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Journal article
Islas, fuego y ganadería

Paisajes de islas, humedales, conceptos estos y otros que son abordados en este artículo, ya que son zonas en que se encuentran producciones ganaderas y en las últimas décadas de diferentes escalas de superficie. Pero es preciso conocer qué son los humedales, dónde se ubican? Aquí una breve explicación.
Argentina
2022 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)

Journal article
Análisis del desempeño del sector agropecuario colombiano: período 2005- 2020

The Colombian agricultural sector is highly relevant because it generates more than 80 % of the food consumed by the country. The cultivated area in the country is approximately 7.1 million hectares, which corresponds to 6.3 % of the national area. It is necessary to carry out an analysis of...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Fact sheet
Manejo de plagas y enfermedades: HLB

En la actualidad no se conoce cura para los árboles infectados con HLB, sin embargo, como estrategia de manejo se está utilizando planes de nutrición. Desde Agrosavia, en el año 2021, se generó un plan de nutrición que permite mantener la actividad productiva de la planta y reducir la severidad...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Extraction du miel par pressage - Pressoir à miel en bois (Cameroun

Le miel est un aliment pur et naturel que les abeilles conservent dans la ruche, dans les alvéoles. Pour extraire le miel des rayons de cire dans de bonnes conditions d’hygiène, il existe différentes méthodes : l’extraction par égouttage (par gravité) ou par pressage pour les apiculteurs utilisant des ruches à...
Cameroon
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Report
EcoSol-agroecology as resistance and alternative development: Insights from Latin American experiences

To expand agroecology depends on raising and stabilising incomes for small-scale producers through alternative markets that avoid profit-driven middlemen. Producers thereby retain more of the value that they add, build closer relationships with consumers, and offer nutritious food at relatively low prices. An agroecology agenda should ''Ensure proximity and confidence...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil
2022 - AgroEcos Project,

Video
AGRI challenge: biodiversity

Ana Paula Gama is a Portuguese fruit producer, who joined the Operational Group 'PoliMax' to promote and increase the efficiency of insect pollination in apple, pear and cherry trees. It helped her a lot.
European Union
2022 - EIP-AGRI Support Facility

Magazine article
8 dimensiones para conocer la inteligencia colectiva en las organizaciones

Las relaciones afectivas en los colectivos humanos definen la efectividad de las organizaciones. La sinergia entre afecto y efecto no siempre es considerada al momento de incrementar la inteligencia colectiva y la capacidad de transformación del grupo. A partir del análisis de algunos rasgos esenciales, se puede conocer el nivel de desarrollo de las...
Argentina
2022 - Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias /Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Report
Regional analysis of the nationally determined contributions in the Near East and North Africa

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

Case study
Increased fish demand in Gabon offers youth an outlet in aquaculture

Growing the potential of fish farms to increase incomes and secure a nutritious food source
Levedy Céleste Lossangoye developed a passion for fish farming at an early age. She grew up surrounded by fish ponds on her family’s fish farm in Andem in the Central African country of Gabon. Located around 60 kilometres from Libreville, the country’s capital, her family’s farm has 21 ponds across...
Gabon
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Book
Desafíos y oportunidades en América del Sur

Censos y encuestas agropecuarias para el cálculo de los indicadores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible
La Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO), como agencia custodia de 21 indicadores de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), proporciona herramientas a los países parte para facilitar el levantamiento de información y que puedan entregar avances obtenidos. Por su parte, los países de...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Guidelines
(Re)claiming power in value chains: A guide for small-scale farmers and their advocates

This guide is intended to support smallholder farmers, and advocates working closely with them, in exercising more agency and living more independently according to their own priorities. It aims to assist smallholders in making free choices in relation to farm production, markets and trade. Farmers with agency can negotiate with,...
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Fact sheet
Manejo del suelo: fertilización química y biológica (parte 1)

La baja oferta de nutrientes de los suelos de la altillanura, hace necesaria la adición de nutrientes para obtener los mayores rendimientos del grano en el sistema maíz - soya. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Journal article
Assessment of Spatial Variability of Soil Properties Using Different Methods to Identify Management Zones for Rotational Cropping Systems: A Case Study from Colombia

Site-|specific management for irrigation purpose remains a great challenge especially within mixed cropping system due to complex correlations and the spatial variability of soil properties. This variability generates crop yield heterogeneity within agricultural fields. This study was conducted in a 5-ha area cultivated  in Inceptisols with rice-corn/cotton rotational cropping system...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Apiculture : la ruche panier Kamara : une ruche traditionnelle améliorée

Le remaniement de la ruche-panier originale utilisée par les apiculteurs traditionnels du district de Koinadugu en Sierra Leone a permis aux apiculteurs de récolter les rayons de miel de manière durable sans détruire l’entièreté du nid. Les rendements en miel et en cire ont été considérablement améliorés. La nouvelle ruche-panier...
Sierra Leone
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA

Guidelines
Take care of your catch

A guide to fish handling on board small boats
Fresh fish is an important source of food and income. Its quality is affected by handling and hygiene practices at all stages of the value chain – from production to consumption, starting with fishing. What happens to fish after it is caught has a big impact on its quality. Good...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book
Agroecological Multitudes - a book on ''agroecological experiences'' by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Agroecological Multitudes seeks to foster political imagination and sociological creativity in order to continue thinking about the difficult but urgent process towards paving conditions for civilizational transitions and post-capitalist transformations, in a context of imminent collapse of the hegemonically instituted system. The book shows how a multitude of agroecological processes...
2022 - Universidad nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Report
FAO and the Sustainable Development Goals

Achieving the 2030 Agenda through empowerment of local communities
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) belong to all of us. But amid resurgent conflict, climate havoc, and social and health crises, we risk losing sight of them. Even so, they represent our best shot at a better future for people and planet. This publication shows how FAO and partners continue...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Article
Adopción de tecnología en la política de competitividad colombiana conpes3527: caso cebolla bulbo 2008-2016

La baja productividad del sector agropecuario y los bajos niveles de adopción de tecnologías están entre los principales obstáculos para que Colombia sea más competitiva. Para cambiar esto, estuvo vigente entre 2008 y 2016, la política nacional de competitividad y productividad, a través del documento Conpes3527. El objetivo de este...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Aquaculture's next frontier?

The document is a brief of showcase of a specific aquaculture innovation. It contains main information on the technique and approach used, scope and scale of application, accessibility and the outcome and benefits of the innovation. Aquaculture has traditionally been carried out in freshwater and coastal areas. This causes pressures including...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Fact sheet
Manejo del suelo: fertilización química y biológica (parte 2)

Inoculación de la soya con bacterias simbióticas fijadoras de nitrógeno. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional (BAC) Podcast Dimensions Agriperfiles Google Scholar LaReferencia Redalyc Redcol ResearchGate WhastApp Noticias científicas AGROMETRICS CRIS AGROSAVIA: https://vivo.agrosavia.co/
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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