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مقالة
Integrated Shed Houses for Topical Farming
Champasack, Laos – In recent years, the shed house was introduced to farmers as an alternative technology for growing vegetables during rainy season because the shed house is roofed with transparent plastic. However, due to the use of plastic, the temperature in the house increases, which is not suitable for...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2018 - Lao Farmer Network (LFN)
مقالة
The Value Chain Way of Thinking
Pacific Islands – Today, if you talk to farmers’ organisations, government agricultural officers or agricultural development practitioners in the Pacific, there is a good chance you are going to hear them talking about value chains. In fact, it is likely that you will also hear farmers, exporters, and agro-processors also...
2018 - Pacific Island Farmers Organisation Network (PIFON)
مقالة إخبارية
Sri Lanka: Outside the net
The lack of recognition by the state continues to cast women in fishing outside the net in Sri Lanka. While increasingly, around the globe, women’s participation in fisheries is being captured in government statistical records, the data on active fishers compiled by the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Sri...
Sri Lanka
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
India: Ships of hope
Innovative boat clinics bring health and hope to thousands of men, women and children, among India’s poorest, who live along the mighty Brahmaputra river. As the monsoon rages, floodwaters ravage the remote island of Lamba Sapori in Dhemaji district in the northeastern state of Assam in India. Trapped in their waterlogged...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Profile: Fish, ponds and empowered lives - Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India
Under Suman Singh’s leadership, women in Madhubani, India, gain greater control over their lives. Women in inland fisheries in the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, started organizing way back in the year 1999, first registering a district level fisherwomen’s cooperative, and then cooperatives at the block or sub-district level throughout Madhubani....
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقال صحفي
Using comparative historical analysis to compensate shortcomings of crosssectional methods in explaining causal mechanisms: Lessons from a study of rice farmers in Vietnam
The benefits of mixed methods are well recognised. Using mixed methods, researchers are able to overcome shortcomings inherent in individual methods while enhancing the validity and reliability of their research findings. Mixed methods are commonly used in cross-sectional studies – to answer research questions, and/or explore contemporary social issues. However,...
Viet Nam
2018
فيديو
AGROECOLOGY IN ACTION: The Women of Kampong Speu, Cambodia
In the villages of Samrong Tong, district of Kampong Speu province, Cambodia, women vegetable farmers are at the forefront of promoting agroecology.
In this short documentary, watch how the Women Organic Vegetable Producer Group, with the support of the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), are able to...
Cambodia
2018 - PAN Asia Pacific
مقالة إخبارية
Where have all the women gone?
Sex-segregated employment data in the recently released State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018 report points to the need for better and more standardised data collection. July 2018 witnessed the launch of ‘The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2018’ (SOFIA 2018)—the flagship report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقالة إخبارية
Film: In Ockhi’s wake
30th November 2017. While scientific terms for it were still being confirmed and relayed on land, hundreds of fishworkers at sea were already hit by the violent terror of a deadly cyclonic storm. More than 300 lives were lost, either battling Ockhi, or in the deathly silence after—tragic conquerors of...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
مقال صحفي
Bamboo Fiber and Sugarcane Skin as a Bio-Briquette Fuel
Bio-briquette fuel produced from waste agriculture residues
The present study deals with the issue of bio-briquette fuel produced from specific agriculture residues, namely bamboo fiber (BF) and sugarcane skin (SCS). Both materials originated from Thừa Thiên Huế province in central Vietnam and were subjected to analysis of their suitability for such a purpose. A densification process using...
2018 - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Nepal
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...
Nepal
2018
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Nepal (Nepali)
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...
Nepal
2018
فيديو
“Small-scale Aquaculture Extension Project” in Myanmar
The efforts of Department of Fisheries (DOF) to promote small-scale aquaculture as "Farmer to Farmer Extension Approach (FTF)" through the Project for Small-scale Aquaculture Extension for Promotion of Livelihood of Rural Communities in Central Dry Zone (SAEP in CDZ). The project activities are not only to promote farmer's aquaculture...
Myanmar
2018 - JICA
مقال صحفي
Weather/Forecasting: A Fishers’ Forecaster
Action research by the University of Sussex is bringing fishermen and scientists together to track wind, and waves and save lives. Seen from the air, Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of Kerala state in south India, looks like a magic carpet – a long strip of golden sand separating a vast green...
India
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
كتاب
Dynamic Development, Shifting Demographies, Changing Diets
The story of the rapidly evolving food system in Asia and the Pacific and why it is constantly on the move
The Asia-Pacific region is undergoing rapid change and the food systems1 that produce and deliver food to its consumers are not exempt from these trends. Some of the challenges confronting these systems are longstanding and generally familiar, but remain important nonetheless. For example, regional and global populations continue to grow...
2018 - FAO
مقال صحفي
Philippines / SSF: Clear and Present Danger
Despite good policies and programmes, the Philippines struggles with illegal, destructive and unsustainable practices and use of coastal resources and fisheries
Philippines
2018 - ICSF
مقال صحفي
Film Festival: Cinema and Resistance
This year the Pêcheurs du Monde film festival, which turns 10, was held between 19 and 25 March 2018, in Lorient, France. Filmmakers have always been fascinated by the sea, and the lives and work of fishermen. In the course of its 10 editions, the Pêcheurs du Monde (Fishers of the World) film...
2018 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
فيديو
Forest and farm producer organizations in Nepal improving food security and livelihoods
Bharati Pathak, General Secretary, Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal, explains that forest and farm producer organizations (FFPOs), with the support of the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF), are helping to reduce hunger and poverty at the local level. By working with community groups, including forestry user groups, FFPOs are...
Nepal
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
مقال صحفي
Indonesia/SSF Strong Pillars
The fisheries and coastal resources policy of Indonesia requires a specific operational and regulatory framework to ensure the the protection of traditional small-scale fishers
Indonesia
2018 - ICSF
كتاب
Potentially Important Food Plants of Timor Leste
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...
Timor-Leste
2018 - Food Plant Solutions
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