This case study, “Solutions to youth agripreneurship challenges”, is an output deriving from the assessment of the Youth Inspiring Youth in Agriculture (YIYA) Initiative in Uganda. In 2017, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) as...

Addressing gender inequality in fisheries value chains can lead to a variety of positive outcomes, including environmental ones. The sustainable seafood movement, composed predominantly of environmental non-profit organizations based in the global North and Latin America, has the lofty goal of improving the environmental sustainability and social responsibility of global seafood...

The bulletin provides the latest food price developments at world, regional and national level. It focuses on countries where prices are abnormally high, based on GIEWS analysis and the Indicator of Food Price Anomalies (IFPA) for SDG target 2.c. Learn the latest from this month's edition. Key Messages International prices of grains...

Emplea la combinación de diferentes métodos de manejo. Busca causar el menor impacto sobre la salud humana y el medio ambiente. Involucra: Reconocimiento, monitoreo, prevención e intervención cuando se presenta un incremento en la población de la plaga. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/ ...

Scopulariopsis fungi genus has 112 recognized species in Index-Fungorum (http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp). Some species are classified as a human opportunistic FFHP (Jagielski et al., 2016). These species are able to produces toxins or carry allergens, which cause health hazards (Woudenberg et al. 2017). In environmental sciences, a new species of S. gossypii...

La valona ou trona est une construction circulaire en pierres sèches qui entoure le tronc des arbres, les protégeant ainsi du vent et offrant de nombreux avantages aux agriculteurs. Ce type de constructions est très présent sur la côte méditerranéenne espagnole, en particulier en Catalogne et dans la Communauté de Valence, où...

Peer-to-peer learning can be very effective in sharing knowledge and experience, and encouraging the adoption of new practices and technologies among farmers including youth. FAO training approaches, like the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS), encourage youth facilitators to share their knowledge in the respective communities, mobilizing and sensitizing...

A co-founder of ICSF addresses the issue of gender equity and social justice at a trans-disciplinarity workshop. On April 1st I opened my email to find a request from Too Big to Ignore, the global network on small-scale fisheries, asking if I would share my reflections on the question of Gender Equity...

Compuesto por los picudos negro (Cosmopolites sordidus), rayado (Metamasius hemipterus) y amarillo (M. hebetatus). Adulto de color negro, cuerpo estrecho y alargado; cabeza pequeña con pico largo y curvo, y estrías en cada una de sus alas rígidas y duras (élitros). Su daño causa amarillamiento, bajo desarrollo de plantas y...

Un factor central para el éxito del programa de formación -cuyos contenidos se desarrollan en el “Manual práctico para la pesca artesanal y la acuicultura a pequeña escala”- será la facilitación del proceso de aprendizaje, por lo cual es recomendando desarrollar un proceso guiado por un equipo de, al menos,...

The International Committee of URGENCI is pleased to announce Decolonize your Plate, Amazonize the World, the online International Symposium of Community -Supported Agriculture (CSA), 25-30 October 2021. It will be the 8th edition of URGENCI’s International Symposium, and will combine with the 5th European Meeting of CSA movements. It will also mark the...

Esta tecnología explica e ilustra con fotos qué equipos son necesarios para el uso de tractores en siembra directa y cómo deben ser usados. Se discute, en particular, el limpiador de surcos, el disco de corte y el abresurcos. El limpiador de surcos es usado para remover el exceso de...

Rwanda's climate and rich and varied melliferous flora are favourable for the development of beekeeping.  This document explains how to make a traditional hive model composed of elongated cyclinder made with the stems of Pennisetum (Urubingo), bamboo or papyrus. This hive model is very suitable to promote among smallholder producers...

In light of the 10 elements of agroecology and the 13 agroecological principles adopted by the High-Level Group of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), the importance of rethinking the production of knowledge and its sharing, and include agroecological transition processes in participatory approaches, is today largely a consensus. On paper, these principles seem fairly...

UC Santa Cruz Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau gives an overview of different watering tools and demonstrates how to water seedlings depending on the stage of development.

Like many African countries, Rwanda’s population is young. A third of Rwandans are aged between 15 and 34, and youth employment is a critical policy issue that directly affects national food security. Indeed, youth engagement in agribusiness in developing countries is a crucial asset to achieving sustainable food security. Recognising...

In South-West Uganda, manure is highly valued for sustaining yields of East African Highland Banana, but it is in short supply. As a result, banana growers import manure from rangelands up to 50 km away. We aimed to explore the potential of this regional banana-livestock integration to meet crop nutrient requirements...

This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.

In this year’s Global Gender Gap report, 156 countries have been benchmarked with the sombre tidings that there has been a step back compared to 2020 and as an extra 36 years have been added to the time remaining to close the gender gap. The 2018 report had stated that...

If people in small-scale fisheries wish to make the Blue Economy work for them, they must take control of the language, to avoid a rhetoric that further marginalizes them. The risks and opportunities of small-scale fisheries in the ‘Blue Economy’ is a topic I have talked and written about for a...