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Manual
Guía para Agricultores Familiares sobre preservación, envasado y acondicionamiento de alimentos

Preservación, envasado de bajo impacto ambiental y acondicionamiento de alimentos que se comercializan en ferias.
Aspectos generales sobre las formas de conservación de alimentos y su correcto envasado destinado a productores de la Agricultura Familiar que comercializan en Ferias. 
Argentina
2017 - INTA

Blog article
Agricultura familiar no meio urbano: histórias inspiradoras

Morar na cidade não impede que as pessoas tenham espaço verde em suas casas ou apartamentos para cultivar hortas. Cuidar da procedência do que é consumido é atentar-se também para a saúde e a qualidade de vida. De acordo com a delegada federal da Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Audio
Concurso "Vozes, Imagens, Histórias e Experiências das Mulheres Rurais" entra na reta final

Mara Régia conversa com embaixadora no DF da Campanha #MulheresRurais, Norma Sueli Martins, que fala mais sobre sua produção
O Natureza Viva deste domingo (13) fala mais sobre a Campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos, coordenada no Brasil pela Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead), e a reta final das inscrições para o concurso "Vozes, imagens, histórias e experiências das mulheres rurais", que termina nesta terça-feira (15).  Mara...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Blog article
Launch of policy toolkit highlighting public support to organic agriculture in over 80 countries

For the first time ever, a complete global overview of policies supporting organic agriculture has been compiled, and tools for advocates and policy-makers are now available in the ‘Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture’. Published by IFOAM - Organics International, the toolkit can be downloaded free of charge. Over...
2017 - IFOAM-Organics International

Blog article
Sucessão familiar: O desafio da atualidade

A sucessão familiar é um dos grandes desafios da atualidade no âmbito rural. Neste ambiente, é costumeiro os filhos herdarem dos pais suas propriedades, fazendas e plantações, com a responsabilidade de seguir em frente com as atividades da família. Visando a importância do assunto, a AgroBrasília, em 2017, tem como tema...
Brazil
2017 - AgroBrasilia 2017

Technical paper
Resilience Design in Smallholder Farming Systems Approach

The Resilience Design (RD) in Smallholder Farming Systems Approach helps farmers and those who support them have deeper understanding of their farming systems within their agroecosystems. The RD approach helps farmers identify influences that affect their farm sites as well as external resources that can benefit the site. Guided by a set...
2017 - The TOPS Program

Blog article
Land consolidation campaign starts in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Raising awareness, understanding and interest in land consolidation is the objective of a nationwide campaign being conducted here by FAO and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy. Since the start of November, three public awareness workshops on land consolidation have been held, in the cities of Gostivar, Bitola and...
North Macedonia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Agricultural cooperatives in eastern Ukraine receive machinery from FAO

Four agricultural service cooperatives in the conflict-affected Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine today are receiving agricultural equipment for land cultivation – to improve production of cereal, forage, and oil-bearing crops. The distribution is the latest stage in FAO’s project to support farming cooperation in eastern Ukraine. A chronic lack of...
Ukraine
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Com boas perspectivas, jovens cogitam permanecer no campo

A condição socioeconômica superior das famílias produtoras de tabaco é um dos fatores que estão fazendo com que mais de 70% dos jovens construam seus projetos de vida na continuidade das atividades rurais. Essa nova situação foi revelada em pesquisa encomendada pelo Sindicato Interestadual da Indústria do Tabaco (SindiTabaco) ao Centro...
Brazil
2017 - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Event
Agri-Innovation summit Lisbon 2017

The AIS 2017 is a joint initiative of a Portuguese consortium, the Portuguese Government, the EIP-AGRI network and the European Network for Rural Development. It will gather around 500 farmers, rural businesses, startups, Rural Development Programmes managing authorities, national rural networks, Horizon 2020 multi-actor projects, LEADER Local Action Groups, advisors...
European Union
2017 - European Commission

Blog article
Concurso Internacional para cubrir la posición de Secretario Ejecutivo de FONTAGRO

Las postulaciones se recibirán hasta el 27 de agosto de 2017
De acuerdo a lo establecido en el Convenio Constitutivo de FONTAGRO con respecto a la duración del cargo y después de haber cumplido dos períodos de fructífera labor al frente de la Secretaria Ejecutiva, el Dr. Hugo Li Pun finalizará su mandato al 31 de diciembre de 2017. Durante la reunión...
2017 - FONTAGRO

Article
Is rice, western africa’s white gold ?

In the beginning was a global food crisis The 2008 global food crisis has obviously also hit Western Africa and one of its leading sector: rice. This crisis has prompted the States and regional institutions to put measures in place to improve the local rice production and offer.
2017 - SOS Faim BelgiumFarmind

Blog article
Strengthening Family Farming in Eastern Europe

We are glad to echo a news that highlights the strength that Family Farming is acquiring in Eastern Europe, and is that Macedonia has officially formed its NCFF and one of its first steps has been the elaboration of a study of characterization of Family Farming (In Macedonian) in the...
2017 - Global Action for family farmers

Guidelines
Guidelines for public support to organic agriculture

These guidelines have been prepared by IFOAM-Organics International as part of the Global Policy Toolkit on Public Support to Organic Agriculture. It makes political sense to support organic agriculture, as it contributes in many ways to the welfare of society and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also...
2017 - IFOAM-Organics International

Blog article
North Sea plan: ensuring sustainable stocks and security for fishermen

The second multiannual fisheries plan under the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) would manage the fisheries of demersal species living near the bottom of the sea and accounting for 70% of catches in the North Sea (zones IIa, IIIa and IV). The management approach covers different species and is tailored...
European Union
2017 - European Parliament

Book
Agricultura familiar brasileira: desafios e perspectivas de futuro

A Agricultura Brasileira se destaca entre as maiores do mundo e representa uma fonte e alimentos e de matéria prima para muitos países. Nela estão presentes diversos modos de fazer Agricultura, entre os quais a produção Agrícola Familiar, encontrada em extensas e importantes regiões do país. A agricultura familiar no Brasil é crescentemente...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Cloud technology to safeguard integrity of the organic sector

Check Organic is a cloud-based solution which has been designed to enhance the visibility and traceability of organic products. It brings together certification, information and supply chain data. On an online platform, users can visualise their supply chains, track products and be notified when problems may arise. This solution was...
European Union
2017 - EIP- Agri

Blog article
Jovem do meio rural encontra na internet caminho para o sucesso

Ele se capacitou a distância e hoje comercializa a produção da sua propriedade por meio de site e aplicativo de celular
A produção de leite foi só o começo para o jovem Vanderlei Holz Lermen, de Boa Vista do Buricá, Rio Grande do Sul. Ele, que é apaixonado pelo campo, quis ir mais longe e encontrou na internet o caminho para se capacitar, comercializar a produção da sua fazenda e divulgar...
Brazil
2017 - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural (SENAR)

Technical paper
Resilience design in smallholder farming systems Measurement Toolkit

The approach draws elements from, and builds upon agroecology, permaculture, conservation agriculture, climatesmart agriculture, bio-intensive methods and ecosystem services, distilling some of these principles to make them more accessible to farmers and allowing farmers to understand their unique, holistic farm system. It identifies a suite of agricultural techniques from which...
2017 - The TOPS Program

Case study
Zimbabwean rural women's lived experiences

Amplifying grassroots rural women's constraints in accessing and controlling land resources in Zimbabwe
The right of women to hold and use land in Zimbabwe continues to be inequitable in all land tenure regimes, despite the major strides taken in promoting more equitable land redistribution and progressive constitutional reforms. The rights to land available to women in communal and resettlement areas (A1 and older...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Zimbabwe Land and Agrarian Network (ZiLAN)
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