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The future of Family Farming: empowerment and equal rights for women and youth
In the context of the International Year of Family Farming, this discussion targets those active in family farming who have suggestions on how to improve livelihoods of female farmers and how to encourage youth to pursue family farming.
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Social farming (also called care farming): an innovative approach for promoting women’s economic empowerment, decent rural employment and social inclusion. What works in developing countries?
Social farming (also called care farming) is an innovative approach for promoting women’s economic empowerment, rural employment and the social inclusion of vulnerable people. The aim of the discussion is to gather examples of the use of care farming in developing countries.
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负责任农业投资原则
负责任地开展农业投资,尤其是小规模农业投资,对于减少贫困、创造体面就业机会、加强粮食安全和营养、确保环境可持续性至关重要。农业投资能带来促进发展的广泛益处。但是,为实现这一目标,必须负责任地进行投资,并专门致力于实现此类益处,同时努力避免潜在负面影响。由此商定的《粮安委负责任农业投资原则》将提交2014年粮安委第四十一届会议全体会议批准。
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FAO, Forests and Climate Change
Working with countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change through sustainable forest management This publication summarizes the work that FAO is undertaking, with its partners, to assist countries to mitigate and adapt to climate change as it relates to forests, trees and the people who depend...
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Carbon incentive for physical activity: Conceptualizing clean development mechanism for food energy
The basic fact is that intense practitioners of yoga consume food only once a day while moderate practitioners of yoga consume food twice a day. With the normal consumption being around three times on a given day, the economic benefit or the reduction in food consumption due to yoga practice is two...
Paths out of Poverty (video)
This video follows the stories of beneficiaries of the Malawi Social Cash Transfer Scheme in the Mchinji district, exploring the impact of cash transfers on their livelihoods. FAO-led From Protection to Production (PtoP) project is evaluating the impact of cash transfers on economic and social development of beneficiaries and their communities.
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Indigenous methods of food preparation: what is their impact on food security and nutrition?
Communities use knowledge that is passed from generation to generation to prepare their food. Each technique and has its very peculiar implications on the socio-economic dynamics of a typical rural household. Can we consider indigenous methods of food preparation as a viable means for achieving food security and nutrition in rural poor communities?
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Human Development Report 2013 - The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World
The 2013 Human Development Report is the latest in the series of global Human Development Reports published by UNDP since 1990 as independent, empirically grounded analyses of major development issues, trends and policies.
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Localizing demand and supply of environmental services: Interaction with property rights, collective action and the welfare of the poor
Payments for environmental services (PES) are increasingly discussed as appropriate mechanisms for matching the de mand for environmental services with the incentives of land users whose actions m odify the supply of those environmental services. While there has been considerable discussion of the...
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Advancing Agroforestry on the Policy Agenda – A guide for decision-makers
Agroforestry Working Paper, no. 1 Agroforestry systems include both traditional and modern land-use systems in which trees are managed together with crops and/or animal production systems in agricultural settings. Even though these benefits justify increased investment in the development of...