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Journal article
Les performances des petites exploitations irriguées de la basse vallée de la Medjerda en Tunisie

Malgré les efforts de la recherche et les multiples interventions des États, la productivité des ressources en eau, terre et capital, reste souvent limitée, notamment en Tunisie. Cette étude présente un cadre d’analyse des performances des exploitations agricoles irriguées. Elle vise à étudier le niveau et les déterminants effectifs de...
Tunisia
2015

Magazine article
Bringing local food to the city

The first farmers’ market (farmářský trh in Czech) in the Czech capital, Prague, was held in 2009 and since then demand for fresh locally-grown produce has continued to increase. Within two years, there were more than 13 farmers’ markets in the capital. Jana Spilkovà, an Assistant Professor of Social Geography...
Czechia
2015 - Friends of the Earth Europe

Journal
Food & Farming - Focus on Jobs and Growth

Farming and food are “big business” in the EU – even though they involve players both large and small. On the one hand, agriculture itself is restructuring and slowly taking a lower share of total employment in the EU – as new knowledge and smart techniques make farm workers more...
European Union
2015 - European Commission

Conference proceedings
Encuentro de Aliados por la tierra y territorio: Acceso y consolidación de territorios colectivos en Bolivia

Este documento sinteza las acciones realizadas durante el evento realizado en octubre de 2015 en Macharetí, Bolivia, mismo que convocó a los aliados del Movimiento Regional por la Tierra y el Territorio con el objetivo de establecer un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de experiencias en relación a los casos sistematizados, con especial énfasis sobre las...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - Movimiento Regional por la Tierra

Journal
IFPRI at a glance

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) believes that, by working together, the global community can sustainably defeat hunger and malnutrition. Collaborating with development practitioners, policymakers, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, IFPRI contributes to achieving this goal by providing needed evidence for country- and region-led policies that help ensure...
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Blog article
Scaling Rainfed Agriculture Adaptation Projects in India

In India, rainfed agriculture accounts for over 40 percent of food production. With its high vulnerability to changing climate patterns and weather fluctuations, the increasing rate of climate change threatens India’s rainfed agricultural sector and the millions of people it supports.
India
2015 - India Food Security Portal

Report
Global Nutrition Report 2015

Actions and accountability to advance nutrition and sustainable development
Malnutrition should not be one of them. Countries that are determined to make rapid advances in malnutrition reduction can do so. If governments want to achieve the SDG target of ending all forms of malnutrition by 2030, they have clear pathways to follow. There are many levers to pull, and...
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Video
El Despojo del agua en la cuenca del río Chimbo

El video documental narra, con la voz de los actores comunitarios, la situación inequitativa de acceso al agua destinada al riego de cultivos tropicales de la zona baja de este importante río de la cuenca del Guayas. En este territorio están dos grandes ingenios, que aportan con cerca de las...
Ecuador
2015 - Consorcio CAMAREN

Blog article
Organizaciones de pequeños productores dominicanos se capacitan en diseño de páginas web

En reciente fecha, las organizaciones de cacao y banano de República Dominicana tuvieron la oportunidad de participar del primer taller de diseño y gestión de páginas web. Dicho taller, que fue impartido en la ciudad de Mao en la sede de la Coordinadora Nacional de Comercio Justo (COORDOM), contó con...
Dominican Republic
2015 - Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores y Trabajadores de Comercio Justo (CLAC)

Technical paper
Organic Action Plan for Denmark

Organic products have derived from biodynamic idealism in small health food stores to a natural and ordinary shopping choice in supermarkets. This development did not come out of the blue. It is the result of cooperation between farsighted farmers, organisations and politicians that has turned Denmark into the world’s leading...
Denmark
2015 - The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark

Newsletter article
La producción agropecuaria campesina baja del 80% al 37%

En Bolivia, la producción agropecuaria familiar indígena originaria ha disminuido y ha dado paso a que la agricultura comercial o “agroindustrias” crezca de manera desproporcionada, advirtieron expertos e ingenieros agrónomos. En el país, su relevancia en la producción agropecuaria es cada vez menor. Según datos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE)...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2015 - Oxígeno.bo

Video
Supporting Family Farming in Swaziland FAO

FAO is supporting family farmers, who have an often-undervalued role to play in ensuring global food security. The Swaziland Agricultural Development Project, led by the government with assistance from the European Union and FAO, is helping over 20,000 smallholder farmers produce more, higher-quality food and connect with new markets.
Eswatini
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
How to become viable? A guidance material for small-scale farmers

There are many challenges faced by small scale family farmers. In this region, smallscale farmers have difficulty accessing markets, and when they do they lack competitiveness on the European markets. These farms are less resilient to floods and droughts, hence there is a need to strengthen the adaptive capacity of...
Hungary - Serbia
2015 - CEEweb for Biodiversity

Magazine article
Public policies for sustainable local food

In the last few years Hungarians have become more interested in healthy eating, as fresh and seasonal food has become more fashionable thanks to the promotion of local farm products by civil society. This trend is demonstrated by the rising popularity of farmers’ markets and food festivals, which have become...
Hungary
2015 - Friends of the Earth Europe

Report
EU farm economics overview FADN 2012

This report provides an overview of key economic developments in European agricultural holdings based on 2012 data, the latest available in the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN). The FADN survey represents farms that account for the majority of EU agricultural production. After the sharp decline in farm income in 2009,...
European Union
2015 - European Commission

Journal article
Agricultural market volatility is ‘here to stay’

Faced with falling meat and dairy prices, exacerbated by Russia’s embargo on EU products, which are affecting producers in many member states, the European Commission decided to authorise aid totalling €500 million, to help, among other things, with the private storage of cheese, powdered milk and pork.
2015 - EurActiv

Journal article
Small farmers and the revolution in Egypt: the forgotten actors

This paper analyses the relationship between small farmers and revolution in Egypt  by describing their role in the current uprising and redefining the track and stages of the revolution’s development, as well as evaluating the historical relationship between small farmer uprisings and the urban elite. he paper provides ahistorical reading...
Egypt
2015 - Department of Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Website
Unión Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar Chile (UNAF)

Su misión es representar los intereses de los productores/as de la Agricultura Familiar, de sus organizaciones gremiales, económicas y comerciales; a través de una gestión basada en los principios del cooperativismo y la valoración del capital social chileno. Además UNAF busca garantizar la sustentabilidad económica, social y ambiental, que permita un mayor...
Chile
2015 - Unión Nacional de la Agricultura Familiar Chile (UNAF)

Website
Movimiento Unitario Campesino y Etnias de Chile (MUCECH)

MUCECH o Movimiento Unitario Campesino y Etnias de Chile, es la unión estratégica de las organizaciones nacionales campesinas, de carácter social, político, económico y cultural.Organizaciones que Conforman la Corporación  Confederación Nacional Campesina (CNC) Confederación Nacional Sindical Campesina e Indígena "Nehuén" Confederación Nacional "El Triunfo Campesino" Federación Nacional de Sindicatos Agrícolas "Sargento Candelaria Pérez" Federación Nacional...
Chile
2015 - Movimiento Unitario Campesino y Etnias de Chile (MUCECH)

Fact sheet
Strengthening the cotton sector through South-South cooperation

The project aims to contribute to the sustainable development of the cotton value chain in the partner countries, and increase their capacities and levels to strengthen the cotton sector.
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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