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Article de blog
Flood-Ravaged Islands of Sundarbans Need Women-Centric Interventions
After men migrate for work, women of Mousuni Island in the Sundarbans in West Bengal have to struggle for survival, losing land and livelihood to floods and erosion.
In Mousuni Island, salinity ingress has rendered agricultural land uncultivable for years. Tidal flooding that occurs twice a month makes it difficult for...
2017
Article
Nord Bénin : Variabilité climatique et stratégies d’adaptation des maraîchers urbains et péri-urbains de la commune de Parakou
L’instabilité du régime pluviométrique affecte la production maraîchère dans la commune de Parakou située au Nord du Bénin. Cet article vise à analyser la variabilité pluviométrique et à identifier les stratégies d’adaptation développées par les producteurs maraîchers.
Benin
2017 - IED Afrique
Projet
Cultivar más con menos (SICA)
El arroz es un alimento básico en ALC donde el consumo per cápita es de 30 kg/año y la demanda supera la producción. Los rendimientos, costos y rentabilidad dependen de factores agroclimáticos y tecnológicos siendo esencial la innovación en el cultivo. El proyecto SICA, ejecutado por el IICA en República...
Colombia - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - Nicaragua - Panama
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) - Costa Rica
Audio
Agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável mobilizam mulheres rurais
Agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável mobilizam mulheres rurais
Viva Maria continua abraçando a campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. A embaixadora do norte, Maria Julia Serrim, fala sobre o trabalho com agricultura familiar e turismo sustentável como forma de conectar e empoderar as mulheres rurais.
Se como Maria Julia Serrim você,...
Brazil
2017 - Radio Agencia Nacional
Article
Genetically Engineered Disappointments
Genetic modification of crops through natural evolution or artificial crossbreeding has been happening for millennia, giving rise to more productive or resilient crop species. Thus, the term ‘genetic engineering’ more accurately refers to the artificial introduction of genetic material to produce new GE varieties. Advocates of genetically engineered (GE) crops...
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Événement
Simposio regional sobre sistemas alimentarios sostenibles para la alimentación saludable
El Simposio se centrará en discutir en torno a los esfuerzos para abordar los múltiples desafíos que representa la malnutrición en todas sus formas y determinar las oportunidades para hacerles frente en los próximos decenios, a través de tres áreas temáticas que proporcionan una visión regional de los sistemas alimentarios...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de revue spécialisée
The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poor
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Like many problems in the global South, the global food system issues can be traced back to a colonial history. Back in 1989 two sociologists, Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, developed a useful concept in their work on agrarian studies: Global food regimes. They described two key periods where the...
Uganda
2017 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Vidéos
Supporting the indigenous Mayangna women in Nicaragua
The Mayangna community faces significant problems with illegal timber extraction and agricultural expansion in its territories. The Forest and Farm Facility is working with the indigenous Mayangna forest-farm producer organization MAYARING to improve its organizational, business and natural resource management capacities. This video demonstrates the impact of Forest and Farm...
Nicaragua
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Site web
Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
El Centro Latinoamericano de Ecología Social (CLAES) es una organización no gubernamental independiente, dedicada a la investigación, acción y promoción de la ecología social. Reconociendo una vinculación recíproca entre grupos humanos con su entorno ambiental, en un contexto histórico, se consideran problemas socioambientales, vinculándose la investigación con la acción, desde...
Uruguay
2017 - Centro Latino Americano de Ecología Social (CLAES)
Divers
Nature for Sustainable Agriculture
CEEweb for Biodiversity supports creating and maintenance of sustainable farming systems, which can ensure producing safer and healthier food and provide conditions for a thriving countryside with secured livelihoods for farmers. Well-preserved nature is a pre-requisite for those systems, as it delivers a whole array of benefits for farming, including pollination, appropriate nutrient cycling,...
European Union
2017 - CEEweb for Biodiversity
Document technique
Research for Agri Committee - The Consequences of Climate Change for EU Agriculture. Follow-Up to the Cop21 - UN Paris Climate Change Conference
The Earth’s climate has always undergone periodic changes that have affected the conditions available to life on the planet. Yet recent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are the highest in history and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are unprecedented in at least...
European Union
2017 - European Parliament
Vidéos
Escuelas Sostenibles. Proyecto Piloto YHÚ, Paraguay
En el distrito de Yhú, departamento de Caaguazú, la Escuela Básica nº 3330 San Miguel Arcángel y en la Escuela Básica nº 1600 Inmaculado Corazón de María, participan de las Escuelas Sostenibles, involucrando un total de 350 niños y niñas.
La iniciativa de Escuelas Sostenibles fue diseñada con el objetivo...
Paraguay
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de blog
The U.N. Aims to Unite Efforts for the Decade of Family Farmers
The U.N. General Assembly has officially declared 2019–2028 the Decade of Family Farming. Initially proposed in October 2017, the resolution passed with 104 co-sponsors and unanimous approval. The Decade aims to inspire the international community to generate a refreshed political commitment supporting family farmers and crafting pro-family farming policies.
The resolution...
2017 - Food Tank
Article de blog
Food for Change
At a time when the growing disconnect between production and consumption threatens Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 progress, chefs have a unique opportunity to help reframe food system challenges in a way that resonates with the general public.
This is because chefs are at the heart of the global food system....
2017 - National Geographic
Article de blog
Reinforcing rural women’s rights
Gendered threats to rural women’s right to food and nutrition are inextricably intertwined with the pervasive patriarchal norms and practices that discriminate against women and girls, reads a civil society submission to the Commission on the Status of Women.
On the occasion of the 62nd session of the Commission on the...
2017 - FIAN
Article de blog
DFDA-PE ressalta papel da mulher na agroecologia
Durante o Seminário Intermunicipal Mulheres na Agroecologia, o titular da Delegacia Federal de Desenvolvimento Agrário de Pernambuco (DFDA/PE), Rodrigo Almeida, destacou a importância das mulheres não só para a agroecologia, mas para a agricultura familiar.
Os debates giraram em torno dos direitos das mulheres do campo e da cidade. E os...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Rapport
Report on the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation
Advancing Multisectoral Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems Post ICN-2 Agenda for Africa
This report highlights the outcomes of the three-day deliberations of the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation meeting with key recommendations and next steps. The report will be shared as a PDF document. There are no plans to print the document.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Zonas de reserva campesina: una apuesta por la Seguridad Alimentaria y la construcción de Paz
En el marco de la implementación del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de la capacidad de generar ingresos a través de proyectos de innovación en las Zonas de Reserva Campesina”, suscrito entre el Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la...
Colombia
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Conférence/Réunion
Primera Conferencia Regional GIPPAF: Hacia una nueva vinculación entre el campo y la universidad
Primera Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores de Políticas Públicas para la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur.
El presente encuentro, tiene como título "Hacia una nueva Vinculación entre el campo y la Universidad), y tendrá como ejes de discusión la Extensión Rural y el acceso a Mercados para la...
Chile
2017 - FOCO RURAL- Universidad de Chile
Étude de cas
Organizational challenges and the institutional environment
A comparative analysis of dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco
The present study focuses on dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco, to explore how and to what extent the institutional environment has been enabling the development and performance of the cooperatives. The focus on dairy generates insights that are relevant for many countries, because it is a sector in which...
Kenya - Morocco
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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