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EU Cooperative leaders present agri-cooperatives
Dynamic cooperatives leaders introduce their agri-cooperatives in different EU Member States and explain how EU agri-cooperatives increase the value output of their farm in the market, while active member participation in the governance of their cooperative, ensures that all actions of the cooperative are in the best interest of members...
2016 - Copa & Cogeca
Revue spécialisée
Nature & Faune: Sustainable management of forests and wildlife in Africa
This second edition of the 30th volume of Nature & Faune journal focusses on Sustainable management of forests and wildlife in Africa: Enhancing value, benefits and services. The choice of theme reflects some key recommendations of the 20th session of the African Forestry and Wildlife Commission (AFWC) held in Nairobi,...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Agricultural policy: At the limits of green growth
At a rural development conference in Cork at the beginning of the month, 330 stakeholders were brought together to consider the challenges facing the agricultural sector. One can only speculate what was meant by the following sentence, found in the preamble to the declaration that was signed at its conclusion:...
European Union
2016 - Euractiv
Conférence/Réunion
Farm-Success kick-off meeting, Freising, Germany
The Farm-Success Project was started by a kick-off meeting on the TUM campus of Weihenstephan in Freising, Germany on the 22-23rd October 2015. Representatives from each of the Project’s eight partners attended the kick-off meeting; the first meeting of many transnational meetings held throughout the duration of the Project. The...
2016
Pratiques
Shashe Agroecology School: A true centre of Agroecology and practical food Sovereignty
The experience of the Shashe community in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe, is a microcosm of the broader vision of La Via Campesina (LVC). Shashe is a community of peasant farmers who gained their land first through a land occupation, and were then benefitted by the Fast Track Land Reform Program implemented...
Zimbabwe
2016 - La Via Campesina Africa
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....
Niger
2016 - Access Agriculture
Étude de cas
Desafíos de la seguridad hídrica en América Latina y el Caribe
El estudio procede a identificar los desafíos que debe enfrentar la gestión del agua en la región para alcanzar una adecuada seguridad hídrica. Dichos desafíos se relacionan con los acelerados cambios sociales, económicos y políticos que experimentan las sociedades de América Latina y el Caribe.
2016 - Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)
Rapport
Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines
What’s in it for Newfoundland and Labrador?
The SSF Guidelines are an instrument dedicated to small-scale fisheries sector, which is often overlooked and marginalized. The SSF Guidelines represent a multinational consensus on principles and guidance for the governance and development of smallscale fisheries. Their development came about with the aid of representatives from various small-scale fisheries stakeholders...
Canada
2016 - Too Big To Ignore
Article de blog
Climate Smart Agriculture in Madagascar
Focus on Vakinankaratra, Vatovavy Fitovinany and Androy regions
Madagascar is currently the 5th worldwide among countries most exposed to risks due to climate change and the first country in Africa exposed. For 30 years since 1980, natural hazards including droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, cyclones and extreme temperatures, caused economic damage of more than $ 1 billion in Madagascar...
Madagascar
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Armenia improving its capacity to reduce food insecurity, malnutrition
Having made major strides in reducing the prevalence of hunger, Armenia, like other countries in Europe and Central Asia, is now working on progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security policy.
A US$ 6 million project entitled “Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security...
Armenia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ouvrage
Género y políticas de tierras
Experiencias en cuatro países de América Latina partir de los Criterios de Evaluación de Género de GLTN
La presente publicación recoge cuatro de estos estudios con los que se evaluaron distintas políticas y herramientas con enfoque de género utilizando los Criterios de Género desarrollados por GLTN. Los estudios se elaboraron en 2014 en Nicaragua, Colombia, Costa Rica y Bolivia.
El estudio considera la revisión y análisis de las siguientes leyes y programas:
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Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Colombia - Costa Rica - Nicaragua
2016 - International Land Coalition (ILC)
Article de blog
No peace without freedom from want
At Kenya conference, FAO leader highlights role of agriculture in preventing conflict, enabling recovery
"Ending hunger and malnutrition, addressing humanitarian and protracted crises, preventing and resolving conflicts, and building peace are not separate tasks, but simply different facets of the same challenge," Graziano da Silva said at a side-event on ‘Peace and Food Security', hosted by FAO, at the sixth Tokyo International Conference on...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Événement
Regional training on Fisheries and Aquaculture Emergency Response
Responding to emergencies and disasters, whether natural or human-induced, has become an increasingly important part of the mandate of international organizations over the past decades. This trend is likely to continue into the future, particularly as the impacts of climate change, and the increase in episodes of conflict, become more...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Vidéos
Composting to beat striga
Compost is more powerful than manure. What is less known is that the micro-organisms in compost attack striga seeds in the soil. Compost also decreases the amount of striga that will sprout, and reduces its negative effect on cereal crops. Let us look at how farmers in northeast Mali make...
Mali
2016 - Access Agriculture
Article de revue spécialisée
Urban harvests: food security and local fish and shellfish in Southcentral Alaska
Alaska is known for its many fisheries, which support an extensive global marketplace, a thriving tourism industry, and also contribute much to diets of many Alaskans. Yet, some research has suggested that Alaska’s food security has been impacted negatively by the development of export-oriented commercial fisheries and tourism-oriented sport fisheries....
2016
Étude de cas
Seed Mothers
The Adivasi communities of Odisha, India, have experienced substantial losses of many natural resources from their area, which are key elements ensuring their food and livelihood security. Many farmers from the Adivasi communities have lost diverse varieties of traditional local crops like millet based mix crops while trying out market...
India
2016 - Organisation for Rural Reconstruction & Integrated Social Service Activities (ORRISSA)
Bulletin d'information
Farmletter
World Farmers’ Organisation Newsletter. The topic this month is the Generational Renewal in Agriculture, stressing the key role of youth in the sector.
2016 - World Farmers Organization
Vidéos
Historia con mujeres, mujeres en la historia - "Protagonistas rurales"
Esta es la historia de vida de Mira Díaz, nacida y criada en los ingenios azucareros de Tucumán, un ejemplo de mujer luchadora incansable. En los ’60 ante los cierres de éstos, y la pérdida de miles de empleos, Mira trabajó y peleó por la equidad de derechos de las...
Argentina
2016 - Unidad para el Cambio Rural (UCAR)
Article de blog
Promotion of family farming
Inades-Formation believes that family farming is the basis for security and food sovereignty of people in Africa. Therefore, the indispensable solution to eradicate hunger and food insecurity in Africa is the support (political, economic, technical and institutional) and the promotion of family farming. By improving its productivity, family farming can...
2016 - Inades-Formation
Vidéos
Grow row by row
Farmers in northern Nigeria are changing the way they intercrop their sorghum and millet with cowpea. By planting both crops at higher densities and in separate rows, and by applying some organic fertilizer, they harvest more and reduce damage by the parasitic weed striga. It is one of the strategies...
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
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