• Soybeans are a major food crop in the world and they are grown in some parts of Uganda and form an integral and important component in the human and animal nutrition. • It is successful in areas where rainfall is moderate to light during the latter part of the growing...

En el contexto de la crisis generada por la pandemia del Covid-19, nosotras, Organizaciones de Agricultores y Agricultoras Familiares y otras OSCs comprometidas durante décadas en el fortalecimiento y la promoción de la Agricultura Familiar y los Sistemas Alimentarios Sostenibles en diferentes regiones del mundo, queremos hacer el presente llamamiento...

Almost one-third of the population in Europe and Central Asia live in rural areas and face multiple challenges, in view of the predominance of small family farms in many countries of the region. There are several concurrent and interconnected development constraints, including poverty, food insecurity, inequality, unemployment, and risk of...

This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Fiji to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food...

Reflections on the ICSF workshop and recommendations to India’s draft National Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (NIFAP), September 2019. The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) organized a national workshop to discuss the draft National Inland Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy (NIFAP), being finalized by India’s Union Ministry of Agriculture...

En Tunisie, le taux de chômage des jeunes de 15 à 35 ans est très élevé, se situant autour de 35 pour cent, chez les diplômés du supérieur des régions de l’intérieur et en milieu rural, ce qui pousse un nombre important à l’exode et à l’émigration souvent au péril...

Cities, with their high population density, are particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic and many cities in developing countries do not have adequate capacity to address the disruptions caused by the response to the health emergency. The risk is particularly high for the 1.2 billion people living in the congested...

About one month after planting, sugar beet is hacked for the first time in the sugar beet trial in Montignez/JU. Milo Stoecklin from the Fondation Rurale Interjurassienne will present Steketee's IC-Weeder and Garford's Robocrop Inrow Weeder. Both machines are designed for vegetable production and recognise the crop by its shape...

En este documento, dirigido a todo tipo de productor, asistentes técnicos, inversionistas y la academia; se realiza una ilustración general del proceso de investigación que condujo a la obtención de dos nuevos cultivares nacionales de guanábana, Agrosavia Fecunda y Agrosavia Tesoro. Lo que permite ampliar dicha oferta en el país,...

Ce fichier contient une série de vidéos de formations sur l’aviculture familiale. Elles contiennent des informations sur la nutrition et alimentation en aviculture familiale dont le système de divagation, le système de liberté, le système semi-intensif et le système intensif à petite échelle. D’autres vidéos se focalisent sur l’aviculture familiale,...

A cause d’une baisse de fertilité des sols, les petites exploitations agricoles en Afrique orientale souffrent d’insécurité alimentaire, d’une chute de rendements de cultures, et d’une pauvreté accrue. Une technique abordable est de produire de soi un compost de bonne qualité, à partir des déchets provenant de d’exploitations et de...

La plataforma continental sobre la cual ejerce derechos de soberanía la República Argentina a los efectos de la exploración y de la explotación de sus recursos naturales, comprende el lecho y subsuelo de las áreas submarinas que se extienden más allá de su mar territorial y a todo lo largo de la prolongación natural...

The capacity for leadership is based on talent, vision and commitment, but it also depends on the ability to understand the functioning of sectors and to interact with people in various contexts, with different points of view. The ‘Leadership in Agroecology and Organic Farming’ training course offers the opportunity to...

Tomato is an annual plant, which can reach a height of over two metres. Three di"erent types of tomato plants can be distinguished: • tall or indeterminate type • semi-bush or semi-indeterminate type • bush or determinate type The tall varieties are the best choice for a long harvest period. They keep growing...

This report describes: (i) policy measures enacted by the Government of Kenya to contain the spread of the virus; (ii) policies and measures to stabilize the functioning of agri-food systems; (iii) potential effects of policies on agri-food systems and vulnerable groups. Finally, the profile also assesses longer-term options for agri-food...

Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which: identify highly nutritious local food plants, explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way, detail the nutritional value of the plants and describe why human bodies require those nutrients. The resources created by FPS allows people to better...

Specific information about the virus responsible for COVID-19 is and remains scant; however, the behaviour and characteristics of the virus can be predicted based on data from similar viruses such as those responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Despite the hypothesis that the...

En Afrique de l’Ouest, l’importance économique des dégâts des mangues causés par les mouches des fruits s’accroît. Le manguier doit faire face à de nombreux problèmes phytosanitaires. L’introduction et la dispersion en Afrique d’une espèce de mouche originaire du Sri Lanka pourrait remettre en question les succès commerciaux engrangés récemment...

A grassroots innovation that offers most of the advantages of conventional micro-irrigation at a much lower establishment cost. Pepsee micro-irrigation systems slowly and regularly apply water directly to the root zone of plants through a network of economically designed plastic pipes and low-discharge emitters. Technically speaking pepsee systems use low-density...

This edition of the EAFRD Projects Brochure presents EAFRD-supported projects from the 2014-2020 RDPs that have successfully improved services, jobs or social inclusion in rural areas – sometimes achieving more than was initially planned. The publication shows how social objectives can go hand in hand with economic and environmental sustainability and...