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What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether this is a short-term reaction to the crisis or a prelude to more significant shortages as global trade grinds to a halt. Uncertainty about...
2020 - Sustainable Food Trust
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The Impact of COVID-19 Crisis upon the Consumer Buying Behavior of Fresh Vegetables Directly from Local Producers. Case Study: The Quarantined Area of Suceava County, Romania
The present paper intends to address the impact of COVID-19 crisis upon the consumer buying behavior of fresh vegetables directly from local producers as observed 30 days later, after enforcing the state of emergency in Romania within a well-defined area, namely, the quarantined area of Suceava. The study relies on...
Romania
2020 - Biotechnology Department, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, 060031 Bucharest, Romania
موقع إنترنت
Action Against Desertification
Action Against Desertification is an initiative of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) to restore drylands and degraded lands in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific to tackle the detrimental social, economic and environmental impact of land degradation and desertification.
It is a key partner of the Great Green...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
الممارسات
Bonnes pratiques de transformation du soja en fromage
Conçue au Bénin par le Programme de Promotion de l'Agriculture au Bénin (ProAgri) en partenariat avec le projet Competitive African Cotton Initiative - COMPACI, la technologie souligne les étapes nécessaires requises pour transformer le soja en fromage. L’illustration met en exergue deux étapes principales à savoir la production du lait...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
الممارسات
Labor-saving practices and technologies: manual crop processing
The following provides information on grain milling, oil extraction, rice husk, cassava processing, and coffee processing capabilities. Advantages and disadvantages of practices are also provided, including labor savings, strengthening livelihood resilience, diversifying livelihoods, equipment, infrastructure, costs and risks.
This technology is also available in: English (ID 7317)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN ZAMBIA
Situated at the end of Zambia’s Great Rift Valley, the Luangwa Valley has ecological riches but pervasive poverty. Poaching and subsistence farming of maize and sorghum are the main livelihoods. Increasingly, families are also relying on cash crops, such as cotton and tobacco, rendering them less able to meet their...
Zambia
2020 - e Oakland Institute and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA
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Webinar - FAO Brussels Dialogue on Opportunities for Recovery: Creating jobs for young people in Africa
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic together with the socio-economic crisis, lack of employment and high food prices have already aggravated food and nutrition security in many parts of Africa. A green and inclusive recovery should ensure that no one is left behind. Governments, resource partners, the private sector and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
دليل
Agroforestry for climate-resilient landscapes
Training manual
This training manual provides basic guidance for trainers to design and deliver training that will help individuals or organizations increase their knowledge, skills and experience in agroforestry development. In addition, the exercises contained in this manual are designed to help participants foster the understanding and basic skills necessary to support...
2020 - RECOFTC
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Improving farmers' resilience and income diversification in flood and typhoon prone areas through backyard tilapia farming
Fisheries is of paramount importance in the Bicol region in the Philippines, with its 3 100 km of coast line of various fishing grounds. The region is, however, flood and typhoon-prone and, as in most areas in the Philippines, fishing in the Bicol region is characterized by declining fish catch....
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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If managed sustainably, Albania’s Vjosa Valley can spur green economy development
The Vjosa is the second largest river basin (approximately 6 808 km2) in Albania and one of the longest transboundary rivers in the Balkan area. The Vjosa catchment is shared among many cities, such as Erseke, Permet, Gjirokaster, Tepelene, Mallakaster, Fier, and Vlore. Because the waterway has not been subjected...
Albania
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations FAO
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Meet Syria’s Food Heroes who contribute to grow, nourish and sustain food production for people
We do not often express our gratitude for the food we eat to the people who actually produce it, and who make sure that it reaches us. Throughout the years of crisis from 2011, Syria lost its human capital, infrastructure and the resources that farmers relied upon. Despite this, many...
Syrian Arab Republic
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN FAO
وثيقة مؤتمر
Entendiendo la agrobiodiversidad en la voz (y conceptualización) de agricultores familiares del Cinturón Hortícola de La Plata, Argentina
La participación de las comunidades rurales locales mejora la sostenibilidad de sus agroecosistemas. Para ello, es necesario implementar un diálogo de saberes. Los agricultores familiares tienen una visión de la agrobiodiversidad construida a través de una praxis, y mediada por condiciones culturales como la tradición familiar en la horticultura. El...
Argentina
2020
موقع إنترنت
The IFPRI COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal
The spread of COVID-19, and the range of policy responses to contain the pandemic, exert wide-ranging effects on agri-food systems and livelihoods. To analyze the direct and indirect impacts of these responses in a comparative way, the COVID-19 Policy Response (CPR) Portal systematically captures policy responses through multiple channels, including population restrictions,...
2020 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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Small farms, big solutions: The Ecological Land Cooperative helping new farmers
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused the mind, and in the context of the UK, raised pressing questions about food security and food resilience – questions now asked by everyday folk as we see an uptake of veg box schemes and backyard growing becoming more vigorous, while farmers of all types...
2020 - Sustainable Food Trust
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Evergreen agriculture: the use of fertilizer trees in maize production
As supplementary technology in evergreen agriculture, agroforestry technology will focus on the concept of simultaneous intercropping of proven fertilizer trees in replenishing soil fertility and increasing crop yields. Simultaneous intercropping is an agroforestry technique whereby nitrogen fixing woody trees are simultaneously grown with annual crops on the same piece of...
Malawi
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
الممارسات
Coconut leaf pruning
The Philippines are regularly exposed to extreme weather events. Due to its geographical location and physical environment Bicol Region is particularly prone to meteorological hazards such as typhoons, floods, drought, and high magnitude rainfall and related hazards such landslides. Agriculture is one of the most affected sectors especially in the...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
الممارسات
Making banana chips and flour
Bananas are a staple food in many parts of Eastern Africa. Currently, there is very limited commercial processing of bananas. Most people consume bananas fresh, steamed or boiled. During bumper harvests, farmers sell bananas at give-away prices and many go to waste. A detailed process of making banana chips and...
United Republic of Tanzania
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
الممارسات
Participatory approaches: soaking seeds (seed priming) to improve crop yields
Crop establishment is often poor in the semiarid tropics. However, good crop stand establishment is essential for the efficient use of water and light, and a uniform stand is a pre-requisite for cropping success. Seeds that germinate quickly produce viable seedlings that are not dependent on rapidly declining moisture in...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Webinar on “RECSOIL: Recarbonization of global soils”
Increased soil organic carbon (SOC) has been identified as one of the most cost-effective options for climate change adaptation and mitigation, as well as combating desertification, land degradation and food insecurity by the IPCC’s special report on climate change and land. Maintaining existing SOC stocks and enhancing SOC sequestration through sustainable soil management (SSM) practices constitute a...
2020
الممارسات
Participatory approaches: client-oriented breeding of maize
The centralized plant breeding techniques of the green revolution have yielded good results in more favourable agricultural environments. However, most low-resource farmers in marginal areas have not benefited from these varieties. As an alternative to centralized breeding, farmer participatory approaches using Participatory Varietal Selection (PVS) and Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB)...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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