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Note/document d'orientation
LIFE and BirdLife join forces on seabirds by-catch
Seabirds forage in highly productive areas of the ocean, which are also targeted by commercial fishing vessels. This overlap can cause them to be accidentally caught on hooks, or entangled in nets. For small-scale low impact fishers, such incidental by-catches of seabirds represent a potential danger to life and limb....
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Article de blog
UN report finds gender inequalities persisting in rural Armenia
More than 40 percent of economically active women in Armenia are employed in agriculture, compared to about 30 percent of men. The vast majority of those women are informal workers on family farms however, and this fact has major implications for rural livelihoods and wellbeing, according to a report just...
Armenia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Étude de cas
Evolutionary populations: Living gene banks in farmers’ fields
Rapidly increasing on-farm biodiversity is a matter of urgency in an era of climate change. Farmers often have limited access to genetic resources. Not only do they need greater access to the genetic material in research stations and gene banks, they also need to collaborate with scientists who are willing...
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2017 - CENESTA
Article de blog
Démarrage de projet «Promotion du Développement inclusif des chaines de valeurs dans la région de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche Orient
Le mardi 12 septembre 2017, Monsieur le Ministre de l’Agriculture, du Développement rural et de la pêche a procédé à l’ouverture officielle de l’atelier de démarrage de projet «Promotion du Développement inclusif des chaines de valeurs dans la région de l’Afrique du Nord et du Proche Orient «NENA» au niveau de...
Algeria
2017 - Institut National de la recherche Agronomique d'Algérie (INRAA)
Vidéos
Semiárido Que Alimenta
Video que muestra la relevancia de recolección de aguas lluvia, a través de cisternas, en territorios con escasez hídrica como en el semiárido brasileño.
La recolección les permite disponer del recurso y regar sus plantaciones todo el año.
Brazil
2017 - Articulação Semiárido (ASA)
Article de blog
CONAB assina contrato com pequenos produtores de orgânicos
A Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab) assinou, no final de dezembro, o primeiro contrato de compra de alimentos orgânicos de agricultores familiares do Amazonas, por meio do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA). O projeto, da Associação dos Produtores Orgânicos do Estado do Amazonas (Apoam), prevê o fornecimento de 12,36...
Brazil
2017 - Companhia Nacional de Abastecimento (Conab), Brasil
Note/document d'orientation
Pulse fishing: vote on 21/11
LIFE strongly urges MEPs of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) to vote against the lifting of restrictions to pulse fishing.
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Vidéos
Small Scale Fisheries Guidelines
The Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication (SSF Guidelines) are the first international instrument dedicated entirely to the immensely important – but until now often neglected – small-scale fisheries sector.
The SSF Guidelines represent a global consensus on principles and guidance...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
FAO spearheads discussion on effective use of water resources
Effective management of water resources on irrigated lands, monitoring of irrigated and arid pastures, water conservation in irrigated agriculture, and the influence of agroforestry and protective afforestation on water conservation were the focus of the roundtable held here today at Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.
Co-organized by the FAO Liaison Office with the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Étude de cas
Main Street Project: Changing the Face of Agriculture
For more than a decade, Main Street Project has been working to create new possibilities for the growing numbers of rural Latino immigrantsstranded in low-wage farming and food industry jobs with no benefits and no future. In 2010, Main Street Project set out to create a new regional food system...
United States of America
2017 - Main Street Project
Fiche d'information
EUFarmRecipes book
Copa and Cogeca launch new #EUFarmRecipes book, each recipe with a story to tell, to show consumers that farmers and their cooperatives are the first producers of food
European Union
2017 - Copa&Cogeca
Article de blog
Armenia advances monitoring for sustainable forest management
Forests are among the most threatened ecosystems in Armenia, with degradation accelerating. But the country is committed to achieving sustainability in forest management, and a three-day workshop opening here today will help move things in the right direction.
Organized by the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Food and...
Armenia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article de blog
Jóvenes rurales de América Latina y el Caribe definen una agenda regional de cara a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Con el propósito de construir una agenda de trabajo para las juventudes rurales en la región, se reúnen en Panamá más de 70 representantes de organizaciones de jóvenes rurales, de los Ministerios de Agricultura y organismos internacionales y de integración regional de América Latina y el Caribe.
De acuerdo con la...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Kenya says no to genetically modified maize trials
Kenya is withholding approval for field trials of genetically modified (GM) maize because some officials argue that a ban on GM imports applies to controlled growing tests as well, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. Talks involving representatives from the health and environment ministries and the Kenya’s...
Kenya
2017 - People's Coalition for Food Sovereignty
Article de blog
Dairy farming in Georgia becomes more productive – and profitable
Georgia has all of the ideal conditions for dairy farming. And demand for milk, cheese and other dairy products – many of which are produced only here – continues to grow.
Recognizing that potential, FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have been supporting Georgian commercial dairy farmers...
Georgia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Allocution
Charter for CSAs in the USA and Canada
Collectively written by CSA farmers and promotors in the United States and in Canada during 2016, to prepare the 2017 CSA Day, on February 24th.
The North American CSA community, taking a clue from the rapid growth of CSAs in new areas of the world (France, UK, all of Europe, China), is proposing the adoption of a CSA Charter that provides a definition of what CSA is all about.
Together, regional networks and independent CSAs will launch...
Canada - United States of America
2017 - Urgenci
Manuel
Cría porcina a campo para pequeños productores familiares de Tucumán
Las producciones agropecuarias familiares en Argentina siguen asumiendo un rol preponderante como proveedoras de alimentos en la economía nacional. En este sentido, se destaca la producción porcina que, según datos del SENASA (2016), el 96% de los productores porcinos tiene menos de 50 madres a nivel nacional. Esta situación se...
Argentina
2017 - Centro Regional Tucumán - Santiago del Estero Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá. INTA
Rapport
Supporting the Development of Collective Economic Forms in Agriculture
To complement the skills development process, a tailor–made guide material on how best to facilitate learning was developed. The said guide material is actually this manual which is a product of an initially tested training design (run in May 2013) and enriched with feedback from the training management team and...
2017 - International Cooperation Division (ICD) Vietnam National Farmers Union (VNFU)
Site web
Campaña Mujeres Rurales
La Campaña se enmarca en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y se basa en las reflexiones de Ia Conferencia de la Mujer Rural en América Latina y el Caribe (Brasilia, 2014) y la XIII Conferencia Regional de la Mujer (Montevideo, 2016), así como en la experiencia de dos campañas...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Étude de cas
Improving food security, nutrition and income of tribal smallholder farmers in Sundagarh District, Odisha, India
More than a thousand smallholder farmers from predominantly tribal Sundargarh district have been supported to adopt or extend locally appropriate, low-cost, sustainable farming practices to improve food and nutritional security and increase income.
The Centre for Integrated Rural and Tribal Development (CIRTD), a long term partner of ActionAid India in Sundargarh...
India
2017 - Action Aid India
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