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Training course on Leadership and Organic Farming on Agroecology
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...
Sao Tome and Principe
2020 - IFOAM Organics International
Practices
Tomato production manual
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...
Uganda
2020 - Caritas Switzerland, Advance Afrika, Agency for Accelerated Regional Development, and Gulu Women Economic Development and Globalization
Book
Food Plants for Healthy Diets in Indonesia
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...
Indonesia
2020
Article
Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture
The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment where existing calls for agroecology acquire new relevance. Agroecology provides a path to reconstruct a post-COVID-19 agriculture, one that is able to avoid widespread disruptions of food supplies in the future by territorializing food production and consumption. There are five main areas in...
2020
Video
Irrigate like it’s 2000 BC with these easy DIY terracotta watering pots called ollas
Ollas have been used for thousands of years in agriculture and gardening practices and are traditionally unglazed terracotta “jugs” filled with water and buried into the soil, with their necks protruding slightly. Once the porous terracotta olla is in contact with the soil, water begins to seep into the surrounding...
2020 - Gardening Australia
Article
Open consultation process for the Strategy of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2021–2030 as the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, through its Resolution A/RES/73/284, following a proposal for action by over 70 countries from all latitudes. The UN Decade positions the restoration of ecosystems as a major nature-based solution towards meeting a wide range of global development goals and...
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
#IGrowYourFood - Meet Gary, an organic farmer from Peru
By producing vegetables organically, we improve food quality both in health and nutrition.” Gary Carrasco, an organic farmer from Peru, for #IGrowYourFood
Peru
2020 - IFOAM - Organics International
Report
Sustainable Agriculture in India: Why does it not Scale Up?
Despite decades of work by various non-governmental organizations, most of the initiatives on agro-ecological farming and organic farming practices have either stagnated or sometimes fallen out. While a niche of farmers is able to reap the benefits of agro-ecological farming, there is a need to understand the barriers that stop...
India
2020 - VikasAnvesh Foundation
Website
X Encuentro INNOVAGRO
La Red de Gestión de la Innovación en el Sector Agroalimentario, Red INNOVAGRO, organiza el X Encuentro Anual para celebrar su aniversario y abordar temas relevantes en el marco de la innovación agroalimentaria. El tema que se ha definido para este Encuentro es Senderos de innovación para un sector agroalimentario...
Mexico
2020 - IICA-Red INNOVAGRO
Case study
Mercados de las agriculturas familiares y campesinas : un análisis institucional comparado entre Brasil y Chile
El régimen alimentario corporativo permitió el crecimiento de las escalas de producción-distribución-consumo, así como la transformación de las calidades de los alimentos por parte de las agroindustrias, pero generó una crisis civilizadora ante las externalidades negativas no contabilizadas.
Como contramovimientos desde la perspectiva Polanyiana, las agriculturas familiares y campesinas buscan...
Brazil - Chile
2020 - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Video
Agroecology - the next evolution in food systems
#Agroecology is a way of farming with nature, not against it. It builds resilience to climate change and disease outbreaks by combining different plants and animals, based on farmers' knowledge of their local environments. Agroecology doesn't rely on chemicals to fertilize crops and fight pests. It relies on #diversity. And...
2020 - IPES - Food
Website
Réseau des GASAP - Belgique
Les GASAP (groupe d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne) proposent de la vente directe, sans intermédiaire, qui permet un lien direct et solidaire avec des fermes locales qui travaillent pour une agriculture « agroécologique », pourvoyeuse d’emplois dans nos régions. C’est bien plus qu’un panier de légumes bio, c’est une véritable alternative alimentaire.
Frères des AMAP françaises, les GASAP sont une initiative citoyenne...
Belgium
2020 - Groupes d’achats solidaires de l’agriculture paysanne - Belgique
Video
Women seed saver Uganda
This video, produced by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA) shows the important role of women in saving seeds and therefore in eradicating hunger. As governments across Africa develop laws to deny farmers’ rights to exchange and sell local seeds, women are leading the fight to protect Africa’s sacred biodiversity. Seeds...
Uganda
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
Blog article
THE MAGIC LANTERN
While listening to a recent broadcast on Belgium’s Radio 1 about the magic lantern and the “lanternists” who entertained paying audiences, I realised that some developments we think off as highly innovative may also be seen as a modification of something that existed hundreds of years ago.
The magic lantern projected...
Malawi
2020 - AgroInsight
Blog article
Eip Agri March 2020 Newsletter
Eip Agri Newsletter on Agriculture & Innovation
European Union
2020 - Eip Agri
Website
International Year of Fruits and Vegetables website
Official International Year of Fruits and Vegetables website
2020 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
New techniques to control the supply of water and nutrients to crops in greenhouses
Problem
Due to new restrictions and the need to make a more adequate and sustainable use of water we need to incorporate new techniques and technologies that facilitate the grower's control of the system.
Solution
The video presents new and simple techniques to better manage water and nutrient supply in greenhouses.
Description
In this video,...
2020 - Farm Demo
Event
EIP-AGRI seminar: Healthy soils for Europe: sustainable management through knowledge and practice
Healthy soils are fundamental to the sustainable production of food, feed and fibre. In addition, healthy soils also provide many other functions that contribute to human well-being such as water filtering, carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling and biodiversity preservation. Soil health is affected by unsustainable management practices like frequent tillage, which...
Portugal
2020 - Eip-Agri
Newsletter
Romanian Rural Development Network Newsletter 4/2020
From the topics: Tackling drought with irrigations, exceptional measures to support the agri-food sector, smart rural: the journey to become a smart village, mountain areas' products, how to reduce food loss on the farm and many more.
2020 - National Rural Development Network ROMANIA
Report
EIP-AGRI Focus Group Non-chemical weed management in arable cropping systems
Agriculture has become increasingly dependent on the use of herbicides and of pesticides, which has helped boost agricultural yield and food production. As a result, herbicides have become the foundation of weed management in today’s arable cropping systems. At the same time, herbicides can have effects on the environment, non-target...
2020 - Eip Agri
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