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Journal article
Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas
Gender is seminal to agrobiodiversity management, and inequities are likely to be exacerbated under a changing climate. Using in-depth interviews with farmers and officials from government and non-government organizations in Nepal, we explore how gender relations are influenced by wider socio-economic changes, and how alterations in gender relations shape responses to climate...
Nepal
2015
Magazine article
Inspiration from the Fields: Acquiring Access to Land
In the light of competing land uses, increasing concentration in land ownership, rising land prices, and land abandonment, access to agricultural land is gaining importance in Europe. In many European countries farmer or community led initiatives have been developing to ensure organic farmers have access to land. The European Network...
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
Policy brief/paper
Agricultural growth in West Africa (AGWA)
Market and Policy Drivers
West African Agriculture is at a turning point. The combination of strong demand growth, sustained economic growth, higher global agricultural prices, and an improved policy environment has generated the most conducive conditions for Agricultural growth in over 30 years. West African countries and their Development Partners now clearly recognize the...
Benin - Burkina Faso - Cabo Verde - Gambia - Ghana - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Liberia - Mali - Niger - Nigeria - Senegal - Sierra Leone - Togo
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Case study
Phasing out Highly Hazardous Pesticides is possible!
Farmer experiences in growing coffee without endosulfan
This leaflet aims to inform policy makers about successful farmer experiences in managing coffee pests without the insecticide endosulfan. It demonstrates that phasing out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in favour of safe and cost-effective alternatives is entirely possible - on large estates and small family farms. The findings also serve as useful generic lessons for governments, farmers and other...
Colombia - El Salvador - Nicaragua
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Report
Le système agricole et alimentaire de la région Afrique du nord – Moyen-orient à l’horizon 2050
Projections de tendance et analyse de sensibilité
Parmi les différentes simulations réalisées dans cette étude, trois d’entre elles agissent comme des leviers pour limiter la dépendance alimentaire de cette région à l’horizon 2050 : le progrès technique qui augmenterait la production locale, le changement de régime alimentaire s’orientant vers la diète méditerranéenne, et la réduction des pertes...
2015 - Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA)
Report
Protection sociale et sécurité alimentaire au Burkina Faso
Les cantines scolaires
Dans le Sahel, les politiques de protection sociale en lien avec la sécurité alimentaire ont un rôle fondamental quant au bien-être de la population. Étudier ces politiques ainsi que leurs mesures profite aux organisations qui œuvrent pour la sécurité alimentaire de la région et peut contribuer à la conception de...
Burkina Faso
2015 - Oxfam International
Blog article
L’agro-écologie, une solution pour éradiquer l’insécurité alimentaire, selon la FAO
La lutte contre l’insécurité alimentaire prend une nouvelle orientation écologique, plus naturelle et moins coûteuse, si l’on en croit l’Organisation des nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO). Cet organisme, prône l’agro-écologie qu’elle considère comme une solution pour lutter contre la faim et la mal nutrition.
Senegal
2015 - Financial Afrik
Magazine article
The vision: Global Food Security 2030
By examining and agreeing upon the key drivers of change a vision was developed for global food security by 2030. The key challenges to actually reaching this vision were then defined. This, in turn, led to the identification of priority areas that could guide policy-makers in the design and implementation...
2015 - European Commission
Book part
A comparative analysis of agricultural research and extension reforms in China and India
There is growing interest from the global development community in the role of agricultural research and extension (AR&E) systems to achieve development targets. Despite this interest, many smallholders in developing countries continue to lack access to updated agricultural information and reliable services. In an effort to increase the effectiveness, impact,...
China - India
2015 - Emerald Group
Fact sheet
Factsheet on the national rural development programme 2014- 2020 for Italy
The National Rural Development Programme (NRDP) Italy, outlining the priorities for Italy for the use of approximately 2.14 billion EUR of public expenditure (963 million EUR from the EU budget and 1.17 billion EUR of national co-financing) for the period from 2014- 2020, was formally adopted by the European Commission...
Italy
2015
Video
"The farm of a thousand stories" The Old Homestead
Documentaries on the Best Practices in Rural Development carried out by young farmers that have been granted support under EU Rural development policies.
Italy
2015 - reterurale
Event
"Somos de acá, ganadero familiar": Fondo de iniciativas juveniles para el desarrollo rural, manejo sustentable de los recursos naturales y adaptación a la variabilidad y el cambio climático
Esta convocatoria tiene como finalidad impulsar la participación y protagonismo juvenil a partir del fortalecimiento de iniciativas en funcionamiento o de la concreción de iniciativas que aún no se han puesto en marcha y por tal motivo se convoca a grupos, colectivos u organizaciones de jóvenes a presentar perfiles de...
Uruguay
2015 - Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP)
Magazine article
Potential Risks & Opportunities for the Organic Sector
What Might the Future Look Like? Scenarios To 2030
A scenario describes a set of events that might reasonably take place. Scenarios can be considered as hypothetical images of the future, which describe the functioning of a system under different conditions with a certain degree of uncertainty. While predetermined trends are reflected in all scenarios in the same predictable...
2015 - IFOAM EU Group
Blog article
The Crisis: Regeneration or Degeneration?
Healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy animals, healthy people, healthy climate . . . our physical and economic health, our very survival as a species, is directly connected to the soil, biodiversity, and the health and fertility of our food and farming systems.
Regenerative organic farming and land use can move us...
United States of America
2015 - Regeneration International
Blog article
Restitution des résultats d'enquête dans le cadre du projet "Identification d´options politiques et stratégiques pour une meilleure adoption des technologies par les exploitations familiales"
Article qui décrit un atelier qui s'est déroulé du 30 mars au 02 avril 2015 à Chadakori (Région de Maradi), au Niger. Cette rencontre organisée conjointement par l´Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger (INRAN) et la Fédération SA’A qui a regroupé les producteurs, les médias, les autorités administratives...
Niger
2015 - Agrifam-Niger
Blog article
Démarrage de la phase II du programme d'appui à l'initiative ENPARD
Comme à son lancement en 2011, l’objectif central de cette initiative demeure le renforcement du partenariat entre l’Union Européenne et les voisins du Sud et de l’Est de la Méditerranée qui le souhaitent en matière de politiques agricoles et rurales. Plus spécifiquement, l’initiative ENPARD vise à accompagner la formulation et...
2015 - Programme Européen de Voisinage pour l'Agriculture et le Développement Rural (ENPARD)
Blog article
Cuba: agricultura urbana como fuente de desarrollo
El II Congreso Internacional de Agricultura Urbana, Suburbana y Familiar que tuvo lugar en la sede de Oxfam en Cuba. Especialistas cubanos y de otros países subrayaron la agricultura urbana y el protagonismo de las mujeres como puntos clave para el desarrollo de Centroamérica, el Caribe y otras regiones del mundo.
Cuba
2015 - OXFAM
Newsletter
Watch Letter: The Post-2015 global Agenda and the Mediterranean futures
The issue 34 has been released on September 2015 and entitled “The Post-2015 Global Agenda and the Mediterranean Futures”. To move forward a greater development in the Mediterranean, the adoption of the Post-2015 Global Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals constitutes an important step towards sustainability strategies in the region. This is...
2015 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Project
Organic Cotton Production and Trade Promotion Project
Major problems facing farmers in the south of Kyrgyzstan, such as degrading soil fertility and very low incomes are addressed by the project. The project was built upon the previous experience of HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation and other organizations in organic cotton production in countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, India and...
Kyrgyzstan
2015 - HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (HSI)
Magazine article
Women drive alternative economies in the Himalayas
In the Himalayas, male outmigration and the effects of climate change create challenges for rural women. Many of them develop innovative farming practices based on agroecology, push alternative economies and create niche markets. Women in India, Nepal and China show how agroecology can be a strategy to adapt to changing circumstances, and to drive positive social change.
Young men from even the remotest places in the Himalayan mountains are leaving their homes in search of income opportunities elsewhere. This trend of out-migration has been driven by increased mobility and access to information, in combination with the effects of climate change, including both increased flooding and drought. Drought...
China - India - Nepal
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
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