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Journal article
Cybulski Farm

Marcin Cybulski inherited a 25 Ha plot of land from his parents in 2010. Since then, the estate has grown some 80 Ha under the management of Marcin. In 2012, he was able to expand his holdings to 87 Ha with the aid of a young farmer programme in Poland....
Poland
2014

Report part
Defining ecologically valuable grasslands

The CAP aims to address (regulate, support) the totality of EU agricultural activity and agricultural land. Agricultural land must fall into one of only three categories named by the policy, i.e. permanent crops; arable and permanent pasture (permanent grassland in the definition proposed in the reformed CAP Regulations, see Section...
2014 - European Commission

Fact sheet
A time of transition

Most of Near east and North Africa societies have been in the midst of social and political transition in recent years. Three of them changed governments following the events of 2011, and some have endured armed conflict. Moreover, most of them face the challenge of food security in a drylands...
Egypt - Sudan - Syrian Arab Republic - Tunisia - Yemen
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Website
Iberococinas

Somos un programa de cooperación que impulsa políticas, programas, estrategias e iniciativas para salvaguardar y promover las cocinas de Iberoamérica, como vía para alcanzar un desarrollo sostenible en nuestra región.   Desde 2014 trabajamos para rescatar y fomentar nuestras cocinas tradicionales, sus saberes y significados, cadenas productivas sostenibles e innovación culinaria.  Iberocinas es...
2014 - Cooperación iberoamericana de la Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)

Conference paper
El extensionismo en México: Visión y retos para impulsar la agricultura familiar

Esta presentación es parte de las ponenencias del evento "Extensionismo y agricultura familiar: recomendaciones para una estrategia integral" y fue desarrollada por Jorge Galo Medina Torres, Director General de Desarrollo de Capacidades y Extensionismo Rural, SAGARPA. Este documento presenta la situación de la agricultura familiar, y el extensionismo asociado a ella. ...
Mexico
2014 - Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa)

Statement
Call of Zagora. "Oasis Family Farming: Opportunities and threats"

Part of the International Family Farming Year proclaimed by the United Nations Organization, the Zagora Oasis International Forum association held on December 18-21; 2014 the Forum's 3rd edition under the topic "Oasis Family Farming: Opportunities and threats" Over three days, participants made of associations, experts and researchers along with the...
2014 - RADDO

Journal article
Woźniak Farm

The Woźniak farm has been in the family since 1928, when Jan Woźniak’s Grandfather bought 8 Ha of land. In 1976 the farm was enlarged to 10.5 Ha by Jan’s father, and later in 1986 to its current size of 19 Ha.
Poland
2014

Conference paper
Addressing Gender Gap in Agriculture and the Rural Sector in the Near East and North Africa

In the Near East and North Africa (NENA), the role of women in agriculture and the rural sector has increased significantly. In many countries of the region, agricultural incomes no longer suffice to sustain the livelihoods of rural men and women. This has resulted, in particular, in massive migration of...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Statement
La promotion des activités génératrices de revenus pour le développement de l’agriculture familiale ».

Discours prononcé par le Ministre de l’Agriculture, de l’Elevage, de la Pêche et de la Sécurité Alimentaire du Gabon , Monsieur Luc Oyoubi, lors de l'ouverture de la deuxième édition de la Foire Agricole de Libreville.
Gabon
2014 - Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Entreprenariat agricole chargé de la mise en œuvre du Programme Graine

Blog article
Mujeres que gracias a ferias agroecológicas mejoran su tierra y su vida en Paraguay

En estos días se ha celebrado una nueva edición de la Feria Jakaru Porã Haguã (“Para que podamos comer bien”, en guaraní) en la capital de Paraguay, Asunción. Estas ferias, que también tienen lugar en otros lugares del país, como Concepción o San Pedro, son un espacio de intercambio entre productores/as y consumidores/as que optan...
Paraguay
2014 - OXFAM

Video
Agroecology: farmer's perspectives

The video outlines three case studies of farmers utilizing agroecological practices in their farming systems. It focuses on complex adaptive rice systems in the Easter part of the island of Java, Indonesia; on a large-scale farm in the Netherlands applying sustainable soil management practices; and on social aspects of agroecology...
Brazil - Indonesia - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Journal article
Hartmann Farm

Imre Hartmann has been involved with agriculture for all his working life. During the communist era he headed one of the sectors of a co-operative farm. As an independent farmer, he started off rearing Hungarian Grey Steppe Cattle in the 1980s, and pork later in the 1990s. After the Restitution,...
Hungary
2014

Conference paper
Vegetable growing on family farms in Belarus

Vegetable growing - specialization of family farms in Stolin district of Belarus.  About 5,000 family farms grow vegetables in the Stolin district (about 50% of family farms) in Belarus Agricultural lands in family farms – 500 ha of greenhouses and 3000 ha of open fields Family farms are very small –greenhouses...
Belarus
2014

Conference proceedings
Les agricultures familiales à Madagascar : Un atout pour le développement durable.

Le présent rapport rend compte de cette semaine des AF, en combinant le regard des organisateurs, et le regard libre de deux grands témoins invités. Après une première partie revenant brièvement sur le concept de l’agriculture familiale et sur ses dynamiques à Madagascar et dans le monde, il résume, dans...
Madagascar
2014 - CIRAD

Video
“New Success Factors” - The organic cave

Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
2014 - Rete Rurale Nazionale

Journal article
Earl Quaak Farm

The Earl Quaak Farm has been in the family for three generations. It was purchased and re-organised by the Grandparents of the current managers of the farm after the Second World War. The legal structure of the holding is three-part. The land is held within a ‘Société Agricole à Responsabilité...
France
2014

Magazine article
Le fonio, un maillon essentiel de la sécurité alimentaire en Afrique de l'Ouest

Dans le cadre de la diversification des cultures visant à promouvoir une agriculture et une consommation durables, le fonio, céréale à petits grains, cultivée et consommée dans la région sub-sahélienne d'Afrique de l'Ouest, du Sénégal au lac Tchad, est prometteuse. La culture du fonio est le plus souvent limitée aux champs...
2014 - Agropolis International

Book part
Building the resilience of smallholders through extension and advisory services

This chapter explores the sustainable-livelihoods framework to conceptualize the capacity needs of resilience-focused extension and advisory services. It indicates where to move the policy and research agenda forward with regard to the role of extension and advisory services in building resilience.
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Blog article
KariaNet, Planning the future of networking in the Near East and North Africa region

IFAD and the International Centre for Rural Development, (IDRC) joined hands to use networking to improve the performance of their agriculture and rural development projects in a programme called the Knowledge Access in Rural Interconnected Areas Network, or KariaNet. The KariaNet approach, including collaborative research and capacity building, takes a page from...
Algeria - Egypt - Jordan - Lebanon - Morocco - Palestine - Sudan - Syrian Arab Republic - Yemen
2014 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Practices
Le compostage à la ferme

Le présent document porte sur le compostage à la ferme
2014 - INRA ASSOFWI IT²
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