The United Nations General Assembly declared 2022 the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022), highlighting that fisheries and aquaculture is about people as much as it is about fish. The objective of IYAFA 2022 is to focus world attention on the role that small-scale fishers, fish farmers...

Professor, scientist, fisheries engineer, researcher and Brazil’s representative in international negotiations on fisheries management, FábioHissa Vieira Hazin succumbed to COVID-19 on 8 June 2021, World Oceans Day. Fabio Hazin was stricken with COVID-19 a week before the opening of vaccination for university professors in Recife, his hometown in Brazil. His health deteriorated...

La reciprocidad mente-mundo puede afectar la efectividad de nuestros dispositivos para facilitar innovaciones. Miramos, vemos e inferimos dónde mirar a continuación para que el mundo siga apareciéndonos comprensible. Si no hacemos consiente este proceso que usa nuestro cerebro para ahorrar energías, es probable que las cosas no cambien. El pensamiento...

El Marchitamiento de las musáceas producido por Fusarium, es la enfermedad más agresiva y limitante de las musáceas. En plátano, la Raza 1 de este hongo afecta principalmente a clones de Cachaco (Musa ABB) y en banano a Gros Michel. La epidemia por raza 1 obligó a la industria de...

This Policy Brief presents the key results of a study that analyses the implications of an ambitious agroecological transition across Europe, following the TYFA scenario. Published in 2018, what it proposes by 2050 is fully aligned with the objectives that the European Farm to Fork and Biodiversity strategies aim to achieve by...

Agroecology Newsletter of July 2021. The FAO Agroecology Newsletter presents a round-up of news, events, publications, stories, innovations, activities, and initiatives on agroecology from around the world.

Varias especies de cultivos pueden ser usadas como cobertura vegetal (cereales, leguminosas, raíces y tubérculos y cultivos de oleaginosas) en agricultura de conservación (AC) y ser de gran beneficio para el suelo. En el presente documento se discute en particular el uso de leguminosas como cobertura vegetal en la rotación...

Natural Farming methods have significantly reduced the expenses incurred in the purchase of chemicals, insecticides, and fungicides and improved the incomes of farmers in the Himalayan state in India. Himachal Pradesh which is popularly known as the fruit basket of India produces fruits and vegetables worth Rs 8,000 crores every year....

UC Santa Cruz Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau gives an overview of how to improve seedling crop quality.

With Turkey hosting more than 3.6 million Syrians, that makes it home to the world’s largest refugee population. Many of those refugees, who have been granted “temporary protection” in Turkey, work in the agri-food and livestock sectors, which offer the most opportunities in the areas where they reside. However, these opportunities...

Organic farming is regarded as the most effective and environmentally friendly solution to the growing pressure on land resources as a result of population growth and urban demand for goods and services. In Romania, little research has been conducted on the geographical distribution of organic farming at regional level and...

When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020, few imagined the scale of the devastation that the disease would wreak across the world, or for how long it would last. As COVID-19 swung from country to country on its...

Agroecology Newsletter of April 2021.

With the COVID-19 crisis heavily affecting the economy in Georgia, decimating the tourism industry and sales of wine – a traditional product of Kakheti – many people of the region, who were more active in these sectors, have found themselves out of income. Families struggled to meet ends, and very...

An online anthology produced by Greenpeace consisting of writing, films, animation and poems that document efforts of ocean protection. Be it the seven year-old Kylian who helped stop the spread of an oil spill in Mauritius, or Madame Kokoly, an artisanal fisher who relies on the ocean for survival or Aurelie,...

World Fisheries Day is a time to reiterate the rights of small-scale fisherfolk and Indigenous Peoples to secure food sovereignty. We, in the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), represent small-scale fisher people including Indigenous Peoples from the four global movements, the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers...

Es ampliamente conocida la importancia del nitrógeno en el crecimiento y desarrollo de las especies vegetales, pues lo necesitan en cantidades relativamente grandes (75-150 kg de N ha˗1); sin embargo, su disponibilidad en el suelo es baja debido a las condiciones de este y al clima, por lo cual, en...

Since the 1970s, cotton has been a driving force in the transformation of agricultural production systems and a key element in local economies in the savannah areas of West and Central Africa (WCA). However, the sustainability of cotton-based production systems is often debated because of their effects on soils and...

This text describes how to make a protective suit for beekeeping and the materials needed. The protective suit is composed of an overall covering the whole body and a removable veil. It provides excellent protection when working with bees that are moderately or very aggressive. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, through the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) Programme, will organise the International Symposium on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems and Family Farming from 18th to 20th of October 2021.  The Symposium will focus on how the main features of GIAHS sites and the UN Decade of Family Farming action...