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Article de blog
ALECA: Une menace pour l'agriculture tunisienne?
L'agriculture tunisienne, considérée jusque là comme un secteur refuge et défiscalisé par les agriculteurs et les investisseurs privés tunisiens, ne peut tenir, éventuellement, la concurrence prévue par la libéralisation des échanges des produits agricoles avec l'Europe qu'à plusieurs conditions.
La première consiste pour ce secteur à accroître ses exportations à 8%...
Tunisia
2016
Ouvrage
Potentially Important Food Plants of Uganda
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human bodies require those nutrients.
The resources created by FPS allows people to better...
Uganda
2016 - Food Plant Solutions
Article de blog
How Italian Mountain Honey Is Made
Think of Italy and one thinks of food, but not many people think 'mountains.' Yet mountains remain a principle source of the traditional, handcrafted food production Italy is famous for.
Since climate and gradients combined render large-scale industrial agriculture unfeasible, food traditions and environmental health endure in most of Italy's mountains....
Italy
2016 - EUROMONTANA
Article de blog
Farmers’ Rights Consultation
Farmers’ Rights Global Consultation, held between 27-30 of September in Bali, organized by the Government of Indonesia with support from The Government of Norway and The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA).
Indonesia
2016
Rapport
Transitioning out of GM maize
Towards nutrition security, climate adaptation, agro-ecology and social justice
Coinciding with World Food Day, the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), in a new report titled “Transitioning out of GM maize: towards nutrition security, climate adaptation, agro-ecology and social justice” makes a compelling case for South Africa to urgently transition out of GM maize production, to systems that are socially...
South Africa
2016 - African Centre for Biodiversity
Projet
Increasing Productivity of Wheat-Legume Cropping Systems for Smallholders under Changing Climate in Drylands
West Asia and North Africa is the most water scarce region in the world. The mounting challenges with climate change is fast undermining the region’s ability to feed its growing population. The region is the most food-import dependent in the world. Farmers confront erratic rainfall, frequent droughts, increasing salinity, and...
2016 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Article
China and FAO strengthen South-South Cooperation
After decades of successful collaboration, China and FAO have agreed to broaden the scope of their cooperation, building on their achievements to further promote rural development worldwide.
China
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Article de revue
Enhancing crop diversity leads to farm resilience
Mono-cropping of cash crops for generating incomes has displaced mixed farming systems and associated local crop diversity, negatively impacting on food security and climate resilience. Initiatives to produce improved varieties through participatory varietal selection, intercropping trials with pulses and millets and promoting local millet seed production through community seed banks...
2016 - Leisa India
Projet
Transition agropastorale des steppes et processus d’évolution des écosystèmes pâturés
Le projet porte sur les voies à explorer pour retrouver des équilibres entre les usages pour l’élevage et la capacité des végétations steppiques à se renouveler. La transformation des sociétés basées sur l’élevage avait été appelée la "Révolution silencieuse" du pastoralisme au Maghreb dès les années 1990. Elle s’expliquait par...
Algeria
2016 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Pratiques
Aquaponics in Indonesia: Bumina and Yumina systems as an integrated farming technique combining vegetables, fruits and fish
Aquaponics is a symbiotic integration of two mature food production disciplines. Aquaculture (the science of fish farming) and hydroponics (the science of growing plants without soil) are combined within a closed recirculating system. This technology describes in detail how to build Bumina and Yumina special aquaponic type systems. Bumina system...
Indonesia
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Pratiques
Tecnologías para el ahorro de mano de obra: tracción animal y procesado mecánico de cultivos
Este artículo incluye algunos ejemplos de uso de la tracción animal como fuente de energía para operaciones de post-cosecha. Detalla las características del equipo de tiro impulsado por animales, molienda motorizada de granos (molinos de placa, de rodillos y de martillos), extracción de aceite motorizada (prensa de tornillo sinfín, prensa...
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Article de blog
Who will feed the Nyeleni-Europe forum? Portrait of a producer
Enike and Istvan run a CSA farm that provides many of our Ecoruralis hosts with their weekly box on a year-round basis. The essential aspects of shared risk and benefits are in place, as is the year-long commitment to their farm, even if payment is made on a weekly basis....
Romania
2016 - URGENCI
Rapport
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
In the coming year, the Commission will work in the framework of the 10 priorities outlined in the Political Guidelines – presented at the start of our mandate following discussions with the European Parliament and inspired by the European Council's 'Strategic agenda for the Union in times of change' –...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Ouvrage
An economic assessment of GHG mitigation policy options for EU agriculture
The project 'Economic Assessment of GHG mitigation policy options for EU agriculture (EcAMPA)' is designed to assess some aspects of a potential inclusion of the agricultural sector into the EU 2030 climate policy framework. In the context of possible reductions of non-CO2 emissions from EU agriculture, the scenario results of...
European Union
2016 - European Commission
Rapport
An Evaluation of the Program on Enhancing Resilience to Natural Disasters and the Effects of Climate Change in Bangladesh
The overall objective of the ER+ component is to assist ultra-poor women and their families in disaster-prone areas of Bangladesh in lifting themselves above the lower poverty line toward greater food security. To achieve the objective, a third “promotional” year has been introduced to ER, during which women—either ER laborers/trainees...
Bangladesh
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI
Article de blog
New ways of thinking about farmland and forest management
Rural land provides a range of key functions and services on which society depends. However environmental and social benefits continue to be undervalued in land management decisions.
Using the concepts of public goods and ecosystem services, the PEGASUS project will investigate new ways of thinking about the way farmland and forests...
European Union
2016 - Eip-Agri
Partie de rapport
Research for agri committee - food value chain in the EU - how to improve it and strengthen the bargaining power of farmers
The food supply chain plays a substantial role in the European economy, connecting sectors such as agricultural, food processing industry and distribution that together make more than 5% of European value-added and 7% of employment. Furthermore, all European consumers are directly affected by EU food supply chain performance since food...
European Union
2016 - Euroepan Parliament
Article de blog
Georgia develops production and certification of seeds
A new laboratory in the village of Tsilkani in Georgia has been furnished with all the equipment needed to conduct seed quality control – thanks to an FAO project financed by Austria.
Operated by the Scientific Research Centre of Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture with, the new lab is equipped with seed...
Georgia
2016 - Food and Agriculture of the United Nations
Événement
European Development Days: Europe’s leading forum on development since 2006
Organised by the European Commission, the European Development Days (EDD) bring the development community together each year to share ideas and experiences in ways that inspire new partnerships and innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
For its tenth anniversary, EDD 2016 will focus on the ‘2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
Belgium
2016
Article de blog
La FAO et l’INRA organisent un atelier de démarrage du projet de la conservation de la biodiversité et de la gestion du patrimoine agricole
L’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture (FAO) et l’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) ont lancé le projet de « Conservation de la biodiversité et la gestion adaptative des systèmes ingénieux du patrimoine agricole au Maroc ».
Un investissement de 772.000 dollars est attribué pour préserver la biodiversité des systèmes agricoles...
Morocco
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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