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Family farming in sub-Saharan Africa: its contribution to agriculture, food security and rural development
This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in Africa and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. The main objective of the study is to depict family farming’s diversity in the region. Furthermore, it examines the contribution of family...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Pratiques
Comment fabriquer une vareuse
En tant qu’apiculteur, les vêtements de protection sont indispensables pour travailler dans de bonnes conditions et se protéger des piqûres d’abeilles. Il existe différents types de tenues de protection. Cette fiche décrit la fabrication d’un modèle qui est une blouse de protection qui vous sera bien utile. Elle a été...
Democratic Republic of the Congo
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Organic farming in Austria is family farming
Organic farming in Austria has undergone various development phases, starting from the pioneer phase in the inter-war period and a phase of institutionalisation between the 1970ies and the 1980ies when organic associations were founded and first regulations for the certification of organic products were established (Austrian Food Code). From the...
Austria
2016 - Federal Institute for Less-Favoured and Mountainous Areas
Rapport
Final Report of the Regional Meeting on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Regional Meeting on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean was successfully held in Brasilia, Brazil from 24 to 26 June 2015. It was organized jointly by FAO, the Ministry of Agrarian Development of Brazil, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Specialized Meeting on Family...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Site web
Exhibits on Google Cultural Institute
Fundația ADEPT Transilvania is listed among the 1.000 worldwide cultural institutions on the Google Cultural Institute, which brings together millions of artifacts from multiple partners, with the stories that bring them to life, in a virtual museum
Romania
2016 - Google
Article de blog
FAO project to improve food security of Tajikistan migrants’ households
The families of migrants who have left Tajikistan in search of work abroad will be an important focus of a new FAO project set to get under way here soon.
The three-year project, entitled “Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition in Selected Countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia”...
Tajikistan
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations
Note/document d'orientation
Baltic stocks: comments and highlights
Following ICES advice for 2017, LIFE’s Members of the Baltic Region (including Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany) elaborated the comments and highlights below, to be presented to decision-makers, with concrete proposals for a correct management of Baltic stocks.
Denmark - Germany - Poland - Sweden
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Bulletin d'information
Regional Office for Africa Quarterly Newsletter for a Hunger-Free Africa: May - August 2016
This Edition of RAF Newsletter captures the key projects and success stories of FAO across the subregion of Africa. It also present to readers news highlights and titbits of FAO activities in focus.
Central African Republic - Djibouti - Eritrea - Ghana - Sierra Leone - Somalia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Urban farming and food security in Nairobi's informal settlements
Nairobi, the bustling economic center of East Africa, faces rapid urbanization like many other African cities. The ongoing expansion of urban areas, especially informal settlements, poses a severe challenge to food security for its about 3,7 million inhabitants. One estimate suggests that about 38 percent of the city's population suffer...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Women's roles in the West African food system
Implications and prospects for food security and resilience
This paper examines how women’s empowerment is essential for food and nutrition security and resilience in West Africa and suggests policy “pointers” arising from the West African experience that can help inform policies and strategies, particularly in view of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. West African women play a...
2016 - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Ouvrage
Peace and Food Security
Investing in resilience to sustain rural livelihoods amid conflict
The vast majority of those affected by conflict situations are those dependent on rural livelihoods, most of whom prefer to remain neutral but often have no choice but to join of flee in order to eat.
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Animals & trees for a better crop
In semi-arid West Africa, farmers and herders explain why and how trees and livestock play a crucial role in obtaining a productive soil and crop. In Niger and Ghana this is one of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management that has a positive effect across agroclimatic zones....
2016 - AccessAgriculture
Article de blog
Semillas mejoradas para pequeños productores, un impulso a la agricultura mexicana
“Buscar un modelo en el que las semillas mejoradas lleguen al productor es fundamental para impulsar la agricultura en México”, así lo expresó Sanjaya Rajaram, Premio Mundial de Alimentación 2014, en su intervención durante la cuarta edición de Foros Milenio.
Entre los retos que México debe enfrentar en cuestión de seguridad...
Mexico
2016 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)
Étude de cas
Varietal development and the effectiveness of seed sector policies
The case of rice in Nigeria
Seed is an essential input in agriculture, and the availability of quality seed of superior varieties is often critical for improved food security and poverty reduction in developing countries like Nigeria. However, while the Nigerian government recognizes the importance of improving seed availability, its recent focus in the seed sector...
Nigeria
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Revue spécialisée
CIHEAM Watch Letter 37 - Mediterranean Agriculture and Climate Change
Climatic constraints, especially the scarcity of water and land resources have always been characteristic of Mediterranean agricultural systems that have developed ingenious farming systems to adapt. Today, the resilience of these systems is challenged since climatic disruptions will generate different conditions for agricultural production throughout the region and will impact...
2016 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)
Conférence/Réunion
A meeting of minds in Warsaw
Saturday 29th October, Warsaw - Member organisations and invited guests met in Warsaw, Poland to celebrate LIFE’s work in support of the small scale, low impact fishers of Europe
Poland
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Événement
International Year of Pulses - Global Dialogue
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is organizing a Global Dialogue (GD) on the International Year of Pulses 2016 at its headquarters in Rome, Italy from 22 to 23 November 2016. The GD will provide a forum for various stakeholders in the pulses sector, to discuss the issues...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article de blog
Biodiversity for food and agriculture is focus of Bonn consultation
The region of Europe and Central Asia is blessed with a wealth of crop, livestock, fish and forest genetic resources in diverse production systems. Unfortunately those resources are suffering from overexploitation, misuse and degradation and require immediate attention.
Germany
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations
Article de revue spécialisée
Evaluación agroecológica de sistemas hortícolas de dos zonas del oriente antioqueño, Colombia
La agroecología es un nuevo paradigma de la producción agrícola que se empieza a extender en las diferentes regiones con vocación agrícola de Colombia, sin embargo, se hace necesario conocer en detalle las características de estos sistemas y su nivel de sostenibilidad. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la...
Colombia
2016 - Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Document de travail
The rights to social protection and adequate food
Human rights‐based frameworks for social protection in the context of realizing the right to food and the need for legal underpinnings
The right to adequate food lies at the heart of the mandate of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). That concept takes into consideration the availability, access and adequacy of food, and that individuals, alone or in community with others, may acquire food through their own...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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