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Agroecology in Asia and the Pacific
A summary of outcomes of the regional consultation
Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...
2015 - Leisa India
Vídeo
IDOFS- Kuatro MariaS Farm
Video of an Integrated Diversified Organic Farming System (IDOFS). MariaS Farm is a learning center for diversified and organic farming systems.
Philippines
2015 - Kuatro MariaS Farm
Artículo
Farmer-Breeder Workshop “Maintaining Tradition, Nurturing The Earth”
Many farmers, especially in Indonesia, defend genetic resources by breeding and cultivating local seeds as a step toward farmers’ sovereignty on seeds. This is contrary to Indonesian government’s position. From the very beginning, the government have established many instruments that regulate plants breeding, including Law no. 12 Year 1992 on...
Indonesia
2015 - MTCP2
Artículo de blog
北京梁漱溟乡村建设中心
北京梁漱溟乡村建设中心从2001年开始组织支农活动,正式注册于2004年12月,是在北京市登记注册成立的民间公益组织。该中心以推进新乡村建设为核心目标,以推动农民合作和城乡和谐发展为主要内容。截至目前,本中心已经在全国各地建立新乡村建设试验基地近50个,与全国百余所高校的学生支农社团建立了友好合作关系。本中心组织大学生志愿者参与支农调研和新农村建设行动累计已达万余人次,大学生志愿者参与活动的农村分布在全国27个省区。在本中心接受培训和已经毕业的农村发展人才超过百人,参与过本中心培训的农民合作组织带头人达1000余人次。
China
2015 - Baike
Documento de trabajo
Gender roles and food safety in 20 informal livestock and fish value chains
Food-borne disease remains a major public health challenge in Africa and Asia. Most of the foods that carry the highest pathogen risk are produced by smallholder farmers, marketed through the informal sector, and sold in wet markets. Given the significant role of informal markets in African and Asian food systems,...
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento de trabajo
A methodology to assess the sustainability and resiliency of GIAHS sites: an example of its application in the rice-fish culture (RFC) systems in Longxian village, Qingtian County, Zhejiang Province, China
The GIAHS Initiative uses the sustainable livelihoods framework (SLA) as an approach to understanding factors (shocks, trends, etc) affecting people’s livelihoods (expressed as five types of capital) and the way these factors are linked to each other. Within the SLA framework, resources available to a specific community can be divided...
China
2015 - University of California, Berkeley
Documento/nota de orientación
Making national forest funds more effective
This Policy Brief has been issued in conjunction with and partly as a summary of "Towards effective national forest funds", Forestry Paper no. 174. It aims to give a quick overview of the mechanism of financing sustainable forest management projects through national forest funds (NFFs) and on how this financing...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Challenges and Opportunities for forest user organizations in forest resource management and sustainable forest based livelihoods
Mr. Reymondo Caraan (RECOFTC) gave an overview on how to get more rights awarded to forest communities, where we are now in terms of implementing community forestry, what RECOFTC is doing, and stressed that governments should be made aware that people have rights. RECOFTC has main office in Bangkok, and...
2015 - Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO
Artículo de blog
How Farming Families Benefit from Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
Efforts to enhance smallholder farmers’ involvement in agricultural markets under the World Food Programme (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P) programme have led to a variety of nutrition-sensitive activities. In many rural communities where P4P and partners work, these context- and country-specific efforts have begun to increase farming families’ access to nutritious...
Afghanistan - Ethiopia - Guatemala - Honduras - Malawi - Mali - Rwanda - Zambia
2015 - World Food Programme (WFP) Purchase for Progress (P4P)
Artículo de blog
A case of forestry cooperative in the Philippines
The Philippines case examines the results of a shift in government policy from a system in which forest resource rights were granted to large-scale industry to one where rights were transferred to community organisations to carry out forest management. In this case, the co-management system is undercut because the standard regulations are...
2015 - Forest and Farm Facility of the UN-FAO
Documento/nota de orientación
Strengthening public forestry institutions
This brief describes the changing context within which public forestry administrations operate and outlines concrete steps they can take to adapt to this changing context and to strengthen their capacity to fulfil their mandates.
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Who Wants To Quit Agriculture And Why?
Agriculture the backbone of Indian economy that engages more than 50 percent of the country’s workforce, is losing its preference as the most desired profession. Research shows that more than 40 percent of farmers dislike farming as a profession because of low profits, high risk, and lack of social status,...
India
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Documento/nota de orientación
Investing in smallholder family agriculture for global food security and nutrition
Small family farms account for the bulk of the agriculture sector, since they make up the majority of farms worldwide; an estimated 85 per cent of farms worldwide are less than 2 hectares. In Asia, almost all the farms are small family farms, and in Africa, they are a large...
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Libro
The consumption of fish and fish products in the Asia-Pacific region based on household surveys
This study, carried out by the Asia Pacific Fishery Commission, examines household survey data pertaining to fish and fish product consumption in 30 countries across the region. The information is also compared and contrasted with consumption estimates obtained through Food Balance Sheets. It is hoped that this publication can help...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo
天津田园派:社区支持农业的本土化实践
天津田园派CSA农场,位于天津蓟县,是一家实践社区支持农业(Community Support Agriculture,简称CSA)的生态农场,只有7亩地。发起人高源、小沈夫妻俩在天津市区都有各自的全职工作,他们把大量业余时间投入到农场运作当中,和蓟县礼明庄村的农户静霞合作,在这小小地块上种植生态蔬菜和杂粮,分享给天津城区20多户会员家庭。在小编探访过的众多推崇CSA理念的农场中,田园派是极少见的、真正由城市“草根”消费者发起、并且由消费者和农户共同协作管理的一个特例。本文来自有机会——中国有机生活第一平台.
China
2015 - YOGEEV
Artículo
Use of ICTs in Indian Agriculture
India currently has several public and private active information and communication technology (ICT) initiatives with objectives to support and provide assistance to farmers, but analysis on how ICT is helping farmers to enhance productivity, better cope with the weather variability, and attain better prices for their produce is limited. Information...
India
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Informe
Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth
World Food Day 2014
A report of the thirty-fourth World Food Day celebration held at the FAO regional office in Bangkok in commemoration of the Organization’s founding in 1945. This year’s theme focused on family farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth. Highlights of the day include a keynote speech on the theme...
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Oyster mushroom cultivation spurs income for Laos farmers
Lao PDR is rich in biodiversity, and Lao people make use of agro-biodiversity resources for food, medicine and income on a daily basis. Yet, this resource is under threat from changing agricultural and land use practices, including overexploitation. An agro-biodiversity project is currently underway to ensure that agro-biodiversity is incorporated...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
A Review of Women's Access to Fish in Small-Scale Fisheries
Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender-segregated division of labour (men fishing / women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - Solomon Islands - South Africa - Thailand - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo
Food sovereignty for sale
Floating market for fresh fruit and vegetables in South Kalimantan, Indonesia (Photo: Traveller Kaskus) REPORT Supermarkets are undermining people’s control over food and farming in Asia
In the past decade or so, food corporations have been taking over a bigger and bigger slice of the retail pie, with major implications for the entire food chain. Corporate supermarkets are expanding faster in Asia than anywhere else on the planet. And as supermarkets and their procurement chains expand,...
2014 - GRAIN
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