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Revista especializada
Short Food Supply Chains as drivers of sustainable development
Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) have established in parallel to conventional food chains, playing a key role in the emerging food networks that are continuously arising as an alternative to the globalized agri-food model. The diversities and particularities of the experiences existing all over the world (box schemes, farmers’ markets,...
Austria - France - Italy - Latvia - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Russian Federation - Spain - Switzerland
2013 - FOODLINKS
Revista especializada
CIHEAM Watch Letter 24 - Rural development in the Mediterranean Countries
Agro-food chain is the only chain in the economy that can bring together and integrate numerous of economic activities, can connect hundreds of local enterprises with thousands consumers and producers, offering a unique opportunity to rural development, which consequently can reinvigorate the region’s economy and the whole national economy. Rural...
Algeria - Egypt - Portugal - Spain - Tunisia
2013 - Centre international de hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (CIHEAM-IAMM)
Libro
Agroecología y Cambio Climático. Metodologías para evaluar la resiliencia socio-ecológica en comunidades rurales
Metodologías para evaluar la resiliencia socio-ecológica en comunidades rurales
La mayoría de las estadísticas disponibles que predicen impactos climáticos sobre la agricultura campesina son aproximaciones muy burdas que no toman en cuenta la heterogeneidad de la agricultura campesina-indígena, ni la diversidad de estrategias que los campesinos han utilizado y aun utilizan para enfrentar las sequías, inundaciones, huracanes, etc. Alrededor...
Argentina - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Cuba - Mexico - Peru - Spain
2013 - Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA)
Libro
Agroecología y resiliencia socioecológica adaptándose al cambio climático
Un desafío clave para los científicos tanto sociales como biológicos es definir un marco conceptual y metodológico para poder descifrar los principios y mecanismos claves que explican la resiliencia de los sistemas diversificados, de manera de que estos puedan ser transmitidos a otros agricultores en cada región para que mejoren...
Argentina - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Cuba - Mexico - Peru - Spain
2013 - Sociedad Científica Latinoamericana de Agroecología (SOCLA)
Proyecto
Market for Regional and Local Food
A total of 14 LAGs, led by the Dutch LAG 'Zuid Twente', from 7 Member States cooperate to exchange best practice examples of production, marketing, distribution and inter-regional trading of local / regional food products between partner countries
Regional products are sold by an increasing number of farms and it has...
France - Greece - Hungary - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Spain
2013 - EAFRD
Vídeo
La mujer y el mar
Vídeo-estudio sobre la situación de la mujer en el sector pesquero en la Ría de Pontevedra
Spain
2013
Estudio de caso
Small-holdings and sustainable family farming in Galicia and Ireland. A comparative case study
This paper presents the results of an economic, social and cultural study relating to family farms in two cooperatives: Feiraco in Galicia, Spain and Drinagh, County Cork in Ireland. The research is focused mainly on the production and analysis of the results of a specialized survey that dealt with the...
Ireland - Spain
2013 - Norois
Artículo de revista
Organic Farming and Agricultural Movements in Spain
In 2011 Spain was the number one EU Member State concerning the number of hectares dedicated to organic farming. It increased by 11.76% that year and now includes 1,845,039 hectares. Almost all Spanish regions show increases in the area dedicated to this type of farming. The number of organic farmers...
Spain
2013
Artículo
Promoting Family Farming: The European Union
Domestic and donor-driven development agendas for African agriculture are spurring smallholder family farming as a catalyst for food security and poverty reduction. Family farms are also the backbone of agriculture in the European Union, although the process of concentration has gone further than in Africa. European agricultural policy reforms now...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
Artículo de revista
Innovation on family farms
All businesses need to innovate if they are to thrive, and family farms are no exception. By thinking ahead and developing new approaches, farmers can increase output, develop new and improved products, diversify and tap into new income streams, and remain environmentally sustainable. Innovative farms are more likely to weather...
Austria - Belgium - Bulgaria - Croatia - Cyprus - Czechia - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Italy - Latvia - Lithuania - Luxembourg - Malta - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Slovakia - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2013
Proyecto
Expansion of Organic Horticultural Production Facility
This Spanish project invested in the rationalisation and improvement of existing horticultural production facilities and in the introduction of two new lines of products, namely field tomatoes and watermelons.
A group of producers came together to form the Bio Sol Portocarrero company which produces and markets organic horticultural products. The company...
Spain
2012 - EAFRD
Revista especializada
New approaches for grassland research in a context of climate and socio-economic changes
Grassland-based systems are no longer seen exclusively as livestock production enterprises but as multiple use systems with important consequences for the global environment. They are crucial for the protection of ecosystem goods and services, for tourism and for mitigating climate change. Well-managed grasslands provide important benefits such as increased water...
Algeria - Egypt - Italy - Morocco - Pakistan - Portugal - Spain - Tunisia - Türkiye
2012 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
Informe
EU olive oil farms report
These report analyses trends regarding farms specialized in olive oil production over the period 2000-2010. It analyses structures, costs of production, margins and income indicators. The objective is to identify the characteristics of farms in economic difficulty and those in a better situation. The main source for this report is...
Greece - Italy - Spain
2012 - European commision
Estudio de caso
Fisheries in Transition
50 Interviews with the Fishing Sector
This report provides 50 interviews from fisheries that are moving towards sustainability. It takes the approach of speaking to those who are directly involved in fishing, earn their livelihoods on a daily basis from fishing and often work at the sharp end in dangerous conditions. These are the people, together...
Australia - Bahamas - Canada - Chile - Colombia - Denmark - Ecuador - Fiji - France - Gambia - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Isle of Man - Japan - Madagascar - Mexico - Mozambique - Namibia - Nauru - New Zealand - Norway - Peru - Philippines - Russian Federation - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - South Africa - Spain - Suriname - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Viet Nam
2012 - Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit
Documento técnico
Globally Important Indigenous Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
extent, significance, and implications for development
GIAHS are found throughout the developing world, linked to centers of diversity. Agroecosystems cover more than one quarter of the global land area, reaching about 5 billion hectares. Agroecosystems are ecosystems in which people have deliberately selected crop plants and livestock animals to replace the natural flora and fauna.
Belize - Brazil - Malaysia - Mali - Mexico - Niger - Peru - Portugal - Spain
2012 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Proyecto
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.
Artículo
Is farming enough in mountain areas? Farm diversification in the Pyrenees
The continuity of farming in mountain areas in Europe is at severe risk and its future faces manifold uncertainties. Mountain farms are immersed in a long-term process of reorganization. Farm diversification plays a prominent role in this process of adjustment and reallocation. However, little work has been done explicitly on...
France - Spain
2011
Artículo de blog
Food and climate change: the forgotten link
A global shift towards an agriculture that builds up organic matter in the soil would also put us on a path to removing some of the other major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from the food system.
Spain
2011 - GRAIN
Artículo
The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development Examples of Food projects
Food is fundamental to life and the majority of the food that we eat comes from Europe’s rural areas. Food priorities for the European Union (EU) include safeguarding food supplies and providing European citizens with quality, value and a diversity of food which is produced sustainably3 . The Common Agricultural...
Bulgaria - Cyprus - Czechia - France - Italy - Malta - Spain - Sweden
2011
Revista especializada
Options Méditerranéennes. Economic, social and environmental sustainability in sheep and goat production systems
The current evolution of the sheep and goat sectors in the Mediterranean region, with a constant decrease in economic profitability, a high incertitude on the generational transfer of farms, and the environmental concerns for both the consequences of abandonment of the activity in some areas and the increase of the...
Algeria - Egypt - France - Morocco - Spain - Tunisia
2011 - International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM)
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