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Video
Documentaire: Initiatives étudiantes pour une alimentation alternative

Au fil de cette vidéo sont présentés les différents projets menés par les assos membres du réseau, allant dans le sens d’une alimentation alternative et responsable. Au delà du fait de se rendre compte de ce que tu peux faire avec un peu de motivation et 3 bouts de ficelle,...
2013 - Réseau GRAPPE

Video
Rights in Action: Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for Indigenous Peoples

This community-friendly animation video explains the concepts and mechanisms of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) through a story of interaction between indigenous peoples and people requesting their consent for new development. Free, Prior and Informed Consent is a core principle of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous...
2013 - Aisa Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)

Book
Organic Agriculture: African Experiences In Resilience And Sustainability

This publication, Organic Agriculture: African Experiences in Resilience and Sustainability, demonstrates that organic management can benefit people, the economy and ecosystems and that this can be achieved in Africa, where hunger and degradation stubbornly persist, despite decades of development efforts.The work presented in this volume stems from the conference on...
Madagascar - Namibia - Zambia
2013

Article
Food consumption as social practice: solidarity purchasing groups in Rome, Italy

Looks at solidarity purchasing groups (Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale, GAS) in Rome as an example of sustainable food consumption.
Italy
2013

Website
YAAY

YAAY busca posicionarse como una marca de objetos artesanales, contemporáneos y accesibles comercialmente y desarrolla colecciones de productos como accesorios u objetos utilitarios y trabaja bajo pedido de acuerdo a la necesidad de los clientes. Para este fin el área de desarrollo de marcas comunitarias trabaja con grupos de mujeres artesanas ayudándoles...
Mexico
2013 - LU'UM

Video
Garden Africa's training film: Black Gold: The Secrets of Compost

Black Gold: the Secrets of Compost was filmed on location in Swaziland, and is the first in the Living Classroom series. The Living Classroom is the result of GardenAfrica’s training programmes that have been successfully developed and implemented over the past ten years with sustainable agriculture & permaculture specialists. It was built...
Eswatini
2013 - Garden Africa

Manual
A toolkit to support conservation by indigenous peoples and local communities:

Building capacity and sharing knowledge for Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs)
A number of partners, including UNEP-WCMC, UNDP, the GEF Small Grants Programme, the Government of Norway, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and the ICCA Consortium, worked closely to develop this toolkit for governing and managing Indigenous Peoples’ and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs). The purpose of the toolkit...
2013

Case study
Alianzas público-privadas para el desarrollo de agronegocios – Informe de país: el Perú

Las alianzas público-privadas (APP) se consideran como un mecanismo institucional importante para acceder a recursos financieros adicionales, compartiendo riesgos y haciendo frente a otras dificultades en pos de un desarrollo sostenible e incluyente. A pesar de que varias formas de colaboración público-privada han existido por algún tiempo, no se dispone...
Peru
2013 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Magazine article
Encouraging Enterprise at Farm Level Post 2013

Farm income is a volatile, subject to significant fluctuations from year to year. One of the ways in which farm income volatility can be addressed is by adding value to the outputs of the farm and by maximising the use of farm resources of all types – land, capital, buildings,...
Ireland
2013

Book
Learning for rural change

14 stories from Ethiopia
Many rural development initiatives attempt to improve the lives of small-scale farmers. Some succeed, some fail – but all of them can offer valuable lessons for the future. In a two-phased documentation workshop, a group of experts working in IFAD-funded projects in Ethiopia described, analysed and wrote down some of...
Ethiopia
2013 - Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture ( ILEIA)

Technical paper
Analyse socio-économique de la filière artisanale d'huile de palme dans la région de la Sanaga-Maritime (Cameroun)

L’objectif principal de cette étude était d’analyser le fonctionnement et d’estimer la rentabilité de la filière villageoise d’huile de palme brute dans la région de la Sanaga-Maritime  du Cameroun. Il ressort de l’étude que la filière villageoise d’huile de palme est constituée de trois types de planteurs : les petits...
Cameroon
2013 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)

Book
Integrated Crop Management Vol.18-2013

Forest Management and Conservation Agriculture Experiences of smallholder farmers in the Eastern Region of Paraguay
This publication is a summary of the experiences lived during the seven years (2003-2010) of implementation of the Sustainable Natural Resource Management Project (PMRN), managed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) and supported by German Technical and Financial Cooperation (GIZ and KfW). The PMRN operated in seven Departments in...
Paraguay
2013 - Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, Paraguay

Book part
East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Zambia

Agriculture in Africa south of the Sahara is becoming increasingly risky due to extreme climate variability. In recent times, scientific studies have strongly suggested that many developing countries face substantial environmental and social challenges, with food insecurity high on the list (Vogel and O’Brien 2003). With a relatively large and...
Zambia
2013 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Article
Marine aquaculture: a success story in Greece

Marine aquaculture is a success story in Greece. Starting in the early 1980s, the first hatcheries supplied the first fingerlings for on-growing in cage farms. Cage farming technology was known from the salmon industry and easily adopted in the Mediterranean conditions. As the European Union (EU) imports of fishery products...
Greece
2013

Policy brief/paper
Rural development support

Rural development support from the European Union is governed by REGULATION (EU) No 1305/2013 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 December 2013on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, which is implemented into...
2013

Book
Trends and impacts of foreign investment in developing country agriculture

Evidence from case studies
It is important that any international investment should bring development benefits to the receiving country in terms of technology transfer, employment creation, upstream and downstream linkages and so on if these investments are to be “win-win” rather than “neo-colonialism”. These beneficial flows are not automatic: care must be taken in...
Brazil - Cambodia - Ghana - Senegal - Thailand - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2013

Magazine article
Farm and Rural Enterprise

Greater collaboration between state bodies and local agencies providing services to farmers and rural dwellers and the development of shared services by Local Action Groups in the delivery of the LEADER programme were among the recommendations of a report published by the NRN in 2010. The report on ‘Stimulating the...
Ireland
2013

Policy brief/paper
Farm structure survey in the Czech Republic (data 2013)

The Farm Structure Survey 2013 was conducted during autumn 2013 as a sample survey. The aim of the survey is to obtain detailed and complex information on the whole scale of the Czech agriculture, i.e. its size, structure and development of agricultural holdings, about their equipment, specialisation of their production...
Czechia
2013

Technical paper
Managing salinity in Iraq's agriculture

An overview of the potential solutions and development of a national framework for the management of soil and water salinity in central and southern Iraq
This report is the second in a series of three publications that comprises an overview of the Iraq Salinity Assessment. This report documents solutions and impacts identified in the first report in this series. The third report in the Assessment proposes investment options and methods to analyze the investment options...
Iraq
2013 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Technical paper
Marco de Programación de País 2013-2018 - Cuba

El Gobierno de Cuba y la FAO acordaron la elaboración del Marco de Prioridades del País (MPP), en el que se identifican las principales prioridades nacionales para recibir Asistencia de la FAO y los resultados que Cuba desea obtener, en correspondencia con el mandato y objetivos estratégicos de la Organización...
Cuba
2013 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la alimentación y la agricultura (FAO)
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