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Armenia advances monitoring for sustainable forest management
Forests are among the most threatened ecosystems in Armenia, with degradation accelerating. But the country is committed to achieving sustainability in forest management, and a three-day workshop opening here today will help move things in the right direction.
Organized by the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Food and...
Armenia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Project
Farmer-to-Farmer Program (FtF) - Armenia
Active in Armenia since 1992, ACDI/VOCA was one of the first international organizations to implement post-Soviet development activities there. Through the Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) program, ACDI/VOCA taught basic skills and new techniques to Armenian host organizations and farmers. FtF is a worldwide initiative that seeks to develop and increase the sustainability...
Armenia
2016 - ACDI/VOCA
Blog article
Armenia looks to no-till technologies to conserve land and water
Scarcity of both land and water – and the degradation of those natural resources – are a big issue for Armenia. Conservation agriculture offers solutions, and FAO and the European Union are responding to this priority need.
FAO convened national and international experts earlier this month to discuss the country’s development...
Armenia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations
Blog article
Organic Agriculture Support Initiative (OASI) Project Launch
This project specifically aims at increasing local value-added of Armenian organic products as well as assisting higher efficiency of relevant public and private institutions. It will support the RA Ministry of Agriculture with creating a clear and enabling legal environment for organic producers and processors in line with international standards....
Armenia - Austria
2016 - Austrian Development Agency
Blog article
Support for Small Farmers
The Organic Agriculture Support Initiative (OASI), a project funded by the European Union and co-funded and implemented by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), aims at further developing organic agriculture in Armenia. The initial success of the organic products on domestic and...
Armenia - Austria
2016 - Austrian Development Agency
Blog article
Armenia improving its capacity to reduce food insecurity, malnutrition
Having made major strides in reducing the prevalence of hunger, Armenia, like other countries in Europe and Central Asia, is now working on progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security policy.
A US$ 6 million project entitled “Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security...
Armenia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
FAO and Armenia sign five-year cooperation agreement
Minister of Agriculture of Armenia Ignati Araqelyan and Raimund Jehle, FAO Representative for Armenia, signed the new Armenia-FAO Country Programmming Framework at a signing ceremony here today.
Healthy livestock and crops, safe food, improved levels of nutrition, reduced poverty, and better management of disaster risk are priorities in the new agreement....
Armenia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Conference/Meeting
WTO, Market Access and Fisheries Trade Issues
FAO, in cooperation with EUROFISH and the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture, will provide a capacity-building workshop on the World Trade Organization (WTO) framework for fish trade and market access. The workshop intends to address the challenges and opportunities for international and intraregional trade in fish and fishery products, livelihoods, and...
Armenia
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Conference/Meeting
1st Regional Technical Consultation Workshop - Smallholders and Family Farms
The objective of the Regional Technical Consultation was to initiate and support the dialogue with the stakeholders on smallholders and family farming related issues. The participants included representatives of Ministries of Agriculture and technical experts from the Eastern Partnership countries*. Bringing together Ministry representatives and technical people provide a possibility...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Georgia - Republic of Moldova - Ukraine
2015 - FAO
Book
Rural Women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
The present work takes guidance from the FAO flagship publication, “The State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2010-2011: Women in agriculture – Closing the gender gap for development” (FAO, 2011a). The SOFA report argues that, “despite the diversity in the roles and status of women in agriculture, the evidence...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Georgia - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Montenegro - Republic of Moldova - Russian Federation - North Macedonia - Türkiye - Turkmenistan - Ukraine - Uzbekistan
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter article
International tenure guidelines roll out across Eastern Europe, Central Asia
The food security of billions of people worldwide depends on how secure their tenure is over the land, forests and fisheries they own or manage. That’s why FAO is rolling out the internationally agreed “Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure” with a series of technical awareness-raising workshops across Europe...
Albania - Armenia - Georgia - Republic of Moldova - Tajikistan - North Macedonia
2015 - FAO REU
Conference/Meeting
Agricultural technologies and trade policy in Central Asia: Issues and prospects
The training workshop will facilitate a greater understanding of the different processes of trade and economic integration affecting the agricultural sector in Central Asia. Given the different degrees of the countries’ involvement in global and regional trading schemes, lessons learned from reforming agriculture will be drawn upon. Apart from experiences...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Russian Federation - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2015
Newsletter article
Russia, FAO to assist Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan with food security and nutrition
A voluntary contribution of US$ 6 million from the Russian Federation will enable FAO to provide technical assistance to the governments of Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the area of food security, nutrition and sustainable agricultural development.
Despite considerable economic growth and improvements in household welfare in recent years, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan...
Armenia - Kyrgyzstan - Russian Federation - Tajikistan
2015 - FAO
Website
Family Farming website
The website about family farmers and their farms, begun in 2014 to show the diversity of family farmers ‘Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth‘ by a collection of first hand experiences (snapshots) as an educational resource for anywhere in the world. The concept of this comes from the International...
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2014 - Family farms.enviroed4all
Report
Armenia Country Strategy 2012–2020
Priority sector of the new Country Strategy for Armenia is agriculture. The choice of this sector was primarily guided by the objectives of poverty reduction and socially and environmentally sustainable development. With the end of the Soviet Union, Armenian agriculture gradually became less significant, losing important export markets and government...
Armenia
2012 - Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Directorate-General for Development Cooperation
Case study
Organic Agriculture. A step towards the Green Economy in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region
In the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region organic agriculture could play a catalyst role in green economy transformation by re-vitalizing the farm and food sector and creating employment that provides better returns on per unit of labor input all along the value chain. It could increase income...
Armenia - Republic of Moldova - Ukraine
2011 - United Nations Environment programme
Article
Organic Agriculture, A step towards the Green Economy in the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region
Case studies from Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine
In the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) region organic agriculture could play a catalyst role in green economy transformation by re-vitalizing the farm and food sector and creating employment that provides better returns on per unit of labor input all along the value chain. It could increase income...
Armenia - Republic of Moldova - Ukraine
2011
Magazine article
货架上的食品，市场上的主权
我们的妇女和粮食主权物品收件箱中包含处理当地和区域粮食市场的好几篇文章. 为了给你一个关于种种市场机会意见和妇女所面临的约束, 我们总结了一些用品.
Armenia - Ghana - Mauritania - Nepal
2011 - Centre for Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge
Book
Gardens of biodiversity
Conservation of genetic resources and their use in traditional food production systems by small farmers of the Southern Caucasus
This book describes how farmers and rural people in the southern Caucasus maintain biodiversity and apply the ecosystem approach in their daily lives and agricultural practices. These practices contribute to their food security and livelihoods while also maintaining local genetic resources.This book does not claim to offer a definitive prescription...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Georgia
2010
Newsletter
Caravan 13: Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC)
This issue of Caravan chronicles ICARDA’s efforts in developing a research strategy and a need-based research program for the CAC region. In doing so, ICARDA played a major role in bringing together all partners, most importantly donors. The article on page 8 traces the history of this effort and provides...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Georgia - Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Kazakhstan - Kyrgyzstan - Syrian Arab Republic - Tajikistan - Turkmenistan - Uzbekistan
2000 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
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