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Document de travail
Gender-differentiated impacts of tenure insecurity on agricultural performance in Malawi’s customary tenure systems
Many African countries rely on sporadic land transfers from customary to statutory domains to attract investment and improve agricultural performance. Data from 15,000 smallholders and 800 estates in Malawi allow exploring the long-term effects of such a strategy. The results suggest that (i) most estates are less productive than smallholders;...
Malawi
2017 - World Bank
Article de blog
FAO boosts support to promote legal timber trade in Lao PDR
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is stepping up support for the legal timber trade in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic with the official launch of two new projects that will strengthen the roles of civil society and the private sector in improving forest law enforcement,...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article de blog
Programa Sello Manos Campesinas
El Sello Manos Campesinas® es un sistema de acreditación que respalda atributos de productos y servicios generados por pequeños productores a lo largo de todo el territorio nacional. La sola presencia de este sello, asegura el cumplimiento de sus estándares, además de fomentar el desarrollo económico local de familias campesinas.
El...
Chile
2017 - Instituto Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Ouvrage
Emprendimientos de Agricultura Familiar para la Paz
Metodologías para la innovación social y tecnológica para el desarrollo rural
El libro sistematiza experiencias de las Escuelas de Campo de Agricultores (ECA) en Colombia, productivas y de gestión, desarrolladas por FAO y otras instituciones, en múltiples proyectos de fortalecimiento de comunidades y organizaciones de agricultura familiar. Estos esfuerzos fueron dirigidos a promover la seguridad alimentaria, el autoconsumo, los medios de...
Colombia
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article de blog
UN-FAO supports transformation of agriculture sector in eastern Ukraine
Continued armed conflict and related instability have inflicted enormous losses on the agricultural sector in Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Yet, as the rest of the economy declines subsistence farming has taken on new importance. It could even become a driver of the local economy, according to a report released...
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Ouvrage
Agroindústria familiar: aspectos a serem considerados na sua implantação
O processamento de produtos agropecuários para autoconsumo no âmbito das pequenas propriedades rurais é uma atividade tradicional, realizada pelos agricultores familiares. Certos processamentos podem ser feitos durante todo o ano, como é o caso da fabricação de queijo, enquanto outros ocorrem em épocas específicas, de acordo com a disponibilidade da...
Brazil
2017 - Embrapa Agroindústria de Alimentos
Article
With Fair Access to Fisheries, Irish Island Communities Could Thrive
The geographical isolation of islands makes them highly dependent on the resources available within their localities, especially fisheries resources. The right to fish, and to access fishery resources are prerequisite to the prosperity and very survival of such island communities.
Ireland
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Document de travail
Double dividend: Power and Agriculture nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2017 - World Bank
Ouvrage
Políticas Públicas y Marcos Institucionales para Agricultura Familiar en América Latina
Esta publicación analiza la realidad actual y plantea las perspectivas a futuro de la Agricultura Familiar en Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay y Venezuela.
En el documento se sugieren orientaciones para las acciones a desarrollar en los próximos años, al formularse e implementarse políticas enfocadas en los distintos...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Honduras - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
Bulletin d'information
NEWS FROM THE DECK - February 2017
The monthly newsletter of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Document de travail
An assessment of the livestock economy in mixed crop-livestock production systems in Ethiopia
The livestock subsector has contributed little to the remarkable economic growth recorded in Ethiopia in the last decade. In an effort to stimulate livestock production, the Ethiopian government has recently recognized livestock as an important strategic subsector in which to invest. Unlike most studies that focus purely on aspects of...
Ethiopia
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vidéos
Farming with Conservation Agriculture in Kenya
Since the start of the FAO program in 2015 in Kenya, more than 26,000 farmers adopted conservation agriculture in the eight counties; 3,500 of them have now market linkages with contracts and are developing cottage industries.
Kenya
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Support from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF)
Opportunities for small-scale coastal fishermen
Receive advice and advisory services to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of your fishing activities, for example, to: • develop marketing / business strategies, • undertake feasibility studies, • receive professional advice on how to apply for EMFF support.
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Audio
No Sul, mulheres lideram agroindústria e produção de orgânicos
Conheça a história de Bruna Dariva, de Erechim, no Rio Grande do Sul, embaixadora da Região Sul da campanha # Mulheres rurais, mulheres com direitos. Ela atua na fabricação de queijos e defende que é possível as mulheres assumirem a liderança da agroindústia, sem deixar de lado a produção de orgânicos.
Se...
Brazil
2017 - Radio Agencia Nacional
Document de conférence
2º Simposio Internacional del Suelo y Nutrición de Cultivos Tropicales
Evento científico para el mejoramiento de suelos para la agricultura
El Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP), constantemente desarrolla diversas actividades con el fin de aportar en la mejora de la actividad agropecuaria nacional basada en suelos sanos, una gestión eficaz del agua, el uso de semillas de alta calidad y de alto rendimiento, el manejo integrado de plagas y...
Ecuador
2017 - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP)
Article de blog
DPR Korea’s food production hit by the worst drought since 2001
DPR Korea’s crop production for 2017, including staple rice, maize, potatoes and soybean, has been severely damaged by prolonged dry weather conditions, threatening food security for a large part of its population, according to a new FAO update prepared in collaboration with the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
Rainfall from April...
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article
Hope from the North in Changing Times
In the global moment of uncertainty we need to both guarantee our fisheries’ sustainability and the continuation of our specific cultural traditions and ways of fishing. Narratives of doom and gloom need to be met, addressed and learned from, but central to the survival of European small-scale fisheries will be...
Finland
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Document de travail
How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized?
Evidence from Ethiopia
What is the optimal size and composition of Rural Financial Cooperatives (RFCs)? With this broad question in mind, we characterize alternative formation of RFCs and their implications in improving the access of rural households to financial services, including savings, credit, and insurance services. We find that some features of RFCs...
Ethiopia
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Vidéos
Voices from the field, Gambia: The impacts of climate change on small-scale irrigation
In the framework of the project “Adapting small-scale irrigation to climate change in West and Central Africa”, farmers from Gambia talk about the devastating impacts of climate change on their farming activities and crops, leading to crop failure and food insecurity. They also describe the measures they adopted to build...
Gambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
SEAD lança campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos
Foi com versos sobre frutos da nossa terra, da poetisa Tita de Lima e Silva, que a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD) lançou, na manhã desta quinta-feira (23), em Brasília, a campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos. Promovida pela Reunião Especializada em Agricultura Familiar no Mercosul (REAF)...
Brazil
2017 - Agrolink
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