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Blog article
Reinforcing rural women’s rights

Gendered threats to rural women’s right to food and nutrition are inextricably intertwined with the pervasive patriarchal norms and practices that discriminate against women and girls, reads a civil society submission to the Commission on the Status of Women. On the occasion of the 62nd session of the Commission on the...
2017 - FIAN

Blog article
DFDA-PE ressalta papel da mulher na agroecologia

Durante o Seminário Intermunicipal Mulheres na Agroecologia, o titular da Delegacia Federal de Desenvolvimento Agrário de Pernambuco (DFDA/PE), Rodrigo Almeida, destacou a importância das mulheres não só para a agroecologia, mas para a agricultura familiar. Os debates giraram em torno dos direitos das mulheres do campo e da cidade.  E os...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Report
Report on the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation

Advancing Multisectoral Nutrition Sensitive Food Systems Post ICN-2 Agenda for Africa
This report highlights the outcomes of the three-day deliberations of the Second FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Coordination and Programming Consultation meeting with key recommendations and next steps. The report will be shared as a PDF document. There are no plans to print the document.
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Zonas de reserva campesina: una apuesta por la Seguridad Alimentaria y la construcción de Paz

En el marco de la implementación del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de la capacidad de generar ingresos a través de proyectos de innovación en las Zonas de Reserva Campesina”, suscrito entre el Gobierno de la República de Colombia (Instituto Colombiano de Desarrollo Rural) y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la...
Colombia
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Conference/Meeting
Primera Conferencia Regional GIPPAF: Hacia una nueva vinculación entre el campo y la universidad

Primera Conferencia Regional del Grupo de Investigadores de Políticas Públicas para la Agricultura Familiar (GIPPAF) de la REAF Mercosur. El presente encuentro, tiene como título "Hacia una nueva Vinculación entre el campo y la Universidad), y tendrá como ejes de discusión la Extensión Rural y el acceso a Mercados para la...
Chile
2017 - FOCO RURAL- Universidad de Chile

Case study
Organizational challenges and the institutional environment

A comparative analysis of dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco
The present study focuses on dairy cooperatives in Kenya and Morocco, to explore how and to what extent the institutional environment has been enabling the development and performance of the cooperatives. The focus on dairy generates insights that are relevant for many countries, because it is a sector in which...
Kenya - Morocco
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Report on the International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in China

In September 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) convened the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition. This was followed in 2015 by three regional meetings in Brazil, Senegal and Thailand. These meetings brought together stakeholders from academia, policy and civil society to...
China
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Video
Flores, alimento e pescaria são atrações de propriedade familiar

Produção de flores tropicais aliada ao turismo rural levam mais de 200 pessoas por semana para o Rancho Paraná, a 50 Km de Brasília (DF)
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Book
Semeando saberes, inspirando soluções: Boas Práticas na Convivência com o Semiárido

Ao longo das últimas décadas, diversos conhecimentos, tecnologias sociais e inovações têm sido criados e experimentados por diferentes atores sociais, dentre estes agricultoras e agricultores familiares, alinhados com a perspectiva de melhor convivência com o Semiárido. O Programa Semear foi criado para facilitar o acesso a esses saberes, trabalhando a gestão...
Brazil
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperação para a Agricultura (IICA)

Article
Haller, Aquaponics and Urban Farming

The family backyard aquaponic system.
Seeking solutions and income development systems for urban farmers with limited access to water and land. 
2017 - The Haller Foundation

Blog article
The Teesta Is Dying, But These Communities Are Rallying To Keep It Alive

About 10 years ago, people in the small village of Gajoldoba on India’s stretch of the trans-boundary Teesta river started noticing significant changes in their environment. Their fields weren’t yielding the same number of crops. The water level in the wells was dropping. And the fish – once so abundant that...
India
2017

Blog article
Futuro da produção orgânica é visto com otimismo no Brasil

A produção de alimentos orgânicos tem tudo para render ótimos resultados em 2017. Um levantamento feito pela Coordenação de Agroecologia (Coagre) da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Agropecuário e Cooperativismo (SDC), vinculada ao Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (Mapa), mostrou que a área de produção orgânica no país pode ultrapassar os...
Brazil
2017 - Organicsnet

Blog article
Bringing Back Local farming

Sjoerd Wartena – founder of Terre de Liens, a French landrights movement – explains to Elisabeth Winkler from the Biodynamic Land Trust, how he and his wife created a civic organisation.
2017 - Permaculture

Blog article
Mulheres rurais movimentam agronegócio com derivados da mandioca

Empreendedoras. Essa é a palavra que define as mulheres da Associação de Mulheres Produtoras de Broas e Outros Produtos Alimentícios da Agricultura Familiar (Asprobroas), no povoado Taboquinha, em Arapiraca, que criaram uma agroindústria especializada na produção de doces derivados da mandioca e conquistaram mercado em todo o estado de Alagoas. O...
Brazil
2017 - Associação Brasileira das Entidades Estaduais de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ASBRAER)

Report
The state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi

Insights from household and community surveys
This is part of a series of descriptive reports and later in-depth analysis of the survey data. These series are aimed to provide an assessment of the state of agricultural extension and advisory services provision in Malawi in order to inform policy and reform processes and programming by the government...
Malawi
2017 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Report
Implementing Agenda 2030 in Food and Agriculture: Accelerating Policy Impact through Cross-Sectoral Coordination at the Country Level

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), which lays out the principles and targets expected to guide development in the coming decade, highlights the interconnection and complexity of global challenges. Objectives related to food, nutrition, agriculture and natural resources are intrinsically interrelated. Consequently, achieving the specific targets of the...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Analyse typologique de la diversité et des performances de l’élevage oasien

L’élevage constitue une composante indissociable des systèmes agraires oasiens. Par ses revenus complémentaires, les restitutions de matière organique aux sols et la fourniture d’une force de travail, il contribue à la sécurité alimentaire et à la résilience de ces systèmes. Toutefois, ces milieux arides ont subi récemment des changements profonds,...
Morocco
2017

Project
Adaptación al cambio climático de la ganadería extensiva familiar

Para el año 2050, el sector agrícola tiene el desafío de aumentar la producción en más del 60% para alimentar al mundo. En Latinoamérica, las zonas áridas y semiáridas, donde los agricultores familiares tienen como principal sustento la ganadería extensiva, presentan alta susceptibilidad al cambio climático, fragilidad ambiental y altos...
Argentina - Peru
2017 - Fundación ArgenINTA (ARGENINTA) - Argentina

Blog article
Central do Ligue 180 oferece apoio para a mulher do campo

A violência contra as mulheres não tem uma naturalidade. Em qualquer região, estado, município, elas podem ter os seus direitos desrespeitados. E um país como o Brasil, onde a extensão territorial contempla diferentes realidades e contextos, precisa ter armas abrangentes contra esse crime. Só no meio rural são 14 milhões...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Event
Harnessing the Power of Data for the Sustainable Development Goals

Held for the first time in India, the 2017 ICT4D Conference: From Innovation to Impact will bring together public, private and civil society organizations from across the humanitarian and international development community to not only discuss the latest trends in digital inclusion but the wider use of data to support achievement of...
India
2017
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