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LIFE in the Advisory Councils: Foot in the door, but more seats at the table needed.
Too set in their ways, small-scale fishers find that Advisory Councils are resistant to change.
2 October 2017. Meeting in Hamburg Germany, around 30 small-scale, low impact fishers from Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Germany, and Netherlands, shared experiences and lessons learned from their engagement with the Advisory Councils (ACs). They were joined by technical experts and academics from the Baltic region, and supported by LIFE staff.
Under discussion were...
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Documento de trabajo
Climate change challenges, smallholder commercialization and progress out poverty in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, smallholder farmers’ commercialization and integration into the market has been one of the policy directions to ensure households’ progress out of poverty and maintain the sustainable development trajectory. A lot of progress has been made in this endeavor over the past couple of decades. However, market participation and...
Ethiopia
2017 - African Development Bank
Actas de conferencia
Social protection to foster sustainable management of natural resources and reduce poverty in fisheries-dependent communities
The technical workshop “Social protection to foster sustainable management of natural resources and reduce poverty in fisheries-dependent communities” gathered 29 participants to discuss available evidence and make recommendations for the work programme of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department in relation to social protection and poverty reduction in fisheries dependent communities....
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Modernising and Simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
As part of its Work Programme for 2017, the European Commission committed to take forward work and consult widely on simplification and modernisation of the CAP to maximise its contribution to the Commission's ten priorities and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This will focus on specific policy priorities for...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Estudio de caso
The 250 Thousand Families Challenge: Bringing to bear food practice on health, equity and sustainability in Ecuador
In Ecuador thousands of families have joined the 250,000 Families Challenge of Qué Rico Es! Campaign that promotes fresh, agroecological food produced by family farmers. Most of these foods are from native crops and are sold directly to consumers at outdoor markets and food fairs. These rural and urban families strengthen...
Ecuador
2017 - EkoRural
Artículo de blog
Promoting market-oriented agriculture in Zambia
Over 61,000 smallholder farmers will benefit from a financial agreement signed between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Zambia to increase the incomes and food and nutrition security of rural households. The project will promote market-oriented agriculture and focus particularly on women and young people.
The financing agreement for...
Zambia
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Informe
Challenges of global agriculture in a climate change context by 2050
This report presents a global integrated assessment of the range of potential economic impacts of climate change and stringent mitigation measures in the agricultural sector. The analysis employs five global multiregion multi-commodity models and covers selected combinations of socioeconomic storylines and climate signals by mid-century. Model inputs are harmonised by...
2017 - European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate D - Sustainable Resources
Vídeo
Post Harvest Management and Handling in rural Zimbabwe
A demonstration of how farmers can adopt new post harvest technologies to enable them to preserve their farming output and market their produce when the market price is most favourable.
Zimbabwe
2017 - Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) Zimbabwe
Audio
¿Cómo estar actualizado sobre el sector porcino?
Diálogo con la coordinadora del Sistema de Información Pública la Ing. Agr. Patricia Skejich quien cuenta sobre el servicio gratuito que brinda el Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas CIAP.
Argentina
2017 - Centro Información de actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
Vídeo
Rural development and livelihoods in South Africa
This documentary examines rural livelihoods in South Africa. Drawing on the narratives of several interviewees, it explains how impoverished people in South Africa's rural, former homeland communal areas survive and sustain themselves. The film suggests both the importance of between rural areas and urban centres, and the multiple activities on...
South Africa
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)
Manual
Agroforestry Systems
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Artículo de blog
FAO launches the Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 Initiative in Egypt
This initiative aims to engage Egyptian stakeholders, to generate evidence based for revamping and refining current livestock development efforts, to ensure a sustainable development trajectory for the sector and make it fully consistent with the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy (SADS)2030.
Egypt
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento de trabajo
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa
From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper...
2017 - World Bank
Artículo de blog
Conheça as ganhadoras do concurso #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos
A equipe da campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos divulga a lista de vencedoras do Concurso de vozes, imagens, histórias e experiências das mulheres rurais. Foram mais de 100 inscritas nas categorias de Relatos de Vida e Experiências de Organizações. Mulheres rurais, negras, quilombolas, indígenas, de todos os lugares do país,...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Documento técnico
Lineamientos estratégicos para el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar y la inclusión en Guatemala
Este número específico de los Cuadernos de Trabajo sobre Inclusión es fruto de un proceso integrado de cooperación entre los Proyectos Insignia “Inclusión en la Agricultura y los territorios Rurales” y “Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar para la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Economía Rural”, en Guatemala. Para facilitar...
Guatemala
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Artículo
LIFE calls for inclusive Blue Growth at the Our Ocean Conference
Why are small-scale fisheries excluded from European Blue Growth whilst aquaculture is included? It is time to recognize the potential of fisheries to provide sustainable jobs and food supplies.
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Vídeo
The Story of Women in Seafood: A Case From Women in Salted Fish Industry at Tambak Lorok
The assumption that fishery is a sector exclusive to men only is not true. There is a misleading assumption in most research that fisheries operate in the public domain is usually dominated by men, which is why the private domain (women dominated) is hardly the focus of attention.And this video...
Indonesia
2017 - Women in Seafood
Hoja informativa
How to make a natural pesticide
In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Artículo de blog
Food insecurity and poverty, a major challenge to meeting SDGs target 2.1 in sub-Saharan Africa
With millions suffering from severe food insecurity in the region
On the aggregate level, sub-Saharan Africa achieved adequate food availability over the 2014–2016 period, with a Dietary Energy Supply (DES) of 110. However, several countries in the region remain highly dependent on food imports to ensure adequate food supplies, with some sub-regions depending on imports for up to a third...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de boletín informativo
Agroecology for Food Sovereignty
In what ways is agroecology a means to food sovereignty? In Brazil, claiming land rights was the first step along one group of farmers’ pathway to autonomy. The next was to develop and maintain agroecological practices. To achieve this goal, these farmers never worked alone. Strong self-organisation and long-lasting partnerships...
Brazil
2017 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
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