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Blog article
ENRD published a FAQ on the compensatory allowance for areas facing natural constraints

The European Network for Rural Development (ENRD) recently published a FAQ on the compensatory allowance for areas facing natural constraints. Compensatory allowance for areas facing natural constraints (ANC) is a payment scheme of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which aims to prevent land abandonment. The compensatory allowance for permanent natural handicaps...
European Union
2017 - Euromontana

Conference paper
Addressing water scarcity and improving food security under climate change. Perspectives from the Near East and North Africa Region

In the Arab Region, per capita renewable water availability represents only 10 percent of the world average (about 600 m3 per person per year versus the world average of 6 000 m3 ). In the GCC sub region, the renewable water resources per person per year is less than 100...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Event
EIP-AGRI Seminar "Digital Innovation Hubs: mainstreaming digital agriculture"

The general objective of this event is to enable policy makers, research and technology organisations, the agriculture sector, and investors to share knowledge, expertise and needs to develop Digital Innovation Hubs for agriculture.
European Union
2017 - Eip Agri

Technical paper
Fostering inclusive rural transformation in fragile states and situations

This paper challenges our understanding of fragile states and situations, and asks how they relate to issues of inclusive structural and rural transformation. Drawing on IFAD's experiences in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Haiti and the Republic of Sudan as case studies, it analyses the policies and...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Haiti - Sudan
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Guidelines
Ley Modelo de Pesca Artesanal o en Pequeña Escala del Parlamento Latinoamericano

El Parlamento Latinoamericano y Caribeño (PARLATINO) creó la primera ley modelo de pesca artesanal del mundo, la cual servirá como un ejemplo para que los países fortalezcan este sector clave para la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional. La ley modelo es un marco jurídico de referencia que los países pueden utilizar como...
2017 - Parlamento Latinoamericano (PARLATINO)

Conference proceedings
Memoria del II Simposio de Adaptación al Cambio Climático de la Agricultura Familiar - FONTAGRO

Este documento incluye los antecedentes, objetivos, programación, resumen de las presentaciones, discusiones y conclusiones del XII Taller de Seguimiento Técnico de Proyectos FONTAGRO, el II Simposio de Adaptación al Cambio Climático de la Agricultura Familiar (Proyectos co-financiados por el Fondo para el Medio Ambiente Mundial o GEF) y la 1°...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Colombia - Costa Rica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Honduras - Nicaragua - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Spain - Uruguay - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2017 - FONTAGRO

Technical paper
Catálogo de maquinarias y herramientas para la agricultura familiar de Argentina

Información general, técnica y especificas sobre tecnologías para la agricultura familiar en Argentina. El Catálogo de máquinas y herramientas para la agricultura familiar de la Argentina agrupa las tecnologías compartidas en los distintos Encuentros de Maquinarias y Herramientas del Mercosur ampliado, organizados por el INTA, la Secretaría de Agricultura Familiar (SAF) y la Unidad...
Argentina
2017 - INTA - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

Magazine article
Seca exige medidas integradas e tecnologia

Em janeiro, 368 municípios de oito Estados do Semiárido, como Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, além do noroeste de Minas Gerais, apresentavam pelo menos 50% de suas áreas impactadas pela seca. Na ponta do lápis, são cerca de 23 milhões de hectares afetados, a maioria na região Nordeste, segundo o Centro Nacional...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Blog article
Sociedade discute clima e florestas

Os povos tradicionais e a sociedade civil discutiram com o governo formas de aprimorar as medidas de redução de emissões provenientes do desmatamento e da degradação florestal. O conceito, conhecido como REDD+, reúne também o aumento de estoques de carbono florestal e foi tema de oficina realizada nesta semana pelo...
Brazil
2017 - Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)

Video
Soyfoods and the soya boom in Mozambique: A look at agro-food system change

Following the remarkable growth of Mozambique’s poultry sector in recent years, the soya boom in the north of Mozambique is restructuring patterns of production and changing local diets in the northern districts of Gurúè and Alto Mòlocué in Zambézia province. This documentary film, by PLAAS in partnership with ADECRU (Acção...
Mozambique
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Blog article
French organic farmers urge Paris to cover €850 million hole

Faced with a financial hole of €853 million for organic and mountain areas farming, France’s Agriculture Minister Stéphane Travert decided to review the allocation of funds under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for the period 2018-2020. According to the EU Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM EU), consumers have more than...
European Union
2017 - EurActiv

Blog article
International Conference on Development of Organic Agriculture in Central Asia

The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) is organizing an International Conference on development of organic agriculture in Central Asia during 22-24 August 2017. The theoretical sessions of the Conference will be...
Uzbekistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations

Video
From farm to Market: Commercialization of smallholder Irrigation

It's a busy day for Themba Mundidini, a banana farmer at Mutema irrigation scheme in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. Themba is assured of a bumper harvest, the first after five attempts. The source of the successful season is the water sprinklers spewing the precious liquid on the lush banana...
Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Campanha das mulheres rurais é apresentada no Pavilhão da Agricultura Familiar da Expointer

A Secretaria de Justiça e dos Direitos Humanos do Rio Grande do Sul (SJDH/RS) aderiu à campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos. A parceria foi oficializada em uma roda de conversa, nesta quinta-feira (31), no Pavilhão da Agricultura Familiar, montado dentro da 40ª Expointer. A campanha é uma iniciativa organizada pela...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Report
El Progreso de las Mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe 2017

Evitar retrocesos, superar los obstáculos y avanzar en el empoderamiento económico de todas las mujeres. América Latina y el Caribe se encuentra en una encrucijada de enorme relevancia para el empoderamiento económico de las mujeres. Tras un período de prosperidad, progreso social y consolidación democrática, muchos países están experimentando una desaceleración...
2017 - ONU Mujeres

Blog article
FAO trains 800 farmers and labourers on improving agricultural practices and reducing loss and waste of grapes and tomatoes in Nubaria, Egypt

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Egypt, in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, organized a training program for 800 farmers and labourers in Nubaria, Egypt, on improved agricultural practices to maintain the quality and prevent loss and waste along food value...
Egypt
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Florestas e agricultura familiar: uma realidade possível

Imaginar a agricultura inserida em florestas pode ser algo difícil para algumas pessoas. Afinal, as ações do homem colocaram-nas em lados opostos na maior parte das vezes. Desde a colonização do Brasil, o desmatamento para a produção agrícola ou pecuária é comum. No Dia Internacional das Florestas e da Árvore,...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Blog article
Bolsa Verde

Nicaragua
O Bolsa Verde é um programa de transferência de renda para famílias em situação de extrema pobreza que vivem em áreas de relevância para a conservação ambiental. Funciona como um incentivo às comunidades para que continuem usando, de forma sustentável, os territórios onde vivem.O programa concede R$300 reais, de três...
Brazil
2017 - Ministério do Meio Ambiente (MMA)

Video
Betty Ndugga, a female entrepreneur in Uganda

Betty Ndugga used to be a clothing trader in Uganda's capital of Kampala, after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production. After that, she decided to establish...
Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Event
Kick off Meeting of the Regional Expert Advisory Group on Agro-Biodiversity in the SEE countries

The Kick-off Meeting of the Regional Expert Advisory Working Group (Agro-Biodiversity in the SEE countries was held in the period 13th -14th, July 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia. The kick-off meeting served as a preparatory meeting for setting up the structure and technical framework of the Regional Expert Advisory Group on Agro-Biodiversity...
2017 - SEE egional Rural Development Standing Working Group in South Eastern Europe
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