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Artisanal Fisheries in the Mediterranean
Fishing is a human activity that has gone on for millennia. Nowadays, it remains one of the very few large scale economic activities that is still based on the ‘hunting and gathering’ of wild biological resources, contrary to agriculture or animal farming, where a few productive species and races were...
France - Italy - Spain
2014
Manual
Manual de elementos básicos para la compra, preparación y almacenamiento de pescado producidos en regiones colombianas
El Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural y la Organización para la Agricultura y la Alimentación de Naciones Unidas de Colombia quieren aportar a los cuidadores de familia y a los distribuidores de pescado colombianos este manual de elementos básicos para la compra, almacenamiento y preparación de pescado producido en...
Colombia
2014
Policy brief/paper
Lebanon plan of action for resilient livelihoods 2014 - 2018
Food security response and stabilization of rural livelihoods addressing the impacts of the Syria crisis
lthough the role of agriculture in the national economy of Lebanon is declining in relative terms, it continues to play an important role in the rural economy and has a significant impact on rural livelihoods. In the areas most affected by the Syria crisis – northern Lebanon and the Bekaa...
Lebanon
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Book
"Se vamo’ a la de dios"
Migración y trabajo en la reproducción social de familias bolivianas hortícolas en el Alto Valle del Río Negro
Esta investigación trata sobre familias bolivianas migrantes que practican horticultura diversificada en localidades del Alto Valle del Río Negro. Los actores sociales que se estudian en esta investigación, desde hace dos décadas están protagonizando un proceso de uso de tierras rurales con fines y modalidades diferenciados a la producción frutícola...
Argentina - Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2014 - Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Magazine article
Towards stronger family farms: Recommendations from the International Year of Family Farming
Improving the situation of family farmers is a burning need. And as they produce an estimated 70% of the world’s food, it is an issue that affects us all. The 2014 International Year of Family Farming aimed to create a better understanding of family farming and support the development of...
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Audio
Small-scale fishers need support to enter regional and international markets
The booming world fish trade is generating more wealth than ever before, but countries must help small-scale fishers and fish farmers to benefit too, FAO said today. Global fishery production from wild capture fisheries and aquaculture is expected to set a new record in 2013 at 160 million tonnes, up...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Technical paper
Socio-economic factors limiting smallholder groundnut production in Tabora Region
Groundnut is among the most important crops for smallholder farmers in Tanzania, providing both food and income for households. Groundnut is a nutritious source of fats, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals for human consumption and parts of the crop can be used for livestock feed. This study identified factors which...
United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Research on Poverty Alleviation (REPOA)
Working paper
Estonian Rural Development Plan (ERDP) for 2014–2020
The objective of the preparation and implementation of the Estonian Rural Development Plan (ERDP) for 2014–2020 is to support Estonian rural development in a manner that is complementary to other measures of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy (for example, direct supports and market organisation measures), cohesion policy and the...
Estonia
2014
Journal article
Smallholder Farmers’ responses to rainfall variability and soil fertility problems by the use of indigenous knowledge in Chipepo, Southern Zambia
The study conducted in Southern Zambia investigated smallholder farmers’ use of indigenous knowledge to respond to rainfall variations and soil fertility problems. Farmer and key informant interviews and observations were employed to collect data. A total of 60 smallholder farmers and 6 key informants were interviewed. Chipepo lies in the...
Zambia
2014 - Canadian Center of Science and Education
Report
La agricultura familiar en América Latina
Un nuevo análisis comparativo
El objetivo central de este libro es estudiar las características de la agricultura familiar en ocho países de América Latina y elaborar una tipología que permitiera comprender mejor la contribución de las actividades de este sector al conjunto de la economía rural. Se desarrollaron los elementos teóricos y la metodología...
2014 - Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (FIDA)
Miscellanea
Public policy for family farming Definition for better support
The International Year of Family Farming has focused world attention on the economic and social role played by this type of agriculture, as well as on its potential for meeting global challenges. It has also identified weaknesses and the need for decisive, far-reaching public action to overcome these. However, policy...
2014 - CIRAD
Magazine article
This is our year
I am a family farmer. I know my soil, my climate and how to make things grow, says Joan Brady. And as farmers, especially women and youth, we will deliver answers from our passions, our expertise and our resilience.
2014 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Conference proceedings
Memoria Foro Internacional: Mujeres, participación política y procesos de paz
El evento buscó contribuir al acercamiento de actores y actoras sociales y políticas en Colombia, en El Salvador y en Guatemala en temas de gobernanza ambiental, transformación de conflictos y participación política de las mujeres. Los procesos de paz de El Salvador, Guatemala y de Colombia tienen diferencias y similitudes,...
Colombia - El Salvador - Guatemala
2014 - Red Nacional de Mujeres en Colombia
Report
The Horticulture Report
Extended analyses and latest results of the Horticulture Network you find in the Horticulture Report 2014.
Germany
2014 - agri benchmark
Blog article
Agricultura, nutrición y seguridad alimentaria
Un enfoque diferente
Se demostró que es viable una relación concreta entre la agricultura y la nutrición en la presentación de avances del proyecto IssAndes. El evento titulado “Agricultura, Nutrición y Seguridad Alimentaria: Un Enfoque Diferente” se llevó a cabo el 26 de noviembre a las 5:30pm en el Hotel Sol de Oro...
Peru
2014 - Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP)
Newsletter
Dimitra newsletter: gender, rural women and development
This edition opens with a report of the last session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which has helped to ensure that gender equality and women’s empowerment feature prominently in the post-2015 Development Agenda. This will take over from the Millennium Development Goals, whose 2015 deadline is now close. Today, the post-2015 Development Agenda...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Niger - Senegal
2014
Audio
West African farmers achieve massive cuts in pesticide use
Field schools in Mali that have been training farmers on alternative methods of pest control have succeeded in reducing the use of toxic pesticides by participating cotton farmers in the country. These reductions are a staggering 92 percent, according to a new FAO study published today by the London-based Royal...
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Newsletter
Dimitra Newsletter: Poverty reduction in rural areas
This issue highlights experiences of development approaches that are helping in the fight against poverty in rural areas. Reducing rural poverty is one of FAO’s strategic objectives for the coming years, to which the Dimitra project is making a special contribution. Innovative methodologies have been developed which seek to place...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Kenya - Niger - Senegal
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Video
USAID Tajikistan, Family Farming Program DAI
USAID program for helping Tajik Family Farmers to manage the water scarcity
Tajikistan
2014
Report
Agricultura familiar en España
Anuario 2014
El documento realiza un repaso de la situación de la agricultura familiar en el mundo y destaca que de los 570 millones de explotaciones que existen en el mundo, más de 500 millones son explotaciones agrícolas familiares, que, a su vez, son responsables de más del 70 % de la...
Brazil - Egypt - Japan - Mexico - Mozambique - New Zealand - Spain - United States of America
2014 - Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (UPA)
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