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Informe Final: Jornadas Mesoamericanas de Agricultura Familiar: Instrumentos para la Planificación de Políticas Públicas Diferenciadas
La FAO y la SECAC organizaron los días 28 y 29 de junio las “Jornadas mesoamericanas de Agricultura Familiar: Instrumentos para la planificación de políticas públicas diferenciadas”, como un espacio de intercambio de experiencias entre los países involucrados en “Mesoamérica sin Hambre”, que a su vez permitiese conocer la experiencia...
Colombia - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Mexico - Panama
2016 - Secretaría Ejecutiva del Consejo Agropecuario Centroamericano (CAC)
Documento de trabajo
The rapid expansion of herbicide use in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia
Patterns, drivers, and implications
We use qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use in Ethiopia. We find a four-fold increase in the value of herbicides imported into Ethiopia over the last decade, primarily by the private-sector. Adoption of herbicides by...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Estudio de caso
Farmer to Farmer Spread of Agroecology in the Eastern Region of Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso ranks as the sixth poorest country in the world according to the 2015 UN Human Development Report. Recent studies estimate that 46.4% of the population in the Eastern Region lives below the poverty line. These people are caught in a vicious cycle of degrading natural resources, declining soil...
Burkina Faso
2016 - Groundswell International
Informe
National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods. Republic of Tajikistan
The National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods is part of the project GCP/SEC/008/TUR, which contributes to the Regional Initiative 1 for the REU Region and to the SO3 by improving knowledge for evidence-based policies. The purpose of the National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods for Tajikistan...
Tajikistan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Smart Farming Thematic Network
Horizon 2020 Thematic Network - Smart AKIS ‘European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research in Smart Farming Technology.’
Smart-AKIS is a Horizon 2020 thematic network which aims to increase the adoption of Smart Farming Technologies by the European farming community. It strives to bridge the gap between the field...
European Union
2016 - Eip - Agri
Vídeo
Community Animal Health Workers in India
A farmers' community in India learned, through the FAO Community Animal Health Workers training programme, how to rear poultry and face the poultry diseases problems.
India
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de revista especializada
Motivation and values of farmers in Lebanon: a comparison between organic and conventional agricultural producers
In Lebanon, the agricultural sector suffers from both internal and external problems that opposed its development. Relatively high production costs, unregulated use of chemicals and the absence of extension services can be considered the most important in addition to groundwater pollution, high-level migration towards cities, lack of economic policy for...
Lebanon
2016 - International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Documento de la Conferencia
Seminario de Agroecología fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar campesina e indígena bajos condiciones agroecológicos
De acuerdo al Programa de Gobierno y los Lineamientos Estratégicos Institucionales 2014-2018, a nivel nacional se trabajó el área de Medio Ambiente, en donde la Región de Antofagasta ha sido la primera en recoger el guante, desarrollando así un Seminario de Agroecología, impulsando un nuevo camino en la mirada agroambiental....
Chile
2016 - Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Prácticas
Confección de trampa de cartón para captura de enjambres de abeja africanizada
La abeja africana Apis mellífera scutellata (o A.m.adansonii, según otros autores) continúa su avance migratorio por el continente americano. Por el comportamiento que estas abejas han mostrado, se considera que al dispersarse paulatinamente en el continente americano, ocasionarán un gran impacto; principalmente porque originarán una reducción en la producción de...
Mexico
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vídeo
Agricultural Risk Management: a new way of thinking - PARM
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) presents a short animated awareness video to explain how agricultural risk management (ARM) can significantly contribute to improving the resilience of vulnerable rural households by increasing their capacity to absorb and adapt to risks. Discover how three farmers from Uganda have found ways...
2016 - Platform for Agricultural Risk Management PARM
Informe
Boosting Africa’s soils
From the Abuja Declaration on fertilizers to a sustainable soil management framework for food and nutrition security in Africa by 2030
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) have jointly released ‘Boosting Africa’s soils: From the Abuja Declaration on Fertilizers to a sustainable soil management framework for food and nutrition security in Africa by 2030’, a booklet published on the occasion of the 29th Session of...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Serbian agriculture learning to adapt to climate change
Adapting to climate change and reducing the risk of disaster are topics of intense interest for anyone involved in agriculture in Serbia. In cooperation with the European Union, Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection and local self-governments, FAO ran two training workshops on these issues earlier this month.
Participants in...
Serbia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Acto
EIP-AGRI workshop ‘New value chains from multifunctional forests’
Multifunctional forests offer diversified opportunities of sustainably optimising the usage of natural resources and creating rural development opportunities. That is why they play a key role in the successful implementation of the EU bioeconomy strategy.
In order to explore innovative approaches in creating new values from multifunctional forests the EIP-AGRI network...
European Union
2016 - Eip-Agri
Acto
FAFS Digital Contest on Food Security
The Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut announces a digital contest to collect stories related to food security through this hashtag: #AUBFoodSecurity on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Lebanon
2016 - American University of Beirut (AUB)
Informe
Precision Agriculture and the Future of Farming in Europe
The aim of the project “Precision Agriculture and the Future of Farming in Europe” is to identify implications for legislative pathways for precision agriculture in Europe by mapping areas of concern around future developments.
European Union
2016 - European Parliament
Estudio de caso
Ecologically Integrated Farming System in the South of Vietnam: Rice-Duck-Shrimp Farming in Ben Tre Province
Rice and ducks have been ‘good friends’ of farmers in the Mekong Delta for a long time. Traditionally, farmers in the Mekong Delta planted rice paddies and raised ducks by releasing them into the paddy fields after the harvest to eat residues.
A Japanese farmer, Mr. Takao Furuno, took this traditional...
Viet Nam
2016 - Seed to Table
Artículo de revista especializada
Les politiques d'appui à l'agriculture familiale au Brésil et au Maroc : quelques éléments de comparaison
Au Brésil comme au Maroc, le secteur agricole est marqué par des différences extrêmes en termes de tailles d'exploitation, de niveaux d'équipement, de capitalisation et de techniques de production. L'article compare les processus des politiques d'appui à l'agriculture familiale dans ces deux pays, au-delà de leurs grandes différences. Les politiques...
Brazil - Morocco
2016 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Documento de la Conferencia
Nota conceptual: La reducción del riesgo de desastres en el sector agrícola y para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional
En marzo de 2015 se llevó a cabo la Tercera Conferencia Mundial de Naciones Unidas sobre la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres, realizada en Sendai, Japón. En ella los Estados Miembros de las Naciones Unidas acordaron y adoptaron el Marco de Sendai para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres 2015-2030...
2016 - Oficina de las Naciones Unidas para la Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres (UNISDR)
Vídeo
Terra de Mulheres
Con motivo de las actividades y debates promovidos por el Gobierno Federal en el Mes de la Mujer, el MDA llevó a cabo un mini documental. El video muestra el resultado de las políticas públicas para las mujeres rurales. En el interior del Río Grande del Norte, por ejemplo, los...
Brazil
2016 - Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario
Estudio de caso
Derecho a la salud. La experiencia de la Mesa para la Equidad de genero en el Desarrollo Rural de Chubut
El Proyecto de Recuperación Productiva Post-Emergencia, llevado adelante en las provincias de la Patagonia, trabajó con el fin de fomentar la producción asociativa y comunitaria con el objetivo de mitigar la situación de los pobladores y pobladoras rurales afectadas por las cenizas del volcán Puyehue-Cordón Caulle.
En la provincia de Chubut...
Argentina
2016 - Mesa para la Equidad de Género en el Desarrollo Rural
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