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Supporting family farmers is key for providing healthier diets, preserving the environment and creating rural prosperity
Over the next 10 years the United Nations Decade of Family Farming will help focus efforts around the world to eradicate hunger and malnutrition, lift rural people - many of whom are women - out of poverty, and safeguard natural resources, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva, said.
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Conect-e sharing traditional ecological knowledge
International treaties and conventions encourage national governments to recognize, protect, and promote traditional knowledge, including traditional agroecological knowledge. Following this mandate, a multidisciplinary team of Spanish scientists from 7 universities and research centers have worked together with the Spanish seed network ‘Red de Semillas: Resembrando e Intercambiando’ to develop CONECT-e....
Spain
2018 - Contect-e
Site web
OK-Net Arable - exchange knowledge, enhance organic farming
New project – OK-Net EcoFeed – aims at helping organic pig and poultry farmers in achieving the goal of 100% use of organic and regional feed.
A key objective of organic farming is that animals are fed with feed produced at or near the farm. Yet, this is difficult to achieve...
European Union
2018
Étude de cas
Study tour to Bangladesh fosters knowledge-sharing on rice-fish systems
Rice-fish systems are common in many South and Southeast Asian countries as well as some areas of Africa. The systems are diverse, spanning capture fisheries and aquaculture, with fish and rice growing concurrently in rice fields and canals or, alternatively, fish raised between rice crops.
FISH has developed several approaches to...
Bangladesh
2018 - World Fish
Directives
Collaborate to innovate
EIP-AGRI Operational Groups are innovative projects that aim to find practical solutions to problems or opportunities which European farmers and foresters are currently facing. More than 3200 are planned by national and regional Rural Development Programmes for the period 2014-2020. Operational Groups can benefit from networking and collaborating with organisations...
2018 - Eip Agri Agriculture & Innovation
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FarmOS: free and open source farm management software platform and development community
Scaling soil health and biologically based landscape restoration is knowledge rather than input limited. The FarmOS system leverages existing global, open-source hardware and software communities to provide tools to all scales and production systems. It is free to download, use and modify. Farmers control their own secure data to choose...
United States of America
2018 - FarmOS
Article de blog
FAO launches mobile application to support fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa
The application is vital for early detection of Fall Armyworm and guiding best response
FAO launched a mobile application to enable farmers, agricultural workers and other partners at the frontline of the fight against Fall Armyworm in Africa to identify, report the level of infestation, and map the spread of this destructive insect, as well as to describe its natural enemies and the measures that...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
Réaction des éleveurs bovins des régions semi-arides algériennes face aux contraintes économiques et climatiques
Les évolutions socioéconomiques récentes de l’Algérie et l’accentuation de l’aridité du climat local induisent des transformations dans les pratiques et les stratégies des exploitations agricoles. Cette étude analyse la réaction des petites exploitations familiales d’élevage bovin des régions semi-arides de Sétif face aux contraintes économiques et aux incertitudes du milieu....
Algeria
2018
Ouvrage
What gender mainstreaming means in practice
Cases from selected countries of the European Union
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has continuously demonstrated within its work that gender equality is not simply a matter of human rights, but is key to eliminating poverty and hunger. It is only by closing the gender gap that sustainable agriculture and rural development can...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Étude de cas
Constructing markets for agroecology
An analysis of diverse options for marketing products from agroecology
The purpose of this study is to explore whether and how products from agroecological production systems are being valued in markets. The study is based on a meta-analysis of 12 case studies (Benin, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda), mainly from...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Colombia - Ecuador - France - Kazakhstan - Mozambique - Namibia - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Grape Mundo: an ecosystem for grape farming
“Grape Mundo” is a technology ecosystem that guides grape farmers to do precision and sustainable grape farming to produce high-quality grapes using minimum chemicals, thus lowering the cost. This ecosystem also helps grape farmers sell export quality and residue-free grapes across a huge PAN India market, without any involvement of...
India
2018 - Rta Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Article de revue spécialisée
The determinants of crop yields in Uganda: what is the role of climatic and non-climatic factors?
It is widely accepted that crop yields will be affected by climate change. However, the role played by climate in affecting crop yields vis-a-vis non-climatic stresses, is often unclear, limiting decision choices around efforts to promote increased production in light of multiple stresses.
Uganda
2018 - Agriculture & Food Security
Article de blog
Ukraine hosts first regional meeting on sustainable livestock development
Countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia need better engagement in global sustainable livestock processes when developing national policies for their livestock production sectors.
Solving this problem is one aim of meetings begun today in Uman, Ukraine, on the continued development of a Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, gathering myriad stakeholders...
Ukraine
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Divers
Social protection in Lebanon
Reducing rural poverty and strengthening rural resilience
Social protection is the set of policies and programmes aimed at preventing or protecting all people against poverty, vulnerability, and social exclusion throughout their lifecycles, particularly the most vulnerable groups. This poster will serve to demonstrate the efforts - and advancements made - in reducing rural poverty and increasing resilience...
Lebanon
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI]
Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI] is a non profit making organization operating from Vihiga County in Western Kenya.The organization works with small holder farmers and like minded Non Government Organizations and other associations and networks addressing that focus on raising food using agro-ecological principles and sustainable management of natural resources within...
Kenya
2018 - Bio Gardening Innovations [BIOGI]
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Co-design of cultivar mixtures
A better use of crop genetic diversity is recognized as an essential leverage for agroecology, as it promotes various ecosystem services, in a context of increasing environmental stochasticity caused by global change. Increasing within field diversity through the use of cultivar mixtures is a timely option, as testified by past...
France
2018 - INRA – CNRS – IRD - AgroParisTEch - The Wheatamix Consortium
Rapport
Lessons learned from five years of nature conservation and development in South Pacific Islands
This report is a compilation, which captures the experiences of the Project Team during their engagement with their respective governments and various organizations over the 5 years of project implementation. Such experiences were compiled for, shared, and discussed at a workshop specifically organised by the FAO FPAM project and held...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Rapport
Land Market Development and Small Farms’ Access to Land in the Pre-Accession Countries
This report analyses the land markets’ functioning in the Western Balkans and small farm households’ access to land. For that purpose, survey questionnaires, focus groups, and desk research for each of the targeted Western Balkan countries/territories (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo∗, Montenegro and Serbia), were used. Based on...
2018 - Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group in SEE (SWG)
Ouvrage
Republic of Moldova value chain gap analysis
Agriculture and food industry sectors have a major importance for the Moldovan economy. The Republic of Moldova has one of the highest share of rural population among the countries in Europe and Central Asia, and its agriculture sector significantly contributes to the country’s gross domestic product. The Food and Agriculture...
Republic of Moldova
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
FAO and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia sign three-year cooperation agreement
Priorities highlighted in the agreement are closely aligned with the country’s own priorities in the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2014–2020, aiming to support progressive alignment of the country’s agriculture and rural development with European Union accession requirements and the Sustainable Development Goals,” Rakhmanin said. “The agreement matches...
North Macedonia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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