Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 87.

Library Resource

Enjeux d’un aménagement du territoire autour de la ville de Dakar

Quel avenir pour l’agriculture périurbaine ?

Journal Articles & Books
June, 2015
Senegal
Land & Food Security
Urban Tenure
urban planning
urbanization
peri-urban agriculture
Library Resource

Feeding a productive dairy cow in western Kenya: environmental and socioeconomic impacts

Reports & Research
October, 2018
Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Land & Food Security
land
farmers
farming systems
land use
food security
Send a Cow (SAC) is a nongovernmental organization (NGO) that has been working in Kenya since 1996. It focuses on groups of smallholder farmers, providing them with training in sustainable agriculture and improved animal management. SAC is mostly active in western Kenya, one of the country's most populated and poorest region. The population density for this region ranges from 337 to 1,300 inhabitants per km² with an average density of 590 people per km2 (Kenya Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2001; KNBS, 2010).
Library Resource

Joint ventures in the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa: a history of smallholders, states and business

Reports & Research
December, 2018
Land & Food Security
contract farming
food security
farmers
farming systems
land tenure
land ownership
The report analyzes the changing tripartite constellations between South African black smallholders, the pre- and post-apartheid state, and the country’s large-scale agribusiness and irrigation industry. A recent mode of farming is the ‘joint venture’, in which smallholders hand over land and share in the net profits, while a strategic partner manages the cultivation with own inputs and equipment, and markets the output.
Library Resource

Sustainable intensification in smallholder agriculture: an integrated systems research approach

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Africa, Central America, South America, South-Eastern Asia
Land & Food Security
farming systems
food security
First published 2017
Library Resource

Land requirement to feed a productive dairy cow and a healthy family

December, 2017
Kenya, Eastern Africa, Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
environment
land
farming systems
food security
farmers
Library Resource

Angola and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2018
Angola, Chile, Peru
Land & Food Security
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
natural resources management
agropastoral systems
food security
rural development
sustainable development
Angola and FAO have engaged in close cooperation since the country joined the Organization in1977. Owing to the 27-year civil war, early FAO interventions were focused on emergency assistance,including resettling of vulnerable rural households and the provision of agricultural inputs for therapid resumption of food production.
Library Resource

Integrating Food into Urban Planning

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2018
Haiti, Jordan, Bangladesh, United States of America, Japan, Zambia, China, Italy, Indonesia, Ghana, Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
food security
land-use planning
peri-urban agriculture
urban planning
waste (abuse)
urban areas
The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic.
Library Resource

Comoros and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2014
Comoros
Land & Food Security
Forest Tenure
natural resources management
food security
agroforestry systems
sustainable development
Since Comoros joined the Organization in 1977, a variety of interventions have been delivered across the food and agriculture sector. Assistance has included capacity building, institutional strengthening and policy formulation as well as direct support to development projects. Current cooperation efforts are geared towards increasing agricultural production, particularly food products, and protecting natural resources – with an emphasis on agroforestry development. Strengthening agricultural data collection and information systems is another priority area.
Library Resource

Dominican Republic and FAO

Institutional & promotional materials
January, 2019
Haiti, Dominican Republic
Land & Food Security
natural resources management
food security
farmers
farming systems
sustainable development
Long before opening a country office in Santo Domingo in 1979, FAO provided technical and financial assistance to the Dominican Republic to boost development of its agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors. Over the years, the Organization has implemented a large number of interventions covering a wide range of areas, including food security and nutrition, plant and animal health, sustainable natural resource use, forest management and institutional development.
Library Resource

Food Security and Nutrition in City Region Food System Planning - Sri Lanka

Institutional & promotional materials
August, 2018
South Sudan, Ireland, Sri Lanka
Urban Tenure
Land & Food Security
food security
peri-urban agriculture
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is located in the center of Kandy-Colombo-Galle urbanization belt, where it forms the largest Local Authority (LA) of Sri Lanka and one of the oldest in South Asia, established in 1865. Together with 12 other LAs, it forms part of the Colombo district, which is one of three districts (Colombo, Gamapaha and Kalutara) of Sri Lanka’s most populated Western Province, which hosts the largest part of the urbanization belt.