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Derecho a la salud. La experiencia de la Mesa para la Equidad de genero en el Desarrollo Rural de Chubut
El Proyecto de Recuperación Productiva Post-Emergencia, llevado adelante en las provincias de la Patagonia, trabajó con el fin de fomentar la producción asociativa y comunitaria con el objetivo de mitigar la situación de los pobladores y pobladoras rurales afectadas por las cenizas del volcán Puyehue-Cordón Caulle.
En la provincia de Chubut...
Argentina
2016 - Mesa para la Equidad de Género en el Desarrollo Rural
Blog article
A more diverse picture in small-scale farming?
Convened by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Dutch development organisation Hivos, and led from Bolivia, the network set out to generate and integrate its own knowledge on smallholders and globalisation. Their work has also been complemented by a series of debates in Europe on some of the core...
Uganda
2016 - The Guardian
Working paper
Family farms of North America
This paper presents an analysis of the characteristics of family farming in North America and discusses its role in overcoming some of the major development challenges in this region. The main objective of the study is to depict family farming’s diversity in the region. Furthermore, it examines the contribution of...
2016 - International Policy Centre for inclusive Growth (IPC UNDP)
Magazine article
Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources
Making it work for family farmers
Access and benefit sharing of plant genetic resources is a crucial but very complex, political and legalistic matter. Does the formal system work for family farmers? As we see in this special issue of Farming Matters, co-produced with Bioversity International, it poses many challenges. At the same time, farmers around...
Brazil
2016 - ILEIA - centre for learning on sustainable agriculture
Report
Actas del Seminario Internacional Transformaciones Territoriales y la Actividad Agropecuaria
La presente publicación recapitula los resúmenes expandidos de trabajos emanados de grupos de investigación pertenecientes a la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación (FaHCE) y Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias y Forestales (FCAyF), UNLP y Universidad Federal de Viçosa (UFV), Brasil; en el marco del Seminario internacional TRANSFORMACIONES TERRITORIALES...
2016 - Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Project
Mediterranean Solidarity & Agroecology!
Urgenci committed to strengthening partnerships with the various initiatives around the Mediterranean Basin and setting up programmes for experience-sharing and exchange of practice. The end objective of this is to create a real Mediterranean network of local solidarity partnerships. Our proposal is included in the Mediterranean Positive Agenda as one...
2016 - URGENCI
Practices
Eight golden rules for sustainable development of dairy
This practice describes golden roles for dairy production, including; feeding milk cows, calf rearing, breeding adult cows, heat stress management, animal health, producing quality milk, and housing dairy stock.
Thailand
2016 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Book
Rural communication services for family farming
Contributions, evidence and perspectives
Smallholder and family farmers face significant social, economic and environmental challenges in their everyday lives which demand timely access to information. Yet information and communication services are not always easy to access in rural areas. Numerous barriers exist, including illiteracy, speaking a minority language, inadequate or non-existent infrastructures, as well...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations (FAO)
Journal article
La Agricultura Familiar en Argentina: entre el consenso, la coerción, la inclusión y la subordinación
En toda la región del Cono Sur se ha vivido un intenso proceso de revitalización de la “Agricultura Familiar” (AF). En Argentina desde 2003, pero más fuertemente desde el año 2008, se ejecutan políticas para el sector. En este trabajo analizaremos la aparición pública de la AF en la esfera estatal como parte...
Argentina
2016 - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Magazine article
Solo si conocemos podemos proteger: una verdad que nos desafía a actuar para la educación ambiental
El artículo presenta un reflexión acerca de la ley ambiental, la relación entre ésta y el derecho a educación en el cual se incluye el derecho a la educación ambiental. Tema en torno al cual se establece la problematización que se presenta en el artículo.
Argentina
2016 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias
Blog article
Sustainable Intensification of Tropical Agro-Ecosystems: Need and Potentials
Rapid population growth, increasingly complex economies and novel industrial uses of agricultural products call for further intensification of agriculture, particularly in the tropics. How to achieve sustainable intensification of food production systems in tropical regions that are challenged by ongoing climate change, loss of natural resources and biodiversity is a...
2016 - Frontiers in Environmental Science
Report
National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods: Kyrgyzstan
The National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods is part of the project GCP/SEC/008/TUR, which contributes to the Regional Initiative 1 for the REU Region and to the SO3 by improving knowledge for evidence-based policies. The purpose of the National Gender Profile of Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods for the...
Kyrgyzstan
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Event
First Great Green Wall Conference
The Conference builds on the political momentum gathered at the Climate Change Summit in Paris, December 2015, where world leaders renewed their commitment to the Great Green Wall initiative, pledging USD 4 billion over the next 5 years for the restoration of Africa’s landscapes.
During the Conference, partners will define a roadmap for...
Senegal
2016 - African Union Commission
Report
Fisheries in the Drylands of sub-Saharan Africa
Building resilience for fisheries-dependent livelihoods to enhance food security and nutrition in the Drylands
Dryland areas cover more than half of sub-Saharan Africa and are home to nearly 50 percent of its populations, who depend on agriculture (including livestock, crops and fisheries) as their main livelihood strategy. Sporadic and irregular rainfall patterns are the most important environmental driver for these regions and water, in...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Agriculture oasienne: La FAO appuie l’OASIL
Le patrimoine oasien joue un rôle écologique important dans le maintien de la biodiversité, malheureusement ce patrimoine est fortement détérioré par plusieurs facteurs entre autres l’exploitation irrationnelle de la ressource en eau, la désertification et le changement climatique ce qui accélère l’abandon de nombreux vergers phoénicicoles dans les oasis et...
Morocco
2016
Report
How is the life of family farms in Europe?
International Conference on family farms and Common Agriculture Policy.
Report consist of an overview from ten European countries explaining the situation about family farming in their own country.
Countries involved: CZ, PL, I, NL, CH, LT, LV, SK, HU, UK
Date: 5. April 2016
Czechia
2016 - Association of private farming of the Czech Republic
Blog article
Mongolia and FAO set sights on South-South Cooperation to boost agricultural development
A new agreement, signed by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and Mongolia's agriculture minister Purev Sergelen today, will strengthen the partnership between FAO and Mongolia on South-South and Triangular Cooperation -- a form of development partnership that boosts countries' agricultural capacity by linking their policy makers and producers with...
Mongolia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Agriculture statistics - family farming in the EU - 2016
Data from October 2016. Most recent data: Further Eurostat information, Main tables and Database.
Family farms dominate the structure of EU agriculture in terms of their numbers, their contribution to agricultural employment and, to a lesser degree, the area of land that they cultivate. There were 10.8 million farms in the...
European Union
2016 - EUROSTAT
Statement
Declaración Final y Agenda de Trabajo: II Seminario Regional de Agroecología en América Latina y El Caribe. La Paz, Bolivia
En América Latina y El Caribe, la Agroecología ha sido desde hace décadas una forma de vida de muchos agricultores, campesinos, pescadores artesanales, pastores, recolectores, pueblos indígenas, afrodescendientes y pueblos y comunidades tradicionales. La agroecología ha sido promocionada y reivindicada por los movimientos sociales como un modelo de agricultura armónica...
2016 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Magazine article
Principios de nutrición en sistemas de producción porcina
Material publicado por la estación experimental agroforestal de Esquel (Chubut).
El documento habla sobre la participación de los componentes de la dieta para porcinos, los puntos donde hay que prestar principal atención y de forma práctica cómo conocer la CC de la cerda y así guiarse con la cantidad de...
Argentina
2016 - INTA EEA Esquel
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