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Understanding Farming
Facts and figures about German farming
This publication is designed to provide readers with a compilation of facts and figures about German farming, allowing them to form their own opinions about farming and farming-related issues. The aim is to promote readers’ understanding by describing modern farming methods without ignoring controversial issues.
Germany
2016 - Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Artículo de blog
PROCASUR, FAO Y FIDA apoyan el Ministerio de Agricultura en el desarrollo de perfiles de jóvenes y empleo rural decente
Caracterizar la situación de la juventud en términos de empleo rural digno fue el objetivo de un seminario celebrado el 23 y 24 de mayo de 2016, en el Hotel Garden Hill, en Port-au-Prince en Haití. Participaron la Organización del Fondo Internacional de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y...
Haiti
2016 - Corporación Procasur
Libro
Potentially Important Food Plants of Cambodia (Khmer)
This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French. The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the...
Cambodia
2016
Artículo de revista
Looking outside the ABS box
Access and benefit sharing for family farmers in Zimbabwe
What is successful access and benefit sharing’ for smallholder family farmers? This contribution argues it is not about legal contracts or mechanisms that regulate the international transfer of plant genetic resources. It is about farmers’ access to seed diversity and the ability to share in the benefits of the continuing...
Zimbabwe
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Artículo
Food and nutrition security interventions among populations affected by El Niño in region of the Greater South in Madagascar
FAO continues to promote access to and availability of improved seeds
Following the declaration of a drought situation in the region of the Greater South of Madagascar, the vulnerability of the rural population has reached an alarming level.
A project for emergency agricultural rehabilitation of farming households and vulnerable producers has been implemented to allow them to recover quickly from the loss...
Madagascar
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Proyecto
Non-farm income and labor markets in rural Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood. Based on a large-scale household survey in high potential agricultural areas, we find that total off-farm income (defined as wage and enterprise income) makes up...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Artículo de revista especializada
De l’agriculture oasienne à l’agriculture saharienne dans la région des Ziban en Algérie. Acteurs du dynamisme et facteurs d’incertitude
Sous l’effet conjugué de politiques publiques généreuses, notamment en matière de réalisation d’infrastructures, et de dynamiques locales novatrices, le paysage des oasis a, dans certaines régions, profondément été modifié. C’est le cas de la wilaya de Biskra en Algérie où, depuis une vingtaine d’années, des palmiers en monoculture et des...
Algeria
2016 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Vídeo
Empowering forest communities in The Gambia
A nationwide programme to transfer government-owned forest land to local communities is changing lives in The Gambia while promoting the sustainable management of its forests. As communities manage forest affairs and benefit from the proceeds from forest resources, more forest-friendly livelihoods such as beekeeping and soap making are boosting incomes...
Gambia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Strengthening Agroecological Innovation Systems
Some experiences from innovation processes led by local actors
The collapse of the socialist block in 1989 generated a deficit of energy, supplies and chemicals, and forced significant changes in the ways in which food was produced and distributed in Cuba. Due to these deficits, in the 90´s Cuba moved from being the largest consumer of agrochemicals in Latin...
Cuba
2016 - International Centre for development-oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA)
Acto
OECD meeting of Agriculture Ministers
Ministers of Agriculture from OECD countries and partner economies around the world will meet at OECD headquarters in Paris on 7-8 April 2016, to discuss Better Policies to Achieve a Productive, Sustainable and Resilient Global Food System. Ministers will explore the new policies needed to achieve this widely shared interest,...
France
2016 - OECD
Libro
Family Farming Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge
To commemorate the International Year of Family Farming, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, organised an Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation at Chennai in August 2014. Several background papers were prepared for...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Hoja informativa
Iniciativas Regionales de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe
Folleto que da cuenta de las Inicitivas Regionales de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) para América Latina y el Caribe.
Iniciativa Regional 1: Apoyo a la iniciativa América Latina y el Caribe sin hambre
Iniciativa Regional 2: Agricultura familiar y sistemas alimentarios inclusivos para el desarrollo...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Estudio de caso
Integrating diverse grain legumes for increased land productivity on small farms in Malawi
Malawi is a small country located in southern Africa with only 119,000 km2 for a population of about 16.7 million people. With agriculture as the mainstay of the economy, Malawi’s high population density of 140 people/km2 requires that agricultural productivity and other ecosystem services must be optimized. As part of...
Malawi
2016
Manual
LEISA Revista de Agroecología: La medición del impacto de la agroecología
"Esta edición presenta artículos cuyos autores, en muchos casos protagonistas mismos de la experiencia, refieren que para avanzar en la práctica de la producción agraria sostenible es necesario medir sus impactos, pues con ello es posible valorar la eficiencia de los esfuerzos invertidos para los procesos de transición hacia la...
2016 - Leisa revista de agroecologia
Artículo de revista
Listening to Pastoralists
Farming Matters
This issue of Farming Matters explores the different ways pastoral societies are joining forces to challenge the policies that undermine their culture and way of life.
For millennia, pastoralist societies have managed the rangelands of the world’s most challenging environments, producing food and providing ecosystem services for millions of households.
The experiences,...
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Revista especializada
Revista Mundo Rural N°13, marzo 2016
Este número de Mundo Rural incluye artículos sobre: alcances de la nueva institucionalidad indígena, vigencia y futuro de las organizaciones campesinas, INDAP abre primera tienda Mundo Rural, 2016 año internacional de las legumbres, entre otros artículos de interés.
Chile
2016 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Acto
International Conference on Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Use
Conservation Agriculture is practised on over 155 million hectares around the world, covering more than one tenth of the global annual cropland surface. The largest and most rapid expansion has been in North and South America, Australia/New Zealand, and some parts of Asia and Africa. Compared to this, the adoption...
Hungary
2016
Artículo de blog
Mapping Local and Solidarity -Based Partnerships between Producers and Consumers in the Mediterranean Basin
Mapping the Local and Solidarity-based Partnerships in Mediterranean Basin is an extremely challenging task: it means dealing with a new and rapidly growing field. To date, to the best of our knowledge, there is has been no study that deals specifically with local food systems in the area as a...
European Union
2016 - URGENCI
Libro
РАЗВИТИЕ ОРГАНИЧЕСКОГО СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА В МИРЕ И КАЗАХСТАНЕ
Один из современных мировых трендов - органическое сельское хозяй- ство активно набирает обороты во всем мире. За последние 16 лет его площа- ди увеличились в 4 раза, сертифицировано более 2 млн. органических про- изводителей, более трех четвертей из которых находятся в развивающихся странах. В настоящее время под органическим производством задействова-...
Kazakhstan
2016 - ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННАЯ И СЕЛЬСКОХОЗЯЙСТВЕННАЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ ОБЪЕДИНЕННЫХ НАЦИЙ
Acto
Improving ICT solutions and rural communication services for small-scale family farmers in the Near East and North Africa region
On July 22nd, KariaNet network in collaboration with FAO Regional Initiative on Small-Scale Family Farming and the Communication for Development team launched an online survey and discussion on ICT applications and rural communication for family farming, involving specialists and practitioners from the Near East and North Africa (NENA) region.
The online discussion is hosted on KariaNet's Google...
2016 - Knowledge Access for Rural Inter-connected Areas Network (KariaNet)
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