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Coloquio “Función Social de la Tierra y Sistemas de Gobernanza Responsable”

El evento tendrá lugar el día jueves 26 de noviembre a las 15:00 hs. en la Jueves 26 de noviembre 2015 en la Sala Bicameral del Congreso Nacional, sede donde se desarrollará a continuación (18:00 hs.), la apertura formal de la XXIV REAF, con presencia de Autoridades de los Ministerios...
2015 - Reunión Especializada sobre Agricultura Familiar de MERCOSUR (REAF)

Manual
Cómo vender en circuitos cortos

Desafíos y oportunidades para la agricultura familiar campesina
El presente manual está dirigido a todos los productores y organizaciones campesinas que quieren comercializar sus productos en Circuitos Cortos (CC), así como a los equipos técnicos que los acompañan en este desafío. Se entrega información práctica sobre los distintos tipos de CC existentes, los aspectos y técnicas de venta...
Chile
2015 - RIMISP - Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural

Project
Inspirational Idea: Smart logistics to connect farmers and consumers.

DistriKempen, a group of five farmers from the Kempen region (Belgium) were searching for ways to deal with the transport of their fresh products to customers in the region. In 2013 they found the perfect people: Dorien Goris, and her brother Geert. Dorien: “Assisted by the Flemish Innovation Support Centre...
Belgium
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation

Conference/Meeting
1st Regional Technical Consultation Workshop - Smallholders and Family Farms

The objective of the Regional Technical Consultation was to initiate and support the dialogue with the stakeholders on smallholders and family farming related issues. The participants included representatives of Ministries of Agriculture and technical experts from the Eastern Partnership countries*. Bringing together Ministry representatives and technical people provide a possibility...
Armenia - Azerbaijan - Belarus - Georgia - Republic of Moldova - Ukraine
2015 - FAO

Policy brief/paper
A Sub-regional Strategy for Enhancing the Participation of the Civil Society in Forestry Planning and Policy Making Processing in West Africa

Forest planning and policy making process in West Africa – and elsewhere in Africa for that matter – has largely been dominated by the State, with very little room for a meaningful participation of civil society. This state of affairs led to a management of forests and forest resources which...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Côte d'Ivoire - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
Overcoming the constraints of agriculture in the Sahel by successful community-based approaches

Case of the regeneration of land and the fight against soil salinization in the groundnut basin in Senegal
Senegal, like all Sahelian countries, suffers from the combined effects of population growth and climate disturbances that affect its productive bio- system and induce degradation. This is manifested in different forms depending on the physical environment and production systems in different eco-geographic areas. Several factors are responsible for the degradation...
Senegal
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Blog article
Brasil: El Movimiento Pequeños Agricultores realiza su I Congreso Nacional

El Movimiento de los Pequeños Agricultores (MPA) realiza su I Congreso Nacional en los días 12 al 16 de octubre en el Pabellón Vera Cruz, en São Bernardo do Campo – SP, sitio histórico de las luchas obreras. Con el tema "Plan Campesino, Alianza Campesina y Obrera por Soberanía Alimentaria"...
Brazil
2015 - Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones del Campo (CLOC-Vía Campesina)

Article
Corporations replace peasants as the "vanguard" of China's new food security agenda

Food security has always been a major concern for China's government. Up until recently that meant ensuring that enough food was produced in China to feed the entire population, and this task fell almost entirely to China's peasant farmers. Over the past couple of decades, however, the government has shifted its...
China
2015 - GRAIN

Book
Petrocaribe: 10 años de lucha contra el hambre y la pobreza

La publicación "PETROCARIBE: 10 años de lucha contra el hambre. Lecciones Aprendidas", contiene la sistematización producto de una reciente investigación realizada por el Programa de Cooperación Venezuela-FAO, SANA, de las historias de éxito contra el hambre y la desnutrición consecuencia de planes y proyectos implementados en el marco de los...
Antigua and Barbuda - Belize - Dominican Republic - El Salvador - Grenada - Haiti - Jamaica - Nicaragua - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Suriname
2015 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Case study
Community supported agriculture thriving in China

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between producers and consumers is strengthened. And China has not been left...
China
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Website
Inspirational ideas: A passion for permanent pasture

David Crespo, a farmer from Portugal, believes that permanent pasture is an “outstanding resource” which can significantly improve animal production. But the usual grasses grown require high nitrogen inputs and lack protein for the animals. He has developed a system of integrating legumes in the pasture which means he has...
Portugal
2015 - EIP-AGRI

Website
Semilla Nueva

Semilla Nueva helps rural Guatemalan farmers find a path to prosperity, health, and sustainability through sustainable agriculture technologies and farmer to farmer education. 
Guatemala
2015 - Semilla Nueva

Policy brief/paper
Same Question but Different Answer

Experimental Evidence on Questionnaire Design’s Impact on Poverty Measured by Proxies
Does the same question asked of the same population yield the same answer in face-to-face interviews when other parts of the questionnaire are altered? If not, what would be the implications for proxy-based poverty measurement? Relying on a randomized household survey experiment implemented in Malawi, this study finds that observationally...
2015 - World Bank

Case study
Sustainable preservation of strategic agricultural products to ensure food sovereignty and increase the income of both men and women farmers

The case of biological conservation of the potato and fonio in central Guinea
Due to its prime location, Guinea has significant potential for fruit and vegetable production. The country has assets such as soil fertility, abundant rainfall and a rural population traditionally oriented towards agriculture. Farmers represent 61% of the population and constitute 80% of the poor. They are mainly engaged in the...
Guinea
2015 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)

Book
Acceso al agua y capital social en las comunidades campesinas del bosque seco de Piura

El documento presenta la sistematización de las experiencias que se refieren al proceso que vivieron las familias para acceder y mantener la gestión del agua para sus actividades productivas, ya sean agrícolas, pecuarias o de transformación. Dichas actividades en su conjunto constituyeron una gran inversión, no solo monetaria sino de...
Peru
2015 - Heifer Project International Perú

Conference paper
Aportes sobre la agricultura familiar en Venezuela

Esta presentación trata sobre la conceptualización de la agricultura familiar, su importancia, estadísticas al respecto en Venezuela y otros países y políticas sectoriales. 
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2015 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)

Blog article
Mujeres rurales lideran la lucha contra el cambio climático

Las mujeres rurales e indígenas exigen estrategias con enfoque de género para garantizar la soberanía alimentaria en el próximo Foro Internacional "Mujeres Rurales frente al Cambio Climático" el día 15 de octubre en el D.F., a dos meses de la COP21, en París. Estudios científicos demuestran que el cambio climático tiene...
Mexico
2015 - The Hunger Project México (THP-México)

Magazine article
Seminario Regional sobre Agroecología en América Latina y el Caribe

El universo de la agricultura familiar comprende varias formas de organización social del trabajo (que corresponden a múltiples identidades culturales), todas estructuradas a partir del control sobre los principales recursos empleados para la reproducción de los medios de vida. 
2015 - AgriCultures network

Website
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

El Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria es un organismo de vanguardia en Argentina, líder del escenario agro-tecnológico en investigación, extensión e innovación. Es un organismo estatal descentralizado con autarquía operativa y financiera, dependiente del Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Pesca. Fue creado en 1956 y desde entonces desarrolla acciones de...
Argentina
2015 - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)

Case study
Sustainable egg production

The laying hen sector has had to face many challenges in the past decade, including disease outbreaks and concerns over animal welfare. In cooperation with Wageningen University and other partners, Rondeel company (The Netherlands) thought up a new housing system for laying hens which would be able to provide solutions...
2015 - Agriculture&Innovation
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