Documentary "Rural families today" National Rural Network Family farm in Collesano (PA) - Sicilia

Honeybees that nest in the open produce far less honey than those confined in enclosures. There are good reasons for this. Colonies in the open are exposed to predators and therefore have to employ numerous workers as guards to fight intruders. They have to consume large quantities of honey, which...

Documentary "Rural families today" National Rural Network Family farm in Grone (BG) - Lombardia

Este número de la Revista de Agroecología LEISA, contiene los siguientes artículos: Juventud rural: una apuesta cafetera por la innovación y la competitividad Futuros agricultores: recuperando la agricultura para la juventud del Pacífico Grupos de ayuda mutua juvenil en la región fresera del subtrópico mexicano: una estrategia para la subsistencia de las familias...

This newsletter also contains a special Dossier on Radio & ICTs in Rural Areas that puts together a variety of experiences in this field, from an electronic forum on Gender, ICTs and Rural Livelihoods, over participatory community radio to empower rural women and men, to the use of different methodologies...

Este número de la Revista de Agroecología LEISA, contiene los siguientes artículos: Sistemas regionales de alimentos y agricultura Alimentos de ‘ningún lugar’ o alimentos ‘del lugar’ Sistemas agroalimentarios: humanizar es posible Huellas de SOCLA en América Latina El sistema alimentario regional del amaranto Experiencias agroecológicas locales en el municipio La Palma Experiencias que llegaron para quedarse La leche:...

In this UN Decade on Biodiversity (2011-2020), it is timely to celebrate the exceptional biodiversity of the hay meadows of Transylvania and the living rural communities that created and manage them. But we should also consider why – after surviving for a thousand years during a turbulent history of invasions,...

The Western Balkan countries are all in a process of accession to the European Union. Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro have the status of candidate countries. Albania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 are potential candidate countries, with the prospect of joining the EU when they meet the...

Italy is a country well known for the quality and diversity of its cuisine. Traditional foods and family recipes form an integral part of national culture. Preservation of these food values is important to many Italians (as it is for other Europeans as well) and in recent years the concept...

Este video presenta un informe sobre cómo se desarrolla la agroecología familiar orgánica en diferentes partes de Bolivia.

El presente estudio pretende dar a conocer la manera en que la población indígena mosetén y las comunidades interculturales (los antiguos colonizadores) de la región del Alto Beni perciben y son afectados por el cambio climático en relación a sus condiciones productivas, modificación de conductas y actitudes, y la manera...

Aunque en líneas generales las características y la composición del cooperativismo agrario en nuestro país hayan cambiado poco desde sus comienzos hasta la actualidad, su evolución ha sido especialmente sensible a los diferentes contextos económicos y de políticas públicas. Prueba de ello ha sido el crecimiento exponencial que este tipo de...

Este número de la Revista de Agroecología LEISA, contiene los siguientes artículos: El acaparamiento de tierras y de recursos naturales: violaciones del derecho a una alimentación adecuada Escasez de tierra y perspectivas futuras Los territorios kechwa-lamas y la superposición de sus modos ancestrales de relacionarse con la tierra La carrera global por el derecho...

Esta publicación contiene la evaluación del impacto del Proyecto Piloto Jóvenes Emprendedores Rurales "Promoción de la cultura emprendedora", ejecutado desde mediados del año 2005 por la SAGPyA (organismo que actualmente reviste rango de Mnisterio) en distintas provincias del país. La evaluación se realizó entre los meses de octubre de 2009 a...

The course provides guidance on how to design and implement a communication strategy for food security information. Using several realistic examples, the course illustrates the various components of a communication strategy, and provides concrete and detailed guidelines on how to communicate through the media and how to present information to...

2007年10月16日“世界粮食日”那天，联合国粮农组织总干事迪乌夫说，“我们的星球有足够的粮食为所有人提供充足的食物，但今晚仍有8.54亿男人、女人和儿童饿着肚子睡觉”。本来足以满足世界食物需求的粮食，到底去了哪里？ 两年过去了，尽管国际社会和各国政府都在努力，但饿着肚子睡觉的人，却伴随着日益攀升的粮价，迅速增加。约40个国家由粮食引发了社会危机和政治危机。在此背景下，需要跳出简单的气候变化、水资源短缺等客观托辞，也毋需在生物能源开发、工业化城市化占地、营养结构升级、高额农业补贴等主观因素上相互指责。需要考虑的是：为何作为最基本人权的食物权，在粮食足够的情况下，仍大面积地被践踏？

Agriculture can be qualified as a specific sector that represents an important part in implementing strategic vision of the Serbian economy's development. The reason for this is that over the past decades the accumulation that other sectors cannot provide has been drawn from this sector and that the great potential...

Following a drought event, several interactive feedback relations will get involved, whose effects can be realized as drought impacts. That is the behaviour of the components of a socio-economic system in response to the new changes due to drought which will form the system total behaviour in terms of socioeconomic-natural...

Rural women’s small businesses engaged in the production of local agri‐food products have been flourishing in the Greek countryside the last years responding to an emerging consumer demand for food of “specific quality”. Such successful initiatives have been particularly developed with co‐operative form, scattered throughout the country, both in the...

Sustainably managed forests have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Reliable and upto-date information on the state of forest resources - not only on area and area change, but also on such variables as growing...