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Journal article
Comparative study on the profile of agricultural holdings without legal status in the development regions north-east and south-east of Romania

The agricultural holdings without legal status, largely overlapping the rural population’s households and providing content to the individual households, namely the peasant households, preserve the continuity of the vernacular village in terms of the community land and in demographic terms, through the families living in the villages, whose main occupation...
Romania
2018 - “Gheorghe Zane” Institute of Economic and Social Research, Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch

Book
Organic agriculture in Uzbekistan

This book was prepared under the framework of TCP/UZB/3501: Institutional capacity building to develop organic agriculture and to promote good agriculture practices in Uzbekistan to provide guidance to the stakeholders. This book brings together the status of organic agriculture in Uzbekistan including, market, legal standards, methods, experiences and useful methods...
Uzbekistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Technical paper
Agroecology in Europe and Central Asia - Supporting countries to achieve the SDGs

Provides an overview of Agroecology in Europe and central Asia countries, also how agroecology can support the SDGs achievement and how countries in the region can implement agroecology at national level.
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Book
Instalaciones porcinas

Orientado al pequeño y mediano productor del NEA y NOA
Uno de los aspectos que ha evolucionado mucho técnico e industrialmente han sido las instalaciones, referido a diseños y equipamientos – En este marco, la evolución mundial de la robótica, la ingeniería industrial, la ingeniería electrónica, la ingeniería hidráulica, la aparición de sensores, la existencia de chips y poder contar...
Argentina
2018 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuario (INTA) - Centro Regional Chaco - Formosa

Blog article
Social innovation in the Balkans: a new brochure of examples now available

SIMRA has just released its third brochure collecting examples of social innovation in marginalised rural areas in the Balkan peninsula. The focus of the SIMRA project is on the European Union and the Mediterranean area, including the Balkan Peninsula in South-East Europe which includes both countries which are Member States of...
2018 - Euromontana

Book
The End of Desertification?

Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands
The opening chapters of this book examine something that never occurred but was widely believed to have existed—the late 20th century desertification crisis in the Sahel. Recent advances in climatology and changing weather patterns have effectively terminated further scientific debate about the existence of widespread Sahelian desertification, providing us with...
2018

Blog article
Dairy Congress kicks off next phase of EU-FAO-EBRD support for Georgian milk producers

The benefits of cooperation and opportunities for small- and medium-sized dairy enterprises topped the agenda of the Second Caucasus Dairy Congress held in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, today. The event, supported by the European Union and Georgia’s Ministry of Agriculture, was the latest effort by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018

FAO’s Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2018 (Regional SOFI 2018 in ECA) describes the current situation vis-à-vis SDG 2 in countries of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It focuses in particular on the countries’ status in relation to SDG Target 2.1...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
مشروع تطوير سلسلة القيمة للتمور في مصر

الآفات التي تصيب التمور في المخازن ومكافحتها
يهدف هذا الكتيب إلى رفع مستوى الوعي لدى المزارعين والعاملين في مجال الإرشاد حول أحد الافات الهامة التي تصيب ثمار وأشجار نخيل البلح في مصر. حيث يوضح كيفية التعرف عليها وكشفها وكيفية مكافحتها وذلك من أجل حماية ثمار وأشجار النخيل من ضرر تلك الأفات. وتظهر الصور مختلف الحفارات والأضرار التي...
Egypt
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Manual
Guide de sélection des projets agricoles dans un contexte de migration

Le guide de sélection des projets agricoles dans un contexte de migration a été élaboré dans le cadre du projet «Mobilité des jeunes, sécurité alimentaire et réduction de la pauvreté rurale : promouvoir la diversification rurale en améliorant l’emploi et la mobilité des jeunes» (GCP/INT/240/ITA), mis en oeuvre par la...
Tunisia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Tajik officials learn from Georgian peers in FAO study tour

Senior staff members of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and its Statistics Agency are in Georgia now to meet with representatives of the National Statistics Office and the Ministry of Agriculture in Georgia. They are on a five-day study tour, sharing experiences on agriculture reforms, learning about implementation of agricultural policies,...
Georgia - Tajikistan
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Policy brief/paper
Locating the position of peasants under the “New Dispensation”

A focus on land tenure issues
The focus of the study is to explore implications of the latest land and agricultural policy pronouncements, discourse and narratives by the new administration on smallholder farmers' access and security on agricultural land. To gather the perspectives, learn and share experiences of farmers, particularly women, relating to tenure security and...
Zimbabwe
2018 - Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies (SMAIAS)

Fact sheet
L'atelier paysan: a network for farmer-driven technologies and practices

Small-scale agroecological and organic farming systems require appropriate machinery and technologies, and a change of paradigm in the way they are conceived, produced, sold and patented. The mainstream agricultural model has led to machines that are getting increasingly bigger and more expensive and complicated, and thus inaccessible for many farmers...
France
2018 - L’Atelier Paysan – French cooperative

Policy brief/paper
Strategy for the sustainable development of Mediterranean and Black Sea aquaculture

n the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, aquaculture is an active and growing sector which plays a major role in achieving food security, employment and economic development while reducing the dependence on often overexploited wild stocks. According to some national aquaculture strategies, the production in Mediterranean and Black Sea riparian...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Drought Mitigation in Cabo Verde

Cabo Verde is suffering a severe process of desertification, intensified by climate changes and hazards, such as drought. In the year 2017, there was almost no rain in the country. Most of the livestock become at risk and farmers depending on rain-fed agriculture lost most of its production. Thus, Government...
Cabo Verde
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Tam Viet Farm

Video introduction Tam Viet Farm, produced by ALiSEA
Viet Nam
2018 - ALiSEA Mekong

Fact sheet
Women-led agriculture service team in inclusive food system programme

In Cambodia, small-scale farmers are facing the issue of low economic returns from their rice farming because of low productivity and high input costs. The system of rice intensification (SRI) allows farmers to use less inputs. In dry areas, SRI could result in an average yield of 3.6 tonnes/ha, while...
Cambodia
2018 - Oxfam Cambodia

Article
Investing in the Future: The Breadfruit Story

There are many reasons for Pacific farmers to get involved in producing breadfruit: it is highly nutritious; it can be used as an import substitute for wheat, rice, and potatoes; there are untapped export markets; it is natural disaster and climate change resilient; and there is an expanding body of...
2018 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Kenya

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...
Kenya
2018

Event
Diálogo Regional de Alto Nivel sobre la Integración de la Biodiversidad en los sectores Agropecuario, Forestal y Pesquero (DRANIBA)

Objetivos de la reunión El DRANIBA ofrecerá un espacio intersectorial de intercambio y discusión que permita abordar los temas de producción sostenible en los sectores agropecuario, forestal y pesquero con integración de criterios que contribuyan al uso sostenible, conservación, restauración y preservación de la biodiversidad en la región. Para esto: Se revisarán las...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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