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Spanish Operational Groups on animal health
Feuga (Galician Enterprise-University Foundation) recently organised an event to showcase Spanish Operational Groups working on animal health. For example, TIRAC and MICOALGA-FEED worked on the reduction of antibiotics through, respectively, the use of algae in rabbit feed to avoid digestion problems, and the use of fungi and microalgae supplements in...
European Union - Spain
2023 - EU CAP Network
Report
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023: partnerships and cooperation for water
Water is the lifeblood of humanity. It is vital for survival itself and supports the health, resilience, development and prosperity of people and planet alike. But humanit y is blindly travelling a dangerous path. Vampiric overconsumption and overdevelopment, unsustainable water use, pollution and unchecked global warming are draining humanity’s lifeblood,...
2023 - UNESCO on behalf of UN-Water
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La FAO convoca a autoridades sanitarias de ocho países de América Latina para trabajar en respuestas de emergencia por crisis de influenza aviar
Como parte de la agenda de trabajo para hacer frente a la crisis por influenza aviar, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) convocó a una reunión para informar a los países de América Latina respecto del plan de acción que realizará la entidad...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Guidelines
Guide for monitoring and evaluation of the public agricultural extension and advisory service system
This guide is aimed to propose a holistic, systemic, and easy-to-use methodology that is multiscalar, multisectoral, and multidimensional for the M&E of public EAS systems to help identify gaps and pathways to strengthen and reform the public EAS system. It starts with analyses of the common objectives, subject, challenges, lessons...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Young people in farming
Only 11% of all farm holdings in the European Union are run by farmers under 40 – and persuading more young people to begin farming is a significant challenge.
Faced with an ageing farming population, the EU is stepping up its efforts to encourage young people into farming. Young farmers are...
European Union
2023 - European Commission
Report
Caracterización de la pesca y la acuicultura artesanal en pequeña escala en América del Sur y recomendaciones de políticas públicas
Esta publicación compila una serie de recomendaciones alineadas a las disposiciones y orientaciones de instrumentos internacionales para fortalecer la sostenibilidad de la pesca y acuicultura artesanal en pequeña escala, y que a su vez permitan mejorar las condiciones de vida de pescadores y acuicultores artesanales de América del Sur.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conference proceedings
Proceedings of the EIFAAC symposium on inland fisheries and aquaculture: advances in technology, stock assessment and citizen science in an era of climate change
The international symposium on “Inland Fisheries and aquaculture: advances in technology, stock assessment and citizen science in an era of climate change” was organized in conjunction with the thirty-first session of the European Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Advisory Commission in Killarney, Ireland on 20–21 June 2022. The symposium was organized...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Delivering sustainable crop solutions
CropLife Europe is an organisation which represents the crop protection industry, working together to find and promote sustainable, innovative, science-based crop protection solutions.
Their annual conference took place on 7-8 March 2023. Presentations can be downloaded here .
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
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EU Organic Awards open for applications
A call for applications for the second edition of the EU Organic Awards is now open (until 14 May 2023).
Organic agri-food systems remain a keen interest for the EU CAP Network and we have been contributing to the transition of organic production in a range of ways, including through our Thematic...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Blog article
Nuevo proyecto de la FAO y Guatemala fortalecerá los medios de vida de 116 mil personas del área rural del país
La Organización de Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) y el Gobierno de Guatemala firmaron el acuerdo del proyecto Medios de vida resilientes de pequeños agricultores vulnerables en los paisajes mayas y el corredor seco de Guatemala (RELIVE), iniciativa que proveerá de condiciones para mejorar la seguridad...
Guatemala
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Connections that matter: How does the quality of governance institutions help protect our Ocean?
With the SDGs, countries agreed that Peace, Planet, Partnership, Prosperity and People are connected. To maximise synergies and minimize trade-offs, their interactions need to be better understood. While 'SDG interlinkages' are increasingly studied, SDG 16 is rarely covered. This new publication builds on the first, ground-breaking study ‘Connections that Matter:...
2023 - UNDP
Report
2023 Global Food Policy Report: Rethinking Food Crisis Responses
Calls to rethink responses to food crises have arisen from recent overlapping shocks to food systems — including the COVID-19 pandemic, increased food prices, conflicts, and natural disasters — and from concerns that crises are becoming more frequent, complex, and protracted. Now is an opportune moment to develop more permanent...
2023 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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FOODRUS Project
FOODRUS is working to tackle the food waste and losses by creating resilient food systems across nine European regions. To achieve this, the project will test 23 circular solutions through diverse forms of collaborative innovation, including: technological (blockchain solutions to manage food losses and waste), social (educational materials and citizen science...
European Union
2023 - FOODRUS
Blog article
Rural youth employment Thematic Group keep networking
The CAP Implementation Contact Point’s Thematic Group (TG) focussed on youth employment in rural Europe is continuing to network and share experiences and new ideas to help young people live and work in the countryside.
The CAP Implementation Contact Point’s Thematic Group (TG) on rural youth employment is continuing to network...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Video
GFRAS GP-SAEP Agroecology Project Description
GFRAS, the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services, will soon begin implementation of an Agroecology project in close collaboration with IFAD, the International Fund for Agriculture Development. The project, entitled “Global Programme for Small-Scale Agroecology Producers and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation”, GP-SAEP in short, is part of a larger funding...
2023 - Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services GFRAS
Event
Workshop report: Young entrepreneurs - Engines of innovation in rural areas
On 30 November and 1 December 2022, the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission (DG AGRI) and the Support Facility for Innovation and Knowledge exchange including EIP-AGRI held the one-and-a-half-day EU CAP Network workshop ‘Young entrepreneurs – Engines of innovation in rural areas.
With a total of...
European Union
2023 - EU CAP Network
Event
XVIII Sesión de la Comisión de Pesca en Pequeña Escala, Artesanal y Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe (COPPESAALC)
La reunión atiende lo establecido en los estatutos de la Comisión respecto de la realización de sesiones ordinarias bienales. Sus objetivos son reportar las medidas adoptadas respecto de los acuerdos de la reunión anterior; reflexionar colectivamente sobre los temas que atañen a la sostenibilidad y contribución de la pesca y...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Action plan for mainstreaming biodiversity across agricultural sectors in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 2022–2023
In collaboration with its partners, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) leads the integration, in a structured, holistic and coherent manner, of actions for the conservation, sustainable use, management and restoration of biological diversity across agricultural sectors at national, regional and international levels. Against this background,...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Manual
Advancing organic agriculture in Africa: New training material published
The series utilises diverse formats to communicate the results from three projects implemented by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL in the tropics – SysCom, ProEcoAfrica and OFSA projects. This was possible within the framework of the GIZ project, KCOA (Knowledge Centre for Organic Africa).
Organic agriculture and agroecological approaches...
2023 - The Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL)
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Greenovate! Europe
Greenovate! Europe is a not-for-profit network of organisations dedicated to sustainable innovation. Together we develop sustainability projects and provide innovation support to researchers, companies and policy-makers.
European Union
2023 - Greenovate! Europe
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