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Article de revue spécialisée
Call for revolutionary solutions for local food systems
Community based solutions
Nowadays the structural changes in Europe require a transition from the old re-distributive welfare to a new kind of welfare, called productive welfare, where the user cooperates to produce the new services. Firstly we have the citizen as passive user of services (around the ’50 and the ’60), or he/her...
Brazil - Italy - Portugal
2015 - Italian Agency for Responsible and Ethic Countryside and Agriculture
Vidéos
“New Success Factors” - Alice’s rice
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2014 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
Vidéos
“New Success Factors” - A synergistic life
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2014 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
Revue spécialisée
CIHEAM Watch Letter 31- The Mediterranean Sea: Fisheries and Beyond
The sea "in the middle of the land" is a geographical peculiarity: it is located between three continents and is almost entirely enclosed by land. This proximity has both united and divided nations and civilizations since the beginning of mankind, making the Mediterranean, a mere 1% of the planet's oceans,...
Egypt - Italy - Morocco - Spain - Türkiye
2014 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM)
Revue spécialisée
CIHEAM Watche Letter 30 - Food Waste and Losses in the Mediterranean
In the Mediterranean area, precise and accurate data regarding food waste and losses should be enhanced, especially in a context where the food security of the region’s countries is fragile and the sustainability of development is threatened. During the 10th meeting of the CIHEAM member states agriculture ministers, the food...
Algeria - Egypt - Italy - Lebanon - Morocco - Spain - Tunisia
2014 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM)
Vidéos
Hairy Vetch – an excellent green manure for dry conditions (Aug 2014)
Hairy vetch (Vicia villosa Roth) produces a huge biomass also under dry conditions and is therefore an ideal green manure for Mediterranean cropping systems. However, the incorporation of this green manure into the soil is challenging. This video presents three different machines – disk harrow, stone burier, and crimper roller...
Italy
2014 - FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
Fiche d'information
ITALY - Common Agricultural Policy
During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest around EUR 37.5 billion in Italy's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Italy to adapt both...
Italy
2014 - European Commission
Étude de cas
Livestock Systems and Farming Styles: Grassland Management, Landscape and Biodiversity, Veneto Region, Ne Italy
Traditional farming systems have been abandoned to the favor of intensified agricultural practices, due to environmental, structural, economic, and sociopolitical constraints. Consequently, mountain landscape and biodiversity were seriously affected. The aims of this PhD thesis were to study the widespread of the abandonment phenomenon, in particular in the Alpine area,...
Italy
2014
Vidéos
"Una vita sinergica" ( A synergistic life)
Professional documentaries on young farmers, winners of the third edition of the national contest of Mipaaf / National Rural Network "New Success factors", which selects the best practices in rural development made by young farmers who have benefited from the EAFRD funds. The documentaries are made by young professionals selected...
Italy
2014 - RETERURALE
Comptes rendus de conférence
Voluntary standards for sustainable food systems: Challenges and opportunities. A Workshop of the FAO/UNEP Programme on Sustainable Food Systems
The FAO/UNEP joint programme is catalysing partnerships among United Nations agencies, other international agencies, governments, industry and civil society whose activities, together, can promote the necessary transition to sustainability. An Agri-food Task Force (ATF) on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has been established, comprised of representatives of Member States, United...
Costa Rica - Italy
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Projet
Youth and Rural Development (Giovani e Sviluppo Rurale)
In this Transnational Cooperation (TNC) project youngsters from the territories of 6 Local Action Groups (LAG) discover local traditions and legends, and innovate their cultural and rural identity of today through storytelling and movie production.
Recognizing the importance of the countryside’s young citizens the LAGs, which have come together in this...
Finland - France - Italy
2014 - EAFRD
Rapport
Apple-producing family farms in South Tyrol
An agriculture innovation
Apple production in South Tyrol is a true illustration of a vibrant agricultural innovation system. It is a collaborative and pluralistic structure that comprises private and public actors, different tiers of producer organizations, cooperatives, research, extension and advisory services, all geared towards integrating small-scale apple producers in a highly productive, profitable and efficient system.Today,...
Italy
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Organic farming in Europe: moving into the mainstream
Organic farming no longer serves a niche market in the European Union (EU). In spite
of the global economic crisis, the mainstreaming of organic products has maintained
its impressive trajectory: since 2008 there has been an average annual growth rate of
8%; annual turnover has risen to €20 billion; and more than 500...
Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Vidéos
“New Success Factors” - The organic cave
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2014 - reterurale
Vidéos
“New Success Factors” - A synergistic life
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2014 - reterurale
Article de revue
The Diversity of Family Farms is Strength for World Agriculture
In the world, more than 80 per cent of farms are family farms – in total more than 500 million economic and social entities. In Europe 25 million people, 172 million hectares of agricultural land and 12 million farms are involved in EU agricultural production. A vast majority of these...
Austria - Belgium - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Article
Artisanal Fisheries in the Mediterranean
Fishing is a human activity that has gone on for millennia. Nowadays, it remains one of the very few large scale economic activities that is still based on the ‘hunting and gathering’ of wild biological resources, contrary to agriculture or animal farming, where a few productive species and races were...
France - Italy - Spain
2014
Ouvrage
Farmers' rights in practice
Synthesis of the case studies on sustainable use of agrobiodiversity: focus on European experiences
This report presents the synthesis of case studies analysed by the action-research activity. The aim is to give a description of the practices carried out by farmers, individually or collectively, which can be considered as sustainable ways to use plant genetic resources with the purpose that these practices be spread...
France - Hungary - Italy - Romania - Senegal - Spain - Tunisia - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
Comptes rendus de conférence
Forage resources and ecosystem services provided by mountain and Mediterranean grasslands and rangelands
In constrained environments such as mountainous and Mediterranean areas the sustainable use of forage resources by domestic herbivores has to combine production, conservation of high environmental value areas and product quality. The sustainability of animal production systems relies on their ability to reconcile economic performance based on the added value...
Algeria - Egypt - France - Greece - Italy - Morocco - New Zealand - Norway - Portugal - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Tunisia - Uruguay
2014
Article de revue spécialisée
HNV Farming – Explaining the Concept and Interpreting EU and National Policy Commitments
The concept of “High Nature Value farming” developed in the early 1990s from a growing recognition that the conservation of biodiversity in Europe depends on the continuation of low-intensity farming systems across large areas of countryside (see Beaufoy et al., 1994; Bignal et al., 1994; Bignal & McCracken, 1996; 2000)....
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2014
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