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Vidéos
Agroecology: farmer's perspectives
The video outlines three case studies of farmers utilizing agroecological practices in their farming systems. It focuses on complex adaptive rice systems in the Easter part of the island of Java, Indonesia; on a large-scale farm in the Netherlands applying sustainable soil management practices; and on social aspects of agroecology...
Brazil - Indonesia - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
Les agricultures familiales à Madagascar
un atout pour le développement durable
Document de valorisation des acquis et principales recommandations d’une semaine d’animation et de débats sur les Agricultures Familiales à Madagascar, où la très grande majorité des exploitations agricoles sont familiales (près de 99% selon le recensement agricole de 2004/2005).
Madagascar
2014 - FOibem-pirenena momba ny FIkarohana ampiharina amin’ny Fampandrosoana ny eny Ambanivohitra - FOFIFA (Centre National de Recherche Appliquée au Développement Rural)
Vidéos
Building Resilience in Rural Communities in Southern Africa
This video shows some of the activities that FAO is implementing in the field to support rural communities in areas that are periodically affected by natural hazards in Southern Africa, mainly droughts, floods and cyclones. While these natural hazards will happen again in the future, and, as a result of...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Community listeners’ clubs empower rural women and men
Working with community radio stations, the listeners’ clubs empower their members to become actors in their own development.
Thanks to improved access to information and a powerful participatory communication approach, villagers in isolated communities across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Niger are making strides to improve gender equality and empower women. FAO Dimitra community listeners’ clubs are helping rural populations participate in the development of...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Niger
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Linking family nutrition in city and country
Ecuador is going through a substantial nutritional transition. This, coupled with the paradox that rural families that produce food are often those most affected by undernutrition, shows the ironies of ‘modern’ food systems. It also highlights the importance of rural-urban linkages around family nutrition which can help to address such...
Ecuador
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Article
Sustainability of organic grassland-based dairy production in Tyrol, Austria
In Austria, grassland accounts for more than 50 percent of agricultural land and is mainly located in mountainous regions. Consequently, 70 percent of all Austrian dairy farms, producing two thirds of all milk, are located in these areas. In the Alpine regions, organic farming has traditionally been very important and...
Austria
2014
Article de revue spécialisée
Tinajeros
Albacete, La Mancha, Spain
This very large family farm and business near Albacete, Spain was brought together to form a Limited Company with the marriage of the parents of the current part-owner and manager. The property on the paternal side of this arrangement has been within the same family for 200 years. Today the...
Spain
2014
Étude de cas
Finding a way out of the maize
Recurring drought and crop failure in many parts of the world have led to food and nutrition insecurity, and a dependence on food aid. But recently, some farmers in Kenya have been developing their own sustainable way to secure enough nutritious food along with extra income so that they can...
Kenya
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Étude de cas
Guinea pigs – small livestock with big potential
The right to food sovereignty is a part of the Plurinational State of Bolivia’s constitution, but what does this actually mean for family farmers? The truth is that many people in rural areas are far from having access to adequate food and nutrition, with 37% of children under five reported...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Étude de cas
Food fairs revive local food and nutrition
Food fairs are an important tool and space to promote food sovereignty as they take place in local public spaces and within people’s own socio-cultural settings. One excellent example was a food fair in Ghana, organised by the Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD). Women farmers exhibited traditional...
Ghana
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Vidéos
Family Farming in Germany.
Federal Minister Christian Schmidt visits a family farm.
Germany
2014 - Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
Rapport
The Horticulture Report
Extended analyses and latest results of the Horticulture Network you find in the Horticulture Report 2014.
Germany
2014 - agri benchmark
Article
Food in the Desert? Israel’s Salad Trail
A great tomato from the heart of the desert? All thanks to the Salad Trail, a working farm and interactive museum designed to teach visitors about the techniques used to farm a desert – techniques that have helped Israel become almost entirely agriculturally self-sufficient. And for a population that is...
Israel
2014
Ouvrage
Farmers' rights in practice
Synthesis of the case studies on sustainable use of agrobiodiversity: focus on European experiences
This report presents the synthesis of case studies analysed by the action-research activity. The aim is to give a description of the practices carried out by farmers, individually or collectively, which can be considered as sustainable ways to use plant genetic resources with the purpose that these practices be spread...
France - Hungary - Italy - Romania - Senegal - Spain - Tunisia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Food Plants of Lesotho
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Lesotho
2014
Étude de cas
Shashe Agro-ecology School for Farmer-to-farmer Training, Zimbabwe
In 2000, twelve smallholder farming families, which had gathered extensive experience on agroecological methods by working closely with a grassroots organization called the Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC), organized themselves into a group. They initiated a project to set up a school for farmer-to-farmer training in Zimbabwe which...
Zimbabwe
2014 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Ouvrage
Escuela Nacional de Agroecología (aprendiendo de la experiencia en Ecuador)
Llámese agroecología, agricultura orgánica, agricultura natural, agricultura sostenible con bajos insumos externos, etc., [lo fundamental es] especificar los principios ecológicos, sociales y políticos que el movimiento defiende, [que se] basan en la recuperación de los métodos de la agricultura campesina tradicional, la innovación en las nuevas prácticas ecológicas, el control...
Ecuador
2014 - Fundación Heifer Ecuador
Ouvrage
As sementes tradicionais dos Krahô
uma experiência de integração das estratégias on farm e ex situ de conservação de recursos genéticos
Essa publicação, que faz parte da série "Sementes locais: experiências agroecológicas de conservação e uso", realizada pela ANA em parceria com a Associação Brasileira de Agricultura Biodinâmica, vem trazer ao público exemplos relevantes de conservação e uso da agrobiodiversidade junto a agricultores familiares e povos e comunidades tradicionais.
Nesta edição é...
Brazil
2014 - Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento
Manuel
Formación de promotores y promotoras
Guía Metodológica de Agroecología
Heifer Ecuador junto con Organizaciones de Segundo Grado de los Cantones Cayambe y Pedro Moncayo, impulsó la formación de promotores/as locales en Agroecología, con el objetivo de fortalecer las iniciativas de producción más sana y amigable con el ambiente. Los procesos de capacitación a los promotores/as están direccionados para que...
Ecuador
2014 - Fundación Heifer Ecuador
Note/document d'orientation
Scaling up agro-ecological approaches: what, why and how?
Discussion paper on scaling up agro-ecological approaches: In recent years, especially since the agriculture prices spike in 2008 that sparked ‘food riots’ across Africa, Asia and Latin America, a growing consensus has emerged on the need for proceeding to major changes in agricultural and food systems in order to ensure...
2014 - OXFAM
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