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Global guidelines for the restoration of degraded forests and landscapes in drylands
Building resilience and benefiting livelihoods
The aim of the guidelines is to enhance restoration efforts in the world’s drylands. They provide specific guidance for policymakers and other decision-makers, and for practitioners. Well-informed policymakers and other higher-order decision-makers can be enablers in the design and implementation of effective restoration efforts by providing appropriate policies, governance mechanisms...
Australia - Burkina Faso - China - Egypt - Ethiopia - India - Lebanon - Mauritania - Nepal - Niger - Peru - Senegal - South Africa - Spain - Syrian Arab Republic - Türkiye - United Republic of Tanzania - Uzbekistan
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Étude de cas
Community supported agriculture thriving in China
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between producers and consumers is strengthened. And China has not been left...
China
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Article de revue
Seminario Regional sobre Agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe
El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida.
2015 - AgriCultures network
Ouvrage
Replacing Chemicals with Biology: Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides with Agroecology
How to replace HHPs with ecosystem-based approaches to pesticide and crop management
2015 - PAN International
Article
Can large-scale agriculture help fight climate change?
Conservation expert Linus Blomqvist and non-profit GRAIN make case for and against
Researchers estimate that between 44% and 57% of all greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) come from the global food system. Agriculture and deforestation caused by agriculture account for 26-33% of total emissions, is making it one of the major contributors of climate change.Chemical fertilisers are the main source of climate-changing gases. No country uses them more...
China
2015 - GRAIN
Article de revue
Agroecology in Asia and the Pacific
A summary of outcomes of the regional consultation
Conscious of the need to embed agroecology within local and regional socio-ecological realities, the first Multistakeholder Consultation on Agroecology for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok in November 2015 assessed the contributions of agroecology in a context of climate change, the need to transform knowledge building and research, and made...
2015 - Leisa India
Ouvrage
Empowering women in Afghanistan: reducing gender gaps through Integrated Dairy Schemes
Milk and dairy products are crucial for the daily food security and income generation of Afghan families, and women play an important role in the related activities. Since 2005, FAO is implementing the Integrated Dairy Schemes (IDS) Project, with financial support of the Afghan, German and Italian Governments and IFAD....
Afghanistan
2015 - FAO
Étude de cas
Keeping composting simple
More than two decades ago in the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, farmers began planting two rice crops each year. Rice production increased, but for how long? Depleted organic matter and acidification are now affecting soil health, and farmers who can’t afford fertilizer are seeing their rice yields declining. This is...
Myanmar
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Article de blog
Reversing fate through love for land, forests and water
Abhijit Mohanty brings us the story of certain tribal villages in Koraput district of southern Odisha that have successfully overcome the challenges posed by denudation and inadequate irrigation and have etched out a path towards food security and well-being.
India
2015 - India Together
Étude de cas
Innovative Experiences of AVSF : Proximity Animal Health Services in Cambodia
During a support partnership with the Royal Agriculture University, AVSF conducted in May 1992 in Cambodia, a study showing how high animals’ morbidity and mortality rates were in the villages. Traditional farming practices, sometimes not really adapted, were an important factor, but beyond, the main reason for such a situation...
Cameroon
2015 - AVSF
Étude de cas
Threatened landscapes unite rural and urban communities
In the past 50 years, about a quarter of Japan’s cultivated land has been lost, threatening food production, cultural landscapes and biodiversity. One of Japan’s most valued cultural landscapes includes rice terraces. In order to prevent them from abandonment, an innovative concept known as the Ownership System, was devised almost...
Japan
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Document de travail
FAO in Asia-Pacific
This publication is about the work of FAO’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and its decades-long struggle to eradicate hunger throughout the region. For more than 60 years RAP has cooperated with member countries to help them produce enough safe and nutritious food for people living in...
2015 - FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Fiche d'information
Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation: Growing Returns from ADB-ICARDA Partnership
The brochure provides an overview of sustainable land management and climate change Adaptation in Central Asia and how they relate to the partnership between ADB and ICARDA.
Azerbaijan - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2015 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
Article
China's polluted soil and water will drive up world food prices
China’s push for more intense farming has kept its city dwellers well-fed and helped lift millions of rural workers out of poverty. But it has come at a cost. Ecosystems in what should be one of the country’s most fertile regions have already been badly damaged – some beyond repair...
China
2015 - GRAIN
Article
Safeguarding food production against climate change needs urgent measures
China’s warming climate could increase food production but only if steps are taken to combat drought, flooding and pests, says agri-sicentist Zhou Shudong
Rising temperatures are sure to have a big impact on China’s grain output and food security over the next 20 to 50 years. My research identifies some benefits, but at present the negative impacts will outweigh them, leading to lower harvests unless urgent measures are taken.
Climate change has two main positive...
China
2015 - GRAIN
Article de blog
Wadi: A model for sustainable tribal livelihood
Amongst the various models for sustainable livelihoods being tried and tested in the tribal areas of India, the Wadi model has shown a lot of promise. Abhijeet Mohanty, Kieran Robson and Rosie Clarkson, find out why and how the Wadi model is doing in the tribal areas of Koraput district...
India
2015 - India Together
Rapport
Pathways to lasting impact for rural dryland communities in the developing world
Annual report 2014
This research aims to provide the evidence required to help put dryland issues firmly on the development agenda at national, regional, and global levels. Dryland Systems research informs the interventions required by providing international public goods – tools, methods, practices, policies, and technologies – to enhance the economic and social...
2015
Article
Agroecology: a success in Asia
November 2015: The AgriCultures Network presents ten inspiring agroecological initiatives throughout Asia and the Pacific. Some have long existed, other have just started. They connect the rural and urban worlds, improve soils, and nourish farmers and citizens with healthy food. They ensure that production can be maintained for the generations...
2015 - AgriCultures Network
Partie d’un ouvrage
A comparative analysis of agricultural research and extension reforms in China and India
There is growing interest from the global development community in the role of agricultural research and extension (AR&E) systems to achieve development targets. Despite this interest, many smallholders in developing countries continue to lack access to updated agricultural information and reliable services. In an effort to increase the effectiveness, impact,...
China - India
2015 - Emerald Group
Article de blog
The family farm of the 21st century: A story of evolution and success
The death of the family farm has long been mooted, with the number of family-run properties in Australia dropping by three quarters, over the past 70 years.
Australia
2015
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