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Countries recognize vital role of small-scale fishers

Today at the Food and Agriculture Organization Headquarters in Rome, countries endorsed a set of wide-reaching guidelines that will boost the already vital role of small-scale fishers in contributing to global food security, nutrition and poverty eradication. Small-scale fisheries account for more than 90 percent of the world’s capture fishers...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article
The Perils of Productivity: Making ‘Good Farmers’ in Malwa, India

The idea of a ‘good farmer’ who adheres to scientific methods of crop production and produces high yields was commonly articulated by scientists and some farmers in Malwa, central India, while evaluating soybean farming. However, through detailed ethnographic description of the everyday practices of soybean farmers in Malwa, this paper...
India
2014 - Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology

Article
土地紧缺背景下的新兴水域景观

迄今为止,孟加拉是世界上同等大小国 家中人口密度最大的,其人口密度超过一千 人每平方公里。并且,该地区土地稀缺和洪 水泛滥的情况正在逐年恶化。在这样的背景 下,农民们找到了一种利用新兴季节性岛屿 和漂浮菜园种植作物的新方法,尽管这样的 方法可能会威胁作物的生长。
Bangladesh
2014 - LEISA China

Journal article
Bees bring a new buzz to family farming in Zimbabwe

One way that family farmers improve their resilience to both climatic and economic shocks is to diversify what is produced. More and different crops and livestock, particularly local varieties and breeds are being promoted. Two other options stand out too – bees and trees. These have the added advantages of...
Zimbabwe
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture

Video
Biodiversity for food security and family farming

Farmers and other experts such as Vandana Shiva and Victor Toledo explain why and how biodiversity is important for food security and for family farming. 
2014 - ILEIA Foundation

Website
Aušra and Vladas Griciai farm

Aušra and Vladas Griciai family`s farm established in Kretinga district, Imbarė surroundings, Juodupėnų village. Part of the farm is certified as ecological. Currently, farmers are involved in “Landscape Program”. Major agricultural income is received from milk production. Aušra and Vladas are farming since 1993, after Lithuania regained its independence. Before...
Lithuania
2014 - Baltic Deal

Video
No seeds, no future

For many generations subsistence farmers have successfully grown their own fruits and vegetables, and reared their own livestock. KwaHhohho in Mtubatuba, KwaZulu-Natal, has a rich history of these traditional farming practices. But these are under threat, and this small farming community is fighting to save their natural seeds and traditional...
South Africa
2014 - Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR)

Report
Agriculture, forestry and fishery statistics

Agriculture accounts for roughly 40% of the EU budget. It is the only policy almost entirely funded from the EU budget, where European spending is largely complementary to national spending. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2014–20 demonstrates the central role of statistics and the need for a solid knowledge...
2014 - European Union

Magazine article
Rural reality check in Serbia

Serbia is still a mainly rural country. 65% of its national territory is in farmland, a further 30% in forestry. Of its 7.2 million people, 58% live in rural areas, and about two thirds of these rely wholly or partly on agriculture or forestry for their livelihood. These industries produce...
Serbia
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development

Report
Agriculture and livestock survey A1 farms 2012

This Report presents the results of the 2011-2012 Agriculture and Livestock Survey (ALS) in A1 Farms conducted by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency.
Zimbabwe
2014 - Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency

Website
Kalna Dambrāni Farm

The farm Kalna Dambrāni is located in Viesīte County, Viesīte Rural municipality. Farm owners Iveta Tīrumniece and Ivars Tīrumnieks manage a total of 600 ha land and their main activity is dairy farming. The farmland is part of the basin of river Lielupe. The farm Kalna Dambrāni was established in...
Latvia
2014 - Baltic Deal

Fact sheet
CYPRUS - Common Agricultural Policy

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest more than EUR 485 million in Cyprus's farming sector and rural areas. Key political priorities have been defined at European level such as: jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Cyprus to adapt...
Cyprus
2014 - European Commission

Conference paper
El modelo de Agencia de Desarrollo Rural (ADR) del Proyecto Estratégico de Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA)

Esta presentación de Julio Rosette, de la Unidad Técnica Nacional del Proyecto Estratégico de Seguridad Alimentaria (PESA), explica el modelo de este proyecto, su cobertura y alcances.
Mexico
2014 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)

Video
In the words of family farmers: Guatemala

In Guatemala, many women, like weaver Ana Maria Gonzalez, depend on off-farm income to survive.
Guatemala
2014 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)

Video
Community Garden in Dangarandove, Zimbabwe: Women making a difference (3' 35")

In a dry, thorny, remote village about 200 km south of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, a group of women have transformed an abandoned piece of land into a flourishing community garden, growing enough fresh, nutritious vegetables to supply nearby towns and villages, while boosting the health and income of their own community.
Zimbabwe
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Technical paper
Land, territorial development and family farming in Angola

A holistic approach to community-based natural resource governance: The cases of Bie, Huambo, and Huila Provinces
This FAO paper from the Land and Water Division (NRL) aims to take account of the recent history of Angola in relation to its land tenure and natural resource management issues and the approaches that have evolved as a result of FAO’s continuous support and partnership with the government of...
Angola
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
Constraints to women smallholder farmers’ efforts in ensuring food security at household level

A case of Msowero Ward of Morogoro region, Tanzania
Women smallholder farmers (WSFs) play great roles in ensuring food security at household level as a poverty reduction strategy, but they are faced with a number of constraints that deprive them from fulfilling their potential as farmers, food producer, provider and entrepreneur. In evaluating the constraints on WSFs toward ensuring...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014

Report
Estudio sobre alternativas de protección jurídico – normativa y de otra índole para semillas y prácticas tradicionales relacionadas con la agricultura, utilizadas y mantenidas por agricultoras y agricultores de nuestro país

Para el desarrollo de este estudio, se realizó un levantamiento de las normativas legales nacionales e internacionales vigentes en relación a la protección, conservación y uso de semillas y sus prácticas tradicionales y un análisis comparado de ambas normativas. Por otra parte, se presentan propuestas de alternativas de protección jurídica...
Chile
2014 - Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA)

Website
Ksavera Stirbienė farm

The farm is located in Silutes district municipality, Galnės village wayside Šilutė – Vainutas, south-western part of Lithuania. During the farms territory the river Šyšale crosses and cultivable lands are bordering with Vainuto forest biosphere polygon, which is published as the protection of birds important area, so in the farm...
Lithuania
2014 - Baltic Deal

Case study
Livestock Systems and Farming Styles: Grassland Management, Landscape and Biodiversity, Veneto Region, Ne Italy

Traditional farming systems have been abandoned to the favor of intensified agricultural practices, due to environmental, structural, economic, and sociopolitical constraints. Consequently, mountain landscape and biodiversity were seriously affected. The aims of this PhD thesis were to study the widespread of the abandonment phenomenon, in particular in the Alpine area,...
Italy
2014
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