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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
Étude de cas
Produccion Agroecologica de cereales y carne Bovina en un Establecimiento Agropecuario Extensivo (650 Has) en el sudeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires de la Republica Argentina. El caso de “La Aurora” una experiencia de 25 años
El establecimiento "La Aurora" se encuentra al sudeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires a 400 Km. de la capital Federal de la República Argentina, en una zona de producción mixta de ganadería y agricultura. Es de tipo familiar, con 650 Has, de las cuales 300 son de suelo agrícola,...
Argentina
2016 - Productor Agropecuario
Article de blog
How Nordic countries can inspire the EU’s bioenergy policy
The forest not only supplies the raw material for paper and solid wood products, it also has a great potential for renewable energy production. As the EU designs its energy and climate policy for post-2020, it is essential to consider this remarkable asset.
Without a congruent EU bioenergy policy with the...
European Union - Sweden
2016 - ÉuroActiv
Note/document d'orientation
LIFE’s Baltic Members launch an Action Plan
Following ICES advice for 2017, LIFE’s Members of the Baltic Region (including Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany) elaborated the following action plan, to be presented to decision-makers, with concrete proposals for a correct management of the Western Baltic Cod stock. Cod is one of the main sources of income for...
Denmark - Germany - Poland - Sweden
2016 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Document technique
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)
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