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Video
Derechos de las Mujeres Rurales en Latinoamérica

En el marco de la celebración del día internacional de la mujer rural, presentamos este especial sobre los derechos de las mujeres rurales de latinoamérica.Especial completo: http://bit.ly/2ypkKtQEl presente especial es resultado del trabajo de la Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra de la Coalición Internacional por...
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC

Video
Trampa pegante Honduras

Uso de la trampa pegante para controlar la mosca minadora en los campos de papa.
Honduras
2017 - Dirección de Ciencia y Tecnología (DICTA)

Blog article
Rural Greece, Social Economy & Pathways Out of Crisis

With the looming context of the fourth Greek bailout, the European Rural Sustainability Gathering 2017 kicked off in in Karditsa, Greece. The event saw the social economy, cooperatives and grassroots initiatives take centre stage, as tools and approaches to address the crisis. The location displayed the best of progressive rural...
Greece
2017 - ARC 2020

Video
Tutorial 4 - How to access funding for your ideas

Funding opportunities, EMFF, CLLD: transform your ideas into projets, LIFE will support you throughout the whole process!
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Policy brief/paper
Improving access to quality seed potatoes

This policy brief addresses the issue of limited farmer access to quality seed of Irish potato varieties in demand in local markets, which is a severe constraint for the potato sector in eastern Africa. It provides evidence in support of urgently needed action and presents options for practical decisions by...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Transformaciones en los territorios e innovaciones

La innovación y su relación a las transformaciones en los territorios, son concepciones que se relacionan desde la interpretación de las dinámicas que se encuentran en los mismos cuyo protagonismo está dado por los actores sociales. Se presenta una síntesis del trabajo Nuevas concepciones de los actores sociales en torno a...
Argentina
2017 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Event
16th Meeting of the Stakeholder Group for the cross-border region of “Drina-Sava”

The sixteenth meeting of the Stakeholder Group for the cross-border region of “Drina-Sava” was organized on the 2nd March in the City Hall Nijemci in Nijemci, Croatia. 
Croatia
2017 - Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group in South Eastern Europe

Book
Poverty, inequality, and low social mobility: territorial traps in Chile, Mexico and Peru

This book contributes to the discussion about territorial inequalities. Taking the cases of Chile, Mexico and Peru, it presents new evidence about patterns of development in our societies, with a degree of spatial breakdown that was previously unavailable. The authors study both the outcomes of these differentiated development dynamics, in...
Chile - Mexico - Peru
2017 - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural (RIMISP)

Blog article
The rise of biodynamic farming: a return to 'the way farmers farmed for millennia'

Biodynamic principles were first introduced in the US after 1924, when Rudolf Steiner first delivered his agricultural lectures. In 1938, the Biodynamic Association was established, making it the oldest sustainable agriculture nonprofit organization in North America. Still, there are only about 300 certified biodynamic farms in the US today, compared...
United States of America
2017 - The Guardian

Blog article
FAO advises on land consolidation legislation in Ukraine

With support from international organizations and projects, Ukraine is now in the final stages of preparing legislation that is expected to open the agricultural land market. As part of this process, FAO has been assisting with the introduction of land consolidation, and with the drafting of a land consolidation law....
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Policy brief/paper
A Glimmer of Hope for Baltic Cod, overshadowed by discards and food scarcity in the East

Baltic Sea fishing opportunities for 2018: LIFE views
As every year, the prospects for LIFE’s members, and the fate of the resources they depend on, hang on the discussions, negotiations, and decisions on setting catch levels and accompanying measures for Baltic fisheries in 2018. Our position, based on numerous discussions with our Members, is outlined below, a position...
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Journal article
El pensamiento complejo en la formación profesional: una “caja de herramientas” para afrontar la incierta e inestable realidad agropecuaria

El desarrollo rural, la producción familiar,la formación se ve cada vez más complejizada, a la vez que la tecnología aparentemente simplifica aspectos del hacer y accionar diario. Sin embargo, en términos del desarrollo agrario, la visualización de lo cotidiano es compleja. Este es un artículo que trata de aportar a...
Argentina
2017 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Video
Tutorial 5 - Social Media Marketing

Adding value to your business at the press of a button with the help of LIFE!
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Statement
7th International Conference, La Via Campesina: Euskal Herria Declaration

Delegates of La Via Campesina, representing our organizations and movements, are gathered in the Basque Country to celebrate our 7th International Conference from the 16th to the 24th of July of 2017. After four days of collective discussions and reflections on Food Sovereignty, peasant agroecology, autonomous training networks, migrant rights, trade, climate justice...
2017 - La Via Campesina

Policy brief/paper
Regional gender equality strategy for the Near East and North Africa 2017-2020

This Regional Gender Strategy is designed to enable FAO RNE officers and country officers in the region as well as development practitioners to respond to current regional priorities. As a complement to the FAO Gender Equality Policy, the regional gender strategy will promote coherence and improve efficiency of gender-sensitive programming....
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Working paper
Jóvenes y tierra en el territorio indígena Wanky Twi Tasba Raya en Nicaragua

Desde 2014, y con el apoyo de la ILC un grupo organizaciones en el país colaboran en la elaboración e implementación de una Estrategia Nacional de Involucramiento (ENI) para el acceso democrático a la tierra en Nicaragua. La ENI es un esfuerzo colectivo de articulación y de diálogo entre actores...
Nicaragua
2017 - Nitlapan-UCA

Blog article
Sistema modular para hortalizas pesadas

En Entre Ríos se probó a campo un sistema de máquinas modulares para poscosecha: lavado, secado y embolsado de hortalizas pesadas. El diseño ahorra energía, agua y tiempo a productores que no cuentan con tecnología adecuada para sus tareas de pos cosecha. La tecnología se presentó en el marco de...
Argentina
2017 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)

Journal article
Aislamiento y producción de semilla de Auricularia fuscusuccinea (Mont.) Henn. y Crepidotus palmarum Sing. usados tradicionalmente en Pauna (Boyacá–Colombia)

Los hongos extraídos de su medio natural representan una fuente de alimento e integran parte de los usos, costumbres y estrategias de sustento de los pueblos que los utilizan. La domesticación de este recurso fortalece su valor ecológico, impulsa un aprovechamiento sostenible y favorece la conservación del medio ambiente. En...
Colombia
2017 - Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia

Journal article
Sistema Integrado de Producciones Agroecológicas: una propuesta de desarrollo participativo de la Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias-UNR

¿Qué es el Sistema Integrado de Producciones Agroecológicas (SIPA) y por qué surge como una propuesta institucional? Los problemas y las consecuencias que resultan de la implementación de la agricultura convencional - modernizante- comercial representan nuevos retos en el ámbito del desarrollo rural contemporáneo, y ello no se puede desligar...
Argentina
2017 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias - Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Statement
Justice for Family-Scale Farmers and All Food Workers

Keynote speech by Elizabeth Henderson at the Future Harvest CASA’s “Cultivate the Chesapeake Foodshed” conference, January 14, 2017 
2017
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