Countries in the NENA region are facing enormous challenges to achieve their goals of eradicatinghunger and malnutrition while managing their natural resources in a sustainable manner. The persistent high population growth rates, averaging 2.2 percent for the whole region, and growing urbanization are placing heavy pressure on the demand for food. Large...

For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agro industrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world's governments are refusing to face these problems head on, and the Paris Summit in December is approaching without any effective...

Coming forward to set up cooperation groups and cooperatives to open the training courses, technique training, and demanding loans to support the supply of agricultural materials to members - this is the impact model, the farmers' creation in Ha Tinh.

En el marco de las elecciones presidenciales y parlamentarias del 2016, cuya iniciativa tiene como antecedentes los proyectos “Elecciones 2011” y “Elecciones 2006”, el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES), el Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacífico (CIUP) y la Escuela de Gobierno y Políticas Públicas de...

The main objectives of this research were to determine which medicinal plants are culturally most important for the native community of Vencedor as well as testing a new measure of the cultural importance of medicinal plants that can be used outside of this one particular case. Data were collected through...

Inspired by the ongoing process of decentralization and in an effort to inform local and national policy makers concerned with food security, this paper provides a descriptive but detailed geographical overview of Congo’s food markets as well as the nutritional status of its population. To do so, this paper will...

Association of private farming of the Czech Republic organized an International Conference on family farms and Common Agricultural Policy of EU. The event was held in Brno on 4 - 6th of April 2016. 10 European countries attended the conference. Herewith volume 5. Presentation of Latvia

This course provides guidance on some of the main issues to consider when implementing a monitoring activity: from how to select the most appropriate approach or to identify the best data sources for monitoring to how to effectively communicate the results of the monitoring activity to maximize its effect on...

As countries design climate change adaptation policies, it is important to understand how workers alter behavior in response to changes in temperature. Nonetheless, the impact of temperature on labor markets is poorly documented, especially in Africa. We address this gap by analyzing panel surveys of labor choices by sector, contractual...

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) defines pulses as legumes with dry, edible seeds that have low fat content such as chickpeas, kidney beans, butter beans, black eyed peas, lentils, pigeon beans and cow peas among others. “Pulses are the key to food security and nutrition in Africa, taking...

SIMRA (Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas) is a four-year project (2016-2020) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. It aims to advance understanding of social innovation and innovative governance in agriculture, forestry and rural development – and how to boost them – in marginalised rural areas across Europe...

The course introduces spatial planning, identifying its rationale and benefits, its key principles and the main stages in the spatial planning process. It represents a useful reference for all those who want to promote and implement spatial planning in their countries as an instrument to reconcile and harmonize different, often...

La Chambre de l'agriculture de la wilaya de Souk Ahras a organisé, les 21 et 22 mars, un séminaire sur le développement agricole durable et l'agriculture familiale. Les objectifs ciblés par cette rencontre, à laquelle ont assisté des spécialistes dans ce domaine venus de Montpellier (France), Tiaret, Mostaganem et l'INA...

Although smallholder farmers produce most of the developing world’s food, they also make up the majority of people living in poverty. Smallholder farmers are key to addressing many of today’s social, economic and environmental challenges. However, they need help to overcome the substantial barriers that prevent them from profiting fully...

Sustainable development is at the heart of FAO’s Strategic Framework. Driving FAO’s work on sustainability is the recognition of the complex interactions between different objectives and interests. The necessary transition towards sustainability needs actions that focus on effective changes in practices, including strengthening respective capacities, and ensuring an enabling policy...

FAO seeks to promote practices and policies that support integration of the agriculture and productive sectors (crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries) to ensure the responsible management and long term availability of natural resources. For this, it focuses its efforts on improving and standardizing productive activities, as it acknowledges the need...

Malas prácticas que en ocasiones se tornan rutinarias en la producción porcina constituyen elementos propiciadores para innumerables procesos patológicos y trastornos que dificultan la obtención de una eficiente productividad. En este artículo, se abordan de manera objetiva las acciones asociadas a malas prácticas que en ocasiones se tornan rutinarias en la...

El proyecto “Qutapiqiña”, implementado desde el 2012 al 2015 por ProgettoMondo MLAL, Soluciones Prácticas y la Asociación Integral San Antonio de Qutapiqiña (AIQ), con el apoyo financiero de la Unión Europea, se orientó a aumentar los ingresos de las familias de las comunidades manejadoras de vicuña del ANMIN Apolobamba y...

From 3 to 5 October 2016, around 260 mountain actors (researchers, farmers, environmentalists, elected representatives from local and regional authorities, representatives of chambers of commerce and development adeclaration finale bragancagencies) met in Bragança, Portugal during the X European Mountain Convention organised by Euromontana.

Исследовательский холдинг Ромир  и Центр ОНФ по мониторингу технологической модернизации провели исследование продуктовых предпочтений россиян о том, какие продукты они предпочитают, на какие характеристики обращают внимание. Опрос показал, что все больше людей заботится об экологичности продуктов. На вопрос: «За что вы готовы платить больше?» 56% ответили, что переплатят за продукты экологические чистые,...