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Beyond ‘voting with your chopsticks’: Community organising for safe food in China
This paper describes the recent emergence of alternative food networks in China in the context of widespread food quality concerns. Drawing on interviews and public blog posts, we illustrate how participants in these networks are moving beyond instrumental market relations and developing the collective agency necessary to participate in shaping...
China
2016 - Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
Artículo de revista
Participatory Guarantee Systems - A platform for knowledge exchange
The significance and value of local and traditional farmers’ knowledge on improving agricultural practices is gaining more and more recognition. Participatory Guarantee Systems have been shown to hold great potential, to encourage knowledge sharing between farmers, and thus contribute to nurturing farmers’ knowledge.
India
2016 - Leisa India
Sitio web
Asia and the Pacific's Blue Growth Initiative
The world’s marine and freshwater ecosystems – the Blue World – provide essential ecosystem services, biodiversity, food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people. The concept of a "blue economy" came out of the 2012 Rio+20 Conference. It is based on the premise that healthy and sustainable ocean ecosystems are more productive...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Regional strategy and action plan for sustainable intensification of aquaculture in the Asia-Pacific region
This publication is the outcome of regional activity and the regional initiative on sustainable intensification of aquaculture for blue growth in Asia-Pacific so it contributes to the strategic objective 2. It will be important regional strategy document to support the concerted effort of member country governments and the regional /international...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Countries in Asia-Pacific race against the clock to overcome antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Representatives from countries in Asia and the Pacific have pledged to take immediate action to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
The pledge was made with the support and collaboration of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the...
Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de revista
Co-creating knowledge collectively
Livestock rearing practices have changed enormously in the last 25 years. ANTHRA in Andhra Pradesh has taken initiatives to preserve the local knowledge on livestock rearing by documenting the practices and wisdom of the tribal, pastoralists and the women in the communities, with the hope that they could be used...
India
2016 - Leisa India
Acto
Linking Pacific farmers and local businesses to build profits and food security
The 2nd Agribusiness Forum seeks to deepen partnerships to promote specific public–private partnerships to boost local production and value addition," said Michael Hailu, the Director of CTA. "The active engagement of the private sector is critical for the transformation of the agrifood sector in the Pacific to address major challenges...
Samoa
2016
Revista especializada
Keeping Seeds in Peoples’ Hands
A staggering 70% of the food we consume worldwide is produced by smallholders. Peasant and indigenous communities, who produce a great deal of this food, have been developing and saving seed for millennia—from Guatemala through Senegal to Nepal. However, today seeds are under threat everywhere. Laws are increasingly limiting what...
2016
Artículo
FoSHoL seed initiative: smallholder farmers and access to market
The article describes a community based seed enterprise for rice seeds, set up as part of a project in the Kurigram region of Bangladesh. The enterprise generates income for the seed growers, processors and traders, but the seed is also cheaper than other seed on the market because of the...
Bangladesh
2016
Documento de trabajo
Concepts and realities of family farming in Asia and the Pacific
This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in Asia and the Pacific and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. The main objective of the study is to depict family farming’s diversity in the region. Furthermore, it examines the...
2016 - International Policy Centre for inclusive Growth (IPC-UNDP)
Vídeo
Study visit to Paksong on commercial agriculture
A short video about a Study visit to Paksong on commercial agriculture
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2016 - Lao Farmer Network
Libro
Use of mobile phones by the rural poor
Gender perspectives from selected Asian countries
The two studies in this report explore these issues further using empirical quantitative surveys as well as qualitative fieldwork from a cross-section of developing economies in South and SouthEast Asia. The first study is an empirical investigation of the digital gender divide amongst the poor (broadly called the Bottom of...
Bangladesh - India - Indonesia - Pakistan - Sri Lanka - Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Vídeo
Laos-LFN-Workshop- Sustainable agriculture
A short video about Technical Exchange Workshop on sustainable agriculture in Lao
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2016 - Lao Farmer Network
Artículo de blog
Asia-Pacific looks at greening cities to improve lives and livelihoods
There is huge potential for an increase in urban forests, trees and green areas to counteract the negative effects of rapid urbanization and improve livelihoods in the major cities of Asia and the Pacific, a regional meeting on urban forestry heard today.
The First Asia-Pacific Urban Forestry Meeting is co-convened by...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nation
Libro
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
In this book we focus mainly on innovation opportunities for small farmers, with a particular emphasis on marginalized small farm communities. The first chapter elaborates on the concept of the ‘small farm’ and offers a synthesis of the findings of all the chapters in this volume. The contributions have reconfirmed that...
2016 - Springer International Publishing
Vídeo
Nepal Integrated Pest Management
In this video Nepalese farmers explain how they learned, after an FAO training course, to use bio-pesticides instead of the chemical ones.
Nepal
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo
Views and statement Farmer Organization on Draft Presidential Regulation Agrarian Reform
Farmers’ organizations welcomed the plan of the Ministry of Agricultural and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (ATR / BPN) the Republic of Indonesia to create a Presidential Decree (Decree) of Agrarian Reform as part of the political promises contained in the Nawa Cita. Actually, we think this is a...
Indonesia
2016 - Indonesian Farmers Union (SPI) Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) Farmers Association of Integrated Pest Management Indonesia (IPPHTI)
Documento de trabajo
Agricultural mechanization and south-south knowledge exchange: What can Ethiopian and Kenyan policymakers learn from Bangladesh’s experience?
While Bangladesh is more advanced in terms of agricultural mechanization, Ethiopia and Kenya can repeat the same success. Indeed, Ethiopia is one step ahead of Bangladesh in that it has developed an agricultural mechanization strategy – something Bangladesh has not done. This strategy is now being used to address the...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia - Kenya
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Boletín informativo
Women family farmers at the center of poverty reduction efforts
Family farming is the predominant form of food production in Asia and the Pacific which is home to 70 percent of the world’s family farmers. Family farmers produce 80 percent of the region’s food, 1 working on 85 percent of the total arable land2 and largely relying on the contribution...
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations
Documento de trabajo
Understanding the policy landscape for climate change adaptation
A cross-country comparison using the Net-map method
In the context of increasing vulnerability to climate change for people dependent on natural resources for their livelihoods, the International Food Policy Research Institute and partner organizations in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, and Bangladesh undertook a project broadly aiming to create knowledge that will help policymakers and development agencies to strengthen...
Bangladesh - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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