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Conférence/Réunion
Resource Management and Food Security of Small Scale Farming Systems in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan
The upland grasslands and meadows are one of the most important natural resources in Kyrgyzstan, covering up to 85 % of the designated agricultural areas. Most of the crop and livestock based small scale farms are located there, faced with degradation and loss of biodiversity due to overgrazing. Hence, proper...
Kyrgyzstan
2015
Bulletin d'information
El Niño and increased risk of Rift Valley fever
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic, viral, vector-borne disease representing a threat to human health, animal health and livestock production in Africa, the Near East and potentially, Europe and the rest of the world. Rift Valley fever primarily affects sheep, goats, cattle, camels, buffaloes, and antelopes. The majority of...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Somalia - South Sudan - Sudan - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Extensionismo y agricultura familiar
Recomendaciones para una estrategia integral
Este artículo recoge las principales conclusiones, recomendaciones y lecciones aprendidas de las experiencias que fueron compartidas en el seminario "Extensionismo y agricultura familiar: Recomendaciones para una estrategia integral", realizado el 25 de noviembre de 2014 en CIMMYT, Texcoco, Estado de México.
Mexico
2015 - Programa Modernización Sustentable de la Agricultura Tradicional (MasAgro)
Article de revue
Romania’s Winemaking industry, between past and present
Wine has always been considered the nectar of the gods. Romans called it „vinum”, and Alexander the Great considered it „the blood of the vine, the power of the earth and the eternity of the sun”. To follow the path of the vine on the current territory of Romania means...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Document de travail
Using National Statistics to increase transparency of large land acquisition
Evidence from Ethiopia
The 2007/08 commodity price boom triggered a ‘rush’ for land in developing countries. Yet, many affected countries lacked the regulatory infrastructure to cope with such demand and reliable data on investors’ performance. This study uses the example of Ethiopia to show how simple improvements in administrative data collection can help...
Ethiopia
2015 - World Bank
Événement
Séminaire Sous-Régional sur l’Année Internationale des Sols - Des sols sains pour une vie saine
La rencontre sous régionale sur l’année internationale des sols, sera organisée à l’université de Chlef du 18 au 19 novembre 2015 pour des experts de la sous région (Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie, Mauritanie) et qui viendra couronner la série de conférences et de manifestations au niveau national.
Les thématiques qui seront développées...
Algeria
2015 - Université Hassiba Benbouali de Chlef
Directives
Inclusive Business Models
Guidelines for improving linkages between producer groups and buyers of agricultural produce
Small actors in agricultural value chains are tied to markets through a series of forward and backward business linkages, which incorporate various types of business models. The complexity of these business models varies according to the commodity, number of actors involved, local context and market structure. Aimed at designers of...
2015 - FAO
Article de blog
Erradicar el hambre y la pobreza rural requiere de políticas innovadoras y mejores servicios de comunicación
La lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe debe incorporar innovaciones institucionales, sociales y tecnológicas y mejores servicios de comunicación, señaló la FAO durante el Foro Latinoamericano sobre Desarrollo Territorial, Innovación y Comunicación Rural.
Más de 100 participantes de 15 países de América Latina...
2015 - Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe
Article de revue
Orienting small farms towards the market system with the help of non-repayable financing
Vasile Peica was stimulated to implement this project by several factors among which the growth of the local food products’ consumption, to the disadvantage of the imported products, the local and national demand for sheep products, both milk products (sweet cheese, cheese, cottage cheese) and livestock meat products (lambs and...
Romania
2015
Article de revue spécialisée
Abandonment of Conservation Agriculture by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
This paper examines the determinants of abandonment of conservation agriculture (CA) techniques among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe. The analysis uses four rounds of a balanced panel from a survey aimed at monitoring CA adoption among farmers who participated in CA promotion projects. Findings indicate that a large share of farmers...
Zimbabwe
2015
Partie d’un ouvrage
Land Reform Programme
This chapter discusses land issues in southern Africa in general, and in Zimbabwe in particular. At independence most African states with settler white farmers inherited a skewed land distribution in favour of the white commercial farmers. Countries like Namibia and South Africa, among others, embarked on some land redistribution programmes...
Namibia - South Africa - Zimbabwe
2015 - Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Partie d’un ouvrage
Food and nutrition security implications of crop diversification in Malawi’s farm households
Although dramatic increases in maize yields since the implementation of the Farm Income Subsidy Program (FISP)—the major national program that subsidizes fertilizer and improved seed primarily for maize cultivation—have likely enhanced household maize self-sufficiency (Chibwana et al. 2012), Malawian diets remain poorly diversified. Indeed, the contribution of foods other than...
Malawi
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Ouvrage
The economic lives of smallholder farmers
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nepal - Nicaragua - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
Editorial - Soils: where the roots of agroecology and family farming lie
Healthy soils contribute to resilient food production. Soil carbon is a key to healthy soils but, today we see the long-term consequences of agricultural management that has neglected soil carbon – degraded soils, polluted waters, and unprecedented rates of hunger and malnutrition. There are good examples of agroecological practices that...
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Conférence/Réunion
7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (Ec-Plf)
University of Milan is pleased to Welcome you to the 7thEuropean Conference on Precision Livestock Farming that will be held from the 15th to the 18th of September, 2015, in Milan, Italy.
The European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming takes place every two years, and during the last edition was confirmed...
Italy
2015
Article de blog
Frentes parlamentarios contra el hambre adoptan el plan de erradicación del hambre de CELAC y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible como prioridades
Los frentes parlamentarios contra el hambre de la región establecieron el plan de erradicación del hambre de la Comunidad de los Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) y los nuevo Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, como sus dos prioridades de trabajo para 2016, señaló hoy la FAO.
Alrededor de ochenta legisladores de veinticinco...
2015 - Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe
Ouvrage
Professionalisation of family farming
Tools for technical and organisational capacity-building of farmers’ organisations in sub-Saharan Africa
According to the FAO, IFAD and the WFP, 805 million people in the world – one person in nine – suffer from hunger. Humanity has the means to put an end to hunger, but the key will be to invest in family farming to ‘feed the world by producing more...
2015 - CTA
Article de revue
Livia Gîrboiu - Winemaking as a family legacy
The Gîrboiu wine cellar is a family business created in 2005. The vineyards are set in the Cotești village, located in an area with a climate extremely favorable for growing grapevine and a soil rich in mineral, unique in the south-east of Romania.
This area has a vast tradition in winemaking,...
Romania
2015 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Site web
Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB)
La Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB), fue constituida legalmente el 26 de junio de 1979, mediante Resolución suprema nº 200352 de fecha (1-8-85). Es la máxima organización natural que representa al conjunto de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia con...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB)
Article de blog
La agricultura familiar presente en FeriCerdo
Qué es lo que se debe tener en cuenta en la producción porcina de pequeña escala?. Para responder a esa pregunta se llevó a cabo hoy en el marco de FERICERDO 2015 una charla sobre La Cadena Porcina de la Agricultura Familiar. Lo que se analizó es qué estrategias son las...
Argentina
2015 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)
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