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Rethinking territorial balances between urban and rural areas in the European Mountains
According to the OECD, territorial relationships have deeply changed in recent decades. Improvements in communication technology, increasing movements of peoples and goods, and changes in land use have reshaped the relationships between urban and rural areas. This is also true for mountain areas, where large metropoles like Milano have recently...
2019 - Euromontana
Projet
Art as a leverage of local development in a mountain area
In order to revive a remote mountainous area with harsh conditions and stimulate economic activity, a LEADER funded project facilitated the creation of a new touristic offer. This new offer was based on artwork inspired by the surrounding landscape, accompanied with an integrated package of activities, such as the organisation...
France
2018 - European Network for Rural Development
Article de revue spécialisée
Signs of Climate Warming Through the Eyes of Yak Herders in Northern Bhutan
A questionnaire survey was conducted to understand how a mountain ecosystem in northern Bhutan is perceived by local yak herders to be changing under climate warming. One hundred elderly herders were selected using a 2-stage sampling. The questionnaire sought information on herders' awareness and perceptions of weather patterns, climate changes,...
Bhutan
2018 - The International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development
Article de blog
Building stronger, climate-resilient farming and forest communities
Millions of small-scale farmers and foresters will be able to better protect their lands from the impacts of climate change, and improve their livelihoods thanks to renewed global efforts announced last two weeks ago on the side-lines of World Forest Week (COFO24).
The Forest and Farm Facility initiative - a partnership...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Ouvrage
Building Mountain Resilience: Solutions from the Hindu Kush Himalaya
Faced with a complex and uncertain future, the coming years are even more so for mountains that contend with rising temperatures, dwindling natural resources, and rapidly increasing outmigration. Therefore, the need to focus on affordable and replicable solutions that can affect significant change is more important than ever. The solutions...
2018 - International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Fiche d'information
Adaptación al cambio climático en las comunidades alpaqueras altoandinas
Los boletines informativos de proyectos (BIP) tienen como propósito fortalecer la comunicación con todos nuestros socios y contrapartes, dando a conocer regularmente los proyectos que se ejecutan en la región, así como detalles referidos a los avances en el proceso de su implementación.
En esta ocasión, tenemos el agrado de presentarles...
Peru
2018 - Soluciones prácticas
Ouvrage
Anuario 2018 - Agricultura Familiar en España
EL FUTURO DE LA POLÍTICA AGRARIA COMÚN (PAC)
En la edición 2018 el Anuario de la Agricultura Familiar vuelve a acoger relevantes reflexiones de más de 40 autores y autoras representativos de distintas sensibilidades y ámbitos de estudio. También aglutina más de 300 datos estadísticos de la agricultura, la ganadería, la distribución y el consumo de alimentos en...
Spain
2018 - UPA
Bulletin d'information
PEGASUS Newsletter
PEGASUS is a European research project aiming to develop innovative approaches and new ways of thinking about the way farmland and forests are managed in order to stimulate a long-lasting improvement in the provision of public goods and ecosystem services from agricultural and forest land in the EU.
The PEGASUS project is already...
European Union
2018 - PEGASUS
Article de blog
FAO report details gender inequalities in rural Georgia
Breeding livestock, producing crops and household goods, fetching water and firewood, housework, cooking for family, looking after children, caring for the elderly and sick members of the family – this is the short list of rural women’s obligations in Georgia.
However, the contribution of women to agricultural production remains invisible and...
Georgia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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
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