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Artículo de blog
Les jeunes et le secteur rural : les victimes du chômage au Maroc
Le premier trimestre est souvent encourageant mais pour celui-ci ce n’est pas du tout le cas. Surtout en termes d’emplois. Et le secteur agricole et celui qui en souffre le plus. En milieu rural, l’agriculture a enregistré d’énormes pertes d’emplois, établissant le nombre de chômeurs au niveau national de 1,16...
Morocco
2016
Artículo
Inflection Point: Unlocking growth in the era of farmer finance
Learning Lab & Initiative for Smallholder Finance
Following decades of more singular approaches to providing smallholder farmers with financial services, the smallholder finance industry is now marked by a more diverse set of actors – financial service providers, funders, market and research platforms, and technical assistance providers – yielding new approaches to collaboration and greater access to information...
2016 - Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab
Artículo de boletín informativo
Job creation and social inclusion
Outreach Local economic development Attracting revenue
Job creation is a challenge everywhere in Europe, including in fisheries areas, whether coastal or inland. Nevertheless, many fisheries areas have specific opportunities they can exploit, within but also outside of traditional fishing activities, and often linked to the attractiveness of the areas concerned. A challenge, however, is to broaden...
Poland
2016 - FARNET
Artículo de blog
Pioneering Kyrgyzstan farmer catches the quinoa wave
As protein-rich quinoa becomes a trendy food choice worldwide, one pioneering farmer in remote Kyrgyzstan is reaping the benefits.
Azamat Kaseev in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul province harvested his quinoa crop earlier this month. Equipment, training, field testing and more were provided under an FAO project designed to test the feasibility of quinoa...
Kyrgyzstan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
La FAO au chevet des oasis maghrébines
En Afrique du Nord, la superficie des oasis est estimée à environ 350.000 ha. Elles représentent un creuset de vie pour les populations locales qui y puisent leurs ressources. Consciente de leur valeur économique et sociale ainsi que de leur contribution à la sécurité alimentaire des communautés oasiennes et la conservation...
Mauritania - Morocco - Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Acto
Global Food Forum 2016
The agri-food sector is at the crossroads between huge opportunities and massive pressure. Every single decision needs to be informed by a wide range of factors, where citizen expectations, breakthrough technologies and consumption patterns in developed but also in developing countries are only the tip of the iceberg.
To cope with...
Italy
2016 - FARM EUROPE
Boletín informativo
Dimitra Newsletter: Rural women’s empowerment and collective action
Just one year ago, world leaders committed to working towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) designed to change the course of the 21st century and address challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, education, etc. All these objectives are inextricably linked, and the success of one often depends on...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento técnico
Les petites prospérités rurales en Itasy, Madagascar
Apport d’une analyse microéconomique des classes sociales intermédiaires dans l’étude des dynamiques du changement structurel
L’agriculture et le secteur rural jouent un rôle primordial dans le processus de développement des pays à base agricole. Cette fonction ne peut être assurée qu’à l’aide de politiques publiques qui tiennent compte de la diversité et de la complexité des milieux ruraux. Le préalable est donc d’avoir des connaissances...
Madagascar
2016 - Universite de Bordeaux
Actas de conferencia
Rural communication services for family farming. Contributions, evidence and perspectives
Supporting dialogic communication and knowledge sharing processes is a powerful means of helping farmer organizations, indigenous peoples, rural communities and civil society organizations to make their voices heard and be part of the development agenda. Rural communication services and policies can translate farmers’ right to communication into fair and transparent...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Georgia benefits from obsolete pesticide clean-up
During the Soviet era, pesticides were habitually overused or misused in efforts to boost food production. Today, large quantities of obsolete and banned pesticides pose a significant threat to people’s health and the environment.
Georgia said goodbye to the last of its stocks of old pesticides last month, as a convoy...
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vídeo
Sridonoretno Coffee
On the coffee flavor is actually very Universal Indonesia, he can translate a matter of taste in every country and eventually everyone recognizes that Indonesian coffee is the best.
Indonesia
2016
Artículo de blog
Community Supported Agriculture in Norway
The official policy of the present Norwegian government is to encourage fewer, bigger farms. With only 3% of the land suitable for farming, Norwegian agricultural production is limited and most of the food comes from abroad. In the fjords, there are big salmon farms largely for export, and Norway still...
Norway
2016 - URGENCI
Artículo de revista
Pulse Panchayat - Achieving self-sufficiency in pulse production
Pulse panchayat is an integrated approach in establishing a sustainable production, value addition and marketing system. The initiative implemented by a Farmer Producer Company in Tamil Nadu, is moving towards achieving self-sufficiency in pulse production.
India
2016 - Leisa India
Acto
AgroForum Mare Balticum – Environmentally Smart Agriculture
Current situation in European agriculture has to meet new challenges due to volatile agricultural markets and uncertain political situation in neighbouring countries. Past events have shown various bottlenecks in contemporary food production and trade. In order to provide for global food security, it is necessary to intensify agriculture, boost production,...
Estonia
2016 - Estonian University of Life Sciences
Artículo de blog
Where are forests in Europe’s Sustainable Development Goals plans?
Forests are vital to achieving the SDGs and the aims of the Paris Agreement. Without action to protect forests, the problems posed by poverty and climate change will only get worse,
European Union
2016 - EurActiv
Vídeo
Sustainable Mechanization. Creating new perspectives in rural areas
Josef Kienzle speaks about mechanization: What is it, how can it improve small farmers’ livelihoods and how does it bring perspectives to the youth in rural areas?
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de revista
Perspectives: Strengthening people’s knowledge
For the past half century agricultural innovation has denied a voice to the many groups who work outside the profession of science – farmers, food providers, women and the urban poor. The value of their expertise gained through practical experience must be recognised in the production and validation of knowledge....
India - Mali
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Artículo de boletín informativo
Venezuela’s food revolution has fought off big agribusiness and promoted agroecology
Just days before the progressive National Assembly of Venezuela was dissolved, deputies passed a law which lays the foundation for a truly democratic food system. The country has not only banned genetically modified seeds, but set up democratic structures to ensure that seeds cannot be privatized and indigenous knowledge cannot...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2016 - Common Dreams
Boletín informativo
Regional Office for Africa Quarterly Newsletter for a Hunger Free Africa. January - April 2016
This edition of the RAF Newsletter is a special coverage from FAO-RAF that takes into account activities marking the 29th Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa held in Abidjan. It presents to readers pictorial narratives and captions of the conference with key quotes from key personalities of the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Small-scale fishing: a solution rather than a problem
The fish in the sea are a public resource and provide not only a vital source of protein and nutrients for billions of people globally but also 60 million jobs in the primary sector, 90% of them in small scale fishing and 15% of them women.
Closer to home, the European...
European Union
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
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