As the COVID-19 pandemic turns into a global crisis, countries are taking measures to contain the pandemic.   Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now. But a protracted pandemic crisis could quickly put a strain on the food supply chains, which is a complex web of interactions involving farmers, agricultural inputs, processing plants,...

COVID-19 has strong impacts on rural producers. Forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs) are providing immediate emergency responses – particularly in the areas of information sharing and crisis service provision. FFPOs are offering grounded solutions for resilience in building back better secure landscape-based production systems and introducing innovative solutions that...

You can make a cage from bamboo to contain the crabs. Soft crabs must be separated so they do not fight and damage each other. Give each crab half of a tiny fish per day. If the crab has not eaten its food, it is sick and must be removed....

Inga alley-cropping is a system of deep mulching using pruned green leaves from the trees which are contour-planted in hedgerows. Within about 24 months, the Inga trees will have recaptured the site from invasive grasses and will be ready for their first pruning. Following cropping, the trees are left to...

Biosecurity measures in beekeeping are all the operational activities implemented by beekeepers to reduce the risk of introduction and spread of specific honeybee disease agents. Biosecurity measures can differ between different regions due to local factors such as climatic conditions, beekeeping equipment used, or bee races, and the prevalence, virulence...

This technology describes the performance of flood-tolerant rice varieties in flood-prone areas of Lao PDR, including a comparison with local rice varieties monitored within the same farms. Details on local and improved varieties are provided as well as a step by step description on its usage. Additionally, major costs and...

The document highlights the measures to confront the impact of the pandemic. The report points out that the main challenge in the short term is to guarantee the access to food, especially for those who have lost their source of income. The FAO report also recommends CELAC to reactivate its...

Fall armyworm (FAW), or Spodoptera frugiperda, is a plant pest originating in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Over the last few years, FAW has rapidly spread around Africa, Asia and and, most recently, Oceania. Concerted action is essential to prevent this pest from threatening the food security...

El Cantón de Juye, un área localizada en una zona de depresión, recibe 500 mm en promedio de precipitación anual. Sin embargo, durante las últimas décadas, la imprevisibilidad del cambio climático ha expuesta esta región a graves sequías, sobre todo en primavera e invierno. Por otro lado, China es el...

Inside the Barn you’ll find different examples of collective action in sustainable agriculture, marketing and the environment. Some are works in progress, some are works concluded, others are just at the start or even a plan of a project with an expected impact. They are united by a common objective...

In a series of webinars organized by Forum Synergies and ARC2020, four innovative and committed agroecology initiatives gave an insight into how they strengthened to the challenge at the time of COVID-19. Dozens of people from across Europe and beyond took part in the conversation. The event provided a moment of reflection, some...

Yak (Bos grunniens L.) herding plays an important role in the domestic economy throughout much of the Asian highlands. Yak represents a major mammal species of the rangelands found across the Asian highlands from Russia and Kyrgyzstan in the west to the Hengduan Mountains of China in the east. Yak...

Germán Palacios, parte del equipo Vía Orgánica, nos da estas increíbles explicaciones de cómo lidiar con las plagas de chapulines, hay plagas que podrían ser tus aliadas, siempre y cuando actúes a tiempo o sepas identificar el momento preciso.

Amparo Aleixandre's routine is no longer the same. These days, she receives orders through text messages, most of them come from her neighbors in the town of El Palmar, an island with about 700 inhabitants, surrounded by the Albufera lagoon, rice crops and orchards. El Palmar is several kilometers away...

Good beekeeping practices (GBPs) are a set of integrative activities that beekeepers apply to obtain optimal health for humans, honeybees and the environment. They are general measures valid for beekeeping activities and are globally accepted. They are a tool for beekeepers to successfully address the challenges face in day-to-day apiary...

This research report explores different organisational structures and social and cultural services from a gender-equality and women’s empowerment perspective. More specifically, it examines how access to social and cultural services can facilitate women’s participation in economic and political life. The producer organisation business model provides advantages in creating job opportunities...

This practical guide provides advice on where pastoralists can sell their products. It explains different outcomes for milk and animal product types and identifies advantages and disadvantages of market types and market chains.

Rice is highly nutritious, however a lot of its quality is lost during processing. This results in poor quality rice on the market. Therefore, consumers turn to imported rice. In this video you will learn about parboiling, a way to improve rice quality by treating paddy with warm water and...

High potential rice production systems have diverse biophysical and socio-economic environments, but there is a lack of rice varieties matching this diversity. A number of advanced breeding lines have recently been developed to match these production systems. Therefore, suitable varieties for diverse rice-producing environments were developed in high potential production...

The COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing human health and disrupting the food systems that are the foundations of health. Unless we take immediate action, we could face a global food emergency of severity and scale unseen for more than half a century.  FAO is calling for USD 1.2 billion in initial investments to finance FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery...