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Technical paper
Asociatividad y acceso a mercados en la agricultura familiar dominicana

El programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO ha concentrado importantes esfuerzos en apoyar al Gobierno dominicano en el desarrollo y la validación de herramientas metodológicas e instrumentos de planificación y coordinación que contribuyan al fortalecimiento de las capacidades institucionales para atender las necesidades de la agricultura familiar y la formulación e...
Dominican Republic
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Project
Promotion de l’agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest : aller vers la consommation massive de produits locaux

En Afrique de l’Ouest, face à la croissance rapide des villes et à une demande accrue de la part des consommateurs urbains et ruraux, les systèmes alimentaires fondés sur l’agriculture familiale renforcent déjà dans nombre d’endroits la capacité d’un pays ou d’une région à nourrir ses populations par la production...
2024 - Fondation de France

Article
Can organic rice certification curb the pressure of the agrarian transition in Cambodia? A farming system approach

Over the past two decades, the Mekong region has experienced significant transformation of its agricultural sector from subsistence farming to export crops driven by the expansion of agricultural land and of irrigation, plus intensification thanks to mechanization and the use of chemical inputs. In the context of agrarian transition, maintaining...
Cambodia
2024 - European Commission

Journal article
Pastoralism in Changthang, Ladakh: Adaptations, Challenges, and Pathways for Sustainability

In the Changthang region of Ladakh, India, pastoralism serves as the cornerstone of both the local economy and the local way of life. However, recent socioeconomic shifts and environmental constraints put this economic structure, which has been expertly adapted to the difficult trans-Himalayan geography, in danger of becoming unsustainable. To...
India
2024 - Sher E Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, India

Technical paper
Innovation and family farming

Family farmers innovate by developing assemblages of old and new food system practices and organizational processes, using both traditional and diverse forms of knowledge and connecting these with newly available information and technologies. These innovations have a holistic approach and can take many forms: technological, social, policy, financial, marketing, legislative...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Producer organisations offer huge potential for delivering nature and climate finance

Forest and farm producer organisations offer immense potential for channelling vital climate and nature finance to rural communities, and funders and governments should do more to support them, according to new IIED research.IIED has published new research highlighting the potential for forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) to generate crucial...
2024 - IIED

Technical paper
Family farming and climate-resilient agrifood systems

Food and agricultural production practices applied by family farmers – including agroecological and integrated systems; recycling of nutrients, energy and waste; natural pest control; crop diversification; and efficient management of natural resources and soil health – present promising opportunities to address climate change, given that they allow high-level adaptation capacity...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Website
Repositorio de Documentos: Conferencia Regional para América Latina y el Caribe (LARC)

En esta web encontrará todos los documentos de la 38ª Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe.    
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Statement
Final Declaration of the VIII Global Conference of the WRF

Final Declaration of the VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our planet, organized by the WRF  "Sowing sustainability: Scaling up the vital contribution of Family Farming"
2024 - World Rural Forum (WRF)

Book
Access and benefit-sharing and genetic resources for food and agriculture: typology of country measures

Supplement 1
The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Commission), at its Seventeenth Regular Session, requested to prepare a survey of existing legislative, administrative and policy approaches, including best practices, for access and benefit-sharing (ABS) for the different subsectors of genetic resources for food and agriculture (GRFA) and traditional knowledge...
2024 - FAO

Blog article
La 38 Conferencia Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe se inicia con una importante participación de Presidentes y Ministros de la Región

Representantes de todos los países de la Región participaron in situ en la ceremonia de apertura en Guyana. La 38 Conferencia Regional de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) comenzó hoy en Georgetown, Guyana, con la presencia de Ministros y Viceministros de todos los...
2024 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe N° 92. Marzo 2024

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...
Argentina
2024 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Report
Advancing agrobiodiversity: why organisations of smallholders and Indigenous Peoples are vital

Agrobiodiversity is the subset of biodiversity found within agricultural ecosystems. It feeds us with nutrients vital to our health. It fuels and furnishes our homes. It underpins cultural traditions. It sustains farm productivity in the face of climate change. But agrobiodiversity is rapidly being lost.  Just three crops account for half...
Ecuador - Ghana - Madagascar - Nepal - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Policy brief/paper
Mainstreaming agroecology in agricultural education

Regional brief 2
Agroecology is a promising approach that is transforming agrifood systems across the Asia-Pacific Region. Indeed, there is increasing evidence of positive results with the transition to agroecology, and these include stable yields, crop resilience, higher incomes for farmers, fishers and producers, improved nutrition and food security and enhanced biodiversity (Global...
2024 - FAO

Report
CGIAR Research Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia

Annual Technical Report 2023
In 2023, the CGIAR Research Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia (TAFSSA) addressed the nexus of poverty, social inequities, malnutrition, environmental degradation, and climate change through research and innovation. Collaborating with 10 CGIAR Research Initiatives, engaging with five bilateral projects aligned with Initiative goals, and partnering with two...
Bangladesh - India - Nepal - Pakistan
2024 - CGIAR

Book part
Reconnaître le rôle des femmes dans la sécurité alimentaire : études croisées sur l'alimentation familiale au Sénégal et au Nicaragua

La sécurité alimentaire et nutritionnelle (SAN) est une problématique centrale dans les zones rurales des pays du Sud où vit la majorité des personnes sous-alimentées dans le monde. L’égalité des sexes et l’autonomisation des femmes font partie des objectifs de développement durable pour 2030, les femmes ayant été reconnues comme des...
Nicaragua - Senegal
2024

Statement
LEY Nº 14.828, DE 20 DE MARZO DE 2024

Esta Ley cual modifica la Ley nº 11.326, de 24 de julio de 2006 (Ley de Agricultura Familiar), para ampliar el alcance de la planificación y ejecución de las acciones de la Política Nacional de Agricultura Familiar y Empresas Familiares Rurales.
Brazil
2024 - Presidência da República, Casa Civil, Secretaria Especial para Assuntos Jurídicos

Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe Nº 91. Febrero 2024

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...
Argentina
2024 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Event
Seminario Internacional Agricultura Familiar: Retos y perspectivas 10 años después del año internacional de la agricultura familiar 2014

La Universidad Federal de Rio Grande Do Sul (RS, Brasil), el CIRAD, la Red PP-AL (Políticas Públicas y Desarrollo Rural en América Latina), el Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario de Brasil (MDA), y el IICA se han asociado para organizar un seminario internacional sobre agricultura familiar en Porto Alegre, Brasil, del...
2024 - Universidad Federal de Rio Grande Do Sul (RS, Brasil)

Fact sheet
Brief Guide to Food Plants in the Magdalena Milpas Altas Region

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...
Guatemala
2024 - Food Plant Solutions
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