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Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas

O Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas é uma ferramenta de busca, idealizada pelo Idec (Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor), com o objetivo de estimular a alimentação saudável e sustentável em todo o Brasil e mostrar que os produtos orgânicos e agroecológicos podem ser mais acessíveis aos consumidores. O Mapa visa a...
Brazil
2023 - Mapa de Feiras Orgânicas

Journal article
Can healthy diets be achieved worldwide in 2050 without farmland expansion?

This paper analyses to what extent it would be possible to ensure food availability to the world population by 2050 with two objectives: healthy diets and no farmland expansion. Assumptions were made to project exogenous demand and supply variables. Climate change impacts on crop yields, grazing use intensities and maximum cultivable areas...
2023 - CGIAR

Article
Exploring farmers' perspectives on agrobiodiversity management: Future options for quinoa smallholder organizations in the Peruvian high Andes

The intensification of crop production is widely recognized to negatively affect the agrobiodiversity in smallholder systems. This trend can also be observed in Quinoa production systems, where few varieties are commercialized while maintaining traditional varieties of quinoa remains a key agricultural activity in the high-Andes landscape. In recent decades, the...
Peru
2023 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

Video
Rowdy Flock

Rowdy Flock tells the story of Rebekka’s sister, Rakel, taking over her family’s sheep farm. It’s the last remaining farm in their village and has been in the family for four generations. Rakel is not only taking responsibility for a flock of adventurous and accident-prone woolly animals, but also a...
Norway
2023 - www.theguardian.com

Case study
Successful smallholder management of agrobiodiversity in Northern Tanzania

This agrobiodiversity case study (No.5) from Tanzania is the fifth of six case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). It describes the actions of Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima na Wafugaji Mkoa wa Arusha (MVIWAARUSHA). The FFPO represents almost 12,500 smallholder...
United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Report
Re-thinking food systems in Andhra Pradesh, India

How Natural Farming could feed the future
Agroecology is an integrated approach that simultaneously applies ecological and social concepts and principles to the design and management of food and agricultural systems. It seeks to optimize interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment, while taking into account the social aspects that need to be addressed for a...
India
2023 - Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming

Policy brief/paper
The rise of digital agriculture and dispossession in Africa: implications for smallholder farmers

This paper explores areas of contestation related todigital agriculture globally and highlights concernsrelated to the application of digital agriculture inthe smallholder farming sector in Africa. Theseconcerns include inequitable benefits and influenceaccrued from its deployment; ownership of data andhow it is used; and its exclusion and marginalisationof the people-environment relationshipsand knowledge...
2023 - The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)

Newsletter
Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest July 2023

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...
2023 - FAO

Event
Webinario I: Una década de acción colectiva: logros históricos y resistencia

En el contexto del Ciclo de Webinarios: 10 años de la #DemandaColectivaMaíz en perspectiva, se desarrolló el Webinario I: Una década de acción colectiva: logros históricos y resistencia, el día miércoles 2 de agosto de 2023, 5:00 pm En el webinario participaron: Mercedes López Martínez | Representante Colectividad, Demanda Colectiva Maíz Cati...
Mexico
2023 - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos (ACO)

Journal article
‘Feeding the world, byte by byte’: emergent imaginaries of data productivism

Recent scholarship has shed light on how data-driven food systems may entrench productivist and neo-productivist visions of ‘feeding the world.’ In this paper, we examine the narratives and institution-building practices of global development actors, asking: What stories do they tell about how data will transform food systems? Whose ‘data’ are...
2023 - University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA

Case study
Managing agrobiodiversity in successful smallholder landscapes in Ecuador

    This agrobiodiversity case study (No.1) from Ecuador is the first of six case studies prepared by forest and farm producer organisations (FFPOs) for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF). It describes the actions of the Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi (UNORCAC) in the conservation of agrobiodiversity in the...
Ecuador
2023 - International Institute for Environment and Development IIED

Video
Presentacion ReAF (Presidencia Protémpore Argentina 2023)

Este video trata sobre XXXVIII Reaunión Especializada de la Agricultura Familiar (REAF) en el marco de la Presindencia Protémpore de Argentina (primer semestre 2023), que tiene como tema "Los desafíos y oportunidades del Decenio de la Agricultura Familiar: Avanzando hacia la Transformación de los Sistemas Alimentarios con Políticas Diferenciadas para...
Argentina
2023 - REAF

Blog article
Mujeres algodoneras de América Latina comparten experiencias y desafíos en evento virtual y dialogan sobre acciones conjuntas en la región

La actividad fue promovida por la Red Latinoamericana de Mujeres Algodoneras y el proyecto regional +Algodón.
Mujeres del sector algodonero de países de Latinoamérica se reunieron el 24 de marzo para un evento virtual donde compartieron compartir experiencias y dialogaron sobre los retos y brechas que aun enfrentan en la cadena algodonera en la región. El webinar regional Mujeres del Algodón: Empoderamiento Económico para Cadenas de Valor con...
2023 - Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO

Event
Mujeres Algodoneras: empoderamiento económico para cadenas de valor con enfoque de género

La agenda internacional al desarrollo, por medio de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), expresa la importancia de avanzar hacia la igualdad de género (ODS 5) y el poner fin a todas las formas de discriminación contra mujeres y niñas, garantizando de tal forma el ejercicio de los derechos humanos...
2023 - Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO

Blog article
The WRF and the forest and farm facility promote the catalytic role of cooperativism in empowering rural women

Through the “Women and cooperativism” project, led by the WRF together with six regional organizations, 23 successful experiences were identified and analyzed, which served as the basis for developing a cycle of exchanges and material outlining recommendations and lessons learned from women in cooperatives in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. As...
2023 - WRF

Blog article
FAO helps rebuild agriculture and livelihoods in Albania

A three-year FAO project is providing recovery and reconstruction assistance to smallholder farmers in the Republic of Albania impacted by the 2019 earthquake.  Implemented with the financial support of the governments of the  Kingdom of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the project “Earthquake...
Albania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Climate-resilient women: Seaweed farmers in the Philippines feed families and futures

Despite the ravages of storms, seaweed farming is transforming the lives of Filipino families in traditionally male-dominated fishing communities, turning women into family breadwinners who are paying for their children to go to college. The Cherish Fisherfolk Cooperative of 120 seaweed farmers in the Palawan village of Balintang is named after...
Philippines
2023

Blog article
Un agricultor ‘regenerativo’ aragonés que cuida los suelos

La agricultura siempre ha mirado más a las plantas que a sus raíces, más al verde que a los suelos. Pero la agricultura regenerativa se ha fijado precisamente en las tierras donde cultivamos, con el objetivo de mejorar la salud del suelo, aumentar la biodiversidad y mejorar la disponibilidad y...
Spain
2023 - Regeneration International

Newsletter
Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest October 2023

The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more. For more documents, feel free to search in the...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Article
El derecho humano a la alimentación bajo “tenaza”. Apuntes en torno al concepto de adecuación alimentaria

Objetivo: postular que el derecho humano a la alimentación está amenazado por la expansión del modelo de alimentación industrializada así como por los mecanismos asistencialistas de alimentación de emergencia. Metodología: desde un enfoque de complejidad, se realiza un aporte teórico para el desarrollo del concepto de adecuación alimentaria como un elemento integrador del...
2023 - Estudios Sociales. Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional
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