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Taking stock: community responses to COVID-19 in cities
… meals for unemployed and vulnerable community members Providing food delivery services Setting up hand- and foot-washing stations … within the communities on borrowed land (see later section on urban agriculture), and Launching livelihood projects to help those who have … including identifying and supporting vulnerable groups, distributing food parcels (using trusted community leaders) and spreading key …
Insight, 19 October 2021
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 3 And what about women? Promoting gender balanced participation
… begins with a review of development objectives are: to increase food the characteristics of the Recommendation security, to increase … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 January 1996
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Resilient Farming Systems in Times of Uncertainty: Biocultural Innovations in the Potato Park, Peru
… high Andes. It also explores recent trends in climate, livelihoods, food security, crop diversity and social capital. Despite significant … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 March 2016
A farmer on his motorbike on the bank between irrigated fields. In the background, pylons carry hydroelectric power from the Sélingué dam (Photo: Mike Goldwater/GWI)
Pour les exploitants familiaux et les barrages, pas de taille universelle
… Food and agriculture …
Insight, 06 August 2015
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Managing land and water resources by consensus: the Anambé irrigation scheme charter
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 November 2015
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Les conditions foncières de la viabilité de la riziculture irriguée
… Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 August 2015
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Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems and Sustainability
… Our current way of providing food and other basic needs involves industrialised systems that are … very little waste in natural systems. The ‘waste’ from one species is food for another, or is converted into a useful form by natural … principles can be used to create systems and settlements that provide food, energy and water without consuming large quantities of fossil …
Publication, 01 November 2011
Farmers sort tomatoes in Ethiopia.
How small-scale farmers make markets work for them
… with proposals for how small-scale farmers should contribute to food security, cut poverty and adapt to climate change. Much of the … some have even changed national policies in favour of small-holder agriculture. But our research also found many less-formal but equally … (green banana) producers in Kasenda, Uganda, described in our World Food Day blog . For most small-scale farmers and low-income consumers, …
Insight, 28 November 2012
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Charts and diagrams from Virtuous Circles: Values, Systems and Sustainability
… Values, Systems and Sustainability. ~* The Linear Approach to Food~* Vicious Cycles:Settlements with a linear and a circular metabolism~* A composting and biogas system to provide food; household and farm energy needs; fertiliser for crops and trees; … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 November 2011
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Small-scale farming and youth in an era of rapid rural change
… some of the drivers and innovations that have engaged youth in agriculture – and which might help to inform and shape the future. It … filled, could better inform the debate on the future of small-scale agriculture and on who will be the next generation of farmers. … Food and agriculture …
Publication, 01 February 2012