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The 2018 family farms barometer
By supporting family farms there will be enough to feed the world, and fight poverty while respecting planetary boundaries
2018 - SOS Faiml Belgium
Site web
Agroecology Case Studies
This website from the Oakland Insitute collects thirty-three case studies on the success of agroecological agriculture in Africa.While agroecology promotes low use of external inputs, it is a very knowledge-intensive system. Transmission of this knowledge, adaptation to local contexts, and appropriation by farmers and government technicians, are essential steps for...
2018 - Oakland Institute
Étude de cas
Agroécologie : capitalisation d'expériences en Afrique de l'Ouest, facteurs favorables et limitants au développement de pratiques agroécologiques.
Evaluation des effets socio-économiques et agro-environnementaux
Le Projet CALAO - Capitalisation d’expériences d’acteurs pour le développement de techniques agroécologiques résilientes en Afrique de l’Ouest - a été mis en œuvre au cours de l’année 2017 dans le cadre du Projet d’Appui à la Sécurité Alimentaire en Afrique de l’Ouest (PASANAO), financé par l’AFD et dont la...
2018
Étude de cas
Sistema integrado de producción agroecológica para mujeres rurales
La innovación consiste en la implementación de un sistema integrado que contempla la utilización de tecnologías y técnicas agroecológicas para la producción de hortalizas por parte de mujeres campesinas. Este sistema fue implementado a través del proyecto “Producción Hortícola Sostenible PY-212”, ejecutado por Tierra Nueva y financiado por la Fundación...
Paraguay
2018 - Tierra Nueva
Manuel
How to do: Supporting smallholder seed systems
This How To Do Note (HTDN) in this toolkit on Supporting Smallholder Seed Systems tackles the complexities of seed systems, setting out a process to support national agricultural policy decision makers, national and international development agencies and IFAD Country Programme Managers (CPMs) in the design and supervision of seed-related projects....
2018 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Vidéos
Politics of Seed in South Africa
“Seeds are the basis of life. Human life, your life, is dependent on plants. The qualities of the seed go beyond beauty to sustaining us nutritionally and medicinally. Seed is the foundation of human diets across the world.”
The National Seed Dialogue and Celebration honoured the role of smallholder farmers in...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Vidéos
Farmers Diversify Food Production in Malawi with New Crops
This brief 3-minute video reportage highlights the International Treaty’s first field visit with a high-level donor representative, the Norwegian Deputy Minister of Agriculture & Food, into rural Northern Malawi to visit a Benefit-sharing Fund project. It explains the problem and how the FAO International Treaty’s Benefit-sharing Fund is supporting farmers...
Malawi
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
FAO’s work on agroecology
A pathway to achieve the SDGs
Featuring cases in different sectors and countries around the world, this publication introduces the agroecology approach to linking food, livelihoods and natural resources, presents 10 Elements of Agroecology, and looks at ways of scaling up the people-centred approach to ensure its potential impact is fully realized, promising a brighter future...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Agroecological symbiosis
Agroecological symbiosis (AES) is a new, transformative model for adaptive and resilient localized food production and consumption. An AES is formed by farms, small and medium-scale food processors, and bioenergy producers working as one system, in close proximity to each other. The physical proximity is dictated by the ecological necessity...
Finland
2018 - University of Helsinki
Vidéos
Spiritual and Cultural Value of Seed
The seed, like the big bang, or evolution, or the atom … bears the mystifying tale of a beginning. We fill our bellies on the seed, heal our wounds, build our homes.
Upon sight, or smell, or taste, perhaps we let our minds drift to the smallscale farmer who prepares...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Article
Inspiring a Community to Do Organic Farming and Mushroom Cultivation
Sagain, Myanmar – Chan Law is a Naga ethnic form Sagain Division, Lay Shi Township, Panset Village, Myanmar. Currently, he lives in Naw Phu village. Law comes from a family of farmers. Since he was a child, he had been helping farm his parents’ land. In 2010, He graduated with...
Myanmar
2018 - Agriculture and Farmer Federation of Myanmar
Vidéos
Floating vegetable gardens
As our land remains under water during the rainy season, our ancestors were already thinking of ways to produce crops in order to survive. They invented the floating garden by using crop residues. We do not need any chemical fertilizers or pesticides, because the floating bed is fertile by nature....
Bangladesh
2018 - Access Agriculture
Article de blog
Towards stronger EU-Africa cooperation
With a population expected to double by 2050 from 1.2 billion to around 2.5 billion predominantly young people, the African continent will need to foster job creation and economic growth through sustainable development.
The agricultural sector can play a key role in this, having the capacity to provide jobs and growth...
2018 - European Commission
Rapport
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for developmentProceedings of the exchange and methodological construction workshop on the 14th and 15th of december 2017
This document presents the work of the exchange workshop organized on December 14 and 15 2017 by the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (GTAE in french - created by...
2018 - AGRISUD AVSF CARI GRET
Apprentissage en ligne
Participatory Plant Breeding and Smallholder Farmers
Participatory Plant Breeding and Smallholder Farmers video – the third in a series of six videos from ACB’s National Seed Dialogue and Celebration
At the National Seed Dialogue and Celebration, hosted by the African Centre for Biodiversity at Constitution Hill in December 2017, this session on Participatory Plant Breeding and...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Article
Knowledge politics in participatory climate change adaptation research on agroecology in Malawi
Climate change is projected to have severe implications for smallholder agriculture in Africa, with increased temperatures, increased drought and flooding occurrence, and increased rainfall variability. Given these projections, there is a need to identify effective strategies to help rural communities adapt to climatic risks. Yet, relatively little research has examined...
Malawi
2018 - Cambridge University Press
Manuel
Agro-ecology: evaluation methods for its effects and conditions for development
Proceedings of the exchange and methodological construction workshop on the 14th and 15th of december 2017
This document presents the work of the exchange workshop organized on December 14 and 15 2017 by the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (GTAE in french - created by the french NGOs AVSF, Agrisud, CARI and Gret) and dedicated to methods to evaluate the performance of agroecology and development conditions. The work of...
2018 - AGRISUD, AVSF, CARI, GRET
Article
Caracterización socio-cultural de sistemas ganaderos del centro-sur de Santa Fe
Los continuos cambios que se produjeron desde la década del 80' con el avance de la sojización en la pampa húmeda argentina, han condicionado la permanencia de ciertos sistemas de producción que compiten con este cultivo en especial por el recurso suelo. Este proceso de transformación social provocó importantes consecuencias...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Fiche d'information
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS) for Sustainable local food systems
This info sheet presents the key concepts related to Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS), where they are found, why they are suitable for smallholder farmers and the benefits. This info sheet was prepared under the FAO Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP/RAS/3510) on “Small-Scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Development through Participatory Guarantee...
2018 - FAO
Article de blog
Ag Is “Not a Question of Winners and Losers”
Niman Ranch Farmers John W. and Beverly Gilbert of Iowa Falls, IA have a profound message: “Farming—properly structured and informed—has the potential to mediate climate change, rebuild rural America, address nutritional injustice, help with income inequality and general divisiveness, give meaning and structure to our lives, and provide a means for family members...
2018 - FoodTank
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