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Learning from World Bank history

Agriculture and food-based approaches for addressing malnutrition
The report presents a summary of how the nutrition and agriculture sectors of the World Bank have addressed agricultural and food-based approaches to nutrition from the 1960s to the present and showcases the wealth of resources available in the World Bank that can inform the mainstreaming of nutrition in the...
2014 - World Bank

Project
Great opportunity in a small village

Hernádszentandrás is a small village with a population of 450 in North East Hungary. It has an unemployment rate of 40%, and 35% of the population is of Roma ethnicity. The region is listed in the multiply disadvantaged category. For centuries, traditional agriculture provided work and a living for the...
Hungary
2014

Miscellanea
Cómo crecer con don Crecencio. Poscosecha

Historieta breve que busca introducir, principamente a los productores, en los temas comunes del campo y en prácticas sustentables. En esta edición, se refiere a los temas de poscocecha.
2014 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)

Fact sheet
DENMARK - Common Agricultural Policy

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest more than EUR 7 billion in Danish 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 Denmark to adapt...
Denmark
2014 - European Commission

Journal article
Whose Land? Land Tenure in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Palestine

The present article aims to uncover the different meanings attached to land ownership in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British Mandate eras and to show how a ‘modern’ understanding of ownership was imposed on the local population, particularly the fellahin (peasants), without a consideration of their needs and traditions....
2014

Book part
Agriculture and Agricultural Policy in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In the transition period, agricultural policy experienced turbulent development. Although the Stabilization and Association Agreement was signed in 2001, gradual consolidation of agricultural policy and adjustment toward the CAP of the EU has been noted...
North Macedonia
2014 - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Book
Resilience for food and nutrition security

Economic shocks including food price shocks, environmental shocks, social shocks, political shocks, health shocks, and many other types of shocks hit poor people and communities around the world, compromising their efforts to improve their well-being. As shocks evolve and become more frequent or intense, they further threaten people’s food and...
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Policy brief/paper
La Agricultura Familiar en la Seguridad y Soberanía Alimentaria de Bolivia

En América Latina, durante la última década se está produciendo un ciclo continuo de crecimiento económico, impulsado sobre todo por la gran demanda y los altos precios internacionales de las materias primas, en particular de gas, hidrocarburos y minerales. La población crece, aumentan sus ingresos y, al mismo tiempo, aumentan...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2014 - Instituto para el desarrollo rural de sudamerica

Fact sheet
GERMANY - Common Agricultural Policy

During the next 7 years, the new CAP is going to invest around EUR 44.1 billion in Germany'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 Germany to adapt both...
Germany
2014 - European Commission

Book
Criterios generales para la agricultura familiar

El estudio de las experiencias de agricultura familiar con base agroecológica en Colombia, evidencia que es una opción viable para promover la seguridad alimentaria y a su vez contribuye al uso eficiente del suelo, la conservación de la biodiversidad y los servicios ecosistémicos que provee. El resultado de este estudio es producto de los...
Colombia
2014 - Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural (MADR)

Technical paper
Mulching to control soil erosion in Dominica

The objective of mulching is to protect the soil from the impacts of heavy rainfalls, storms, and droughts, while providing complementary benefits, such as the reduction of weed growth and water loss, and the increase of soil moisture, microbial action, organic matter and nutrient content. This practice helps in the...
Dominica
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Conference paper
Financiamiento y cobertura del extensionismo

Esta exposición de Roxana Aguirre (Dirección de Extensionismo Rural del SAGARPA) se refiere a la implementación del extensionismo en México, detallando programas, financiamiento y cobertura.
Mexico
2014 - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT)

Report
Partnership in Practice: Engagement with Indigenous Peoples

Approximately 370 million indigenous peoples live in over 90 countries around the world. Many of these peoples have survived due to their relative isolation, in territories that are increasingly recognized as physically and biologically outstanding on a global scale. In fact, a significant fraction of the world’s priority areas—based on...
2014 - The Global Environment Facility,

Magazine article
La agricultura familiar en América Latina

Coincidencias para tomar en cuenta
El viernes 21 terminaron en Fortaleza (Brasil) tres días intensos de análisis de experiencias y evaluación de políticas sobre agricultura familiar. Convocados por el IICA1 y la Secretaría de Desarrollo Agrario del Estado de Ceará, especialistas del nordeste brasileño, de México, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador y Perú,...
2014 - Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES)

Conference/Meeting
Demands of family farming organisations during the International Year of Family Farming IYFF-2014

Following the declaration of the IYFF- 2014 by the United Nations General Assembly, 22nd December 2011, and the creation of more than 50 National Committees, representatives of Farmers' Organisations from five continents -Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania– met in Abu Dhabi on January 21st-22nd 2014, with the intention of...
2014 - World Rural Forum (WRF)

Article
Small Farming across the EU - 27

Small Farming across the EU - 27 Bailey, A., Suta, C. (2014), EuroChoices In the article Bailey and Suta show the importance of small farms (as measured in 2010) across the EU, and investigate how households on small farms cope with what is inevitably a low level of farming income. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1746-692X.12047/pdf
2014

Book
Impactful Innovations

Lessons from Family Agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean
This document summarizes the fifteen projects that were selected by a panel of international experts as those which best represent the technological, institutional and organizational innovations carried out with and by small farmers – known as family farming - in LAC. The majority of cases clearly show the link between the...
2014 - Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Fact sheet
IRELAND - Common Agricultural Policy

Over the next 7 years, the CAP will invest almost EUR 11 billion in the Irish farming sector and rural areas. Among the key priorities are jobs, sustainability, modernization, innovation and quality. In parallel, flexibility is given to Ireland to adapt both direct payments and rural development programmes to its...
Ireland
2014 - European Commission

Journal article
Panorama of agroecology courses in Brazil

The agroecology courses have grown the last years, and its introduction in educational institutions began especially from the 2000s. Since then, several courses are created annually. However, there are few and spread studies that perform a systematic quantitative analysis of courses in agroecology in Brazil. This study aimed to identify...
Brazil
2014 - Rev. Bras. de Agroecologia

E-learning
Feeding management of dairy cattle in tropical countries

This course provides guidance on good feeding management on dairy farms in the tropics
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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