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Governmental program for supporting cooperatives with agricultural technic

Agency for development agricultural cooperatives elaborated program to support cooperatives with agricultural technic
Georgia
2016

Fact sheet
Africa’s commitment to end hunger by 2025

The Regional Initiative seeks to strengthen the programmes, mechanisms, capacity and delivery of actions needed to operationalize commitments to end hunger by 2025, and to support mapping exercises that identify gaps and determine requisite interventions to enhance policy dialogue on food security and nutrition, both at regional and country levels....
Angola - Chad - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Rwanda
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Book
Estrategias innovadoras de gestión de riesgos en mercados financieros rurales y agropecuarios

El presente estudio aporta un marco analítico que describe las principales barreras a la inversión y financiación agropecuaria, las cuales se pueden agregar en la gestión de riesgos financieros, de producción, mercadeo, climáticos e institucionales, y en modelos de negocio que reduzcan costos de transacción para brindar de manera viable...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Colombia - Mexico
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura

Blog article
The WRF invites young people from all over the world to share their experiences for a study on youth in family farming

The WRF is coordinating a study about Youth and Family Farming via the experience of young people themselves. The principal objective of this study is to analyze the condition of young people and the generational change in Family Farming on every continent. The study will also emphasize the lessons learned...
2016 - World Rural Forum

Magazine article
Learning in response to climate change

Farmers are learning to prepare and cope with climatic variations by observing, learning and interacting with farmers and researchers. Science Field Shops in Indonesia are serving as a response to climate change, facilitating this process successfully.
2016 - Leisa India

Video
Mujeres rurales, motores de desarrollo

“Mujeres rurales, motores de desarrollo” es una campaña de comunicación liderada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura en la Argentina. No se va a terminar con el hambre sin terminar con la brecha de género Las mujeres rurales representan un cuarto de la...
Argentina
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Blog article
Grain farmers in Ukraine learn new skills and know-how

Vadym Svietlov and his partner Anna Dorosh are proud owners of a small grain farm near Sumy, a large town in northeastern Ukraine. The region established itself as an agricultural hub in the 19th century, starting with large-scale sugar beet production, followed by a wide range of crops ever since. The...
Ukraine
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Report
Understanding Agricultural Exports

Facts and background information
Bananas from Ecuador, Swiss cheese, French red wine, Argentinian steaks, Kenyan coffee, pepper from Vietnam – much of what we eat has been imported into Germany from other countries. Agricultural imports add variety to our plates. On the other hand the German agricultural sector also exports its products – and...
Germany
2016 - Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Magazine article
Agricultura Familiar: características ergonômicas das atividades e impactos na saúde dos trabalhadores

Um dos setores que carecem de atenção em termos de preservação da saúde, principalmente em decorrência das características das atividades de trabalho, é a agricultura familiar. Esse setor representa uma parcela significativa da produção agrícola brasileira. Segundo o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário, o segmento da agricultura familiar é responsável por...
Brazil
2016 - Programa de Pós-graduação em Desenvolvimento, Agricultura e Sociedade (CPDA)

Report
Investing in rural people in The Gambia

The Gambia is one of Africa’s poorest nations, ranking 175th out of 188 countries in the United Nations Development Programme’s 2015 Human Development Index. Income poverty and household food insecurity are widespread, with nearly half the population living below the absolute poverty line. Poverty is higher in rural areas compared...
Gambia
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Report
Farming for the future

Organic and agroecological solutions to feed the world
There is no debate that eliminating hunger worldwide is one of humanity’s greatest challenges in the 21   st century. However, there are radically divergent visions for how to achieve this goal. Many people equate “feeding the world” with the need to produce more food. Yet this simplistic analysis ignores fundamental facts about world hunger. In fact, the mandate...
2016 - Friends of the Earth

Manual
Cadastro Ambiental Rural

Orientações aos Municípios
Reconhecendo a importância e em busca da unificação da proteção do meio ambiente e a produção agropecuária, a Lei 12.651/2012 criou o Cadastro Ambiental Rural (CAR), obrigatório a todos os imóveis rurais. O Cadastro é um registro eletrônico de imóveis rurais que tem por finalidade integrar as informações ambientais referentes à...
Brazil
2016 - Confederação Nacional de Municípios (CNM)

Book
Family Farming Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge

To commemorate the International Year of Family Farming, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, organised an Asia Pacific Regional Consultation at Chennai in August 2014. Several background papers were prepared...
India
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Newsletter article
Agricultura agroecológica faz resgate na Mata Atlântica

Osório (RS) – O Brasil é o país da diversificação de povos, de culturas, de territórios, de sistemas de produção da agricultura familiar. Esta é uma das características das Caravanas Agroecológicas que a ANA organiza: mostrar as diferentes realidades do país, seus conflitos e suas vitórias diante do agronegócio e...
Brazil
2016 - Articulação Nacional de Agroecologia (ANA)

Event
Jornadas Mesoamericanas de Agricultura Familiar

Los países de Mesoamérica sin Hambre intercambian experiencias en la caracterización y el registro de los agricultores y agricultoras familiares, y comparten sus avances en la conceptualización y tipificación de la agricultura familiar en sus territorios.
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Small Scale Family Farming Regional Initiative

The overall objective of this Regional Initiative is to reduce rural poverty by promoting and supporting inclusive small-scale agricultural development, with special attention to governance and institutions, including improving access of smallholders to social protection, rural services and markets, strengthening the capacities of producers’ organizations and promoting youth employment and...
Egypt - Jordan - Lebanon - Mauritania - Morocco - Sudan - Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal
Making the case for agroecology

This issue of Farming Matters explores innovative ways to demonstrate that agroecology provides critical solutions to the challenges of our time. Agroecology is gaining recognition for its potential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and malnutrition, and many successful examples exist. However, to garner the necessary support in policy and practice,...
2016 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Technical paper
Why food and nutrition security matters for inclusive structural and rural transformation

This paper challenges current thinking on the connection between rural transformation and food security & nutrition. It advocates that improving rural and structural transformation has a positive cyclical effect upon communities by improving food availability, access, supplies and utilization which in turn improves the health and education of communities. Using...
2016 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Video
Tejiendo vidas con apoyo de Mesoamérica sin Hambre

La recuperación de cultivos nativos para elaboración de artesanías es uno de los ejes de trabajo de Mesoamérica Sin Hambre – capítulo Guatemala.En este video se puede observar el apoyo del programa, así como el proceso de manufactura realizado con fibras de maguey por mujeres del área chortí, en Corredor...
Guatemala
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Article
What sort of climate forecasts should we be giving farmers?

What sort of climate information do farmers need? And how can we provide them with forecasts that will be truly useful? This is a complex question, involving a range of fields and requiring various types of data in order to make forecasts on the time and spatial scales on which...
2016 - CIRAD
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