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Capitalizing Bitter Bamboo Group Experience and Improving Marketing of Bitter Bamboo Shoots (Lao Farmer Network)
Non-timber forest products such as bamboo shoots are a very important food and source of income for farmers in rural areas of Laos. Sustainable management of bamboo is important for food security, and improvement of the bamboo value chain can help increase incomes for rural people. That is why the...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - Asian Farmers Association
Политический обзор/документ
Enabling Institutionalization of the Farmer Field School Approach
Following their first formation in Indonesia over 25 years ago, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have served as a “proof of concept” of how transformative learning can help governments, donors and development stakeholders achieve development objectives. The FFS approach, which has now been used in more than 90 countries by more...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Статья в блоге
Success Story (Cambodia): Ratanak Polrath Samaki agricultural cooperative
Mr. Oun Sophal is the Chairperson of the BOD of Ratanak Polrath Samaki Agricultural Cooperative in Khachey Khanlech village, Damnak Sokrom commune, Doun Toung district, Kampot province, Cambodia. He has been promoting organic agriculture, livestock, saving and community business among the members. With support from Farmer and Nature Net under the...
Cambodia
2017
Практики
Training Young Burmese Farmers on Agriculture for the Future
The Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar (AFFM) saw low participation of youth in agribusiness, which is attributed to the limited access to key resources, such as land, start-up capital, business mentors, and increasing number of youth moving from rural to urban areas as well as to other countries to...
Myanmar
2017 - Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar
Статья в блоге
Solomon Islands’ fish exporters get a boost with new project
A new project, supported by the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) and led by the FAO, is going to give fish exporters in the Solomon Islands an added boost to access the EU market.
Solomon Islands’ fish exporters stand to benefit under a new project going live supported by the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Книга
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Timor Leste
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...
Timor-Leste
2017
Книга
Facilitators’ guide book for farmers’ field schools
This publication offers facilitators technical guidance to manage field farm schools to support local famers in all aspects of rice crop management. Technical knowledge gained by farmers will revitalize the rice industry in Fiji and assist food security by alleviating dependence on rice imports.
Fiji
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - FAO
Видеоматериал
The Story of Women in Seafood: A Case From Women in Salted Fish Industry at Tambak Lorok
The assumption that fishery is a sector exclusive to men only is not true. There is a misleading assumption in most research that fisheries operate in the public domain is usually dominated by men, which is why the private domain (women dominated) is hardly the focus of attention.And this video...
Indonesia
2017 - Women in Seafood
Видеоматериал
Earning and learning for Afghan women
Whether through earning or learning, over 2000 Afghan women are helping themselves. Pickled vegetables, mushroom production and complementary feed preparations are the FAO initiatives that - in collaboration with the national Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock and donations from the governments of Germany and Luxemburg - are reaching the...
Afghanistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Видеоматериал
Gutting for Living - unromantic tale of fishermen's wives
Small scale fishers are often presented or perceived as the ‘poorest of the poor’ (Bailey, 1988; Squires et al., 1998). Among small scale fishers in Sri Lanka, women involvement is significantly high as limited employment opportunities are available for them, especially in remote rural locations. Women in fishing communities have traditionally...
Sri Lanka
2017 - Women in Seafood
Видеоматериал
Women Role In Seafood in Ramanathapuram District,Tamil Nadu.
This video describes role of women in seafood industry and their livelihood importance, problem faced etc in Ramanathapuram district,Tamil Nadu. We really thankful to Dr.M.Krishnan, Principal Scientist, NAARM, Hyderabad, for his continuous support and encouragement.
India
2017 - Women in Seafood
Справочник
Facilitators' guide book for farmers field schools
This publication offers facilitators technical guidance to manage field farm schools to support local famers in all aspects of rice crop management. Technical knowledge gained by farmers will revitalize the rice industry in Fiji and assist food security by alleviating dependance on rice imports.
Fiji
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Статья в блоге
Direct selling at an organic market in Odisha
At organic market in Odisha, middle-class consumers get to interact with the producers of their food and appreciate traditional knowledge systems
India
2017
Видеоматериал
Building Resilient Livelihood: Stories from the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Located in the extreme southeastern part of the country, the districts that comprise the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) are both geographically and socio-culturally distinct from the rest of Bangladesh. Food insecurity is both chronic and widespread, and nutrition levels are among the lowest in the country.
In 2013, FAO began activities in CHT...
Bangladesh
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Видеоматериал
Afghanistan’s Milky Way
The two women in this story are among 8,000 Afghan milk farmers, mostly women, who were introduced to the business through the dairy cooperative movement. Founded by FAO in 2002, the movement is expanding steadily and is now based on thriving co-operative-managed enterprises, thanks to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation...
Afghanistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Видеоматериал
Gill nets boost women’s involvement in aquaculture in Bangladesh
In poor households in Bangladesh, women participate in aquaculture much less than men. To increase women’s involvement, the USAID-funded Aquaculture for Income and Nutrition project has introduced gill nets, which enable women to quickly and easily harvest small fish from their household pond. This has helped increase households' access to...
Bangladesh
2017 - Women in Seafood
Тематическое исследование
Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Cambodia: Impact of the Cassava Boom on Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change
Agricultural commercialisation is a process that involves the transformation of subsistence-oriented smallholder farming systems into systems that are primarily oriented toward production for the market. Agricultural production is no longer viewed merely as the means to meet household consumption requirements, drawing on local resources, but becomes the household‟s main income-generating...
Cambodia
2017 - The University of Queensland Australia
Видеоматериал
How Organic Farming Help to Break the Cycle ⭕ of Chemicals & Debt
Organic farming helped Mr. Keo Nov (PGS-organic farmer in the Kandal Province of Cambodia 🇰🇭) to break the vicious cycle of chemicals and debt. https://www.organicwithoutboundaries.... Together with his wife, they farm approximately 1,200 square meters of land, nearly a third of an acre. They have been managing their farm organically...
Cambodia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations & IFOAM - Organics International
Статья в блоге
Supermarkets, transnational supply chains and labour rights’ abuses
Transnational supply chains are networks of locally-based enterprises that supply the demands of transnational corporations, mostly for raw materials and parts of manufactured goods. Transnational corporations set the terms of exchange within this supply chain: quality, prices, quantities and deadlines, leaving the supplying enterprises to determine working conditions, safety and...
2017 - GRAIN
Тематическое исследование
Addressing the challenges of upland farming in southern Shan State for climate resilience
Smallholder farmers particularly in climate vulnerable developing countries such as Myanmar are facing increasing challenges related to food insecurity and climate change. Research has increasingly pointed towards agro-ecology as a movement, with the science and approach suitable to building the resilience of smallholder farmers. Since 2014, the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID) has been actively...
Myanmar
2017 - Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID)
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