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Rapport
Migration and Agroecology in West Africa
Mobility in West African countries has long been a traditional adaptation strategy to climatic stressors. Present environmental changes stress the agricultural sector, which accounts for 35 percent of West Africa's GDP and employs over 80 percent of the workforce. Employment in agriculture is so high that decay in agricultural production...
2020 - International Organization for Migration
Rapport
Agroecology to cool the planet
This report elaborated by ‘’Ecologists in Action’’ discusses how climate change affects food production and makes an assessment of the proposed strategies in the framework of international negotiations on climate change. Different issues responsible for climate change are described: among these we find land use change; industrial animal husbandry as another...
2020 - Ecologistas en Acción
Article de blog
Joint letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy
Together with others, URGENCI, the international network of Local and Solidarity -based Partnerships for Agroecology, has asked European Union Commissioners and their teams to provide guidance and a clear perspective of the road forward, meeting citizens’ expectations across Europe, by publishing the #EUFarm2Fork by end of April 2020
European Union
2020 - URGENCI
Article de blog
Project strengthens food safety systems in five countries of Europe and Central Asia
Unsafe food is a major threat to human health and economies globally. A new project has been kicked off to strengthen official food safety control and risk communication systems in Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Republic of Moldova, Tajikistan, and Turkey.
Implemented under the FAO-Turkey Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture, funded by Turkey,...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Pratiques
Soybean production training manual
• Soybeans are a major food crop in the world and they are grown in some parts of Uganda and form an integral and important component in the human and animal nutrition.
• It is successful in areas where rainfall is moderate to light during the latter part of the growing...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Apprentissage en ligne
Training course on Leadership and Organic Farming on Agroecology
The capacity for leadership is based on talent, vision and commitment, but it also depends on the ability to understand the functioning of sectors and to interact with people in various contexts, with different points of view. The ‘Leadership in Agroecology and Organic Farming’ training course offers the opportunity to...
Sao Tome and Principe
2020 - IFOAM Organics International
Pratiques
Tomato production manual
Tomato is an annual plant, which can reach a height of over two metres. Three di"erent types of tomato plants can be distinguished:
• tall or indeterminate type
• semi-bush or semi-indeterminate type
• bush or determinate type The tall varieties are the best choice for a long harvest period. They keep growing...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Ouvrage
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Indonesia
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...
Indonesia
2020
Article
Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture
The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that is able to avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in...
2020
Vidéos
Irrigate like it’s 2000 BC with these easy DIY terracotta watering pots called ollas
Ollas have been used for thousands of years in agriculture and gardening practices and are traditionally unglazed terracotta “jugs” filled with water and buried into the soil, with their necks protruding slightly. Once the porous terracotta olla is in contact with the soil, water begins to seep into the surrounding...
2020 - Gardening Australia
Article
Open consultation process for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2021–2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, through its Resolution A/RES/73/284, following a proposal for action by over 70 countries from all latitudes. The UN Decade positions the restoration of ecosystems as a major nature-based solution towards meeting a wide range of global development goals and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Vidéos
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Gary, an organic farmer from Peru
By producing vegetables organically, we improve food quality both in health and nutrition.” Gary Carrasco, an organic farmer from Peru, for #IGrowYourFood
Peru
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Rapport
Sustainable Agriculture in India: Why does it not Scale Up?
Despite decades of work by various non-governmental organizations, most of the initiatives on agro-ecological farming and organic farming practices have either stagnated or sometimes fallen out. While a niche of farmers is able to reap the benefits of agro-ecological farming, there is a need to understand the barriers that stop...
India
2020 - VikasAnvesh Foundation
Site web
X Encuentro INNOVAGRO
La Red de Gestión de la Innovación en el Sector Agroalimentario, Red INNOVAGRO, organiza el X Encuentro Anual para celebrar su aniversario y abordar temas relevantes en el marco de la innovación agroalimentaria. El tema que se ha definido para este Encuentro es Senderos de innovación para un sector agroalimentario...
Mexico
2020 - IICA-Red INNOVAGRO
Étude de cas
Mercados de las agriculturas familiares y campesinas : un análisis institucional comparado entre Brasil y Chile
El régimen alimentario corporativo permitió el crecimiento de las escalas de producción-distribución-consumo, así como la transformación de las calidades de los alimentos por parte de las agroindustrias, pero generó una crisis civilizadora ante las externalidades negativas no contabilizadas.
Como contramovimientos desde la perspectiva Polanyiana, las agriculturas familiares y campesinas buscan...
Brazil - Chile
2020 - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Vidéos
Agroecology - the next evolution in food systems
#Agroecology is a way of farming with nature, not against it. It builds resilience to climate change and disease outbreaks by combining different plants and animals, based on farmers' knowledge of their local environments. Agroecology doesn't rely on chemicals to fertilize crops and fight pests. It relies on #diversity. And...
2020 - IPES - Food
Site web
Réseau des GASAP - Belgique
Les GASAP (groupe d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne) proposent de la vente directe, sans intermédiaire, qui permet un lien direct et solidaire avec des fermes locales qui travaillent pour une agriculture « agroécologique », pourvoyeuse d’emplois dans nos régions. C’est bien plus qu’un panier de légumes bio, c’est une véritable alternative alimentaire.
Frères des AMAP françaises, les GASAP sont une initiative citoyenne...
Belgium
2020 - Groupes d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne - Belgique
Vidéos
Women seed saver Uganda
This video, produced by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA) shows the important role of women in saving seeds and therefore in eradicating hunger. As governments across Africa develop laws to deny farmers’ rights to exchange and sell local seeds, women are leading the fight to protect Africa’s sacred biodiversity. Seeds...
Uganda
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Article de blog
THE MAGIC LANTERN
While listening to a recent broadcast on Belgium’s Radio 1 about the magic lantern and the “lanternists” who entertained paying audiences, I realised that some developments we think off as highly innovative may also be seen as a modification of something that existed hundreds of years ago.
The magic lantern projected...
Malawi
2020 - AgroInsight
Article de blog
Eip Agri March 2020 Newsletter
Eip Agri Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation
European Union
2020 - Eip Agri
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