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Manual
Guía de análisis costo-beneficio

Aplicación para medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay
Este documento es una guía para la aplicación de la metodología de análisis costo beneficio (ACB), en particular para la evaluación de medidas de adaptación al cambio climático en el sector agropecuario en Uruguay. Esta metodología permite hacer evaluaciones ex ante de alternativas de políticas, programas o proyectos de inversión,...
Uruguay
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Website
Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Groups (ARLG)

Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Groups (ARLG) does transdisciplinary and participatory action research (PAR) in agroecology in the United States and Latin America. Research and teaching efforts focus on developing and applying transdisciplinary approaches that analyze interactions between agriculture, livelihoods, and environmental conservation in tropical and temperate rural landscapes. Most of this...
2019 - University of Vermont

Video
Le contrôle du vérâtre blanc (Veratrum album)

Le vératre blanc est très répandu sur les alpages. Il y est classé comme « plante problématique », due à sa toxicité. Il se développe dans des pâturages sous-exploités et fait donc partie des plantes « supplantant volontiers la flore voisine ». La vidéo présente les differentes méthodes pour le...
2019 - FiBL

Case study
ENRD workshop Biodiversity and the CAP – working together to reach conservation goals

The workshop explored how to ensure the most effective contribution of current RDPs and future CAP Strategic Plans to support the implementation of EU biodiversity policy, by encouraging dialogue and facilitating exchanges among the relevant agriculture and environmental actors involved in biodiversity conservation in rural Europe. Through presentations and group...
European Union
2019 - ENRD

Video
Régulation des rumex des Alpes (Rumex alpinus)

Max Herger et Cornel Werder montrent à l'exemple de l'Alp Ruosalp dans le canton d'Uri, comment réguler les rumex des Alpes. La vidéo traite des sujets suivants :• Emplacement et biologie• Adaptation de la gestion• Régulation mécanique• Stratégie d’assainissement• Ensemencement• Conclusions
2019 - FiBL

Report
Climate Change and Land

An IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
2019 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Conference proceedings
Good practices for the resilience of rural livelihoods for food and nutrition security

The added value of coordination, collaboration and synergy between FAO and WFP
The WFP Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and the FAO Subregional Office for Mesoamerica, both located in Panama, organized the "Workshop on Exchange of Experiences in Community Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security" in September 2016 in Colombia. The aim was to exchange knowledge, experiences and tools...
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
The OBSALIM Method: Feeding Evaluation on ruminants

The French veterinarian Bruno Giboudeau, together with farmers, has developed the Obsalim method. The word derives from the French "Observations alimentaires" and means "feeding observations". This method enables farmers or advisors to observe symptoms in a dairy herd in a relatively short period of time and to make an analysis...
2019 - FiBL

Case study
Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda

Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the infl ux of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is diffi cult to increase production and productivity to achieve food...
Uganda
2019 - ESAFF

Blog article
Actualizing climate resilience among Malawian farmers

Malawi is vulnerable to the devastating impacts of climate change, owing to its significant exposure to climate variability and environmental degradation as a result of human activities over the years. In a bid to enhance resilience among rural subsistence farmers, who make up 70 percent of total population of about 17...
Malawi
2019 - Greentumble

Blog article
Burkina : Un centre de santé pour Ladiou

Petit village rural de 5 500 habitants - Aujourd'hui, nous vous proposons un document exceptionnel :   1) pour la qualité de l’établissement crée (rien y manque) - et son emplacement en brousse, loin de tout autre centre de santé 2) pour des raisons de proximité : le lien professionnel entre le président du...
Burkina Faso
2019 - ABC Burkina

Book
Cambio climático y seguridad alimentaria y nutricional en América Latina y el Caribe

Impacto de buenas prácticas de producción ganadera con bajas emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en la seguridad alimentaria, la nutrición y el medio ambiente
El objetivo de esta publicación es documentar y sistematizar la evidencia disponible en los países de América Latina y el Caribe sobre la relación de la ganadería y el cambio climático con la seguridad alimentaria y la nutrición, resaltando las innovaciones de producción pecuaria con bajas emisiones y el sustento...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Video
Entre Semiáridos

"Entre Semiáridos" é uma memória dos sentimentos e aprendizagens geradas pelas trocas de saberes entre campesinos e campesinas das regiões do Sahel, na África; do Corredor Seco, na América Central; e do Semiárido brasileiro.  
Brazil
2019 - Articulação Semiárido

Blog article
How can we prevent or reverse desertification and save lands from desert encroachment?

Desertification can be prevented. The same strategy that helps to prevent desertification is also effective in addressing problems caused by drought and other forms of land degradation that cause problems with food production from the affected lands.  This article presents the concept of Sustainable Land Management in fighting desertification and lists...
2019 - Greentumble

Fact sheet
ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND ORGANIC FARMING

Agriculture and forestry have to meet the changing needs of society both in terms of consumption and with regards to the environmental issues related to primary production (e.g. biodiversity, habitats, water quality and quantity, climate change, air quality). A deeper understanding of ecological principles is changing perceptions on the functioning...
European Union
2019 - European Commission

Guidelines
Hacia el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en la región: ¿cómo medimos los avances?

El Proyecto “Fortalecimiento de capacidades en la medición y reporte de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en los países de América del Sur (TCP/RLA/3611)” de la Oficina Regional de la FAO para América Latina y el Caribe ha ayudado a los países sudamericanos a desarrollar sus capacidades para informar sobre...
2019 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
The United Nations backs seed sovereignty in landmark small-scale farmers’ rights declaration

On Dec. 17, the United Nations General Assembly took a quiet but historic vote, approving the Declaration on the Rights of Peasats and other Peole Working in Rural Areas by a vote of 121-8 with 52 abstentions. The declaration, the product of some 17 years of diplomatic work led by the...
2019 - GreenBiz

Working paper
El cooperativismo agrario y su potencial para el desarrollo territorial en Uruguay

Este documento tiene como principal motivación comenzar a explorar la relación entre cooperativismo agrario y desarrollo territorial en Uruguay. Con este objetivo, en primer lugar, se realiza una presentación teórica sobre las características del enfoque del desarrollo territorial poniendo en evidencia los importantes puntos de encuentro que existen con el cooperativismo....
Uruguay
2019 - Univesidad de la República - Uruguay

Report
IFPRI 2019 Global food policy report

The 2019 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy developments and events from the past year. In this eighth annual report, leading researchers, policymakers, and practitioners examine what happened in food policy in 2018 and why, and look ahead to 2019.In 2018, many regions of the world faced increasing...
2019 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Case study
Seeds of the past adapted to the present and future

Little black millet and white onion, two farmers’ seeds returning to Niger
In Niger, climate change and economic factors are affecting the living conditions of agricultural producers. Distorted by the promise of better yields, many Nigerien producers have abandoned their farming practices and peasant varieties to adopt new and sometimes inappropriate practices. This case deals with black millet and white onion, two...
Niger
2019 - SWISSAID
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