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GOOD PRACTICES -From Farm to Market – Pragati’s Journey with Finger Millet Farmers

Koraput district, in South Odisha, India, is characterized by warm and humid climate with 80% of the total annual rainfall received from the south-west monsoon in the months from June to mid-October. Agriculture is primarily rainfed with kharif (June-September) being the main cropping season. Finger millet is a major staple...
India
2023 - Agricultural Extension in South Asia

Website
UN World Water Day

World Water Day 2023 is about accelerating change to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Dysfunction throughout the water cycle undermines progress on all major global issues, from health to hunger, gender equality to jobs, education to industry, and disasters to peace. In 2015, the world committed to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 as part...
2023 - United Nations UN

E-learning
Transforming dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral systems

This course seeks to build the competencies needed for program and project managers, field practitioners and policy makers to apply a transformational sustainability approach to decision-making in the management of dryland forests and agrosilvopastoral production systems.
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Resultados económicos de modelos productivos porcinos. Informe N° 78. Enero 2023

Este documento elaborado en el marco del Proyecto “Caracterización de gestiones económicas de sistemas de producción agropecuarios de pequeña y mediana escala” (vigente desde enero del 2020) presenta estimaciones sobre comportamientos de resultados económicos de modelos productivos y tiene como propósito aportar información que favorezca la inclusión de productores, mejore...
Argentina
2023 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Website
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

Blog article
In the context of climate change, Central Asia stands ready for more cooperation on food security

Acknowledging the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture and food production, ministers from the five Central Asian countries discuss today potential solutions for addressing regional and global food and climate change challenges. The meeting was fostered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Global and regional...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Report
Déterminants de l'adoption de la pratique d'intégration agriculture-élevage dans la commune de Banikoara (Bénin)

La contrainte majeure évoquée par les exploitations agricoles des zones cotonnières est la baisse progressive de la capacité des sols cultivables à produire à cause de la mauvaise gestion de la fertilité. L'intégration agriculture-élevage en est une solution à travers l'amendement de la matière organique dont elle offre. L'objectif de...
Benin
2023 - Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Recherche sur les Dynamiques Economique et Sociale (LARDES), Faculté d’Agronomie, Université de Parakou, Bénin

Journal article
The stories of seed sovereignty

In a graphic illustration of consolidation in the seed industry through 2018, and how corporations control our seeds, Phil Howard tells the story of how farmers have been losing control of their seeds for quite some time (Howard 2020). From a narrowing of the genetic foundation of agriculture to the...
2023 - Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems

Report
Europe and Central Asia – Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2022

Repurposing policies and incentives to make healthy diets more affordable and agrifood systems more environmentally sustainable
This report presents the latest updates related to food security and nutrition in Europe and Central Asia, including estimates on the cost and affordability of healthy diets. It also explores how governments are supporting the food and agriculture sector and how to repurpose policies and incentives to make healthy diets...
2023 - FAO; IFAD; WMO; WHO; UNICEF; UN; WFP;

Blog article
Tanzanie : les agriculteurs d’Arusha passent au bio

À Arusha, en Tanzanie, un consortium d’ONG, dont Îles de Paix, accompagne les agriculteurs dans le déploiement de cultures biologiques, alors que la région est confrontée à un réel problème de qualité des aliments, avec des impacts significatifs sur la santé des habitants.
United Republic of Tanzania
2023

Website
League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

The interactive map of this website on Pastoralism presents the different pastoral groups present in the world. A pastoral group is defined there as a community that manages animals in a pastoral system (where animals move to feed). The map provides details on each group (species bred, location, language, des- description, etc.) as...
2023 - League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development

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
Souveraineté alimentaire et la résilience en Afrique : oui à la diversité, non aux fausses solutions

Dakar 2 a vécu fin janvier 2023 sur le thème « Nourrir l’Afrique : souveraineté et résilience alimentaires », organisé par la Banque africaine de développement (Bad). Trente-quatre (34) chefs d’État et 70 ministres rentrent y ont porté les négociations sur des « pactes nationaux pour l’alimentation et agriculture ».A travers une déclaration, l’Afsa...
2023 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Blog article
Permaculture: L’ATP propose l’adoption du label Haute Valeur Environnementale en Tunisie

L’Association tunisienne de la permaculture (ATP), ONG tunisienne active, depuis 2015, dans l’agriculture durable et la valorisation de la diversité des semences paysannes tunisiennes, a soumis au gouvernement une proposition pour l’adoption d’un label Haute Valeur Environnementale (HVE) à appliquer sur les exploitations agricoles basées sur les principes de l’agro-écologie,...
Tunisia
2023

Report
Promise, Peril and Resilience: Voices of Agropastoralists in Africa's Borderland Regions

Produced by UNDP's Africa Borderlands Centre, this report constitutes a wealth of insights to build better programming and make sure our development actions are relevant and efficient. Through direct testimonies from agropastoralists living in Africa's borderland regions, communities describe their strengths and vulnerabilities; detail the current challenges of rising forced displacement,...
2023 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Technical paper
Accompagner l’installation des jeunes sortants des collèges agricoles Fekama

Cette publication revient sur le dispositif d’accompagnement d’insertion des jeunes sortis des collèges agricoles mis en place par Fifata à Madagascar. Elle met en avant son fonctionnement et ses réussites, les clés de son fonctionnement et s’interroge aussi sur sa pérennité.
Madagascar
2023 - L'Institut Agro Montpellier

Blog article
Brasil e China fecharão acordo para criar aliança internacional contra fome

Numa iniciativa inédita, os governos do Brasil e da China vão assinar um compromisso de combater a fome e a pobreza extrema, prevendo até mesmo a construção de uma aliança nos organismos multilaterais para colocar o tema na agenda internacional. O acordo será assinado pelo presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), durante sua visita ao...
Brazil - China
2023 - UOL - O melhor conteúdo NOTÍCIAS

E-learning
Agroecology Schools' Toolkit 2023: SHARING KNOWLEDGE FOR STRONGER AGROECOLOGY MOVEMENT in Europe and Central Asia

On behalf of the Agroecology Fund project by the ECA Community of Practice on Agroecology, the team at Agro-Perma-Lab (Poland) is preparing a series of articles, online Agroecology Schools' series as well as 3x quarterly newsletters in 2023. This series is designed for anyone with an interest to advance Agroecology in...
2023 - Agroecology Fund, ECA Community of Practice on Agroecology BILIM, Agro permalabs

Miscellanea
Feed Access : une application de formulation d’aliments pour l’élevage

Feed access est une application créée dans le but d’aider les éleveurs des pays du Sud à optimiser l’alimentation de leurs animaux. Totalement gratuite, elle intègre une base de données d’ingrédientset les besoins des animaux aux différents stades de croissance.
2023 - https://www.feedaccess.com/

Blog article
Entretien - Malick Sow, acteur de la transition agroécologique au Sénégal

Cet article donne la parole à Malick Sow, technicien supérieur horticole de formation. À travers ses démarches de recherche-action pour obtenir des plants robustes et sains en pépinière maraîchère, il témoigne du changement opéré ces dernières années en matière d’agroécologie au Sénégal.
Senegal
2023 - Réseau international FAR
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