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Report
Guía para la aplicación de normas fitosanitarias en el sector forestal

Estudio FAO: Montes 164
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) inició una actividad en la que involucró a diversos grupos de interés con el objetivo de elaborar la presente guía, en la que se proporcionan a los actores del sector forestal orientaciones claras y concisas sobre prácticas...
2012 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Report
Tanzania’s policies and laws in support of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems

During the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and United Nations launched a Global Partnership Initiative on conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS). The goal of the initiative is: to identify and safeguard GIAHS...
United Republic of Tanzania
2012 - Tanzania Natural Resource Forum

Video
Miguel Altieri: Why is agroecology the solution to hunger and food security?

Public lecture: Food movements, agroecology, and the future of food and farming. Today, a billion people live in hunger. Peak oil and environmental degradation threaten the food security of billions more, particularly with half the world's population living in urban environments where they are dependent on industrially produced and imported...
2012 - Transnational Institute (TNI)

Report
From field to fork: The value of England's local food webs

This report presents findings and recommendations from a five-year national project – Mapping Local Food Webs – to engage local volunteers across England to research their local food ‘webs’: the network of links between people who buy, sell, produce and supply food sourced locally.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2012 - Campaign to Protect Rural England

Guidelines
Safety Recommendations for Decked Fishing Vessels of Less than 12 metres in Length and Undecked Fishing Vessels

The purpose of the Safety Recommendations contained in this publication is to provide information on the design, construction, equipment, training and protection of the crews of small fishing vessels with a view to promoting the safety of the vessel and the safety and health of the crews. The Safety Recommendations...
Cambodia - Indonesia - Myanmar - Thailand - Viet Nam
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Project
Fishmeal from fish waste

This project offers an example of utilizing fisheries by-products by supporting an aquaculture company to produce its own fishmeal from local fish waste. The aquaculture company, Salinas del Astur, which breeds and commercializes sea bass and guilthead, saw a business opportunity in the discards and fish waste produced by the local...
Spain
2012 - Salinas del Astur S.A.

Video
"I want to live like that"

A journey in "Le Conche", farm of the young Calabrian farmer Vincenzo Sposato: his passion for the job, the relationship with the family, friendship and his future plans. The story focuses on the innovations brought by Vincenzo who having inherited a traditional olive trees farm,  in a few years turned...
Italy
2012 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy

Book
Sistemas agroforestales con caucho: el caso de Brasil y Colombia

Esta publicación tiene como objetivo reunir la investigación desarrollada en Brasil, específicamente en el estado de Bahía y en el Magdalena Medio colombiano, para avanzar en la búsqueda del mejoramiento de la productividad del sector cauchero. El cultivo de caucho (Hevea brasiliensis) en Colombia ha tenido un crecimiento vertiginoso en...
Colombia
2012 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Book
Estrategia regional ante el cambio climático de los pequeños productores del Comercio Justo de Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia y Paraguay

Documento I
En el marco del Plan Estratégico 2010-2012 de la CLAC, que incluye el tema del cambio climático, en abril del año en curso la CLAC desarrolló en Quito, Ecuador un evento de capacitación sobre cambio climático para los pequeños productores (PP) y organizaciones de pequeños productores (OPP) del comercio justo (CJ)...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Colombia - Ecuador - Paraguay - Peru
2012 - Coordinadora Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Pequeños Productores de Comercio Justo (CLAC)

Project
Projet GCP/GLO/212/GFF "Conservation et Gestion Adaptative des Systèmes Ingénieux du Patrimoine Agricole Mondial: système pilote: oasis historique de Gafsa

Afin d'atteindre l'objectif du projet SIPAM au niveau national, la FAO et l'ASM Gafsa avec l'appui des Organisations Non Gouvernementales et les Organisations Gouvernementales ont proposé de promouvoir la reconnaissance des oasis historiques de la Tunisie comme patrimoine agricole national en partenariat avec toutes les ONG opérant dans les oasis,...
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Squeezing Africa Dry

Behind every land grab is a water grab
Behind the current scramble for land in Africa is a global struggle for a commodity increasingly seen as more precious than gold or oil - water Food cannot be grown without water.  In Africa, one in three people suffer from water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building...
2012 - GRAIN

Report
Rural extension as part of an innovation system

Rural extension plays a significant and irreplaceable role in an innovation system that creates, designs, validates, and promotes new ideas, solutions, technologies, and forms of management focused on the resolution of problems and satisfaction of the needs of farmers and rural inhabitants and the organizations that represent them. In view of...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Chile - Ecuador
2012 - Latin American Network for Rural Extension Services (RELASER)

Website
Corporación Alianza para la Innovación y Desarrollo Rural (CALIDER)

CALIDER define cada concepto como: Alianza: Es un conjunto de organizaciones del sector rural, de distintas regiones, de diversa naturaleza y tendencias, comprometidas con los problemas y desafíos del sector rural y dispuestos a trabajar en conjunto. Innovación: La innovación trasciende lo meramente productivo; la innovación es el desafío propio del sector...
Chile
2012 - Corporación Alianza para la Innovación y Desarrollo Rural (CALIDER)

Video
Animal Farm

Cascina Barosi is a farm completely run by women. Cascina Barosi is a journey backwards, from big cities to the countryside. Benedetta, from Milan, managed a farm near Cremona. The film recounts his relationship with technology, enabling her to remotely control to the work on the farm, succeeding so to...
Italy
2012 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy

Book
Bioprospección para el desarrollo del sector agropecuario de Colombia

Esta publicación recoge el análisis del proceso de estructuración del Programa Nacional de Agrobioprospección, el análisis de las capacidades tecnológicas para el desarrollo del programa y los proyectos piloto para su implementación. Estos avances se lograron en el marco del convenio 069 de 2011, establecido entre el Ministerio de Agricultura...
Colombia
2012 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Journal article
L'institutionnalisation de l'agriculture familiale en Argentine : vers la reformulation d'un référentiel de développement rural

En 2009, le gouvernement argentin élevait au statut de ministère son secrétariat à l’Agriculture et créait en son sein le secrétariat de l’Agriculture familiale et du Développement rural, augurant ainsi de la reconnaissance officielle d’un nouvel acteur du secteur agricole et d’une transformation de la politique publique afférente. Cet évènement...
Argentina
2012 - HaL Archives Ouvertes

Magazine article
The Paradox of Cuban Agriculture

When Cuba faced the shock of lost trade relations with the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s, food production initially collapsed due to the loss of imported fertilizers, pesticides, tractors, parts, and petroleum. The situation was so bad that Cuba posted the worst growth in per capita food production in...
Cuba
2012 - Monthly Review Foundation

Journal
Revista Umbrales n°23, Los desafíos de la agricultura y la Ley de Revolución Productiva Comunitaria Agropecuaria

El tema central de la revista Nº 23 de umbrales, Los Desafíos de la Agricultura en el contexto actual y la Ley de Revolución Productiva Agropecuaria Comunitaria, del Postgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA), plantea un conjunto de reflexiones y temas que deberían...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2012 - Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (CIDES-UMSA)

Manual
Produzcamos nuestra semilla de papa de buena calidad

Guía para agricultoras y agricultores
El Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP), el Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) y el Consorcio de Pequeños Productores de Papa (CONPAPA), como parte del proyecto “Fortalecimiento de los sistemas de semilla de papa nativa en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú” se complacen en presentar la publicación Produzcamos nuestra...
Ecuador
2012 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)

Video
Between me and the earth

The film tells the special relationship of Matteo Bolognesi with agriculture: original, organic and biodynamic, but without giving up technology. With small investments from the Rural Development Programme of his region, has created a niche market in which he is producing essential oils, lavender, rosemary, spices for the well-being and...
Italy
2012 - Rete Rurale Nazionale - Italy
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