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One Health Surveillance Highlights Circulation of Viruses with Zoonotic Potential in Bats, Pigs, and Humans in Viet Nam
A One Health cross-sectoral surveillance approach was implemented to screen biological samples from bats, pigs, and humans at high-risk interfaces for zoonotic viral spillover for five viral families with zoonotic potential in Viet Nam. Over 1600 animal and human samples from bat guano harvesting sites, natural bat roosts, and pig...
Viet Nam
2023
تقرير
Preparing for sand and dust storm contingency planning with herding communities
A case study on Mongolia
This report outlines the conceptual framework for sand and dust storms (SDS) hazard risk and vulnerability assessment and mapping in agriculture and provides the elements as part of SDS contingency planning process in agriculture in Mongolia. Its main purpose is to provide an applicable procedure to reduce SDS risk and...
Mongolia
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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EU joins Indian Ocean groups in drive to minimize impact of fish aggregating devices
Correction: The original version of this story had a headline stating the E.U. joined South Pacific groups. The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) and Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI) are both based in the Indian Ocean, not the South Pacific.
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI),...
2023
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Listen and learn: Why research needs to start with women and communities
Interviews with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers doing crosscutting work on gender equity and social inclusion
In a chronically dry region of Kenya, outside Nairobi, women are becoming farmer scientists, working with CIFOR-ICRAF researchers to find ways to make the often-parched soil produce food for their families and the market.
The women are testing different types of mulch to see which works best in their difficult conditions. Their next...
2023 - CIFOR and ICRAF
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Access Agriculture Panorama - August 2023
The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts, partner highlights, voices from the field and upcoming events.
Belgium
2023 - Access Agriculture
مقالة
Ageing threatens sustainability of smallholder farming in China
Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development1,2,3,4 and presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural sustainability5,6,7,8, which have so far not been well understood. Here, by using data from more than 15,000 rural households with crops but no livestock across China, we show that rural population ageing reduced farm...
China
2023
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Drivers and barriers in farmers’ adoption of vermicomposting as keys for sustainable agricultural waste management
The conversion of agricultural waste into organic fertilizer through vermicomposting is a sustainable waste management solution and an income source for organic fertilizer producers. Most of the agricultural waste in Iran is burned, triggering an array of negative consequences. Vermicompost production at the farm level is rarely practiced in Iran,...
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
2023 - Yasouj University Iran
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Mushroom hunters: foraging mushrooms with my dad in Jhumlawang
It was a good day. Sun and cloud were playing hide and seek creating a komorebi (sunbeam) effect in the forest near Syaubaari, Jhumlawang, where my dad and I were looking for edible wild mushrooms. It had rained the night before, so the ground was damp and squishy, giving leeches...
Nepal
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Livestock transportation and slaughter practices
Practical guidelines for Asia and the Pacific region
These guidelines cover the transportation process for cattle, pigs, goats, sheep and poultry, with an emphasis on land transportation, following two guidelines on Climate-smart livestock and Backyard farming and slaughtering (FAO, 2021a; 2021b). It also examines how pre-slaughter treatment, stunning and slaughter can compromise animal welfare by exposing livestock to...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Planting seeds of liberation: Reflections on Allyship in food systems
It was the harvest festival in January called Sankranti on the land of the Deccan Plateau in the State of Telangana in South India. We were in the office of the Deccan Development Society in Zaheerabad Block in Medak district. And since I am from the capital city of Hyderabad,...
India
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Rediscovering Ancient Seeds and Hope
It had been a year since I completed my bachelor’s degree in agriculture, but the dilemma of what to do next still continued. “Should I find a job or get a master’s degree? If I am going for master’s degree, which subject should I choose, what is my field of...
Nepal
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Over Time and Space: Hybrid Rangeland Governance in Amdo Tibet
Hybrid land governance, mosaics, polycentrism have become ways to describe contemporary rangeland settings - ways of responding to uncertainties through flexible institutions, overlapping boundaries and an assembled, plural bricolage of practices. However, this is frequently thought to be recent, often arising from more formal, regulated systems, whether state, private or...
2023
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Rotti, rice or ragi? Let the women choose
It was early February 2020. I was headed off with my camera crew, our field officer – Kumar and our NGO partner from Bagalkot to visit and film some Fiar Price shops. There were muttered rumours of a virus called COVID. WhatsApp messages, sounding the alarm of a pandemic, were...
India
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Genetic management of Indian major carps
Collectively carps represent the largest global aquaculture sector, contributing over 20 percent of global aquaculture production. The Indian major carps including catla (Catla catla), rohu (Labeo rohita) and mrigal (Cirhinnus mrigala) are cultured widely across the Indian sub-continent with the main culture system being a multi-species polyculture in ponds, often...
India
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Access Agriculture participates in the 6th Organic Asia Congress
Access Agriculture participated in the 6th Organic Asia Congress, which was held in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, Philippines, 6-9 June 2023, under the theme ‘Building World Peace through Organic Agriculture: Food Security Vital to Peace Building.’
The Organic Asia Congress (OAC) is one of the biggest organic events in the world,...
Philippines
2023 - Access Agriculture
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Three new Filipino languages added to farmer video website
Following a series of training workshops, Access Agriculture has been able to add three new Filipino languages to its award-winning website. After holding the Tagalog training at the campus of South East Asian Regional Centre for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) in Los Banos near Manila, three new...
Philippines
2023 - Access Agriculture
مقال صحفي
Cambodian rice farmers’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAPs) regarding insect pest management and pesticide use
Insect pests are a serious problem for rice farmers in Cambodia, threatening livelihoods and food security. To protect their yields, farmers are dependent on broad-spectrum pesticides, which has led to a pesticide ‘lock-in’ scenario. Our study aimed to better understand farmers’ current pest management practices and the underlying knowledge and...
Cambodia
2023 - The University of Sydney, Australia
تقرير
Reducing methane emissions in livestock systems in Asia and the Pacific – Enhancing national climate actions through the Global Methane Pledge
Workshop Report, Bangkok, Thailand, 24–26 October 2022
This report highlightes outcomes and recommendations provided during the FAO regional expert workshop “Enhancing national climate actions to reduce methane emissions in livestock systems in Asia and the Pacific”. The regional workshop was designed to help countries in Asia and the Pacific identify new opportunities to reduce methane emissions from...
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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How diverse are farming systems on the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia? A multi-metric and multi-country assessment
While crop diversification has many benefits and is a stated government objective across the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia, the complexity of assessment has led to a rather limited understanding on the progress towards, and status of, smallholder crop diversification. Most studies focus on specific commodities or report...
Bangladesh - India - Nepal
2023 - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Adelaide, Australia
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Drying of Springs in the Himalayan Region of Nepal: Perspectives of Local Government Leaders on Causes, Consequences, and Conservation Efforts
Spring water plays a crucial role in sustaining life in the Himalayas. Yet these vital water sources are drying as a result of natural and anthropogenic factors. In July and August 2020, we conducted phone interviews with leaders from 300 local government units across Nepal to identify the status of...
Nepal
2023 - Nepal Water Conservation Foundation
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