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Polyculture Market Garden Study
The Polyculture Market Garden Study is one of the programs currently running at Balkan Ecology Project and is a multiyear study of a 0.5 acre (2000 m2) market garden growing herbs, vegetables and perennial fruit and nuts in polycultures. The project’s mission is to develop and promote practices that provide...
Bulgaria
2016 - Balkep – Balkan ecology project
Artículo de blog
Digital platform investment can protect agricultural jobs
Small and medium-sized enterprises are a focal point in shaping enterprise policy in the EU. The European Commission considers SMEs and entrepreneurship as key to ensuring economic growth, innovation, job creation and social integration, writes Franc Bogovič.
European Union
2016 - EurActiv
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Food and nutrition security and role of smallholder farms: challenges and opportunities
How smallholders may contribute to food and nutrition security remains a key challenge in many developing countries. Despite being the main rural actors, smallholders are frequently the most food insecure, given an array of biophysical and socioeconomic challenges that were addressed during the workshop. These proceedings discuss the potential role...
2016 - European Commission
Vídeo
Farming Nature: France - Using EU funds to promote best grazing practices
A video about the management of open landscapes by extensive livestock farmers in the French Causses-Cévennes
France
2016 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
Artículo de blog
Central Europe discovers the potential of bioeconomy
Slovak Minister of Agriculture Gabriela Matečná said that the bioeconomy is a necessity. But Central and Eastern Europe is still lagging behind in its uptake, but the key to the transition may be in the regions.
European Union
2016 - Eur Activ
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Global analysis of food and nutrition security situation in food crisis hotspots
This report provides a global overview of the food insecurity situation due to different crises and natural disasters, to support the programming of the Pro-resilience Action (PRO-ACT) funding mechanism, a component of the Global Public Goods and Challenges (GPGC) thematic programme of the European Union. The analysis covers the period...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
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Factors supporting the development of producer organizations and their impacts in the light of ongoing changes in food supply chains
This report surveys the recent literature on producer organizations with a specific focus on factors affecting their establishment and their impact on farmers' market performance and welfare. The report also discusses producer organizations' role in improving farmers’ bargaining power and allowing them to respond to various challenges which result from...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Artículo
Why family farms must be protected
A recent open meeting of the Family Farmers’ Association(FFA), held at Westminster, brought together a core group of individuals, organisations and policymakers to discuss ways to support and protect smaller farms.
With the UK rapidly losing its traditional farming culture, groups like the FFA and the Land Workers Alliance (LWA) see protecting smaller...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - The Sustainable Food Trust
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Short chain delivery of food in urban and peri-urban areas
Report on a project looking at three enterprises involved in short supply chains: Willem & Drees in the Netherlands, Pico Bio in Switerland and Cooperativa Agricoltura Nuova in Italy.
Italy - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Switzerland
2015 - supurb Food
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Proposal for a Locally-led, Results-Based Agri-environment Payment Scheme (RBAPS) for the Blackstairs Mountains
A report for the Blackstairs Farming Group
In 2015, the Blackstairs Farming Group, inspired by the opportunity set out in the Irish Rural Development Plan (RDP) for 2014-20, took the lead and looked for help in designing a results-based agro-environment payment scheme (RBAPS) tailored to their local area. They secured financial support from the Heritage Council and...
Ireland
2015 - European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism
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Émergence de l'agroécologieet perspectives pour le futur
Les programmes add systerra agrobiosphère
Le Cahier de l'ANR "Émergence de l'Agroécologie" revient sur dix ans de projets de recherches financés par l'ANR dans le domaine de l'agriculture et des écosystèmes. Ces projets relevaient des programmes ADD - Agriculture et Développement Durable (2005-2006), SYSTERRA - Écosystèmes, territoires, ressources vivantes et agricultures (2003-2010) et AGROBIOSPHÈRE -...
France
2015 - Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
Vídeo
"Proud to be Lucan," Organic Farm Vignola
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2015 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
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Europe, Central Asia struggling with malnutrition in many forms
More than 55 percent of adults in Europe and Central Asia are overweight or obese. Millions are anaemic, or suffer from iodine, zinc and Vitamin A deficiencies. In children, malnourishment persists at alarming rates in many countries, leading to stunted growth and other problems.
An FAO paper published in advance of...
2015 - FAO
Vídeo
"Free", Paolo Maria Mosca Farm
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2015 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
Manual
Young farmers and the CAP
Agriculture is at the heart of our lives. Much of what we consume and use every day comes originally from a farm, whether it be our milk, bread, meat, vegetables, wine, cut flowers or, indeed, the clothes that we wear. Farmers play a unique role. They produce high-quality, safe agricultural...
2015 - European Union
Artículo de revista
The case for agro ecological local food systems
“Eating is an agricultural act” as the American novelist, farmer and poet Wendell Berry stated in his 1989 essay ‘On the pleasures of eating’. But what does this actually mean? According to Berry: “Most people think of food as an agricultural product, but they do not think of themselves as...
2015 - Friends of the Earth Europe
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Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics 2014
The Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics statistical book provides a selection of topical data. Information is presented for the European Union (EU) and its Member States, and is supplemented (when available) with data for EFTA members and for the acceding and candidate countries to the EU. This publication aims to...
2015 - European Union
Artículo de revista
Community food solutions in the face of corporate profits
Avicultura Campesina is an agroecological chicken cooperative in Palencia, in northern Spain, set up by three small-scale chicken farmers, Cristina, Arturo and Jeromo. Based in the villages of Amayuelas de Abajo and Castrillo de Villavega, the group have also formed a cooperative to buy their own slaughterhouse, so that they...
Spain
2015 - Friends of the Earth Europe
Vídeo
"The farm of a thousand stories" The Old Homestead
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2015 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
Acto
Regional agriculture body tackles land degradation, malnutrition and more
Land and soil degradation, malnutrition in various forms, innovation in family farming, and social protection for rural people head the agenda of a two-day session of FAO’s European Commission on Agriculture, which opens in Budapest tomorrow. More than 30 countries from across Europe and Central Asia are expected to participate....
Hungary
2015 - FAO
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