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Vidéos
How to organise a field day
In this LIVESEED video, Riccardo Bocci from Rete Semi Rurali (IT) explains how to organise a field day. LIVESEED is a EU Horizon 2020-funded project that runs from 2017 to 2021. LIVESEEED aims to improve transparency and competitiveness of the organic seed and breeding sector, encouraging greater use of organic...
Italy
2021 - LiveSeed
Projet
Strengthening livestock production chains based on species-rich forages to overcome meat and dairy sector and improve sustainability of livestock farm
The project consists of seven WPs and 32 activities aimed to:- study the status and potential of milk and meat supply chains based on species rich grasslands- improve the organization and efficiency of the supply chains based on species rich grasslands, and implement innovative solutions in the farms- develop an...
Italy
2021 - Eip Agri, Agriculture & Innovation
Article de blog
Letter From The Farm | Three Years In: Realism And Planning For Utopia
Back on Chiara Garini’s forest farm at the foot of the Italian Alps. Three years in, her mushroom farm and forest garden is at a crossroads: should she expand or diversify? In any case Chiara is determined to bring utopia into her business plan, and tells us about an exciting...
Italy
2021 - Arc2020
Article de blog
Pastoral schools on the rise: Italy welcomes the “Scuola Nazionale di Pastorizia”
Transferring pastoral knowledge to preserve vibrant rural areas
Over millennia, pastoral societies have accumulated knowledge and skills on how to successfully manage pastoral systems. Their work contributes to maintain vibrant rural areas, benefitting the rural economy and reversing land abandonment, while it also unlocks multiple ecosystem services for the whole society.
Yet,...
Italy
2021 - EuroMontana
Article de blog
New “rooftop farm” at FAO highlights how innovative technology can help safeguard agro-biodiversity
Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today unveiled a prototype rooftop farm at its Rome headquarters, an initiative that highlights how innovative technology contributes to making agri-food systems more sustainable and to increasing access to healthy diets.The farm will help explore the potential of...
Italy
2021 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Ouvrage
Mountain farming systems - seeds for the future: Sustainable agricultural practices for resilient mountain livelihoods
This publication presents a collection of case studies by Mountain Partnership (MP) members from around the world, highlighting experiences of agroecological mountain farming systems. It aims to increase attention toward agroecological principles and approaches and showcase their potential. The MP, the only United Nations global voluntary alliance dedicated to sustainable...
Armenia - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - China - India - Italy - Kyrgyzstan - Morocco - Nepal - Panama - Peru - Philippines - Portugal - Romania - Sierra Leone - Switzerland - Thailand - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2021 - FAO
Site web
Valdibella Cooperative: restoring the dignity to Sicilian farmers in Italy by preserving biodiversity and native crops
It has been since 1998 that Valdibella Cooperative is working in Camporeale, Italy to create and spread alternatives to the food system in Sicily. With more than 30 members, Valdibella Cooperative aims at restoring dignity to farmers by promoting concrete actions against commercial and labour exploitation and by applying organic agricultural methods...
Italy
2021 - Valdibella Cooperative
Pratiques
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the quality control for the production of extra virgin olive oil
Despite the raise of awareness on the use of pesticides during the last 30 years, pesticide industries grew up thanks to the lack of information about the real damage these products could cause on the environment, human health and on producers’ incomes. The lack of knowledge using large and small...
Italy
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Rapport
Observations on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on farmers
Case of Italy
As countries report mounting cases of the COVID-19, the outbreak presents them and the global community with unprecedented challenges in recent times. FAO monitors the experience of those heavily affected by the pandemic looking at the immediate impacts and the mitigation measures of countries in responding to the crisis. Drawing...
Italy
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Italy – Digitalisation, Diverse Farms and Rural Resilience
Digital tools that suit the complexity of diversified farms and meet their specific needs can bring new challenges. Once these are overcome, however, they can contribute to farm resilience and viability. Meet two Italian farm enterprises and see how their stories and narratives show that digitalisation means not only access...
Italy
2020 - ARC2020
Projet
BIOSOCIAL_Small farm organic vegetable production as integrated model between production and local social impact
The proposed operative group (GO) intends to set up a new circular local economy model, which combines the profitability of farms with social productivity: the valorization of horticultural genetic resources will be based on minimum technological input and on production schedule according to the needs of the community expressed by...
Italy
2020
Article de revue spécialisée
Participatory research for sustainable agriculture: the case of the Italian agroecological rice network
Since the Green Revolution, worldwide agriculture has been characterized by a typical top–down approach. The degree of autonomy, creativity, and responsibility of farmers has been limited by the continuous external inputs of chemicals, machinery, advice, subsidies and knowledge.
The issue of sustainability has brought complexity and uncertainty to this mainly linear...
Italy
2020 - European Journal of Futures Research
Conférence/Réunion
The Global Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)
27-29 May, 2019
Provisional AgendaThe Global Launch of the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)27-29 May, 2019FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy
Italy
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Projet
Improving Capacity for Fisheries Planning and Management in the South-Central Mediterranean
The project successfully reinforced the basis for the cooperative management of shared multispecies fisheries in the four MedSudMed participating countries: Italy, Libya, Malta and Tunisia. This was achieved through the implementation of subregional research programmes, the establishment of scientific networks, and improved national capacity building. Fisheries scientists and staff in...
Italy - Libya - Malta - Tunisia
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Projet
Cetaceans-Fisheries Interactions in the Med
The initiative involves the close collaboration between scientists and fishers, combining fishers local and experiential knowledge with scientific information in the quest for solutions.
Italy - Malta - Spain
2019 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Bulletin d'information
Farm-Success project newsletter – 4th edition
Welcome to the final newsletter from the Farm-Success project!Since you last heard from us we have been carrying out the final adjustments, tests, and translations to our online training platform. We have also held several multiplier events across Europe in which young farmers and other stakeholders have discussed the importance of succession processes...
Belgium - Czechia - Italy - Slovenia - Spain
2018
Étude de cas
Schola campesina bio-distretto della Via Amerina
Schola Campesina is a training and participatory research centre seeking to strengthen producers’ organizations in their struggle for food sovereignty through knowledge valorization and sharing. Based on the Nyéléni International Forum for Agroecology (2015), and on the principles of Dialogo de saberes, Schola Campesina seeks to boost the sharing of...
Italy
2018 - Schola Campesina
Étude de cas
Agroecology training through permaculture
Permaculture is a holistic approach to agriculture that provides for human needs—high-quality food, fiber, fuel, medicine and building materials—while enhancing the ecosystems and communities from which these derive; it offers a set of ethics and principles and a means of integrating social and ecological processes in a way that is...
Italy
2018 - Laboratorio di Permacultura Urbana
Événement
1st World Congress on Agritourism
Agritourism offers farmers the possibility of diversifying and generating additional income through on-farm touristic activities in order to help supplementing their low agricultural income. This helps to maintain the viability of active farms and rural communities. The more general understanding of agritourism states that agritourism activities support and promote agricultural...
Italy
2018 - EURAC
Article de blog
Goats in good company
Emanuele La Barbera and Alessandra Rabittiis, organic farmers in Umbria, Italy, have found a natural way of reducing the number of parasites causing suffering to their goats. Emanuele and Alessandra herd 70 camosciata delle alpi goats and produce milk and dairy products. Most of their farmland is dedicated to pasture,...
Italy
2018 - Eip - Agri
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