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Sello Manos Campesinas
Sitio web donde podrá encontrar información sobre el Sello Manos Campesinas®, su objetivo y su proceso de acreditación.
Es una certificación y distintivo que garantiza un producto elaborado por pequeños productores campesinos, además de ser sano, artesanal y que fomente el desarrollo local. Un Sello que busca dar visibilidad y apoyo...
Chile
2017 - Instituto Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP)
Artículo de blog
Palau hosts subregional meeting on the FAO Port State Measures Agreement to fight illicit fishing
The Palau capital plays host this week to the first subregional meeting in the pacific on the FAO Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. The workshop has been jointly organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources, Environment & Tourism and the...
Palau
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conferencia/Reunión
Learning Journey on LSPA in Turkey
Towards a Mediterranean Training for Local and Solidarity -based Partnerships for Agroecology
How to strengthen producers-consumers relationships ?
This activity is one of the numerous exercises to be tried out during Urgenci's learning journeys. The latest of these journeys took place in Turkey 4-8 October, thanks to the support from the Civil Society Team of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Some tasks...
Türkiye
2017 - Urgenci
Artículo de blog
Fall army worm outbreak, a blow to prospects of recovery for southern Africa
New pest poses novel threat to region reeling from effects of consecutive droughts
A fall armyworm outbreak, the first emergence of the pest in southern Africa, is causing considerable crop damage in some countries. If the pest damage aggravates, it could dampen prospects for good crop harvests that is anticipated in the current farming season. Maize, a staple food in the region has...
Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Artículo de blog
Capitalizing Bitter Bamboo Group Experience and Improving Marketing of Bitter Bamboo Shoots (Lao Farmer Network)
Non-timber forest products such as bamboo shoots are a very important food and source of income for farmers in rural areas of Laos. Sustainable management of bamboo is important for food security, and improvement of the bamboo value chain can help increase incomes for rural people. That is why the...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2017 - Asian Farmers Association
Artículo de boletín informativo
Regional Office for Africa Quarterly Newsletter
For a Hunger-Free Africa
FAO RAF Quarterly Newsletter is an information resource platform designated for broader audience in Africa and published every quarter of the year. This newsletter mostly contains news stories, articles, reports and up-to date events from FAO’s representatives, policy makers and other stakeholders in the sub region of Africa. The aim...
Burundi - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Mozambique
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
FAO builds Agricultural Resilience Programmes in Syria
A workshop to establish a resilience programming network
Damascus- 22 June 2017: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in the framework of its on-going EU funded project, has organized a one-day workshop to establish the resilience programming network for agriculture sector in Syria. The workshop took place in Damascus on June 12th 2017 and...
Syrian Arab Republic
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Gender assessment of dairy value chain
Evidence from Ethiopia
The present study is a gender assessment of the dairy value chain in selected sites in Ethiopia: North Shoa Shewa (Degem woreda), East Gojam (Dejen woreda) and Gamu Gofa Arba Minch (Arba Minch Zuria woreda). It relies on evidence gathered through fieldwork complemented by a review of specialized background documentation....
Ethiopia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Informe
Resilience analysis in Kenya (Isiolo, Marsabit and Meru)
The present resilience analysis is focused on the Isiolo, Marsabit and Meru couties in the Republic of Kenya. It relates to the baseline survey that is part of the Impact Evaluation strategy designed by the FAO Representation in Kenya in order to assess the effects of specific FAO interventions. In...
Kenya
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Documento/nota de orientación
Enabling Institutionalization of the Farmer Field School Approach
Following their first formation in Indonesia over 25 years ago, Farmer Field Schools (FFS) have served as a “proof of concept” of how transformative learning can help governments, donors and development stakeholders achieve development objectives. The FFS approach, which has now been used in more than 90 countries by more...
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Success Story (Cambodia): Ratanak Polrath Samaki agricultural cooperative
Mr. Oun Sophal is the Chairperson of the BOD of Ratanak Polrath Samaki Agricultural Cooperative in Khachey Khanlech village, Damnak Sokrom commune, Doun Toung district, Kampot province, Cambodia. He has been promoting organic agriculture, livestock, saving and community business among the members. With support from Farmer and Nature Net under the...
Cambodia
2017
Acto
Our Ocean, an Ocean for Life
Over 3 billion people depend directly on our seas for their livelihoods. But in reality, all of us depend on the ocean: for our water, our food, our climate and our air.
Seas and oceans enrich our identity, ensure our wellbeing and sustain a large part of the economy.
Human action has...
European Union
2017 - European Commission
Documento técnico
The Gambia and FAO
Partnering to achieve food security and nutrition
Since the establishment of the FAO Representation in the Republic of the Gambia in 1979, FAO has provided vital support to the development of agriculture and natural resource sectors in the country. The Organization has implemented more than 120 projects, also facilitating policy formulation and the development of programmes and...
Gambia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Women, Decent Work and Empowerment in Rural Egypt
Rural Egyptian women play a key role in food security, income generation and agricultural production but their contributions remain invisible and they face difficulties in accumulating assets, accessing work opportunities under decent work conditions and respective training, and have limited bargaining power at the household and community levels. Therefore, it...
Egypt
2017 - International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
Informe
Moving forward strategically towards sustainable, just and nutritious food systems in Africa
This document elaborates the outcomes of the Addis Ababa Conference on “Changing Food Systems in Africa: Agroecology and Food Sovereignty and their Role in Nutrition and Health”. The three-day conference brought together representatives of civil society organizations, farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, indigenous peoples, consumers, youth networks, women’s networks, food processors, practitioners,...
2017 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Artículo de revista especializada
Chemins d’intensification et durabilité des exploitations de polyculture-élevage en Afrique subsaharienne : contribution de l’association agriculture-élevage
Dans les zones de savanes d’Afrique subsaharienne, les systèmes de polyculture-élevage sont dominants et l’association entre l’agriculture et l’élevage ne cesse de progresser. Cette évolution contribue-telle à intensifier durablement la production agricole dans les exploitations ? Pour répondre à cette question, l’étude compare selon le niveau d’association de l’agriculture et...
Burkina Faso
2017 - CIRAD
Artículo
Agrobiodiversity considerations in land-use decisions
Land-use decisions affect the richness and distribution of agrobiodiversity and, where the effects are negative, reduce the contributions of agrobiodiversity to ecological services and climate change resilience. Despite its importance, agrobiodiversity and its custodians are often ignored in both conservation and agricultural development as reflected in the debate about land...
2017 - The Platform for Agrobiodiversity Research (PAR)
Vídeo
Mehaou – A Nigerien Grandmother, Farmer and Leader
This video tells the story of Mehaou, an inspiring Nigerien farmer and grandmother who has overcome many challenges to provide for her family - including rearing, breeding and selling goats.
Nigeria
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Informe
Study on small-scale agriculture in the Near East and North Africa region (NENA). Focus Country: Egypt
The study relies on national data and accessible documents; academic and non-academic literature, including development projects documents. The study involved also interviews with key stakeholders to identify and analyze their experience about the current and past state of affairs on public policies in support of small-scale agriculture (SSA). The final...
Egypt
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Artículo de blog
Wheat experts hit the road in southwestern Russia this week
Wheat breeding, the traditional technique for improving yields or producing other desired characteristics, hasn’t gone out of fashion. It still has a role to play in ensuring food security, improving nutrition levels, and coping with a changing climate.
Researchers from some 20 countries this week will travel in and around Krasnodar...
Russian Federation
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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