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Article de blog
Seeing is believing: the impact of soil management- Western Kenya
For over a decade, CIAT has tested agronomic and soil management practices in Western Kenya. From minimum tillage to integrated soil fertility management, two trials, established in 2003, are the most comprehensive picture of tropical soil health in Kenya.
What these trials allow us to do is show-case changes in soil...
Kenya
2016 - African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT)
Article de blog
The Paris Agreement and African agriculture
African countries need to focus on enhancing their adaptive capacities and reduce their vulnerability to climate change. Translating that momentum quickly into the agriculture sectors, neglected in the Paris Agreement, should be central to a holistic and comprehensive transformation of African economies.
2016
Article de blog
Industrial agriculture threatens to drive German smallholders into ruin
The existence of many farms in Germany is dependent on the level of economic pressure and competition brought by larger scale holdings. More and more small farmers are being driven into ruin and the environment is paying a hefty price
Germany
2016 - EurActiv
Événement
Food for the Future
The main purposes of the HSBC Water Program are to provide and protect water sources, to inform and educate communities; to enable people to prosper and to drive economic development across the world.
The full HSBC Water Program objectives can be found through the link https://www.thewaterhub.org/about
Under this program come Food for the Future...
United Arab Emirates
2016 - International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA)
Article de blog
Sead está implantando 640 bancos de sementes crioulas no Nordeste
Um dos maiores programas para fomentar o acesso às sementes crioulas do mundo está sendo implementado pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead) na região Nordeste do Brasil. Um Termo de Execução Descentralizada foi assinado pela Sead com a rede de Articulação Semiárida Brasileira (Asa). O convênio...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Rapport
Gender and Rural Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Key Issues
This product has been produced as part of the identification of key issues on gender and rural development that has served in the preparation of the Regional Gender Strategy approved by the REU ADG. It is a brief overview of key issues affecting the status of rural women in the...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Revue spécialisée
Derecho a la alimentación: Más allá del hambre
Perspectivas para el cumplimiento de un derecho multidimensional
La nueva publicación de la serie Cuadernos de Difusión del Centro de Estudios Internacionales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (CEIUC) se enfoca en una temática de creciente importancia en la actualidad y que ha ido concitando interés en la discusión de distintos foros internacionales: el derecho a la...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Peru
2016 - Centro de Estudios Internacionales de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
Note/document d'orientation
El rol de la mujer en la pesca y la acuicultura
A nivel mundial, la pesca de captura y la acuicultura proporcionan empleo directo a unas 200 millones de personas, la mayoría de las cuales trabaja en el sector artesanal a pequeña escala, lo que representa el 70 % de la producción pesquera. Las mujeres representan alrededor del 50 % de las personas...
Chile - Colombia - Paraguay - Peru
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Manuel
Guía operativa: Experiencia de la Escuela Nacional de Agroecología (ENA)
El presente documento es en una guía operativa que recoge la experiencia vivida durante el proceso de desarrollo de la Escuela nacional de agroecología (ENA) impulsadas por Heifer Ecuador, con el fin de poder dotar de insumos operativos y metodológicos a futuras iniciativas de formación sistemática en torno al eje...
Ecuador
2016 - Fundación Heifer Ecuador
Rapport
Set for success
Climate proofing the Malabo Declaration (2016)
Despite continuous positive economic growth at an average of 5% per year, Africa needs accelerated economic development if it is to cope with the increasing demands for food, water and energy challenged by a rapidly growing population, rapid urbanisation and climate change. The pressure on African countries to boost productivity...
2016 - Agriculture for Impact
Article de blog
AfDB modernises agriculture in São Tomé and Príncipe
An analysis of the various constraints highlights issues of isolation, value chain weaknesses and low stakeholder capacity. In addition, low infrastructure development, with structurally high costs affect the competitiveness of all sectors of the economy. This situation prompted the Bank to finance the Infrastructure Rehabilitation for Food Security Support Project...
Sao Tome and Principe
2016 - African Development Bank Group
Rapport
Pig report 2016
The report show that strengths and chances derive from modern meat processing and marketing, high performance infrastructure and logistics. On agricultural level the strong and dense organizational structure is highly influential. The good capacity-building system provides high productivity. Also increasing number of fattening units thus, increasing pork production.
European Union
2016 - agri benchmark
Pratiques
Elaboración de velas de cera de abejas estampada
Una alternativa para la elaboración de velas con las características que posee la cera de abeja es utilizándola cómo cera estampada. Esta cera puede ser la misma que se utiliza para los marcos o bien puede ser teñida con algún colorante para proporcionar mayor cantidad de alternativas de mezclar colores....
Mexico
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Vidéos
Inspirational ideas: Online videos to bring consumers and farmers closer
The main objective is that the videos give consumers an insight into how the milk they drink is produced. It shows what life and work on farms in the region is really like, increasing the connection between producer and consumer. Christine Licher from the association speaking to The Local said...
Germany
2016 - EIP-AGRI Agriculture and Innovation
Divers
FAO Regional Initiatives for Country Level Impact in Asia and the Pacific
FAO has been implementing Regional Initiatives as a mechanism to help deliver its work at country and regional levels since 2013. The Regional Initiatives emphasize impact through well focused activities that address the most important challenges in food and nutrition security at country and regional levels. Together with its country,...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Note/document d'orientation
Strengthening community-based commodity organizations
Strategies and organizational design options for optimizing smallholder farmer engagement with the private sector
Smallholder farmers, those producing on less than 5 acres, remain the backbone of agricultural production: smallholder farming is the livelihood of more than 50 per cent of the population in most developing countries. With this rising demand, agribusinesses, both local and multinational, are growing and increasingly seeking to source production...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
Green milk – making dairy more environmentally friendly
Cow’s milk accounts for almost 3 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, but skimming the waste from dairy production in Europe could make the business much more sustainable.
Each year, around 140 million tonnes of raw milk is produced across Europe which requires an average energy input of 18 400 GWh....
European Union
2016 - HORIZON - The EU Research&Innovation Magazine
Article de blog
Kenya Commits towards wider adoption of Conservation Agriculture
Responding to Climate Change and Food insecurity through Climate-Smart Farming
Stakeholders have committed to a robust plan of institutionalizing conservation agriculture in Kenya. This will be achieved through interventions on commercialization, promotion of large scale adoption at national level and making agriculture attractive to the youth, especially as a form of employment. The two day First National Conservation Agriculture Conference...
Kenya
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
La experiencia de la adaptación al cambio climático en El Puestito
Este artículo da cuenta de la experiencia del proyecto “Adaptación al Cambio Climático en El Puestito”, financiado por el Programa de Desarrollo Rural Incluyente (PRODERI).
Su objetivo es financiar inversiones de carácter comunitario para la adaptación al cambio climático, con un enfoque sistémico, para disminuir los riesgos y daños ocasionados por las...
Argentina
2016 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)
Événement
1st Mediterranean forum: designing sustainable agricultural and production systems under global changes in the Mediterranean
The CIHEAM intends, by launching this Mediterranean initiative for PhD students and young researchers, to set the bases of a permanent forum for communication, dialogue and publication for different partners in the field of research and rural development in the Mediterranean countries.
2016 - International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
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