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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)
Book
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2024
Blue Transformation in action
The 2024 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture features the Blue Transformation in action, illustrated by activities and initiatives, led by FAO in collaboration with Members, partners and key stakeholders, to integrate aquatic foods into global food security and sustainability, enhance policy advocacy, scientific research and capacity...
2024 - FAO
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
Blog article
World Pulses Day: Slow Food’s Planting the Future
How our diet can protect the planet
On February 10th we celebrate the World Pulses Day 2024, whose topic is nourishing soils and people. Slow Food addresses the topic, supported by the recently presented Plant the Future report, and by the international Planting the Future challenge organized with the Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN). The challenge will be running over the month of...
2024 - Slow Food
Article
Family farming in climate change: Strategies for resilient and sustainable food systems
Family farming plays a pivotal role in ensuring household food security and bolstering the resilience of food systems against climate change. Traditional agricultural practices are evolving into context-specific, climate-resilient systems such as family farming, homestead gardening, and urban agriculture. This study examines the ways in which family farming can foster...
2024
Journal article
Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost-effective addition to high-frequency food security monitoring
The affordability of nutritious food for “all people, at all times” is a critically important dimension of food security. Yet surprisingly, timely high-frequency indicators of food affordability are rarely collected in any systematic fashion despite price volatility emerging as major source of food insecurity in the 21st Century. The 2008...
Ethiopia - Myanmar - Sri Lanka
2024 - IFPRI
Blog article
All-women cooperative transforming cocoa waste into energy in Ghana
In a groundbreaking move, as part of MoMo4C, Tropenbos Ghana has launched a Waste-to-Energy pilot project in the Sefwi Wiawso Juaboso Bia (SWJB) landscape with an all-women cocoa cooperative. By turning cocoa waste into a valuable resource, this model aims to create new avenues for income generation, livelihood diversification, and...
Ghana
2024 - Tropenbos International
Journal article
Exploring climate change impacts on rural livelihoods and adaptation strategies: Reflections from marginalized communities in India
Climate change and variability affect virtually everyone and every region of the world but the effects are nowhere more prominent than among rural marginalized communities that rely heavily on agriculture and fishing for a living and they face numerous livelihood challenges including risk posed by variability of climate. Using phenomenological...
India
2024
Blog article
Appropriation du numérique dans l’agriculture ouest-africaine, quelles réalités derrière les promesses ?
Comment les productrices et producteurs d’Afrique de l’Ouest s’approprient-ils les outils numériques ? Pendant 2 ans, le projet Fracture numérique a étudié trois filières dans trois pays. La présente fiche rend compte de l’influence du numérique sur la gestion de la cacaoculture dans les exploitations familiales en Côte d’Ivoire. Les résultats...
2024 - CIRAD
Book
Sistema alimentar e da agricultura familiar
Projeto Boa Vista Acolhedora: um modelo de economia circular, regenerativa e inclusiva
O Projeto Boa Vista Acolhedora: um modelo de economia circular, regenerativa e inclusiva busca o fortalecimento da sociedade civil no processo de desenvolvimento equitativo, sustentável e inclusivo na região da Amazônia Legal, em contexto de multiculturalidade e recuperação pós pandemia COVID-19. Atua no fomento e na implementação de novos modelos de negócio baseados...
Brazil
2024 - Fundación Avina
Newsletter article
Peru: We are artisanal fishers, not criminals
The small-scale fishers of a famous beach in Peru defend the ecosystem and its biodiversity through responsible and sustainable selective fishing
I am a small-scale fisherman working the beach of Bujama Baja. It lies in Mala district of the Canete province in Peru’s Lima department. I have been plying my trade for 34 years, fully engaged in the only livelihood I was given by God: the sea. I am registered with...
Peru
2024 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Conference/Meeting
VIII Global Conference Family Farming: Sustainability of our Planet
Since its establishment, the World Rural Forum has held 8 Global Conferences on Family Farming, attended by hundreds of the highest-level representatives from governments, international organizations, research centers, family farmers’ organizations, cooperatives and NGDOs from 5 continents. The generated debates have served to set and highlight action priorities in favor...
2024 - World Rural Forum
Journal article
A cog in the capitalist wheel: co-opting agroecology in South India
The Andhra Pradesh Zero Budget Natural Farming project was implemented by India’s State of Andhra Pradesh in 2016 and renamed AP Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) in 2020. APCNF is recognised as a sucessful example of peasant-led agroecology by social movements, multilateral UN bodies, governments, and researchers. We offer more...
India
2024 - Kudali Learning Center, India
Blog article
Alvaro Lario: “Without family farming, we would not have eaten today”
An interview with the President of IFAD
During the interview, Alvaro Lario, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), shed light on the pressing challenges facing family farming, particularly in the context of climate change. Lario underscored the essential role of small-scale farmers in global food security, highlighting their contributions to feeding billions of people...
2024 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Audio
Farms. Food. Future. Regenerative agriculture, from soil to sustainability
58 episode of Farms. Food. Future – a podcast proposed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
Despite being a major contributor to global emissions, farming might just hold the key to solving the climate crisis. When agriculture is regenerative, it becomes a win-win for people and planet, increasing food security...
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Report
Mobilising internal finance: how forest and farm producer organisations upscale financial access
There is very limited access to finance for rural communities comprising smallholders, family farmers and Indigenous Peoples. Smallholder and family farmers comprise 90% of the total farms worldwide, and account for an estimated 80% of world food production. The finance gap hinders these rural communities’ effective action on climate, nature,...
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Policy brief/paper
Money from within: leveraging producer organisations' finance
Access to external finance for smallholder forest and farm producers is limited, hindering their effective action on climate, nature, livelihoods and food security. However, forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) can mobilise internally-generated finance.
This briefing maps three stages and 11 steps that FFPOs use to establish savings groups and larger...
2024 - International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Audio
Farms. Food. Future. Rural Malawians on building back after Cyclone Freddy
In March 2023, Cyclone Freddy swept across Malawi, devastating a country already struggling with hunger and poverty. But a year on, hope for a brighter future is returning to its farms.
On this episode, you'll hear directly from the rural Malawians who are building back stronger with IFAD's support. Our...
Malawi
2024 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Conference/Meeting
The future of family farming at the balance
What is the future for family farming? This was the question posed in a technical discussion bringing together family farmers, representatives of governments, researchers, and experts from FAO and IFAD held at FAO headquarters in January.
The “Future of Family Farming” meeting was held within the framework of the UN Decade...
2024 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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