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Gestión de riesgos sanitarios e invasiones biológicas para la Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional (SAN)
Modalidad: Autoaprendizaje | Desde el 08-04-16 hasta el 31-12-17
Una emergencia provocada por una enfermedad animal o por la presencia de una especie exótica invasora (EEI) puede generar graves consecuencias socioeconómicas, medioambientales, sobre la salud humana y los valores culturales, que incluyen formas tradicionales de uso de los recursos.
En este sentido, es importante identificar el riesgo...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Report
Report of the International Symposium on Agroecology in China
The "International Symposium on Agroecology for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems in China" was organized in August 2016 by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), FAO, and Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS), with the support of the Government of France. The symposium Gathered 221 participants from 25 countries (representing...
China
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Inspirational ideas: Delivering Farm Profitability and Better Environmental Performance
Farms in Northern Ireland face a series of challenges due to the crisis in farm profitability which saw farm incomes drop by 16% in 2014/15 and a devastating 46% in 2015/16. Low prices threaten many farms since low profitability makes it less appealing for the next generation to take over.
In...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2017 - Eip Agri
Conference paper
The VGGT and SDGs in the context of LANDNET
Over the past 15 years, in Central and Eastern Europe, a strong informal network of land tenure and land management professionals interested in and working with land consolidation, land banking, land market development and other similar topics has emerged. The process has mainly been driven and also partly funded by...
2017 - LANDNET
Miscellanea
Mujeres y realidad en Bogotá
La vida de las mujeres rurales en los cerros orientales de Bogotá (Colombia), en veredas como Los Saches, el Verjón Bajo, Fátima o el barrio San Luis, es afectada por la presión inmobiliaria, los decretos de delimitación forestal dictados sin recorrer el territorio, la siembra de especies no nativas, e,...
2017 - Iniciativa Basada en Compromisos "Mujer Rural y Derecho a la Tierra" - ILC LAC
Event
III Foro de Parlamentarios de la Pesca y la Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe
El Foro de Parlamentarios de la Pesca y la Acuicultura de América Latina y el Caribe (FOPPACALC) es un mecanismo promovido por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) que tiene por objeto fortalecer, desde los espacios legislativos, las acciones y políticas para incrementar...
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y Agricultura (FAO)
Newsletter
Welcome to SIMRA's second newsletter!
The second newsletter of the SIMRA project has been published! It provides information on SIMRA’s progress after one year of working on the project; on SIMRA’s first stakeholder workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia, in October 2016; and on SIMRA’s first results such as a social innovation definition, the launch of innovative...
2017 - SIMRA
Video
FAO towards intensification of production and value chains in Mozambique
Farmers from Manica Province, Gondola district in Mozambique welcomed FAO mission in support to Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development in Mozambique. The mission focused on identifying priorities that promote sustainable proven innovative practices and principles of production and post-production processes (responding to the Regional Initiative 2 – RI2) over the...
Mozambique
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Family farming in the Americas
Guiding principles and concepts of IICA’s technical cooperation
Family farming (FF), a social category made up of individuals living in the rural milieu who work the land for productive and reproductive purposes, mainly with other family members, has assumed considerable importance as a social entity in a number of countries. Several definitions of FF are currently in use,...
2017 - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA)
Working paper
Dinámicas de acaparamiento de tierras en el Sureste de Nicaragua
Desde 2014, y con el apoyo de la ILC un grupo organizaciones en el país colaboran en la elaboración e implementación de una Estrategia Nacional de Involucramiento (ENI) para el acceso democrático a la tierra en Nicaragua. La ENI es un esfuerzo colectivo de articulación y de diálogo entre actores...
Nicaragua
2017 - Nitlapan-UCA
Book
Transgenic Crops – hazards and uncertainties: More than 750 studies disregarded by the GMOs regulatory bodies
For the fifth consecutive year, Brazil is considered as being the second largest producer of transgenic plants of the world, after the United States. The area for this type of culture already exceeded 40 million of hectares in our country.
The continuous increase of the area planted with transgenic soy, maize...
Brazil
2017 - Special Secretariat for Family Farming and Agrarian Development (SEAD)
Journal article
Ocean Conference: Learning from the ocean
It was in 2015 that the United Nations declared the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There are 17 Goals, and SDG 14 deals with marine ‘life below water’, which is is formulated with the aim to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.
India
2017
Case study
MagosVölgy Ecological Farm – a startup agroecology initiative
MagosVölgy Ecological Farm was established in 2013 by Judit and Zoltán Dezsény, a young urban-to-rural migrant couple. MagosVölgy Ecological Farm is situated in North-Hungary, 85 km north to the capital of Budapest. MagosVölgy literally means Seeds Valley as well as Elevated Valley. Seed is the core symbol of life, representing the...
Hungary
2017
Fact sheet
Cities and Food: Connecting Consumers and Producers
The 2016 EIP-AGRI workshop in Krakow focused on building innovative food systems and supply chains which connect producers with consumers. The workshop covered both the perspective of the farmer and of the city, giving cities easy access to fresh, safe and healthy food, benefiting local producers and contributing to local...
2017 - Eip Agri
Fact sheet
DECADE OF FAMILY FARMING Feeding the world, caring for the earth
Compilation of official support for the Declaration of the Decade on Family Farming
2017 - World Rural Forum
Manual
Mboji ya udongo
Soils are a non-renewable resource on which 95% of our food supply depends. Short-sighted chemical fertilizer applications in conventional farming are depleting soils at an alarming rate. Instead of using potent chemicals that degrade soil, organic farmers continuously give back to the soil, maintaining soil health and fertility for future...
2017 - Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Miscellanea
La independencia de la mujer solo se consigue con conocimiento
Testimonio
Desde el 2013, Nitlapan ha venido trabajando en alianza con la hoy financiera Fondo de Desarrollo Local (FDL) en brindar asesoría técnica a pequeños caficultores.
El testimonio de Aurora Galeano, es una muestra de cómo con una asistencia técnica adaptada al cultivo y a las condiciones de la familia genera resultados...
Nicaragua
2017 - Nitlapan-UCA
Website
Pampero TV
Serie de videos que muestran investigaciones, noticias, tecnología y avances que pueden ser adaptados por la pequeña agricultura.
Argentina
2017 - TV Pampero
Journal article
Ghana: Child labour, no child’s play
Worldwide, the figures on child labour are worrying. According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are about 215 mn ‘child workers’, many of whom work full-time, and close to 170 mn are ‘trapped’ in activities considered...
Ghana
2017
Manual
Guía para implementar estrategias locales de compras públicas a la agricultura familiar
La Guía brinda información elemental para que autoridades locales, entidades técnicas, productores y productoras y público en general puedan interiorizar y poner en marcha procesos para abastecer programas de compras públicas a partir de la producción local de alimentos y de la participación directa de la agricultura familiar, dinamizando la...
Colombia
2017 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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