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Ecosystems and agro-biodiversity across maize production systems
This proof-of-concept TEEB AgriFood study explores the true cost of maize in Mexico, looking at dependencies and impacts across different regions and production systems. The findings recognize maize as indispensable to the future of the global food system and inextricably entwined with Mexican national and Indigenous identities. It demonstrates the...
Mexico
2019 - Global Alliance for the Future of Food
Blog article
Rural Dialogues | Stochastic System Collapse Part 1
Just how bad are the twin climate and biodiversity crises, and what is anyone doing about it? The first of a two-parter on the topic from ARC2020’s Oliver Moore.
European Union
2019 - Arc 2020
Book
Farms, family farms, farmland distribution and farm labour: What do we know today?
A better and more complete understanding of family farms is urgently needed to guide policy makers’ efforts towards achieving a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper takes stock of the number of farms worldwide, and their distribution and that of farmland, on the basis of agricultural censuses and...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Mulheres indígenas ajudam a recompor matas ciliares em fazendas de Mato Grosso
Sementes coletada no parque no Xingu são distribuídas para produtores rurais em trabalho de reflorestamento coordenado pelo Instituto Socioambiental
O Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), em parceria com produtores rurais, organizações de ensino, de pesquisa, pequenos e médios agricultores, índigenas e poder público, conseguiu reflorestar em 12 anos de trabalho uma área de 4 mil hectares, apenas 1,34% dos mais de 300 mil hectares de matas ciliares que precisam ser reflorestados...
Brazil
2019 - Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)
Magazine article
Avances para la vinculación de tecnología de sensoramiento remoto con UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) para el seguimiento sanitario de plantaciones de palma de aceite
En este estudio se realizaron algunas aproximaciones a la aplicación del uso de imágenes aéreas obtenidas mediante sensores aerotransportados en Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV, por sus siglas en inglés) para el monitoreo sanitario de plantaciones de palma de aceite de los Llanos Orientales de Colombia, con el fin de presentar...
2019 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Technical paper
The Malawi Maize AgriFood System
The notion that maize is central to food security in Malawi is a widely held view. To date, however, ‘maize-led development’ has produced disappointing outcomes. The study provides an overview of the historical, political, environmental context of the maize agrifood system in Malawi, and uses the TEEBAgriFood framework to analyze...
Malawi
2019 - TEEBAgriFood
Blog article
Rural Dialogues | Stochastic System Collapse Part 2 – the Social and Solidarity Economy Alternative
In part 2 we introduce the social and solidarity economy, and the interesting lessons we can learn from separatist movements from the past and present, from Quebec to Ireland.
2019 - Arc 2020
Article
Proyecto de Extensión Universitaria: “Los árboles nos unen”
“Los árboles nos unen” es un Proyecto de Extensión del Vivero Forestal Agroecológico, que actualmente se está desarrollando con las comunidades de Maggiolo, San Francisco de Santa Fe y el Paraje San Marcos (Venado Tuerto), ubicadas en el Sur de la Provincia de Santa Fe. La misión es acercar a...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias/Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Blog article
A luta para manter uma língua indígena viva
Natural do Xingu, Tapi Yawalapiti tenta evitar que o idioma de seu povo desapareça. Com a ajuda da memória dos mais velhos, ele está criando uma gramática e um dicionário para a língua. Tapi é linguista. Há um ano, faz um mestrado na Universidade de Brasília (UNB). Sua dissertação analisa aspectos...
Brazil
2019
Blog article
Social innovation in forests: buzzword or opportunity?
During the VI Mediterranean Forest Week, which took place from 1 to 5 April in Brummana, Lebanon, hundreds of researchers, policy-makers and other relevant stakeholders from the wide Mediterranean basin gathered to discuss Mediterranean-wide forestry issues. Emerging topics included: the role of forests for achieving NDC targets for COP21, existing linkages...
2019 - SIMRA
E-learning
Programa de investigación y formación en sistemas agroecológicos andinos – segunda cohorte
El Programa Colaborativo de Investigación en Cultivos (Collaborativecrop Research Program) de la Fundación Mcknight financia investigaciones colaborativas entre pequeños productores, investigadores y promotores de desarrollo para generar conocimientos que contribuyan a lograr sistemas agroecológicos sustentables.
El Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) es una institución internacional no- gubernamental con status asociativo...
2019 - The Collaborative Program of Research in Crops (CCRP) of the Mcknight Foundation and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
Journal
Sustainable family farming agriculture in south Asia through partnerships
South Asia, comprised of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is home to about 1.8 billion people -- nearly 25% of the world’s population. But with an area of 5.2 million square kilometers, or some 1% of the world’s area, South Asia is the most densely...
2019 - Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
Blog article
A New Global Agriculture: Using Big Data to Bring Farmers Together
For thousands of years, farmers have looked to the clouds for the next sign of rain to irrigate their crops. Now farmers are also looking to another cloud—the digital cloud—for insights that can make a critical difference for their operations. Through this network of servers, satellites, and mobile devices, the...
2019 - FoodTank
Blog article
Década de esperança e ascensão para a agricultura familiar
FAO promove Plano de Ação da Agricultura Familiar que começa neste ano e segue até 2028
Os próximos dez anos reservam à agricultura familiar um tempo de ascensão e destaque mundial. A Organização das Nações Unidas para a Alimentação e a Agricultura (FAO), agência que lidera esforços para a erradicação da fome e combate à pobreza, lançou a Década da Agricultura Familiar entre os dias 27 e 29 de maio neste ano,...
Brazil
2019 - Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e Cooperativismo
Blog article
Social innovation in organic farming to revitalise rural areas
Traditionally, extensive farming has been one of the activities that has fixed more population in disadvantaged rural areas in Europe and the Mediterranean. Moreover, it creates jobs and shapes most of our ecosystems. However, isolation and depopulation in these areas translate into the loss of their activities and the landscapes...
2019 - SIMRA
Book
Peru: Deforestation in Times of Climate Change
This book comprises a total of 14 articles addressing the issue of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon and its impacts, not only on the Amazonian environment and wildlife but particularly on the communities inhabiting the area. These impacts are being facilitated by informal dynamics for which the state is largely...
Peru
2019
Video
Strengthening food security and nutrition in Caucasus and central Asia
The FAO project “Strengthening food security and nutrition in Caucasus and Central Asia” has proven to be an innovative initiative that is concretely contributing to the eradication of poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition of the most vulnerable communities in the region. Funded by the Russian Federation, the project is working...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Article
Avances del trabajo de investigación: “Territorios, instituciones y huellas discursivas relacionadas a programas para el agro: un trabajo interdisciplinario”
El avance de este trabajo fue presentado en formato poster en las Jornadas de Ciencia y Técnica organizadas por la UNR en 2018, y también se realizó un artículo con lo trabajado hasta ese momento en el mismo año. Esta investigación interdisciplinaria, sobre las formas de expresión con relación al...
Argentina
2019 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias/Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Website
E-agriculture
The e-Agriculture is a global community of practice where people from all over the world come to exchange information, ideas and resources related to the use of ICTs for agriculture.
In this context, a number of activities are carried out such as Capacity Development; Good Practices; Blogs and Webinars. These activities are...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) - Annual Report 2018
AFSA continued the work started in 2017 with more training courses on bio-fertiliser production and saw a growing demand and uptake of the technologies. Trainees have been energised to pass on the knowledge to others, and have recognised through practice and on-farm trials that this technology is a success, and...
2019 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
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