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...

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...

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,...

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/

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

El efecto pandémico de la covid-19 recrudeció un extenso marco de flagelos anteriores, entre ellos, la vulneración a uno de los derechos más elementales y constitutivos de nuestra condición humana: el derecho a la alimentación. En este contexto, desde el Área de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario...

Conventional agricultural systems have contributed to social, economic and environmental problems and are the main threat to global sustainability. In response, theoretical frameworks to describe the transition to sustainable food systems have been proposed, emphasizing the necessity to shift from farm-level solutions to a focus on interactions within the entire...

Food security is one of a human being’s most basic needs, and the threat of food insecurity causes primal anxiety. Food insecurity is among the main causes of climate-related migration and, in turn, one of the main causes of the growing insecurity of nations. With these vulnerabilities so raw, it’s no...

Due to the importance of potato cultivation in Nariño, Colombia and the high participation of fertilizer in production costs (25%), as well as the great variability of soils in the region, we evaluated three fertilizer levels for six cultivars of Solanum tuberosum subsp. andigena in four homogeneous production environments. We...

La publicación analiza los avances alcanzados en términos del fortalecimiento de la agricultura familiar en la región mesoamericana y en los países de intervención del programa Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO, iniciativa conjunta de la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo y la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para...

Earlier this summer, renowned Georgian chef Guram Baghdoshvili prepared khinkali – a traditional Georgian meat-filled dumpling – on an Instagram live hosted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and FAO. As Baghdoshvili took viewers through the steps – rolling out the dough, mixing the filling, shaping the dumpling just so to prevent...

Beneficios que las personas y la sociedad obtienen de los ecosistemas; estos se clasifican en Servicios Ecosistémicos de: soporte,regulación, aprovisionamiento y culturales. El suelo es un recurso finito, no renovable, soporte esencial para la producción de cultivos como la soya y el maíz. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio Institucional...

In the high tropics of Cundinamarca Department, dairy farms contribute to 14% of Colombian milk production. In this Department, 94% of dairy systems correspond to small producers, and the most common grass species are Cenchrus clandestinus, and Lolium sp., which are usually mixed with Trifolium repens and Trifolium pratense and...