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Article de blog
Water institutional scarcity in MENA: guidelines for enhanced governance
Climate simulation models are converging in terms of forecasts for the MENA region, that already suffers scare water quantities and poor quality, with expected higher temperature and decreasing rain fall. While conventional water supply alternatives are getting more and more limited, it has been shown through many studies that water,...
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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
Large scale restoration for small scale farming in Africa's Great Green Wall programme
The successful approach of FAO’s Action Against Desertification programme to large-scale restoration is making degraded drylands productive again for small-scale farming, and providing economic opportunities in the Sahel region where migration has become a tradition. Key elements of the approach include consultation with village communities for their selection of species...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
The difficult escape from dualism: the Green Morocco Plan at a crossroads
This article analyses the development effects of a foreign-owned almond farm in Morocco from the perspective of its role in affecting the dualism present in the Moroccan agricultural sector. The farm was situated on lands owned by the State, leased under the framework of the Green Morocco Plan and aimed...
Morocco
2018
Vidéos
Improving the resilience of family farmers to climate change
FAO, IFAD and national governments are supporting family farmers from West and Central Africa to adapt small-scale irrigation systems to climate change to be more resilient. A survey was carried out among 691 households in 21 sites in this region, to assess how farmers are coping with climate change. Watch...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Galerie de photos
Syrian refugees harvest greenhouse vegetables in Turkey
For nearly as long as the civil war in Syria has been ongoing, 36-year-old Sena Hamad has been living in a refugee camp with her three daughters and husband on the outskirts of the city of Osmaniye in southern Turkey.
Today, she is among the first group of 25 trainees to...
Türkiye
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Áreas críticas para la gestión local de fitosanitarios
Construcción de índices locales
La falta de planificación para la transformación de tierras destinadas a actividades agropecuarias en proyectos inmobiliarios, genera conflictos sociales, ambientales y económicos. Dichos conflictos se hacen muy visibles en las áreas periurbanas, entendiéndose por periurbano a una zona de transición entre el sector rural y el urbano, donde conviven áreas...
Argentina
2018 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario
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
Conférence/Réunion
International training course for the Design of Resilient Farming Systems in face of climate change in Dry Regions
This course will be conjointly organized by the SEMIARID project partners: IAV-Hassan-II-Morocco, ENSA-Algeria, INRA-Morocco, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA-France, CIRAD, CIHEAM-IAMM, an international research centre of the CGIAR (ICARDA), which contributes through staff-time and direct support to trainees, and University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic-Rabat and the Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP-Morocco) by...
Morocco
2018 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Site web
Organic conversion planner
Contemplating transitioning to organic? Check out this tool!
This tool helps farmers contemplating conversion their agricultural enterprise. The tool requires the internet to download the desktop application. The data entered by individuals is stored exclusively on the user’s computer and can only be viewed there. The target group of the tool...
2018 - KTBL - Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft
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
Pratiques
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising climate-smart practice for dryland agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of limited amounts of water to essentially rainfed crops to improve and stabilize yields when rainfall fails to provide sufficient moisture for normal plant growth - is an effective response to alleviating the adverse effects of soil moisture stress on the yield of rainfed crops during dry spells. Supplemental irrigation, especially during critical crop growth...
2018 - ICARDA
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
Fiche d'information
Agricultural services and digital inclusion in Africa
On the occasion of the conference "Youth employment in agriculture as a solid solution to ending hunger and poverty in Africa" (Kigali, Rwanda, 20−21 August 2018), FAO showcased a digital service portfolio, consisting of 10 innovation projects. This factsheet presents four new apps bring agricultural services closer to farmers, providing...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
A sustainability comparative assessment of Tunisian organic and conventional olive growing systems based on the AHP methodology
This work aims to assess, in a comparative way, the sustainability of organic and conventional olive growing systems in the Sfax region (Tunisia). This assessment will be undertaken based on I) a multidimensional perspective considering the three classical dimensions of sustainability – environmental, economic and socio-territorial – and II) on...
Tunisia
2018
Apprentissage en ligne
Hacia la promoción de Sistemas agroalimentarios inclusivos: Mecanismos y programas de adquisición de alimentos de la Agricultura familiar
Las compras públicas o contratación estatales, son mecanismos de adquisición de productos o servicios para abastecer a las instituciones y programas financiados o ejecutados por el Estado (consumo de organismos públicos, programas sociales, fuerzas armadas, obras públicas, etc.). Pero también se reconocen a las compras públicas como un instrumento de...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manuel
Elaboración práctica de chacinados artesanales
Para autoconsumo y emprendimientos
Consideraciones y recetas para la elaboración de chacinados artesanales.
Argentina
2018 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)
Article de blog
Producción orgánica, turismo rural, arraigo y familia en San Rafael
El caso de los Camargo en la bodega Familia Camargo
El cierre de la planta en la que trabajaba y luego un paso de cuatro años por otra empresa vitivinícola fueron los disparadores tras los cuales Carlos y su familia se decidieron a iniciar un emprendimiento en una finca en Las Paredes, Mendoza. Comenzaron plantando uvas y elaborando vinos de...
Argentina
2018 - Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA)
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