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Article de blog
Why we need small farms
Large-scale, industrial agriculture is often held up as the solution for feeding the world’s growing population. But small farms—with about 25 acres or less—along with family-run operations like Masumoto’s produce over 70 percent of the world’s food.
Raising awareness of the contribution of these farmers inspired the We Feed the World...
2018 - National Geographic
Article
Tushuri Guda. Better Times Ahead for One of Georgia’s Oldest, Most Abused Cheeses?
Small-scale cheesemakers in Georgia have had a hard time competing with big dairy. But one special cheese is managing to fight back.
Produced in the remote mountainous region of Tusheti, Tushuri guda takes its name from the sheepskin sack in which the raw-milk cheese is traditionally ripened. The skin is turned inside out, so the wool is in direct contact with the ripening cheese. Archaeological evidence suggests that sheep cheese made in a similar...
Georgia
2018 - Slow Food
Rapport
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World - 2018
This report monitors progress towards the targets of ending both hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2), and provides an analysis of the underlying causes and drivers of observed trends. While the prevalence of undernourishment is at the forefront of monitoring hunger, the prevalence of...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Bulletin d'information
Boletín de Noticias Fontagro: "Innovación para la agricultura familiar". Enero-Febrero 2018
La secretaría de Fontagro (Mecanismo de Cooperación entre países de América Latina y el Caribe y España) realizó un boletín donde presenta las actividades realizadas durante los primeros meses del año, con información sobre novedades y plataformas cofinanciadas, que está dedicado especialmente a Agricultura Familiar.
2018 - Fontagro
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
FAO’s novel wild boar map could help manage African swine fever
Throughout Europe and Central Asia, wild boar raid crops and spread swine diseases, negatively affecting agriculture, conservation, road traffic and the health of livestock, wildlife and even humans. Due to their increasing densities and expanding ranges, economic losses are on the rise.
To better manage wild boar populations, officials have needed...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
New project promotes indigenous food and sustainable tourism in the Philippines
Slow Food and the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, hosted by FAO, have signed an agreement to improve the livelihoods of mountain people, with special focus on Cordillera’s mountain community in the Philippines.
The agreement came ahead of today’s International Mountain Day – a day celebrated each year on December 11 to highlight the importance of mountains to people’s lives and livelihoods.
The two organizations committed to creating stronger synergies between mountain food products and sustainable tourism services. This includes promoting high-quality, indigenous, mountain...
Philippines
2018
Article de blog
Baba Residence, an initiative to attract young people in depopulated villages in Bulgaria
Baba Residence (baba – grandmother in Bulgarian) is an initiative bringing together urban youth and elderly people in low-density and remote villages in Bulgaria. Participants spend one month living and learning in a mountain village, with the purpose to create a meeting point between the entrepreneurial spirit of young people...
Bulgaria
2018 - SIMRA
Article de blog
Urgenci Voices for CSA advocacy project launched in Rome this week
Urgenci’s advocacy capacity is central to strengthening the role of the Community supported Agriculture (CSA) movement at local and global level. As a global social movement, the CSA and theirs networks need to work collectively to show how they contribute to overcoming global challenges to the food system. This is...
European Union
2018 - Urgenci
Bulletin d'information
AIRCA Newsletter #8
This is the Newsletter of the Association of International Research and Development Centers for Agriculture, www.airca.org.
This edition showcases examples for the use of Information and Communnication Technologies in agriculture research and development.
2018 - AIRCA
Projet
Launch of the Oreka Mendian website!
The LIFE project Oreka Mendian (2016-2021) aims to develop a common strategy for the conservation and the management of mountain pasture environments located in Natura 2000 areas in the Basque Country. A member of Euromontana, the HAZI foundation, is directly involved in the project as coordinator, alongside Euromontana. Euromontana is responsible...
2018 - Euromontana
Bulletin d'information
IFOAM Newsletter - The INSIDER
The insider, it is a Monthly IFOAM News page, who brings more generic information on organic agriculture
2018 - IFOAM
Événement
19th Organic World Congress
An Organic World Through an Organic India / 9 - 11 November 2017, New Delhi, India
Every three years, the organic sector comes together at the Organic World Congress (OWC), the world’s largest and most significant organic gathering, to discuss and deliberate issues of the day. The OWC is an unique opportunity to share experiences, innovations and knowledge about organics and also take part in the...
2017 - IFOAM Organics International
Note/document d'orientation
IMPLEMENT THE CORK DECLARATION - SOLUTIONS FOR AND FROM MOUNTAIN AREAS
On the 6th September 2016, DG AGRI presented the Cork Declaration “A better life in rural areas”. The discussions organised with the stakeholders during this 2-day conference fed the final declaration in a bottom-up approach.
For the moment, no real Action Plan for the implementation of the Cork Declaration has been...
2017 - Euromontana
Article du bulletin d’information
Euromontana has launched a new Facebook Page for the 2016 European Charter for Mountain Quality Food Products!
Euromontana is working hard to collect signatures for the 2016 European Charter for Mountain Quality Food Products. We recently created a Facebook page about the Charter. The page contains a link to sign the Charter and will be updated regularly with information about:
mountain products,
the progress of the Charter,
examples of the use of the mountain product...
2017 - Euromontana
Rapport
Labelling mountain food products in Europe: beyond the simple quality distinction, an opportunity to join forces and build resilient food systems
Agriculture in European mountain areas plays a key role for society. Farming activities protect landscapes and provide society with vital ecosystem services and agriculture is an integrated part of the livelihood of mountain communities. However, mountain farming is not sufficiently competitive and resilient in the current socio-economic context. Mountain food...
European Union
2017 - Euromontana
Rapport
Access to land and Community Supported Agriculture: Stories from Europe
Access to agricultural land has become a major issue throughout Europe - we are witnessing loss of land, land degradation, land concentration, land price increases and speculation. Yet the growing demand for local, fair and organic food cannot be met without the land and the committed farmers.
Community Supported Agriculture has...
European Union
2017 - Access To Land
Article de blog
GEOPOS: livestock geo-localisation through satellite
Due to the mountainous topography of the Basque Country, livestock breeders often lose a lot of time by going to seek their herd in the mountains every day, which is especially stressful for part time farmers. Thus, the livestock breeders expressed a need for change in the livestock management. This...
Spain
2017 - Euromontana
Article de revue
How the municipality of Alzen quadrupled its population in 40 years
On April 6th, 2017, Euromontana’s team and members of the South-West Europe Circular Economy Group visited Alzen, a village in the Pyrenées Ariégeoises, in the south-west of France. Alzen has managed to become an attractive destination for new inhabitants, including young people. Indeed, in 40 years, Alzen quadrupled its population....
France
2017 - Euromontana
Article de blog
Progress expected on the implementation of the legislation on the OQT “mountain product” in Italy
On February 24, 2017, Elisabetta Parravicini, Vice-President of Euromontana and President of member organization ERSAF (Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste), presented Euromontana’s work and future objectives at a meeting on Italian mountains as driving forces for development. Elisabetta Parravicini began by recounting the history and outlining...
Italy
2017 - Euromontana
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