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Miscellanea
Eritec Bioinsumo de uso agrícola desarrollado por Agrosavia

Insecticida biológico formulado como un polvo mojable para el control del gusano cachón Erinnyis ello en cultivos de caucho y yuca Registro de venta ICA No. 11246 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
India: Restricted Entry

Shrimp farms in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have proliferated despite a 1996 Supreme Court judgement to regulate coastal aquaculture. Given an option, I would move away from this village to nearby Chidambaram town because, year after year, the fertility of my agricultural land declines.” This was told to...
India
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Journal article
Observation on dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) welfare and husbandry practices among nomadic pastoralists

Animal welfare is an important topic for consideration within every livestock husbandry sector. Welfare frameworks have recently been developed for intensively and semi-intensively husbanded dromedaries. These do not fit the reality of dromedaries under pastoral husbandry, and no specific analysis exists on dromedary welfare when reared under pastoral nomadic conditions....
2022 - Springer Open

Practices
Cultivo: especies de Diatraea (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

En Colombia, los barrenadores del género Diatraea constituyen uno de los principales problemas fitosanitarios en el cultivo de caña de azúcar. Debido al hábito de la larva que se desarrolla dentro de los tallos, se hace difícil su control, y por lo tanto, se deben buscar alternativas eficaces para su...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Miscellanea
Flash-Explosion: una tecnología innovadora para la obtención de puré de fruta de alta calidad

Flash-Explosion es un proceso térmico acoplado a una despulpadora que trabaja con presión al vacío y un sistema de envasado aséptico. El proceso Flash-Explosion permite la obtención de puré o pulpa de fruta de alta calidad en un solo paso. Esto quiere decir que esta tecnología integra diversas operaciones para...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
The right to food and the COVID-19 pandemic - Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/166, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, examines the emerging issues concerning the realization of the right to food in the context of the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and its impact on food security and nutrition. The report observes that, while...
2022 - Special Rapporteur on the right to food

Journal article
Bangladesh: The Price for Ilish

Conservation of fisheries in Bangladesh has become heavy-handed and militarized while poverty in fishing communities remains unmitigated. Early on the night of March 16, 2021, police opened fire on a small fishing boat and killed a young fisher named Mohammad Masud in the Meghna River. The shots were fired in the...
Bangladesh
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Blog article
Effective Pedagogy and Research perspective

Experiential learning based pedagogy, farmer-centric participatory research and knowledge exchange are essential for promotion of agroecological education. Way back in 1982, recognising the negative effects of high input agriculture, and link between agriculture, ecology and human dimensions, a few enthusiastic individuals in the Netherlands launched Agriculture, Man, Ecology as an international...
India
2022 - Leisa India

Book
Proceedings of the IX International Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of Fruit Crops

IX International Symposium on Mineral Nutrition of Fruit Crops Tel Aviv (Israel) June 28-30, 2021 eng
2022

Journal article
Bringing sustainable agricultural intensification practices and technologies to scale through campaign-based extension approaches: lessons from Africa Soil Health Consortium

Sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) practices have been developed with the aim of increasing agricultural productivity. However, most of them are not achieving their potential because of low adoption, linked to limited extension support to make them known and accessible by end-users. This paper reviews the effectiveness of the Africa Soil...
2022 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Article
L’achat d’immenses terres agricoles coûte cher à la planète

Cet article synthétise les résultats d’études récentes montrant que les transactions foncières à grande échelle sont néfastes pour l’en-vironnement. Ces investissements pour l’agriculture commerciale menacent les forêts, les réserves en eau et la biodiversité qui dé-pend de ces ressources essentielles.
2022 - CIRAD

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Equatorial Guinea

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...
Equatorial Guinea
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North

Practices
Cultivo: fertilización integrada

El cultivo de la caña remueve grandes cantidades de elementos nutritivos del suelo cada ciclo, los cuales, en una lógica de sostenibilidad, deben ser devueltos a través de la fertilización. 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)

Video
Grains of Hope

This is Method Gundidza an Earth Jurisprudence Practitioner in Bikita, Zimbabwe. Method shares how five communities in Bikita have catalysed a transformation in their food and farming system, as well as in their relationship with wild places, by reviving indigenous varieties of millet, their most sacred crop. “Bringing back millet reminded us...
2022 - The Gaia Foundation

Journal article
SSF Guidelines: Getting the True Story

The IPC people-centred methodology to assess the implementation of the SSF Guidelines is a call to action in support of small-scale fisheries. Programmes and schemes often have evaluation procedures that focus on the outputs. Have X number of training programmes been held? Were Y amount of funds disbursed as credit support?...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Journal article
Social dimensions of multifunctional agriculture in Europe - towards an interdisciplinary framework

Agriculture is embedded in and interacts with both its ecological and social environments. Under the concept of ‘Multifunctional Agriculture’, these interactions receive attention from scientific and political communities in terms of societal functions that can be fulfilled by farms. The discourse has focused on ecological functions, while agriculture’s social contributions...
European Union
2022 - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Guinea Bissau

This guide is based on information from the Food Plants International (FPI) database developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist Bruce French.The source material and guidance for the preparation of the book has been made possible through the support of Food Plants International, the Rotary Clubs of District 9830, particularly the Rotary...
Guinea-Bissau
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North

Miscellanea
Sistema híbrido de evaporación para la producción de panela en el departamento de Nariño

Los actuales sistemas de producción de panela en el departamento de Nariño son ineficientes porque deben usar combustibles adicionales para suplir la demanda energética del proceso. Para mejorar el desempeño de las hornillas tradicionales, agrosavia, en alianza con Fedepanela, diseñó y construyó un sistema híbrido de evaporación (gases de combustión...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
27 Inspiring Women Reshaping the Food System

Women make up at least 43 percent of the agricultural workforce in developing countries, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Yet, women in rural and agricultural livelihoods consistently have less access than men to resources and opportunities.  As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, the virus disproportionately impacted women, whose care responsibilities...
2022 - FoodTank

Video
RUCID, OACK, SCOPE Malawi

Healthy Soil Healthy Food Initiative: Three African agricultural development organisations from Uganda, Kenya and Malawi present their experience of testing new farming principles learned from the Community Managed Natural Farming initiative in India.
Malawi
2022 - AFSA Africa
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