During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

There is growing momentum behind a shift to ‘regenerative’ agriculture in the UK, which can help to mitigate the climate crisis, say leading experts in the sector. “More and more people are seeing other farmers doing it [regenerative farming] and are happier for it,” said John Cherry, who founded Groundswell, the UK’s...

Secondary agriculture offers a viable option of doubling the farmers’ income and also making agriculture competitive.Functional expansion of hitherto traditional agriculture can be a potential way to increase the income of the farmers, particularly those who are small, landless, and dependent on natural resources like forests for their sustenance. Besides...

Land- and nature-based approaches in the agroforestry and forestry sectors provide a unique opportunity to generate win-wins against the interrelated environmental crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and land degradation. Harnessing synergies among these environmental goals, reflected in the Rio Conventions, critically hinges on land-use decisions, which are influenced by...

Genetic and process factors influence the final quality of dried pea seeds (Pisum sativum L.), particularly the physical properties and the proximal composition. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of air-drying temperature (45, 50, 55 and 60 °C) and cooking on physical and the proximal composition...

If we value high welfare and local food, we need to value small abattoirs. This film shares the story of Robert Whitwam who runs a chicken farm in Huddersfield. Robert prides himself on the welfare of his animals and the fact they are slaughtered on-farm. He supplies 30 local shops...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

Por lo general, la conversión de la producción convencional a la agricultura orgánica se divide en tres etapas. El primer paso es recopilar toda la información relacionada con las prácticas orgánicas que podrían aplicarse en las condiciones de producción. Luego, en una segunda etapa, estas prácticas deben ser probadas en...

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

Las provincias de Barahona y Bahoruco están localizadas en zonas de depresión que frecuentemente son atacadas por fenómenos naturales, que ocasionan fuerte vientos e inundaciones, ocasionando grandes daños a los sistemas de producción por su vulnerabilidad a estos fenómenos. En los últimos años el cambio climático ha expuesto esta región...

This set of slides introduce the basics of agroecology and the role it can play when building climate resilience in communities. The slides can also form the initial dialogues about how to get started with using agroecology for sustainable production, food security, and environmental protection with partners, farmers, and extension...

The question is though – how often do I get to choose between organic and conventionally grown produce here, in Riga, Latvia? Well, it turns out that if I am very motivated, I can find quite a wide variety of products, even locally produced ones except for example exotic fruits,...

Family farms produce 80 percent of world’s food from 70.80 percent of farm land. By 2050 food grain production needs to grow 330 MT per year. The small family farms are ecological and play a big role in promoting food security and nutritional support. In the state of Kerala, the average...

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...

Este nuevo tiempo global nos exige la reformulación de los viejos paradigmas de la "revolución verde" y del modelo de la agricultura industrial del siglo XX. La fuerte incidencia de los proceso agroindustriales intensivos, desde los agroquímicos sistéticos y la energía involucrada hasta los objetos ultraprocesados que se ofrecen a...

CZU mobiLAB (developed at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague) represents a complex solution that enables the application of state-of-the-art molecular detection methods in remote or inaccessible areas. The principal advantage of the proposed solution is the concept of a mobile laboratory, which is unique in terms of its size...

Due to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), drug-resistant infections are placing an ever-increasing burden on human, animal, plant, and environmental health. Drug-resistant infections have the potential to become leading causes of death. AMR may force tens of millions more people into extreme poverty, hunger, and malnutrition, and the associated economic losses are...

The Programme is focusing on three value chains of cocoa, vanilla and fisheries (aquaculture, riverine and in shore/reef) and aims to achieve an overall objective "To increase sustainable and inclusive economic development of rural areas" through a combination of two integrated outcomes: (1) Increasing the economic returns and opportunities from...

On 16 March 2021, a digital workshop on the topic of sustainability of organic fruit orchards was held in the framework of the EU project DOMINO. Among other things, the results of trials conducted by FiBL Switzerland and six project partners over the past three years were presented. Organic fruit production...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue evaluar la aplicación del recubrimiento comestible comercial Proallium Brill® (RC) en frutos de guayaba (Psidium guajava L.) ecotipo “regional roja”. El RC no ha sido estudiado y puede ser una alternativa de conservación post cosecha. Se empleó un diseño experimental completamente al azar con...