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Achieving food and nutritional security through family farming – Published on World Agroforestry Centre, by Kate Langford, August 20, 2014.

With the International Year of Family Farming taking place in 2013, renowned Indian agricultural scientist, M S Swaminathan looks at what is needed to support these most important of producers in achieving food as well as nutritional security, especially in India.

It is estimated there are around 500 million farming families in the world. The International Year of Family Farming “offers an opportunity for achieving a shift from food security to nutrition security,” says Swaminathan. “Family farms tend to be based on crop, livestock, fish, agroforestry and mixed farming systems” which means they lend themselves to being made both nutrition and environment sensitive.  

He points to 4 main areas that will help family farmers to realize sustainable food security and eliminate hunger: … //

… (read the whole story on mydigitalFC.com – India’s first global business networking platform, by M S Swaminathan, Aug 18 2014) … //

… The zero hunger vision can be converted into reality, provided family farmers are enabled to sustain their livelihoods based on the principles of ecology, economics, equity and employment. Family farms should be enabled to become both climate smart and nutrition sensitive. With increasing pressure of population on land and water resources and prospect of adverse changes in climate, decentralised family farming based on gender and nutrition sensitive agriculture is the pathway for food for all and forever.

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(M S Swaminathan is an agricultural scientist who led India’s green revolution).

Related Links:

english:

• Agroforestry Research Trust; /The Food Programme, on BBC Radio 4; /Latest News;
• World Agroforestry Centre; / Blog Agroforestry World.org; /The right policies for African agriculture, by Kate Langford, July 9, 2014; /Smallholders’ trees grow green markets, by Robert Finlayson, Aug 13, 2014;
• AgroForestry.Org / Agroforestry.Net, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing educational resources about agroforestry, trees, and sustainable;
• Forestry Technology: Seed Collection, on Agroforestry/trees of Life, by Norman Jones;
• Australian Agroforestry; /How to plant trees (on Australian Farms): Before making any decisions you should think about your site, the number of trees you want to plant, the species and planting stock available, the machinery and tools you have on hand, the time of year you want to plant, who will be doing the work, and your attitude towards using chemicals and fertilisers. Sound’s complicated? It’s not really. You just need to understand the principles of tree establishment and the pros and cons of the various options …;
• Trees for the Future/Download; /Long Distance Training Program;
• Online Masters Degree in Agroforestry, at the Center for Agroforestry of the University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources …;
• Cash does grow on trees: Chestnuts are a lucrative crop for family farmers, on Univ. of Missouri, by Michael Gld, April 29, 2014;
• Kenya: Green Belt Movement GBM.org … GBM was founded by Professor Wangari Maathai in 1977 under the auspices of the National Council of Women of Kenya NCWK …;
• Plants for a Future.org; /Blog;
• USDA: National Institute of Food and Agriculture; /Blog; /USDA’s Summer Food Service Program SFSP; /Agroforestry;
• Association for Agro-Forestery in France;
• Agroforestry at the European Parliament, 4.50 min, on vimeo;

… wiki:

Agroforestry or agro-sylviculture is a land use management system in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops or pastureland. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy, and sustainable land-use systems …; /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforestry#See_also (19 items)

Agroecology is the study of ecological processes that operate in agricultural production systems …//… The term is often used imprecisely and may refer to “a science, a movement, [or] a practice.”[1] Agroecologists study a variety of agroecosystems, and the field of agroecology is not associated with any one particular method of farming, whether it be organic, integrated, or conventional; intensive or extensive …; /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology#See_also (50 items); /http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology#External_links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard#See_also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard#External_links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree#See_also (33 items)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree#Tree_ecology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Big_Trees_State_Park

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub#List_of_shrubs_.28bushes.29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub#See_also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland#Biome_plant_group
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland#See_also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquis_shrubland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrigue

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français:

• Introduction à l’Agroforesterie – Inra – Centre Montpellier;
• Association Française d’Agroforesterie; /Videos;

… wiki:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforesterie
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforesterie#Une_pratique_ancienne
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforesterie#Liens_externes

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deutsch:

• Agroforst in Deutschland;

… wiki:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforstwirtschaft
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforstwirtschaft#Weblinks
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroforstwirtschaft#Einzelnachweise

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldgarten#Waldgarten resp http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permakultur#Waldgarten
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiederaufforstung
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96kologische_Landwirtschaft
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umweltkulturpark

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Other Links:

The Unprotected: A Gaza Family Destroyed by Israeli Bombs, on Spiegel Online International, by Julia Amalia Heyer and Juliane von Mittelstaedt, August 21, 2014 (Photo Gallery): For an entire week, eight people — women, children and an elderly man — were trapped in their house in Gaza. They couldn’t leave and nobody could help. An hour before the cease-fire, the family was wiped out by Israeli bombs …;

Extensive War Crimes in East Ukraine: Donbass Chronicle of Genocide Banned on Mainstream TV, on Global Research.ca, Aug 21, 2014;

UKIP: Strip Islamic State militants of their British citizenship, on Russia Today RT, Aug 20, 2014;

… and this:

• Karunesh – Heart Chakra Meditation, 45.58 min, uploaded by My Happy Week, Sept 15, 2013.