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Article de blog
FAO warns that protecting agriculture from extreme weather and climate change must become a priority in Asia and the Pacific
While climate change and extreme weather events are impacting the environment in many ways, agriculture and food production in Asia and the Pacific are among those hardest hit and must be first in line to defend, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced today.
Droughts, floods and other natural disasters...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
Forest Policy Formulation
In Zimbabwe, FAO has been implementing a four year EU funded project to improve food and nutrition security of vulnerable rural communities through participatory sustainable forest management and value addition to forest products. Part of the project includes assisting the government of Zimbabwe in the formulation of a comprehensive forest...
Zimbabwe
2018
Vidéos
Why farmers find FISP (Farm input Subsidy Programmes) problematic
In August 2018, The Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out with SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia (SOUTHERN AFRICA) on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs). FISPs are government agricultural programmes to promote the use of Green Revolution inputs (hybrid seed, synthetic fertilizer...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Rapport
Overviews of food systems and agro-industry, value chains, and food loss and waste in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Many countries in the region have seen positive changes in agricultural development in recent years associated with countries’ reforms during the transition period after the Soviet Union collapse, as well as due to support from international organizations. This report overviews eighteen countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The report...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
FAO in Asia-Pacific re-affirms close collaboration with Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on regional technical cooperation
Bangkok, Thailand, FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, and representatives from Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), today re-affirmed their close collaboration on technical cooperation work in the region during an annual review of the programme.
The annual review process was “a very valuable occasion that will...
Japan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Projet
Combatting potato cyst nematode (pcn) in Kenya
Mainly grown in the highlands of Kenya, potatoes are an important staple food and cash crop and play a significant role in national food security, nutrition, poverty alleviation and income generation. In 2015, Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) was first detected and confirmed in Kenya, posing a serious threat to potato...
Kenya
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Bulletin d'information
“Farm-Success” Project Newsletter
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 for the sustainability of family farms with leading experts...
European Union
2018 - Farm Success
Article de blog
Water institutional scarcity in MENA: guidelines for enhanced governance
The impacts of climate change will be channeled primarily through the water cycle. 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...
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Document technique
Sustainable Food Systems – Concept and Framework
A technical brief on the sustainable food systems concept and framework, this document reflects the three first-day modules of the FAO food systems/value chains training program. Colleagues and trainees using the training materials to explore the implementation of trainings wish to refer to the training materials (e.g., the food system...
2018 - FAO
Article de revue spécialisée
Políticas públicas para la agricultura familiar en Argentina durante el período 1990‐2015
Nuevos y conocidos elementos en la agenda de debate
El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar las principales características de las políticas públicas destinadas a la agricultura familiar en dos contextos histórico-políticos de Argentina distintos. La investigación abarca centralmente el período de los años 1990-2015.
Para la realización de este trabajo se recurrió a fuentes documentales, informantes calificados y análisis...
Argentina
2018 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Article de blog
FAO helps strengthen community-based fisheries for the Pacific
FAO has been recently approved two projects to strengthen community-fisheries in Tonga and Samoa. The aim of the projects is to strengthen the technical capacity for both countries to improve and streamline their community-based fisheries management programmes.
These programmes play an integral role in ensuring the effective management of coastal fisheries...
Samoa
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Mainstreaming food loss reduction solutions for smallholder farmers
The video is reporting the results of Phase 1 implementation activities of the UN Rome-Based Agencies joint project “Mainstreaming food loss reduction solutions for small-holders farmers in food deficit areas”. Focus of the video is the piloting of recommended solutions in the Burkina Faso (2016-2017)
Burkina Faso
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Experiences of FISPs (Farm Input Subsidy Programmes) in Africa
In August 2018, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out for SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia, on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs).
FISPs are government agricultural programmes that promote the use of Green Revolution inputs produced by multinational corporations. Farmers were not...
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Bulletin d'information
Romanian National Rural Network Newsletter
Romanian National Rural Network No.5/2018 Newsletter, with a lot of news regarding Rural Development in Romania and EU
Romania
2018 - Romanian National Rural Network
Article de revue spécialisée
The Social Construction of Quality in Agri-food Localized Systems (SYAL)
The Case of the Montpeyroux Wine Arrangement, France
The approach based on localized agri-food systems (SYAL, from the French acronym) has brought about new perspectives for analysis of local productive arrangements, complementing and expanding the theoretical background of clusters and industrial districts. In addressing physical, institutional, cultural and relational factors, SYAL’s approach has enabled a more dynamic view...
France
2018 - Rede Brasileira de Sistemas Agroalimentares Localizados
Note/document d'orientation
CAP Key Messages
Food is Life...Life is People
A set of key messages on the EU's Common Agriculture Policy and its benefits for farmers and agri-cooperatives.
Belgium
2018 - COPA COGECA
Article de blog
Drought hit atolls to receive help
With the effects of climate change and extreme weather events disproportionately affecting people in the Pacific, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the support of the Marshall Islands government is providing emergency aid to some of the Marshall Islands remote atolls hit hardest by drought.
In...
Marshall Islands
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
Alternatives to FISP - Farm Input Subsidy Programmes - in Africa
In August 2018, the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) hosted a speak-out for SADC smallholder farmers in Windhoek, Namibia, on Farm Input Subsidy Programmes (FISPs). FISPs are government agricultural programmes that promote the use of Green Revolution inputs produced by multinational corporations. These...
South Africa
2018 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Rapport
Measuring what matters in agriculture and food systems
A synthesis of the results and recommendations of TEEB for Agriculture and Food’s Scientific and Economic Foundations Report
The TEEBAgriFood Evaluation Framework has three guiding principles – universality, comprehensiveness and inclusion. As a “universal” Framework, its elements are defined and described in a uniform, methodical and consistent manner, to be used in any geographical, ecological or social context, at the level of society, the firm, or the individual....
2018 - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity’ (TEEB)
Article de blog
FAO helps develop the curricula for Turkey’s new Farmer Field Schools
Held in Konya, Turkey, between 9 and 12 October, in cooperation with Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, FAO’s Farmer Field School Curriculum Development Workshop hosted wide-ranging discussions on how best to further adopt the Farmer Field School method in the region. The workshop was organized within the context of...
Türkiye
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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