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Agroecology in Cuba: For the farmer, seeing is believing
The Farmer to Farmer Agroecology Movement (MACAC) is a grassroots movement inside of the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP), which is a member of the international peasant movement, La Via Campesina. MACAC is a mass-based movement in which the campesino (peasant farmer) members of ANAP have been transforming...
Cuba
2016 - La Via Campesina
Actas de conferencia
Memoria del Seminario de Bioeconomía de FONTAGRO
Esta memoria compila las presentaciones realizadas en el Seminario de Bioeconomía llevado a cabo el 20 de junio de 2016 en Lima, Perú, en el marco del XI Taller de Seguimiento Técnico de Proyectos FONTAGRO.
Este documento incluye un resumen de las experiencias Latinoamericanas en bioeconomía y sus oportunidades para la...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - Ecuador - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Peru
2016 - FONTAGRO
Informe
From Uniformity to Diversity
The food systems we inherit in the 21st century represent some of the greatest achievements of human civilization. Paradoxically, they also represent some of the greatest threats to our continued health and prosperity. Contrasted with millennia of subsistence diets for most of the population, today’s food systems are a radical...
2016 - International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food systems. IPES
Boletín informativo
Wild foods help to reach food and nutrition security
FoodAfrica Newsletter, December 2016
2016 - Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
Artículo de revista especializada
Performing an Invisibility Spell: Global Models, Food Regimes and Smallholders
The present construction of global representations of food and farming is problematic. For example, how can we ‘know’ the world needs to double food production even though we cannot foresee a food crisis? How can we estimate investment opportunities while failing to quantify their impacts on smallholders? Global models constrain...
2016
Estudio de caso
Dairy farm with processing department and energy production unit from renewable sources in Dâmboviţa County, Nucet, Romania
The dairy farm is located in Nucet, Dâmbovița County in the south of the Sub-Carpathians, between the plains and the southern hills. The region has a rich agricultural heritage for growing vegetables (64% of total production) and livestock (34%).
In 2016 19,170 dairy cows were registered in the county, yet only...
Romania
2016
Prácticas
Alternative fodder production to increase profitability of livestock production
This practice describes the use of hydroponic technology (soil-less plant propagation), in the form of green fodder, as an alternative method of sustainable feed production. It addresses decreased access to grazing land. This provides herders and their cooperatives with a low-cost, high quality, sustainable source of fodder which is available...
Palestine
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Acto
What Future for our Farming Systems?
Environmental Challenges and Integrated Solutions
This conference will seek to encourage debate on the benefits to be gained from more sustainable resource use and greater integration of different land uses on lowland and upland farming systems. It will present the best possible scientific understanding of the complexities associated with how best to achieve such an...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - Scotland’s Rural College
Artículo de blog
National dialogue fortifies Ukraine’s milk industry
Despite political and economic turbulence and global milk prices dropping to an all-time low, Ukraine’s commercial dairy industry has made impressive strides in recent years, producing higher-quality milk and tapping into new markets abroad.
Thanks to an active Ukrainian Dairy Sector Working Group, created in 2013 by the country’s dairy industry...
Ukraine
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
Short-Term Outlook for EU arable crops, dairy and meat markets in 2016 and 2017
The slowdown in the economic growth of developing economies, although partially compensated by a recovery in developed countries, contributes to the general decline in commodity prices, including in oversupplied crude oil. Depreciation in some competing currencies limits the competitive advantage of the euro at 1.10 EUR/USD. In 2016, milk deliveries...
2016 - European Commission - Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
Artículo de boletín informativo
Post‐conference report for the 13th Eurasian Grassland Conference 2016 in Sighisoara, Romania
Between the 20th and 24th of September 2016, 85 participants from 25 countries met in Sighisoara in Southern Transylvania for the 13th annual conference of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group. In contrast to the previous 12 “EDGM, European Dry Grassland Meetings”, this year it was decided to change the name...
Romania
2016 - ADEPT Foundation
Artículo de blog
Selo da Agricultura Familiar chega a 1.500 permissionários
Um dos principais instrumentos de valorização e reconhecimento do trabalho dos agricultores familiares, o Selo de Identificação da Participação da Agricultura Familiar (Sipaf) ultrapassou as metas estipuladas para o ano de 2016. Até agora, já foram emitidos mais de 300 selos, número acima do registrado em todo o ano passado,...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Revista especializada
13 éclairages pour comprendre le financement rural et agricole
Zoom microfinance n. 48
SOS Faim édite Zoom Microfinance depuis 15 ans. L’occasion d’aborder de nombreuses thématiques sur lesquelles il est possible de porter à la fois un regard rétrospectif et prospectif avec le prisme du financement rural et agricole. C’est ce que nous vous proposons dans cette publication. Quels défis ? Défis politiques,...
2016 - SOS Faim
Vídeo
Organizações femininas do RN viram exemplo para o Mercosul
El intercambio de Promoción de la autonomía y la igualdad de las mujeres rurales reunió a representantes de siete países en Río Grande do Norte. El encuentro está promovido por la REAF y financiado por el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario.
Brazil
2016 - Reunión Especializada
Prácticas
Los virus de las abejas
Las enfermedades de virus de las abejas se extienden por todo el mundo. Por lo general son infravaloradas por los apicultores: pueden causar graves pérdidas económicas si se asocian con otras enfermedades de las abejas. La Varroa destructor ha contribuido en gran medida a aumentar la incidencia de enfermedades virales....
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Artículo de revista especializada
L’agriculture périurbaine à Oran (Algérie) : diversification et stratégies d’adaptation
Oran, ville méditerranéenne dynamique et seconde agglomération algérienne, a évolué selon un processus d’urbanisation diffuse. Ses franges rurales périurbaines, aux contours flous, lieux d’importantes transformations, sont actuellement des espaces de production agricole. Une redéfinition de l’agriculture périurbaine s’opère par des initiatives individuelles qui se traduisent par une diversification agricole : développement...
Algeria
2016 - Université d'Oran
Artículo de blog
The EU has announced new actions to respond to the El Niño and food security crisis in the Horn of Africa
Four new actions worth €66.5 million will be funded under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa to address the destructive impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the Horn of Africa region, such as floods and droughts.
2016 - EuropeAid
Parte de un informe
CAP CONTEXT INDICATORS 2014-2020
AGRICULTURAL AREA
In the EU-28, the total utilised agricultural area (UAA) was 174 million ha in 2013. France had the largest agricultural area (28 million ha) covering 16% of the total UAA in Europe, followed by Spain (23 million ha) and the UK (17 million ha). 71 % of the total agricultural...
2016 - European Commission - DG Agriculture and Rural Development
Actas de conferencia
2016 International Conference on Pulses: Conference program & abstract book
The International Conference on Pulses for Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture in Drylands was held on the occasion of the 2016 International Year of Pulses to provide a platform to various stakeholders, including scientists, policy-makers, extension workers, traders and entrepreneurs, to discuss the various contributions of pulses to food and nutritional security and ecosystem...
2016 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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