Agriculture
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out WHY you were born.' - Mark Twain
We have no control over the day we are born. But our journey to discover our life's purpose - why we are born - is something we can control....
Heifer Ecuador, la Coordinadora Ecuatoriana de Agroecología, la Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (Conaie) y la Coordinadora Nacional Campesina Eloy Alfaro (CNC), con el apoyo del Departamento de Desarrollo, Ambiente y Territorio de la Facultad Latinoamericana de...
In the Sacred Valley one development organization is doing things differently to help high-altitude communities help themselves.
Starting in 2010, the Andean Alliance for Sustainable Development...
For the first time in it history, the Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations explicitly and globally recognized the importance of family farms as part of the solution to its hunger program. The year 2014 was named the International Year of Family Farming. Family...
"Agriculture across Africa must undergo a significant transformation to meet the multiple challenges of climate change, food insecurity, malnutrition, poverty and environmental degradation. The case studies described here are just some of the...
Application deadline: 23 January 2015.
Climate change...
The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a member of the CGIAR Consortium, has developed seven Climate-Smart Agriculture...
Norlha - Helping people in the Himalayas - is happy to share with you the report of the Nov 19 Symposium on the challenges facing agricultural communities in the Himalayas.
More resources include key documents mentioned and other references ...
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. As of 2003, it has been observed every year to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development...
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