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Rice cultivation with line sowing and Alternate Wet and Dry (AWD) method
This technology describes the introduction of line sowing techniques and the Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) method for rice cultivation in the District of Muzaffargarh in Pakistan and its economic implications based on a cost-benefit analysis. The main hazards affecting agricultural livelihoods, including rice cultivation, of this region are dry...
Pakistan
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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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
مقالة إخبارية
Asia/Japan: The way ahead
The exclusion of women from organizing bodies is a key challenge facing women in Japan’s coastal fisheries. In Japan, the Fishery Cooperative Associations (FCAs) are key entities in the effort to protect the environment in coastal fisheries. They manage traditional fishing rights with legal support from the government, and are embedded...
Japan
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
فيديو
ALERT#2: Asean Family Farmers and COVID-19: Impacts, Innovations, Investments
In this episode, the general objective is to facilitate discussion on the opportunities and challenges confronting family farmers, especially young farmers, and their organizations during this pandemic. Discussion results are expected to contribute to deepening the agenda and discourses, as well as strengthening actions in the : • Global/regional campaign...
2020 - AsiaDHRRA
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The power of women’s networks for agroecology in India
Commercial, industrialised agriculture has made women farmers invisible in much of the Global South. India is no exception. This is changing with India’s Zero Budget Natural Farming practices (now more often referred to as Community Managed Natural Farming), which are being used by nearly a million smallholder farmers. Women, with little...
India
2020 - Farming Matters
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Elevage de mélipones dans des ruches en coques de noix de coco
Les coques de noix de coco sont utilisées pour faciliter la récolte de miel et pour diminuer la mortalité des jeunes abeilles ou du couvain. La méthode habituelle de récolte de miel issu de colonies sauvages, détruit en grande partie le nid. Les abeilles passent alors beaucoup de temps à...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Risk diversification through taro (Colocasia esculenta) cultivation in areas prone to floods and water logging
The objective of latiraj kachu cultivation is to enable small farmers to grow crops even during flooding season on seasonally flooded land, and to enhance diet diversification and food security of households during a period of the year characterized by food scarcity. This practice describes the conditions under which latiraj...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Collective action to reduce goat mortality: a case study of interventions
Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), a reputed national level Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), working in eight states of western, central and eastern India, is promoting goat-rearing through women self-help groups in four of its programme states: Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. PRADAN’s goat rearing interventions in Odisha are concentrated...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Potato production from True Potato Seed (TPS) for cold-tolerant and late blight resistant
Potato is a major food crop in the mid-hills and mountains in Nepal. Traditionally, most farmers use small tubers as seed, to grow potato with the minimum input. Although seed tubers are easy to plant and plants grow quickly, they are expensive and may account for more than half of...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Food Heros: Kakani's story
In India, a grassroots movement focused on agroecological farming is spreading fast. In Karnataka's southern state, the natural farming methods were adopted first by tens, hundreds, and now hundreds of thousands of farmers across India. So, what is so special about it?
The natural methods have spread with support from the...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Promoting Organic Agricultural Practices
The presentation for the workshop “Pesticides, Agriculture and Food: Multiple and Growing concerns in Cambodia”, 28th of November 2019
Cambodia
2020
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Analysis/SSF Guidelines: Bridging the Global with the Local
Against the backdrop of the need to operationalize the SSF Guidelines in a participatory manner, the role of the local governance system of India cannot be overemphasized. As a complement to the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed the...
India
2020 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Improved pit storage method for Ginger Rhizomes
Farmers in the Mahintada village, in the Surkhet District cultivate ginger as a major income generating cash crop to be used as food or medicine. Ginger rhizomes selected for seed purposes are stored in pits to be used in the next season. It has been observed that around 25 to...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Multi-storied agroforestry cropping systems for micro-climatic modification and erosion control
Natural hazards such as floods, landslides and drought occur frequently in different parts of Nepal with varying dimensions and magnitude. These hazards constitute the major causes of land degradation and deterioration of natural ecosystems. The introduction of a multi-storied agroforestry cropping system ensures the best combination use of crop-tree intercropping...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Silvopastoral and hedgerow systems in integrated farming systems
Low income farmers in semi-arid tropics, such as in the low rainfall areas of southern India traditionally combine different activities to diversify livelihoods so as to reduce the impact of natural hazards like drought. The Acacia Leucophoea and Cenchrus Ciliaris sylvi-pastoral system is an integrated sylvi-pastoral farming system that provides...
India
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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From the Editor, Yemaya, No.61, August 2020
According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) released in July amidst the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people affected by hunger is steadily rising globally. People with higher risk of food insecurity include those with the lowest levels...
2020 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Planning an extended climate and weather forecasting system for hazard preparedness in agriculture
In Bangladesh, both in flood years and in dry years, rice crop is under growing risks of yield losses due to disasters. The three-tier weather forecasting scheme provides information on the coming weather and allows to plan agricultural activities accordingly, following the ordinary cropping pattern in case of early or...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Introduction to conservation agriculture: principles and benefits
This entry gives an overview of the concept, the fundamental principles and the benefits of conservation agriculture (CA). CA is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity as well as increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. CA is...
China
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Raised bed lotus cultivation
Cultivating lotus in raised beds is a local adaptation practice in flood prone areas of the Quang Tri province of north central Viet Nam. Communities traditionally collected lotus seeds from plants grown in common water bodies and sold them in markets. However, there was no initiative to further develop, promote...
Viet Nam
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Community based landslide treatment
Frequent landslides in mid-hill districts in Nepal have caused damage to productive land at the lower basin and affected human settlements and agriculture activities both upstream and downstream. Extensive areas of productive land were left fallow because of their vulnerability to landslides, and many settlements were displaced, mostly from the...
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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