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Transformation of the Macedonian pepper
Red pepper is the most important type of produce for the Macedonian food industry, with some 70 000 tonnes processed every year. Ajvar is usually prepared in late summer and early autumn. It is a regular element of the winter menu because the ingredients are available in abundance, and it...
North Macedonia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Tanzania - Kenya Swahili
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...
Kenya
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
Practices
Comunicar buenas prácticas de agricultura familiar en Guatemala
El agua es esencial para la vida del ser humano; sin embargo, en muchas comunidades es un recurso con acceso limitado, especialmente durante el verano.
En Guatemala, la FAO y el Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (MAGA) impulsan la implementación de filtros artesanales de aguas grises, una práctica que permite filtrar el agua...
Guatemala
2018 - Onda Rural
Report
Future Smart Food
Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia
Future Smart Food: Rediscovering Hidden Treasures of Neglected and Underutilized Species for Zero Hunger in Asia has as its purposes: i) to demonstrate the multidimensional benefits of Neglected and Underutilized species (NUS) and their potential contribution to achieving Zero Hunger; ii) to identify promising NUS that are nutrition-dense, climate-resilient, economically-viable...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
Article
The Future of Uganda is in Danger: Stop Land Grabbing!
An increase in land grabbing has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
Due to land grabbing, native forests and local biodiversity are being lost, people are being evicted from their homes and forced to give up their lands, along with all the other problems linked to the large-scale use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Some individual cases are reported in the booklet “Let’s...
Uganda
2018 - Slow Food
Blog article
Elaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de productions basées sur l’agriculture familiale
Le CNCR déclenche le processus
Les 17 et 18 mai 2018, le CNCR à travers le Groupe de Dialogue Social et Politique (GSDP et le Comité National de l’Agriculture Familiale (CNAF) a organisé à Dakar, avec l’appui du Forum Rural Mondial un atelier méthodologique pour l’élaboration des directives volontaires sur la gouvernance des systèmes de...
Senegal
2018 - Conseil National de Concertation et de Coopération des Ruraux (CNCR)
Newsletter
Teikei #49 November 2018
Urgenci's Newsletter - The International Network ofCommunity Supported Agriculture.
Urgenci's newsletter has been named TEIKEI,«cooperation» in Japanese, as a tribute to the pioneering role of the Japanese organic agriculturemovement in setting up the first Community -supported Agriculture models. It is also a tribute to the victims ofthe March 2011 Earthquake and...
2018 - Urgenci
Event
VI Global conference on family farming
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Decade of Family Farming 2019-2028 on 20 December 2017 in order to improve the position of family farmers in all five (5) continents. The declaration of the Decade ensures the continuity of the successful IYFF-2014 process by advancing the implementation of public policies...
2018 - World Rural Forum
Conference paper
Simposio internacional sobre innovación agrícola en favor de los agricultores familiares
El Simposio reconoció el papel central de los agricultores familiares en la innovación agrícola. Con este aspecto clave en mente, los resultados principales que extraigo de este Simposio se resumen como sigue:
Elementos fundamentales de la innovación agrícola sostenible
1. La innovación requiere un compromiso a largo plazo por parte de diferentes...
2018 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
Más oportunidades, más sostenibilidad
Cada año se celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural el 15 de octubre, fecha establecida en el 2007 por la Asamblea de las Naciones Unidas para reconocer a la “la función y contribución decisivas de la mujer rural, incluida la mujer indígena, en la promoción del desarrollo agrícola y rural,...
2018 - Proyecto +Algodón, Iniciativa regional de Cooperación Sur-Sur Trilateral, ejecutada en el marco del Programa de Cooperación Internacional Brasil-FAO
Book
E-Agriculture in action: drones for agriculture
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are playing an increasing role in addressing problems faced by agriculture. The challenges faced by agriculture from climate change alone are enormous and the need for the farming communities to adapt and become resilient is key to feeding the world’s growing population. Harnessing the growth...
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Magazine article
Farm to Systems – Where is our measuring tape?
Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to capture impact of an agro-ecological system. Measuring the impacts of agro ecology over several parameters of different kind has encouraged farmers in...
India
2018
Case study
Farm to systems
In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food...
India
2018 - Deutsche Welthungerhilfe
Video
Agricultural Innovation for family farmers
Family farmers have been innovating since the dawn of agriculture. Fostering the capacity of the millions of family farmers to innovate is especially crucial today as they face unprecedented challenges that affect their livelihoods as well as the sustainability of the world’s food and agriculture systems.
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Happy trainers, New Perspectives
Train the trainer event
The “Train the trainer event” was an important milestone of the CSact! Project team, as one of the main activity of the project is the adaptation of the Be part of CSA! Training programme to local contexts. 18 international participants from 7 European countries met in Vác (a small city...
Hungary
2018 - TVE
Event
The 34th session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific
There will be a full schedule of presentations, discussions and activities. Some of the highlights of the Conference include a Ministerial Roundtable on Zero Hunger, a Roundtable on "Imagining future healthy and inclusive food systems in Asia and the Pacific,” an Exhibition honoring the achievements and progress of the 10 Regional...
Fiji
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Practices
Zero Cool Storage System
One of the main issues of the commercialization of agriculture is the lack of storage capacity for the farmers’ organizations (FOs) especially those that produce fresh vegetables. Without effective storage system, farmers cannot consolidate their produce and manage demand-supply opportunities properly. That is why oftentimes, there is too much supply...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2018 - Lao Farmer Network
Report
Farmers’ Organizations in Africa
Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP)
The Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP): Main phase (2013 - 2018) is a continental programme which strengthens the institutional capacities, policy engagement and engagement of value chains of African farmers’ organizations (FOs). The programme supports the 5 regional networks of African FOs (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU and UMNAGRI),...
2018 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Book
State of Land in the Mekong Region
The Mekong region has undergone rapid socio-economic growth over the past two decades alongside pronounced transformations in a number of key sectors and relations between the rural majority and increasingly-affluent urban centres. Land—as both a foundation for national development and the livelihood basis for millions of rural and agricultural households—continues...
Cambodia - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Myanmar - Thailand - Viet Nam
2018 - Centre for Development and Environment
Policy brief/paper
Política de Agricultura Familiar Campesina, Indígena y Afrodescendiente Regional 2018 – 2030 PAFCIA
La Política de Agricultura Familiar campesina, indígena y afrodescendiente PAFCIA, es un instrumento estratégico, con visión de futuro para la toma de decisiones y para dar marco a los procesos de dialogo e incidencia política y técnica, así como para desarrollar y consolidar un modelo productivo diversificado, incluyente y territorializado.
La...
2018 - Diálogo Regional Rural
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