos produtos da agricultura familiar. A expectativa é que sejam geradas novas oportunidades de negócios e renda, fortalecendo assim a cultura e as tradições das comunidades tradicionais quilombolas do Norte do estado do...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Estudio de caso
Agroecological Transition in Mexico: ANEC’s Journey to a Better Farm and Food System
La Asociación Nacional de Empresas Comercializadoras de Productores del Campo (ANEC) was founded in 1995 in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). ANEC offers member farmers, a diverse array of small and medium commercial grain farmers from 17 different Mexican states. Initially, ANEC assisted in the...
Mexico
2017 - IATP and ANEC
Directrices
Gender mainstreaming and Human Rights based approach
The objective of ‘Guidelines on Gender Mainstreaming and a Human Rights-Based Approach (HRBA)’ is to provide a concise and compact guide for FAO REU / SEC staff to use at different stages of the project cycle. By bringing together the key elements of gender mainstreaming and HRBA found within the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Documento de trabajo
Urbanisation, rural transformations and food systems
The role of small towns
Small towns are an essential but often-neglected element of rural landscapes and food systems. They perform a number of essential functions, from market nodes to providers of services and goods and non-farm employment to their own population as well as that of the wider surrounding region. In demographic terms, they...
2017 - International Institute for Environment and Development
Documento de trabajo
How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized?
Evidence from Ethiopia
What is the optimal size and composition of rural financial cooperatives (RFCs)? With this broad question in mind, we characterize alternative formations of RFCs and the implications of each in improving the access of rural households to financial services, including savings, credit, and insurance services. We find that some features...
Ethiopia
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Hoja informativa
Shamba Mfuko
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Artículo de blog
Kazakhstan increasing crop area dedicated to oilseeds and pulses
Farmers in Kazakhstan have been increasing the land area devoted to growing oilseed and pulse crops – and it makes good sense from several viewpoints. An FAO-organized seminar on “Pulses and oilseeds: prospects for development” was held here today, one of many forward-looking events on offer this year at Astana...
Kazakhstan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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