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Agricultural Education and Skills Improvement Framework (AESIF) 2015 – 2025
One of the key requirements towards achieving agriculture-led development in Africa as stated in the CAADP and Malabo Declaration, is to invest in transforming Africa’s Agricultural Education System. This integrated policy framework was developed to address the need of transforming and embracing various forms of agricultural education and training methods....
2015 - New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
Estudio de caso
Growing organic pineapples in Tanzania
A collaborative project between farmers in northwest Tanzania’s Karagwe District, the development organization Community Habitat Environmental Management and Matunda Mema, an organic produce exporter, demonstrates that small-scale East African farmers can benefit from the growing demand for organic products.
United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Alliance for Foos Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Informe
Scaling Success - Lessons from Adaptation Pilots in the Rainfed Regions of India
As climate change threatens India’s food security, adaptation in the agriculture sector is becoming increasingly important. However, for too long, adaptation has been characterized by individual efforts and by small, time-bound pilot projects. Although these projects often have a strong grassroots focus, their capacity to benefit larger populations and to...
India
2015 - World Resources Institute (WRI)
Artículo de revista especializada
Farming in mountainous areas: A fragile balance
There is one type of agriculture that is more demanding and labour some than others, but essential from a social point of view, and that is mountain farming. The EU has ranked them among the most “disadvantaged areas” for agriculture. However, in mountainous regions, “disadvantaged” is not synonymous with marginal....
2015 - EurActiv
Artículo de blog
Ministerio de Agricultura conforma Consejo de la Sociedad Civil
En las dependencias del Ministerio de Agricultura, el Subsecretario Claudio Ternicier encabezó la conformación del Consejo de la Sociedad Civil. Este estamento tiene un carácter consultivo, que busca posibilitar el ejercicio ciudadano de participación en los programas y las distintas políticas públicas promovidas por el Ministerio, permitiendo conocer, deliberar y...
Chile
2015
Proyecto
Productividad y sustentabilidad de la agricultura familiar para la seguridad alimentaria y economía rural
El propósito general de este proyecto IICA es promover el desarrollo sostenible de la agricultura familiar (AF) y el aumento de su contribución a la seguridad alimentaria (SA) y nutricional y a la economía rural.
2015 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Informe
EIP-AGRI Focus Group on Soil Organic Matter content in Mediterranean regions: Final Report
This report is the result of the EIP-AGRI Focus Group (FG) on Soil organic matter (SOM) content in Mediterranean regions, which was launched under the European Innovation Partnership Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI). The Focus Group brought together 19 experts with different backgrounds and experiences to make recommendations on transferable...
2015 - EIP-AGRI Focus Group
Artículo de blog
Noruega y FAO firman acuerdo para mejorar la contribución de la pesca de pequeña escala a la seguridad alimentaria mundial
Tone Skogen, Secretaria de Estado del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Noruega y José Graziano da Silva, Director General de la FAO, firmaron hoy un acuerdoque busca aumentar la contribución de la pesca de pequeña escala a la seguridad alimentaria y a los medios de vida sostenibles.
La firma del acuerdo...
2015 - Oficina Regional para América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Boletín informativo
Regional Office for Africa quarterly newsletter
Regional Office for Africa quarterly newsletter covering the months of October to December, 2015
Burundi - Liberia - Malawi - Zimbabwe
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Libro
Towards an agroecological transition in Southeast Asia: Cultivating diversity and developing synergies
Starting from the early 1990s, a multitude of national and regional initiatives have emerged in the Great Mekong Sub-Region for supporting ecological intensification of agriculture or agroecology. The French Agency for Development (AFD) has been a very active supporter of these initiatives, especially in relation to the promotion of Conservation...
2015
Vídeo
Mujeres rurales en América Latina
A pesar de su contribución a la seguridad alimentaria del planeta, el trabajo de la mujer rural es subestimado y poco remunerado. En la mayoría de los países, las mujeres no son dueñas de la tierra que trabajan, y cuando lo hacen tienden a ser más pequeñas y enfrentan dificultades...
2015 - teleSUR tv
Documento técnico
Atuação brasileira na América Latina e Caribe relacionada com a soberania e segurança alimentar e nutricional
O presente documento dá continuidade aos objetivos do projeto de identificar e analisar as iniciativas, projetos e outras formas de cooperação Sul-Sul brasileira no campo da soberania e da segurança alimentar e nutricional (SSAN) e do direito humano à alimentação adequada (DHA), desta feita, abordando aquelas voltadas para os países...
Brazil
2015 - Centro de Referência em Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (CERESAN)
Estudio de caso
Organic cocoa in Sierra Leone
Small-scale, resource-poor farmers organize fair trade grower cooperatives to market certified organic cocoa exports from post-war Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone
2015 - Alliance for Foos Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo de revista especializada
On Kenya's climate frontline, female farmers are building a secure future
In drought-ridden Samburu county, support programmes are helping women to provide for their families and build communities’ resilience to climate change
Kenya
2015 - The Guardian
Documento/nota de orientación
Food security and adaptation impacts of potential climate smart agricultural practices in Zambia
This paper analyzes how a set of widely promoted agricultural practices, including reduced tillage, crop rotations, legume intercropping as well as the use of modern inputs, affect crop yields and their resilience (i.e. probability of disastrously low yields) in Zambia using panel data from the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys...
Zambia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vídeo
Seeds in the hands of farmers
In this video, Henk Hobbelink of GRAIN contrasts the approaches to seed conservation that have emerged since the so-called ‘green revolution’. He advocates for on-farm, farmer-led conservation which secures the control of seed in the hands of small farmers.
2015 - GRAIN
Boletín informativo
Boletín Informativo Mensual FAOAR
Boletín Informativo Mensual de la representación de FAO en Argentina de Marzo 2015, que da cuenta de los proyectos y desafíos en ese país, como un recuento de sus principales noticias.
Argentina
2015 - Oficina Nacional de la FAO Argentina
Artículo de boletín informativo
Siete emprendimientos rurales que dieron que hablar en 2015
Desde pitones de ajo, tallos de ajo, que son procesados, y sirven para acompañar diversos platos gourmet hasta queso con ceniza son parte de las creaciones de los productores del sur.
Chile
2015 - Diario El Austral Osorno
Artículo de revista
The connection between product and its place of origin, in the European economic context
The European Union is a social and political approach meant to create a space of common values, shared by several states (the member states), aiming to equalise policies of various fields. At the same time, though, there is a constant concern to keep traditions and the different elements between communities,...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Documento de trabajo
Are women less productive farmers?
How markets and risk affect fertilizer use, productivity, and measured gender effects in Uganda
African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has...
Uganda
2015 - World Bank
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