FAO held, with the support of France, the Swiss Development Cooperation and the Foreign Office of Agriculture of Switzerland, the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition at its headquarters in Rome on 18 and 19 September 2014 and a side-event on the Symposium during COAG on 30...

The Regional Meeting on Agroecology in Latin America and the Caribbean was successfully held in Brasilia, Brazil from 24 to 26 June 2015. It was organized jointly by FAO, the Ministry of Agrarian Development of Brazil, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the Specialized Meeting on Family...

During the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO headquarters in Rome on 18 and 19 September 2014, stakeholders representing governments, civil society, science and academia, the private sector, and the UN system gathered to discuss the contribution of agroecology to sustainable food systems. The...

Based on the ecological niche theory, population composition, dynamics, time and niche of rice plant hoppers and main predatory arthropods were investigated using grey relational analysis in three experimental treatment plots. Chemical fertilizer utilization, integrated rice-duck cultivation and no chemical pesticides/fertilizer application. Results indicated that differences in individual numbers, temporal...

To examine the application prospect of system dynamics approach in pest population optimal management and prediction, population dynamics of the second generation of Cnaphalocrocis medinalis (Guenee) was investigated in this paper. The influence of dominant predators of C. medinalis (Guenee), including spiders and ducks in rice paddy field, were analyzed...

The differences between rice-duck integrated farming system (DRIFS), duck raising in paddy field system and conventional rice monocropping system were compared. The structure including biological and environmental components, spatial and temporal structures and functions of DRIFS were also introduced and discussed. Finally, several problems and their related technology innovation directions...