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Armenia advances monitoring for sustainable forest management
Forests are among the most threatened ecosystems in Armenia, with degradation accelerating. But the country is committed to achieving sustainability in forest management, and a three-day workshop opening here today will help move things in the right direction.
Organized by the Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the UN Food and...
Armenia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Jóvenes rurales de América Latina y el Caribe definen una agenda regional de cara a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
Con el propósito de construir una agenda de trabajo para las juventudes rurales en la región, se reúnen en Panamá más de 70 representantes de organizaciones de jóvenes rurales, de los Ministerios de Agricultura y organismos internacionales y de integración regional de América Latina y el Caribe.
De acuerdo con la...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Article
Kenya says no to genetically modified maize trials
Kenya is withholding approval for field trials of genetically modified (GM) maize because some officials argue that a ban on GM imports applies to controlled growing tests as well, according to a person familiar with the deliberations. Talks involving representatives from the health and environment ministries and the Kenya’s...
Kenya
2017 - People's Coalition for Food Sovereignty
Blog article
Dairy farming in Georgia becomes more productive – and profitable
Georgia has all of the ideal conditions for dairy farming. And demand for milk, cheese and other dairy products – many of which are produced only here – continues to grow.
Recognizing that potential, FAO and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have been supporting Georgian commercial dairy farmers...
Georgia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Statement
Charter for CSAs in the USA and Canada
Collectively written by CSA farmers and promotors in the United States and in Canada during 2016, to prepare the 2017 CSA Day, on February 24th.
The North American CSA community, taking a clue from the rapid growth of CSAs in new areas of the world (France, UK, all of Europe, China), is proposing the adoption of a CSA Charter that provides a definition of what CSA is all about.
Together, regional networks and independent CSAs will launch...
Canada - United States of America
2017 - Urgenci
Manual
Cría porcina a campo para pequeños productores familiares de Tucumán
Las producciones agropecuarias familiares en Argentina siguen asumiendo un rol preponderante como proveedoras de alimentos en la economía nacional. En este sentido, se destaca la producción porcina que, según datos del SENASA (2016), el 96% de los productores porcinos tiene menos de 50 madres a nivel nacional. Esta situación se...
Argentina
2017 - Centro Regional Tucumán - Santiago del Estero Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Famaillá. INTA
Report
Supporting the Development of Collective Economic Forms in Agriculture
To complement the skills development process, a tailor–made guide material on how best to facilitate learning was developed. The said guide material is actually this manual which is a product of an initially tested training design (run in May 2013) and enriched with feedback from the training management team and...
2017 - International Cooperation Division (ICD) Vietnam National Farmers Union (VNFU)
Website
Campaña Mujeres Rurales
La Campaña se enmarca en los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) y se basa en las reflexiones de Ia Conferencia de la Mujer Rural en América Latina y el Caribe (Brasilia, 2014) y la XIII Conferencia Regional de la Mujer (Montevideo, 2016), así como en la experiencia de dos campañas...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Case study
Improving food security, nutrition and income of tribal smallholder farmers in Sundagarh District, Odisha, India
More than a thousand smallholder farmers from predominantly tribal Sundargarh district have been supported to adopt or extend locally appropriate, low-cost, sustainable farming practices to improve food and nutritional security and increase income.
The Centre for Integrated Rural and Tribal Development (CIRTD), a long term partner of ActionAid India in Sundargarh...
India
2017 - Action Aid India
Guidelines
Guidance for Implementation of the Leader Co-Operation Activities in Rural Development Programmes 2014-2020
This guide aims to clarify the role of co-operation activities under LEADER in the rural development programmes 2014-2020. This guide should be regarded as an indicative reference document and does not create any new legislative rules. In any event, interpretation of Community law is ultimately the role of the European...
European Union
2017 - European Network for Rural Development (ENRD)
Blog article
Oportunidade para novas redes de agroecologia
Está aberto o edital de seleção pública nº 2017/030 Ecoforte Redes, que tem como objetivo a seleção e o apoio a projetos territoriais de redes de agroecologia, extrativismo e produção orgânica, voltados à intensificação das práticas de manejo sustentável de produtos da sociobiodiversidade e de sistemas produtivos orgânicos e de...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Blog article
Turismo rural: convite a conhecer a vida do campo
A Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU) declarou 2017 como o Ano Internacional do Turismo Sustentável para o Desenvolvimento. Segundo a instituição, será uma ótima oportunidade para promover o papel do turismo no crescimento econômico, inclusivo e sustentável e na defesa dos valores culturais. Da parte que nos cabe, é fácil...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Report
Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050
Technical Meeting and Regional Launch, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21–23 February 2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ethiopian Ministry for Livestock and Fishery to hold the first Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050 (ASL2050) Technical Consultation on the 21st and 23rd of February 2017 and the ASL2050...
Burkina Faso - Egypt - Ethiopia - Kenya - Nigeria - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Early warning weather information, Senegal
Agriculture in Senegal is predominantly rain-fed and so erratic weather patterns present an everincreasing risk to smallholder farmers across the country. Late onset of rain can lead to a reduced growing season; unexpected torrential rain and flash-flooding can lead to farmers losing scarce resources of seed, other farm inputs and...
Senegal
2017 - Action Aid
Working paper
On the costs of being small: Case evidence from Kenyan family farms
The socio-economic value of the role of small family farmers in developing countries is a long debated issue. Conventional thinking, points at the social role of small farmers mainly as absorbers of excess labor in rural areas and suppliers of food. In economic terms the relative production efficiency advantage, is...
Kenya
2017 - FAO
Blog article
For women farmers in India, digital is the way to go!
For farmers’ organization (FOs) in India, one of the key areas of emphasis in the recent years has been the use of technology by grassroots women to increase efficiency and cost effectiveness of last mile operations and to improve delivery.
India
2017
Blog article
Portaria prevê criação de selo para Mulheres Rurais
A identificação será efetivada a partir de uma alteração na Portaria Nº 7, de 13 de janeiro de 2012, por meio da Subsecretaria de Agricultura Familiar (SAF), vinculada a Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (Sead). A novidade permitirá que produtos feitos por mulheres rurais tenham uma...
Brazil
2017 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Book
Algodón orgánico de color: Generando ingresos y ciudadanía en la agricultura familiar de la región semiárida brasileña
Esta publicación es parte de una serie de estudios que tiene como objetivo identificar, sistematizar y difundir las prácticas y conocimientos pertinentes a la agricultura familiar del sector algodonero en América Latina y el Caribe. Su objetivo es componer un conjunto de contribuciones técnicas y didácticas que valoran y dan...
Brazil
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Blog article
América Latina y El Caribe llama al diálogo intersectorial para lograr la sostenibilidad
La Agenda 2030 requiere integrar todos los sistemas productivos y alcanzar la sostenibilidad ambiental, social y económica
Movilizar los sectores productivos y ambientales, y potenciar el diálogo intersectorial, es fundamental para cumplir las metas de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), sostuvieron los países de la región reunidos en la 30ª reunión de la Comisión Forestal para América Latina y el Caribe (COFLAC), realizada en Honduras, del 25...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Newsletter
FAO Rwanda Newsletter 2016. Volume 2, Issue 3
In its final newsletter of 2016, FAO-Rwanda shares valuable updates and inspiring success stories from our One UN nutrition project to reduce stunting and our Rural Women's Economic Empowerment project. This issue also includes highlights from World Food Day and information on the emergency relief work FAO is supporting to...
Rwanda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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