Family farming has many different meanings to many different people. While such farms come in all shape and sizes, one thing all practitioners agree on is that family farming is more than a business – it’s a way of life. The following article shows what constitutes this way of life, the challenges that family farms in Europe and throughout the world face and why and how the European Union supports this type of enterprise.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosJunio, 2014Europa, Global
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosJunio, 2014Global, Suiza
Family farms are often associated with greater sustainability. But the definition of sustainability is a highly disputable topic. The School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL) in Switzerland has developed a method enabling a more objective evaluation of sustainability in agriculture. Response-Inducing Sustainability Evaluation (RISE) covers ten sustainability indicators and supplies the foundation for agricultural advice.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosNoviembre, 2014Argentina, Brasil, Europa
Nowadays it is hard to imagine European livestock production without soya-based feed. But this trend has had a massive impact on rural areas in the global South – the bulk of the soya fed to livestock in Europe is imported from Argentina and Brazil. That is not sustainable, says WWF’s Birgit Wilhelm, who advocates a change in mindset.
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Library ResourceArtículos de revistas y librosDiciembre, 2014Estados Unidos de América, México, España, Marruecos, China, América Septentrional, América central, América del Sur, Europa, África, África septentrional, Asia, Asia meridional
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014Rusia, Tayikistán, Asia, Asia central
This report analyzes the influence of agrarian transformations on the feminization of agricultural production in rural Tajikistan. It explores women’s multiple labor relations for meeting basic needs of the household. The evidence shows that households have to depend on more types of agricultural work to secure day-to-day as well as long-term livelihood security. Overall, feminization appears in different types and groupings. The implication is that women in agriculture might not be adequately targeted in policies or integrated within intervention programs.
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Orientaciones prácticas para gobiernos, empresas, ONG, pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales en relación con la adquisición de tierras
Informes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014África, Camerún, Togo, Guatemala, Colombia, Guyana, Perú, Suriname, Camboya, Filipinas, Italia, AustraliaEn esta guía técnica sobre el Respeto del consentimiento libre, previo e informado (CLPI) se establecen medidas prácticas para que los organismos gubernamentales respeten y protejan el CLPI y para que las organizaciones de la sociedad civil, los usuarios de la tierra y los inversores privados a nivel mundial cumplan con sus responsabilidades en relación con el CLPI.
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Library ResourceLegislaciónDiciembre, 2014Europa, Europa meridional, Albania
This Law amends and supplements articles 17 and 18 of Law No. 9948 of 2008 dealing with the already-started land distribution procedures regulated by previous Laws No. 7501 of 1991 and No. 8312 of 1998 and provides local government structures with more time to finalize the documentation. It also adds article 19 according to which the decisions of the municipalities’ and communes’ councils and the documentation of land property completed by them according to law 9948 of 2008 during the period of 31 December 2013 to the date this law enters into force are considered valid. Amends: Law No.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesJulio, 2014Bolivia, Europa, América Latina y el Caribe
La presente publicación presenta los resultados de tres investigaciones de tesis que pretenden indagar la política nacional de creación de empresas públicas, y como se están desarrollando en el caso agroalimentario en tres estudios de casos concretos: La Empresa Boliviana de Almendras (EBA), la empresa pública productiva Lacteos de Bolivia (Lacteos Bol) y la Empresa de Apoyo a la Producción de Alimentos (EMAPA), como una muestra representativa del rol que está cumpliendo el Estado como actor del sistema agroalimenticio y comercializador de alimentos en el mercado.
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Library ResourceDocumentos de política y resúmenesDiciembre, 2014Nueva Zelandia, Italia, Oceanía
This is a Māori/Ngati Porou-led PES scheme that makes use of government afforestation subsidies and foreign direct investment to enable one of the tribe’s commercial bodies, Ngāti Porou Whanui Forests Limited (NPWFL) to become a provider of environmental services by undertaking afforestation activities to mitigate severe soil erosion and its negative effects on the Ngāti Porou community.
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Library ResourceInformes e investigacionesDiciembre, 2014Francia, Honduras, Rwanda, Iraq, Burundi, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Irán, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panamá, Kenya, Filipinas, Omán, Cuba, Paraguay, Canadá
Meeting symbol/code: GSPPA-II/14/ Report
Session: Sess.2
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