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Knowing water better: towards fairer and more sustainable access to natural resources - KnoWat
Around the world, countries are struggling to adapt their agriculture and food systems to conditions of water scarcity, climate change and increased competition between users. Water scarcity trends are expected to increase. Smallholder farmers are particularly vulnerable to changes in water access and availability.
A strengthened focus on water accounting and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Book
El fortalecimiento de la inclusión financiera digital en zonas rurales y agropecuarias
Recomendaciones para América Latina y el Caribe
La rápida evolución de la tecnología financiera (Fintech) en la última década tiene implicaciones importantes para la promoción de la inclusión financiera, especialmente en contextos en desarrollo y emergentes. Las innovaciones digitales en el campo financiero, y especialmente los servicios de dinero móvil, tienen un vasto potencial para aliviar algunas...
Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - El Salvador - Mexico - Peru
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Audio
Sow and Grow Podcast: The Rematriation of Seeds and Decolonizing our Food Systems
IN THIS EIGTH EPISODE
we’re examining this country’s agricultural system through the lens of decolonization and focusing on the importance of Indigenous foodways. Our guest, Tiffany Traverse, tells us about her work with Fourth Sister Farm, preserving traditional Indigenous foods and reframing our relationship with seeds and with the land.
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Canada
2022 - Sow and Grow
Report
Reinforcing Pacific food systems for Covid-19 recovery
Key impacts, responses and opportunities to build back better
Across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed stresses on the ability of food systems to deliver their primary functions: providing food security and nutrition to growing populations, supporting livelihoods for farmers, fishers and workers along the agrifood chains, and supporting environmental sustainability and resilience. Pacific Island Countries (PICs) already...
2022 - IFAD, FAO, UNICEF and WFP
Policy brief/paper
EU organic policy supports agro-ecology’s expansion
Sustainable, ecological approaches to European farming, the heart of the European Green Deal, are needed to safeguard food supplies for EU citizens and protect the long-term livelihoods of rural communities. The emergence of more support for organic systems as a form of agro-ecological production can help address these policy challenges...
European Union
2022 - European Network for Rural Development ENRD
Project
Terminal evaluation of the project “Developing Organizational Capacity for Ecosystem Stewardship and Livelihoods in Caribbean Small-Scale Fisheries" (StewardFish)
The project “Developing Organizational Capacity for Ecosystem Stewardship and Livelihoods in Caribbean Small-Scale Fisheries” (StewardFish) aimed to support the implementation of the Caribbean and North Brazil Shelf Large Marine Ecosystems initiatives in seven countries of the Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Policy brief/paper
Etiquetado nutricional en la parte frontal del envase
Una de las políticas alimentarias y nutricionales implementadas para abordar el incremento del sobrepeso y obesidad en América Latina y el Caribe han sido las legislaciones o normativas de etiquetado nutricional en la parte frontal del envase, que informan a las personas acerca del contenido nutricional de los productos alimenticios...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Practices
Publishable report on quantitative data from on farm evaluations of alternative parasite control strategies
The ongoing RELACS research into alternative gastro-intestinal nematodes (GIN) control strategies including the use of heather as a bioactive forage and the nematophagous fungus Duddingtonia flagrans, as a biocontrol agent was discussed in focus groups in four European countries. Farmers interested in trialling either alternative volunteered to participate in the...
2022 - RELACS
Fact sheet
Organic agriculture & the ALL-Ready project
ALL-Ready is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded by the European Commission with the aim of preparing a framework for a future European Network of living labs and research infrastructures that will enable the transition towards agroecology throughout Europe. Based on the premise that agroecology can strengthen the sustainability...
European Union
2022 - ALL-Ready - The European Agroecology Living Lab and Research Infrastructure Network
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 22 - May 2022
This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South.
The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts,...
Belgium
2022
E-learning
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries - Implementation Monitoring Tool
This course is part of the series on the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF). It features the EAF Implementation Monitoring Tool (EAF-IMT), a simple method to monitor progress in implementation of the EAF in fisheries management, that aims to support fisheries management planning and decision-making. This course was designed to...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Book
Guía para elaborar expedientes técnicos que postulen al reconocimiento como zona de agrobiodiversidad
Las Zonas de Agrobiodiversidad (ZABD) se vienen construyendo como una importante herramienta para la conservación de la agrobiodiversidad y de la gran riqueza cultural que caracteriza y se pone de manifiesto en las diferentes comunidades campesinas y nativas que habitan todo el territorio nacional. Desde que se reconoció la primera...
Peru
2022 - Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego (MIDRAGRI) - Perú
Practices
Fabrication d’une pince lève-cadres avec lève-cadres intégré
La pince lève-cadres est un outil très utile pour l’apiculteur, car elle permet d’extraire les cadres de la ruche sans avoir à utiliser les deux mains, ce qui diminue le temps d’ouverture de la ruche. Habituellement, les cadres sont collés les uns aux autres par de la propolis, une substance...
Nicaragua
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Technical paper
Analyses de sol pour les exploitations bio
Améliorer les rendements grâce à un état de fertilité équilibré
La fiche technique explique la procédure à suivre pour l’échantillonnage du sol et offre un soutien dans le choix du programme d’analyse et l’interprétation des analyses de laboratoire. Elle met également en évidence l’importance des différents éléments nutritifs en agriculture biologique et les conséquences d’un apport insuffisant ou excessif.
2022 - FiBL
Report
Opportunities and gaps in the agriculture, water and land use sectors
This report provides a unique, sector-specific synthesis of the agriculture, water and land use sectors in the nationally determined contributions from Near East and North Africa. It summarizes the substantial contributions already put forward by countries, opportunities for further action and the gaps, barriers and needs that will need to...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Guidelines
Guidelines for livestock vaccination campaigns
Vaccination is one of the main pillars in disease prevention. However, its effectiveness largely depends on appropriate delivery, such as adequate cold chain and hygienic injection. The success of large vaccination campaigns is in such details that will ensure appropriate immunity and prevent livestock diseases. The guidelines presented here offer...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Journal article
How to Manage a World Food Crisis: A Viewpoint
As this is written in mid-September 2022, the world is facing a potential food crisis worse than any since World War II. With a devastating war in Ukraine launched by Russia in late February 2022, a historic drought and heat wave in China, and an uneven monsoon in South Asia, food supplies from...
2022
Fact sheet
Ecological approach to organic farming in the Tropics
interest in ecological organic agriculture is increasing across Africa due to the need for more sustainable options to agricultural production, food and nutrition security, and concerns about the negative effects of synthetic agrochemicals on human and environmental health. Organic farming requires not only renouncing synthetic agrochemicals, but a shift in...
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland
Policy brief/paper
Socially Inclusive Digital Tools for Agriculture
A Way Forward
Increasing numbers of digital tools are available for agriculture that could benefit diverse smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by providing services such as technical advice or access to markets and finance. Yet while digital tools have the potential to reach millions of smallholder farmers, most smallholders still...
2022 - The Agroecological Transitions for Building Resilient, Inclusive, Agricultural and Food Systems (TRANSITIONS) Program
Video
Using good micro-organisms in cattle farming
To reduce the foul odour in your shed, place dry husks, sawdust, coconut dust or straw on the floor and regularly spray it with good micro-organisms. By adding micro-organisms to concentrate feed, silage or green fodder, this improves the nutrition and digestion. You can also add good microbes to the...
Bangladesh
2022 - Access Agriculture
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