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Asia-Pacific: agricultural perspectives
Asia’s position in the global food market tilts heavily towards demand due to its huge population and limited agricultural resources. With only one-fifth of the world’s agricultural land, the region hosts more than half of the global population. Asia has achieved significant production improvements over the last 50 years but...
2016 - Radobank
Report
Food matters
Policy measures for strengthening food and nutrition security in the Pacific Island Countries
Food matters to Pacific Islanders. Throughout the region, family farming and fishing is a way of life, cultural meaning, and a source of enduring food security which has ensured the health and wealth of Pacific Island communities. However urbanization and the transition of the population out of subsistence production have...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Blog article
FAO launches the regional competition of “Aquaponics” design in collaboration with Arab Women Investors Union
Cairo: 29 June 2016--The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Arab Women Investors Union (AWIU) and the industrial investors Guild Suez line channel today launched a Regional competition for an “Aquaponics design”. The competition aims to raise awareness on the use of new and...
Egypt
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Meeting Ghanaian farmers' demand for a full range of mechanization services
Rising labor costs associated with increased rural-to-urban migration have compelled Ghanaian farmers to increase the use of tractors and other agricultural machines to conduct farming operations in the country (Diao et al. 2014). The adoption of these mechanical technologies is consistent with the tendency among Ghanaian farmers to save labor,...
Ghana
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Magazine article
Jovens e seu lugar no campo
Visando à sucessão familiar, Programa Jovem Agricultor Aprendiz prepara adolescentes do meio rural para a administração das propriedades
Levar uma empresa familiar para as gerações futuras de forma eficiente e rentável é um trabalho que exige muita dedicação por parte dos pais e, claro, dos filhos. No campo, essa realidade também é latente e no caso da agricultura familiar, bem desafiadora. Aquele pedaço de terra - mesmo pequeno...
Brazil
2016 - Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Rural
Report
National Gender Profile of Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods: Turkey
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 - Turkey...
Türkiye
2016 - Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations FAO
Working paper
Family Farming in the Near East and North Africa
This paper begins by exploring what the term family farming means and how appropriate it is in the NENA region. It will explore more generally the role of farming and agriculture in the broader political economy of the region. The paper establishes the distinctive features of the region, what might...
2016 - International Policy Centre for inclusive Growth (IPC UNDP)
Report
Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African Countries
This is the seventeenth volume of Gender, Poverty, and Environmental Indicators on African Countries published by the Statistics Department of the African Development Bank Group. The publication also provides some information on the broad development trends relating to gender, poverty and environmental issues in the 54 African countries. Gender, Poverty and Environmental Indicators on African...
2016 - African Development Bank Group
Event
Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea”
The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including its Mediterranean regional projects, are organizing in partnership with CIHEAM-Bari, MedPAN, WWFand in collaboration with the Government of Algeria a Regional Conference on “Building a future for sustainable small-scale fisheries...
2016 - General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM)
Video
Generation Food Project
This is the launch video of the Generation Food Project. Award winning director Steve James ('Hoop Dreams' and 'The Interrupters') and bestselling author Raj Patel ('Stuffed and Starved' and 'The Value of Nothing') want to tell stories of people who are changing the way we eat today, so that everyone...
2016 - Generation Food Project
Video
Agroecología en Acción
Experiencias en el diseño de una agricultura sustentable. Con el Profesor Miguel Altieri, PhD (Universidad de California, Berkeley) www.agroeco.org
2016 - Agroecology in Action
Video
Grass strips against soil erosion
Contour hedgerows slow the speed of water coming down the slope and allow the water to infiltrate. They also allow the washed away soil and nutrients to settle out above the hedgerows. You can plant many different grasses, depending on what you need and what is locally available.
Thailand - Viet Nam
2016 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Mutirões de documentação vão a 15 estados brasileiros até o final do ano
Mutirões do Programa Nacional de Documentação da Trabalhadora Rural (PNDTR)
O Programa Nacional de Documentos da Mulher Trabalhadora Rural (PNDTR) tem o objetivo de assegurar às mulheres da agricultura familiar, acampadas, assentadas da reforma agrária, atingidas por barragens, quilombolas, pescadoras artesanais, extrativistas e indígenas o acesso aos documentos civis, previdenciários e trabalhistas, de forma gratuita e nas proximidades de moradia,...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e do Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
Video
Managing cattle ticks
Ticks are small creatures like insects that attach to the body of animals to suck their blood. Ticks cause diseases like skin lesions. The animals will become skinny and no longer produce milk.
Nigeria
2016 - Access Agriculture
Report
Gender, agriculture and rural development in Albania
Gender equality is a key to eliminating poverty and hunger, as it has been demonstrated by the FAO throughout its research worldwide. As part of the FAO efforts on generating evidence and knowledge, and in compliance with the FAO Policy on Gender Equality, the purpose of the Country Gender Assessment...
Albania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Guidelines
Improving Governance of Pastoral Lands
Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines on the ResponsibleGovernance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Contextof National Food Security
The Technical Guide on Pastoralism builds on a number of initiatives and studies from recent years that have shone a light on pastoral governance and land tenure: on the inherent challenges pastoralists face, the shortcomings of governments in securing pastoral tenure, and the emerging examples of success and progress from...
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
‘Local’ Level Analysis of FNS Pathways in the UK.
The purpose of this report is to provide insights into local transition pathways in the European food and nutrition security (FNS) landscape and will feed into the WP6 synthesis focused on the heterogeneity of FNS transition pathways. This report sets out to explore FNS pathways in UK with a focus...
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 - Cardiff University
Conference paper
Market tools in the sheep sector
A presentation regarding market tools in sheep sector, in European Union.
European Union
2016 - European Cpmmission
Blog article
Syrian Farmers in Tartous Revive Tomato Harvest with Support from WFP and FAO
Syrian farmers in the country’s western coastal governorate of Tartous, formerly among the world’s top producers of tomatoes, have started their first tomato harvest of the year with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP).Before the conflict in...
Syrian Arab Republic
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
Comissão Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica quer mais avanços para a agroecologia em 2017
o último encontro do ano, realizado nesta quarta-feira (23) em Brasília, a Comissão Nacional de Agroecologia e Produção Orgânica (CNAPO) se comprometeu a atuar de forma a garantir mais avanços para a agroecologia e produção orgânica em 2017. Também fez um balanço dos objetivos e desafios para a continuidade da...
Brazil
2016 - Secretaria Especial de Agricultura Familiar e Desenvolvimento Agrário (SEAD)
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