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Technical paper
Modernising and Simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

As part of its Work Programme for 2017, the European Commission committed to take forward work and consult widely on simplification and modernisation of the CAP to maximise its contribution to the Commission's ten priorities and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This will focus on specific policy priorities for...
European Union
2017 - European Commission

Case study
The 250 Thousand Families Challenge: Bringing to bear food practice on health, equity and sustainability in Ecuador

In Ecuador thousands of families have joined the 250,000 Families Challenge of Qué Rico Es! Campaign that promotes fresh, agroecological food produced by family farmers. Most of these foods are from native crops and are sold directly to consumers at outdoor markets and food fairs. These rural and urban families strengthen...
Ecuador
2017 - EkoRural

Blog article
Promoting market-oriented agriculture in Zambia

Over 61,000 smallholder farmers will benefit from a financial agreement signed between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Zambia to increase the incomes and food and nutrition security of rural households. The project will promote market-oriented agriculture and focus particularly on women and young people. The financing agreement for...
Zambia
2017 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Report
Challenges of global agriculture in a climate change context by 2050

This report presents a global integrated assessment of the range of potential economic impacts of climate change and stringent mitigation measures in the agricultural sector. The analysis employs five global multiregion multi-commodity models and covers selected combinations of socioeconomic storylines and climate signals by mid-century. Model inputs are harmonised by...
2017 - European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate D - Sustainable Resources

Video
Post Harvest Management and Handling in rural Zimbabwe

A demonstration of how farmers can adopt new post harvest technologies to enable them to preserve their farming output and market their produce when the market price is most favourable.
Zimbabwe
2017 - Livelihoods and Food Security Programme (LFSP) Zimbabwe

Audio
¿Cómo estar actualizado sobre el sector porcino?

Diálogo con la coordinadora del Sistema de Información Pública la Ing. Agr. Patricia Skejich quien cuenta sobre el servicio gratuito que brinda el Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas CIAP.
Argentina
2017 - Centro Información de actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Video
Rural development and livelihoods in South Africa

This documentary examines rural livelihoods in South Africa. Drawing on the narratives of several interviewees, it explains how impoverished people in South Africa's rural, former homeland communal areas survive and sustain themselves. The film suggests both the importance of between rural areas and urban centres, and the multiple activities on...
South Africa
2017 - Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Manual
Agroforestry Systems

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)

Blog article
FAO launches the Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 Initiative in Egypt

 This initiative aims to engage Egyptian stakeholders, to generate evidence based for revamping and refining current livestock development efforts, to ensure a sustainable development trajectory for the sector and make it fully consistent with the Sustainable Agricultural Development Strategy (SADS)2030. 
Egypt
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Working paper
On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa

From 2000 to 2014, per capita gross domestic product in Sub-Saharan Africa increased by almost 35 percent in real terms, doubling in some countries. Such progress happened while agricultural productivity growth remained low in the aggregate, despite some bright spots, and poverty reduction was steady but discouragingly slow. This paper...
2017 - World Bank

Blog article
Conheça as ganhadoras do concurso #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos

A equipe da campanha #MulheresRurais, mulheres com direitos divulga a lista de vencedoras do Concurso de vozes, imagens, histórias e experiências das mulheres rurais.  Foram mais de 100 inscritas nas categorias de Relatos de Vida e Experiências de Organizações. Mulheres rurais, negras, quilombolas, indígenas, de todos os lugares do país,...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)

Technical paper
Lineamientos estratégicos para el fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar y la inclusión en Guatemala

Este número específico de los Cuadernos de Trabajo sobre Inclusión es fruto de un proceso integrado de cooperación entre los Proyectos Insignia “Inclusión en la Agricultura y los territorios Rurales” y “Productividad y Sustentabilidad de la Agricultura Familiar para la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Economía Rural”, en Guatemala. Para facilitar...
Guatemala
2017 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Article
LIFE calls for inclusive Blue Growth at the Our Ocean Conference

Why are small-scale fisheries excluded from European Blue Growth whilst aquaculture is included? It is time to recognize the potential of fisheries to provide sustainable jobs and food supplies.
European Union
2017 - Low Impact Fishers of Europe

Video
The Story of Women in Seafood: A Case From Women in Salted Fish Industry at Tambak Lorok

The assumption that fishery is a sector exclusive to men only is not true. There is a misleading assumption in most research that fisheries operate in the public domain is usually dominated by men, which is why the private domain (women dominated) is hardly the focus of attention.And this video...
Indonesia
2017 - Women in Seafood

Fact sheet
How to make a natural pesticide

In agriculture, pests are organisms that significantly interfere with the productivity of crops or animals. In conventional agriculture, farmers often use chemical pesticides to manage pests. These can be effective at keeping pests away but they come with negative side effects. Chemical pesticides are costly, damaging to the environment and...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)

Blog article
Food insecurity and poverty, a major challenge to meeting SDGs target 2.1 in sub-Saharan Africa

With millions suffering from severe food insecurity in the region
On the aggregate level, sub-Saharan Africa achieved adequate food availability over the 2014–2016 period, with a Dietary Energy Supply (DES) of 110. However, several countries in the region remain highly dependent on food imports to ensure adequate food supplies, with some sub-regions depending on imports for up to a third...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Newsletter article
Agroecology for Food Sovereignty

In what ways is agroecology a means to food sovereignty? In Brazil, claiming land rights was the first step along one group of farmers’ pathway to autonomy. The next was to develop and maintain agroecological practices. To achieve this goal, these farmers never worked alone. Strong self-organisation and long-lasting partnerships...
Brazil
2017 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Video
Afishionado - Hana Nelson

A glimpse into the world of Afishionado Fishmongers a community-minded distributor and retailer of sustainable, transparent and locally sourced seafood based in Halifax, NS Canada.
Canada
2017 - Women in Seafood

Blog article
Building the Capacity of Agricultural Cooperatives to Establish a National Dialogue Platform

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) inaugurated a capacity building workshop on “Establishing a National Dialogue Platform for Cooperatives” which took place in Cairo recently with the purpose of demonstrating to members of agricultural cooperatives and heads of cooperative directorates from almost all governorates in Egypt,...
Egypt
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Earning and learning for Afghan women

Whether through earning or learning, over 2000 Afghan women are helping themselves. Pickled vegetables, mushroom production and complementary feed preparations are the FAO initiatives that - in collaboration with the national Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock and donations from the governments of Germany and Luxemburg - are reaching the...
Afghanistan
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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