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Report
Estudio sobre alternativas de protección jurídico – normativa y de otra índole para semillas y prácticas tradicionales relacionadas con la agricultura, utilizadas y mantenidas por agricultoras y agricultores de nuestro país

Para el desarrollo de este estudio, se realizó un levantamiento de las normativas legales nacionales e internacionales vigentes en relación a la protección, conservación y uso de semillas y sus prácticas tradicionales y un análisis comparado de ambas normativas. Por otra parte, se presentan propuestas de alternativas de protección jurídica...
Chile
2014 - Oficina de Estudios y Políticas Agrarias (ODEPA)

Website
Ksavera Stirbienė farm

The farm is located in Silutes district municipality, Galnės village wayside Šilutė – Vainutas, south-western part of Lithuania. During the farms territory the river Šyšale crosses and cultivable lands are bordering with Vainuto forest biosphere polygon, which is published as the protection of birds important area, so in the farm...
Lithuania
2014 - Baltic Deal

Case study
Livestock Systems and Farming Styles: Grassland Management, Landscape and Biodiversity, Veneto Region, Ne Italy

Traditional farming systems have been abandoned to the favor of intensified agricultural practices, due to environmental, structural, economic, and sociopolitical constraints. Consequently, mountain landscape and biodiversity were seriously affected. The aims of this PhD thesis were to study the widespread of the abandonment phenomenon, in particular in the Alpine area,...
Italy
2014

Fact sheet
EIP-AGRI Brochure Soil organic matter matters

Soil organic matter content is vital for a healthy and high-quality soil. This brochure highlights methods to improve soil organic matter content which can help ensure adequate soil functionality and soil fertility. It also offers a number of solutions for common soil challenges, which are especially critical in Mediterranean regions....
2014 - EIP-AGRI Network

Blog article
Veterinary help for livestock herders brings relief to Angola

The European Union and FAO are working together to strengthen food security in Angola by boosting its veterinary services.
Food security and animal health in Angola, Africa’s second biggest oil exporter, remain  as some of the biggest challenges the country is facing. The Strengthening of Livestock Services in Angola (SANGA) project, led by FAO and co-funded by the European Union (EU) and the Institute of Veterinary Services (ISV) of...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Conference/Meeting
CFS 2014/41/4 Rev.1, Committee on World Food Security, The principles for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, Forty-first Session, "Making a Difference in Food Security and Nutrition", Rome, Italy, 13-18 October 2014

The Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems were approved by the41st Session of CFS on October 15, 2014. The Principles address all types of investment in agriculture and food systems - public, private, large, small - and in the production and processing spheres. They provide a framework that...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article
Perspectives of Agricultural Cooperatives in Romania

Due to concentration or development strategies, in recent years, worldwide, farmers are faced with a fundamental strategic decisions, namely to choose how to act better, in conditions of uncertainty, to make farms viable, profitable, resistance to competition, with markets and efficiency in accessing financial funds. Alternatively, farmers realize different forms...
Romania
2014

Book
Nourrir les villes, défi de l'agricultureure familiale.

Des innovations locales et paysannes en Afrique de l'Ouest
La Fondation de France et le Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale (CFSI) ont lancé le programme Promotion de l’agriculture familiale en Afrique de l’Ouest (PAFAO) en 2009. Centré sur la question « Comment une agriculture familiale durable peut-elle nourrir les villes ? », il accompagne les productrices et les...
2014 - Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale (CFSI)

Newsletter
Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar: retrospectiva y prospectiva

El objetivo de este documento es hacer una restrospectiva del Año Internacional de la Agricultura Familiar en el contexto de la institucionalidad surgida para el sector en América Latina y el Caribe, revisando los logros alcanzados a partir del AIAF 2014.
2014 - Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA),

Magazine article
Rural reality check in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia gained its independence in 1991 when it peacefully seceded from Yugoslavia. In 2005, the EU recognized it as a Candidate country. Formal negotiations for the country’s accession to the Union were recommended by the European Commission every year since 2009, but have been delayed...
North Macedonia
2014 - EU Agriculture and Rural development

Manual
Handbook On Agroecology: Farmer's Manual on Sustainable Practices

"This booklet is aimed to educate and inform farmers about diverse possibility of sustainable and safe food production methods and its techniques. This handbook is designed as a practical guide to these different practices of agroecology and their specific principles, techniques and strategies.We hope that these practical techniques would help...
India
2014 - Focus on the Global South

Project
Conservation des Sols et Sécurité Alimentaire : une préoccupation commune pour les agricultures paysannes du Mali et du Maroc

  Le projet « Conservation des sols et sécurité alimentaire : une préoccupation commune pour les agricultures paysannes du Mali et du Maroc », appelé plus simplement « AC Maroc-Mali », a démarré en janvier 2010. La fin du projet était prévue initialement pour le 31/12/2012, cependant celle-ci a été reportée...
Mali - Morocco
2014

Video
"Una vita sinergica" ( A synergistic life)

Professional documentaries on young farmers, winners of the third edition of the national contest of Mipaaf / National Rural Network "New Success factors", which selects the best practices in rural development made by young farmers who have benefited from the EAFRD funds. The documentaries are made by young professionals selected...
Italy
2014 - RETERURALE

Blog article
Agricultura y la FAO promueven la agricultura familiar

El Ministerio de Agricultura y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), firmaron un acuerdo para ejecutar un proyecto de agricultura familiar que busca mejorar la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional de los productores en tres provincias del país. Tras la firma del acuerdo, el ministro...
Dominican Republic
2014 - Ministerio de Agricultura de República Dominicana

Fact sheet
LATVIA - Common Agricultural Policy

Between 2014 and 2020, the new CAP is going to invest more than EUR 2.5 billion in Latvia'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 Latvia to adapt both...
Latvia
2014 - European Commission

Working paper
Farmers’ Perceptions of Water Policies: A Case Study from the Jordanian Badia

This report reviews a case study of farmers’ perceptions of policies and regulations to improve water security in the Jordanian Badia. The aim is to improve water management and conservation by engaging all stakeholders, in particular farmers and rural communities, in this common goal.
Jordan
2014 - International Center for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)

Working paper
Closing the Gender Asset Gap

Learning from Value Chain Development in Africa and Asia
Strengthening the abilities of smallholder farmers in developing countries, particularly women farmers, to produce for both home and the market is currently a development priority. Although value chain analysis has increasingly incorporated gender issues, the intersection between women’s asset endowments and their participation in market-oriented agriculture receives minimal attention. This...
2014 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Project
Gwadar-Lasbela Livelihood Support Project (GLLSP)

The Gwadar-Lasbela Livelihoods Support Project will cover the two coastal districts of Gwadar and Lasbela in the province of Balochistan, where over 60 per cent of the population live in poverty. The project will primarily target poor rural households in 382 villages in Gwadar and Lasbela, including small-scale landowners or landless...
Pakistan
2014 - International Fund for International Development (IFAD)

Report
Agricultura familiar: Desde una perspectiva de igualdad de género

Sistematización del Encuentro de UPFs
El presente documento es una publicación del Programa de Desarrollo Integral Interdisciplinario (PRODII) en el año internacional de la agricultura familiar. En noviembre de 2013 el PRODII organizó el encuentro de unidades productivas familiares con la fi nalidad de visibilizar, valorar y dar el reconocimiento a la participación activa de las...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2014 - Programa de Desarrollo Integral Interdisciplinario (PRODII)

Website
Stafva Farm, Gotland

Stafva farm has been in the von Corswant family since 1862. At present Patrik von Corswant is the owner and responsible for the management. The farm formerly comprised about 550 ha but is now divided between several owners.   The main farm has about 50 hectares of arable land and 50...
Sweden
2014 - Baltic Deal
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