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Rapport
Street food in urban Ghana
A desk-top review and analysis of findings and recommendations from existing literature
In Africa street food vending and consumption have proliferated in the last three and a half decades, especially in urban areas. People who face barriers to the formal wage labor market find in street food vending a viable income option, as it requires little start-up capital and no formal education....
Ghana
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Una política agraria y rural de Estado
Cuando las Cortes Generales aprobaron la Ley 45/2007, para el Desarrollo Sostenible del Medio Rural, el objetivo fundamental era llenar un vacío legislativo y político que supliera la ausencia de una legislación y de una política rural propias, que se había cubierto parcialmente con reglamentos y políticas derivadas de la...
Spain
2016 - La Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA)
Événement
Segundo concurso buenas prácticas en agricultura familiar
La Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF) y el Programa Fidamercosur CLAEH convocan a una nueva edición del concurso Buenas Prácticas en Agricultura Familiar.
Este concurso premiará y difundirá experiencias exitosas en sus contextos locales, que puedan constituirse en disparadoras de ideas y experiencias aplicables en otros contextos diversos. Los proyectos...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - Ecuador - Paraguay - Uruguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2016 - Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar (REAF)
Article
Small-scale fisheries: the exception should not be the rule
Brian O’Riordan, LIFE’s Deputy Director, explains to the readers of Inshore Ireland the consequences of the “tradition of exemptions” and the future steps needed for a correct management of the small-scale fleet in the long term.
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Article de blog
Georgia signs four-year cooperation agreement with FAO
Continuous improvement of Georgia’s agriculture, food safety, veterinary services and plant protection – and its response to climate change, biodiversity and other environmental issues – are the priorities set out in a new agreement with FAO
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations
Article de blog
UN FAO warns progress to defeat hunger is slowing in Asia-Pacific while obesity is on the rise as diets change
The Asia-Pacific region is home to more than 60 percent of the roughly 800 million hungry people in the world. Since 1990, the region as a whole managed to reduce hunger by half – a key objective of the former Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But most of those gains were made in the earlier...
Thailand
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rapport
New entrants into farming
A collection of short examples of initiatives/projects related to new entrants into farming (mostly small scale)
Belgium - Bulgaria - Czechia - European Union - Finland - France - Germany - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Slovakia - Spain - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - EIP-AgRI Agriculture & Innovation
Article de blog
Rays of hope for the ‘local’ in Meghalaya
Even as many pockets of the state, including its capital, battle the ravages of development and consumerism, a couple of villages visited by the author stand as examples of resilient local economies and lifestyles.
The village is not very old; it all began in 1963 with three families. Nongtraw comprises of...
India
2016 - India Together
Article de revue spécialisée
Agricultura Familiar na América Latina
A Difusão do Conceito e a Construção de Sujeitos Políticos
O presente artigo analisa a “agricultura familiar” na América Latina, como manifestação dos modos de vida e complexidades da região. Debate-se a categoria como “conceito-síntese” das rupturas e continuidades do Agro latino-americano.
Brazil
2016 - Revista Brasileira de Sociologia do Direito (RBSD)
Article de blog
Accra hosts 7th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (ADFNS)
As FAO assesses school feeding facilities in Africa
On the occasion of the 7th Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security commemorated in Accra, this year, under the theme “Investing in Food Systems for Improving Child Nutrition: Key to Africa’s Renaissance”, FAO called for multi-stakeholder public private partnerships at national, regional and regional levels to address the problem...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
Urban Agriculture
Twelve Organizations Promoting Urban Agriculture around the World
The international community is beginning to recognize the integral role of urban agriculture in improving the economy, environment, and health of cities. The Resource Center on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF) Foundation expects that by 2020, 85 percent of the poor in Latin America, and about 40 to 45...
2016 - Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN)
Article de blog
Garantia-Safra beneficia mais de 580 mil famílias em 2016
Assegurar condições mínimas de sobrevivência aos agricultores familiares do Nordeste e do Semiárido Brasileiro sujeitos à perda sistemática de safra em função da seca ou do excesso de chuva. Essa é a função do Garantia-Safra (GS), uma ação da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) que...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Article de blog
Canada steps up to support struggling rural families in eastern Ukraine
When living conditions for households along the conflict line in Eastern Ukraine went from bad to worse, help came from the Government of Canada. The allocation of CDN 3 million will bolster and extend FAO’s emergency response and recovery work in the area.
This assistance from Canada, due to start in...
Ukraine
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations
Article
Sustainable tea production - A non-chemical approach to pest management
As part of a Unileveler-funded Project, CABI in South Asia and the Tocklai Tea Research Institute (TTRI) in India organized a workshop on sustainable tea production. Entitled ‘A non-chemical approach to pest management’, the workshop was held on 18 February at the Tocklai Tea Research Institute, Jorhat, and looked at ecological...
India
2016 - CABI
Étude de cas
Granjas agro-acuícolas demostrativas para el fortalecimiento de la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional y el ingreso familiar en Guatemala
Una evaluación preliminar de impacto
Esta sistematización presenta las experiencias generadas a partir de la implementación de cuatro granjas agroacuícolas entre junio de 2014 y los primeros meses de 2015. Dos de ellas están ubicadas en el municipio de San Luis Jilotepeque, departamento de Jalapa, y las otras dos en los municipios de Sibinal y...
Guatemala
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article du bulletin d’information
High Nature Value (HNV) Farming: Safeguarding Europe’s Biodiversity
Since 1990, in 25 European countries the populations of a group of common farmland birds have been reduced by roughly 25% and in some cases as much as 50%. This decrease in bird numbers along with the wider decrease in biodiversity in the EU is largely related to loss of...
European Union
2016 - european evaluation helpdesk for rural development
Comptes rendus de conférence
1st Afro-Mediterranean Soils Conference: “Constraints and potentialities for durable management”
165 participants from 18 countries met in Marrakesh from 18-19 December 2015 to discuss the critical condition of soils, especially in Africa. The event was organized by theFondation OCP and INRA Morocco (National Institute for of Agricultural Research) in partnership with FAO. The final communiqué highlights the crucial role soils play for...
2016 - INRA Morocco (National Institute for of Agricultural Research)
Partie de rapport
Rural finance
This chapter considers the link between rural finance and inclusive rural transformation. Rural transformation is defined here as long-lasting economic, social and institutional change, where rural societies diversify their economies to high-valued agriculture and non-farm activities, interact and trade with distant places, move from dispersed villages to towns and cities,...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Rapport
Regional Overview of Food Insecurity
Asia and the Pacific
Many countries in the region met or exceeded the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on hunger several years before the deadline. Going forward, to meet the 2030 hunger target of the Sustainable Development Goals, the challenge will be to fully eliminate the prevalence of undernourishment across the region and to achieve...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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