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Cultivo: corte, alce y transporte

Esta infografía da a conocer el índice de madurez, el transporte, tipos de corte, recomendaciones en el cultivo de caña de azúcar. 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)

Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: plagas del cultivo de maíz

Las plagas de mayor importancia y frecuencia son: Cogollero del maíz (S. frugiperda), Barrenador del maíz (Diatraea saccharalis) y Chinche café: (Euchistus rufimanus). 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)

Newsletter
Boletín Informativo Ordenación Forestal Sustentable y Conservación de Bosques en la Perspectiva Ecosocial

En este Segundo Boletín Informativo del proyecto ‘Ordenación Forestal Sustentable y Conservación de Bosques en una Perspectiva Ecosocial’, se muestran algunos de los resultados de las nuevas estrategias y prácticas de Manejo Forestal Sostenible y Manejo Sustentable de la Tierra implementadas en la reserva forestal Imataca, donde se destacan las...
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Journal article
India: A Responsible Line

A community-based, bottom-up regime of fisheries management, rooted in traditional ecological knowledge, is practised in the pole-and-line tuna fishery of India’s Lakshadweep Islands. India is home to a large number of small-scale fishers (SSF) using diverse craft-gear combinations along the country’s long coastline and island systems. One standout entry is the...
India
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Book
Natural capital, agriculture and the law

Through an extended study of agricultural land use and policy, Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law presents a comprehensive legal analysis of proposals for protecting natural capital stocks and the sustainable use of ecosystem services, critiquing the legal challenges in designing and operationalizing a workable natural capital approach.
2022 - Cheltenham, (UK) Edward Elgar Publishing Limited 2022

Book
Encyclopedia of Scale Insect Pests

Scale insects feed on plant juices and can easily be transported to new countries on live plants. They sometimes become invasive pests, costing billions of dollars in damage to crops worldwide annually, and farmers try to control them with toxic pesticides, risking environmental damage. Fortunately, scale insects are highly susceptible...
Colombia
2022 - ‎‎Corporación colombiana de investigación agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Chad

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...
Chad
2022 - The Rotary Club of Devonport North

Newsletter
FAO Agroecology Newsletter #59

FAO  Agroecology Newsletter of May 2022
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Book part
Metodologías para la selección de materiales forrajeros

En este capítulo se presentan los procedimientos que se deben cumplir para la selección de materiales forrajeros que se utilizarán en la alimentación de bovinos. Se inicia con la evaluación agronómica en pequeñas parcelas y se continúa con la multiplicación de semilla de los materiales seleccionados en la evaluación agronómica....
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Cultivo: enfermedades

Síntomas: presencia de pequeñas manchas amarillentas, alargadas y visibles por ambos lados de la hoja. En el envés de las hojas, aparece un polvillo que contiene el hongo de color naranja o café (dependiendo de la roya que este afectando) que sobresale de la superficie de ellas y es dispersado...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Conference/Meeting
How relevant is the notion of resilience for agri-food systems?

The notion of resilience has been applied to food systems for several years now, and "food resilience" has become an even more pronounced buzzword in scientific communities, international institutions, public policies and social movements in France. In this context, we suggest some elements of clarification of the notion and of...
2022 - INRAE

Policy brief/paper
Asia-Europe Environment Forum Policy Brief on Circular Food Systems

The Asia-Europe Environment Forum (ENVforum) Annual Conference 2021 focused on Circular Food Systems as possible solutions to reverse climate change. One of the sessions of the Conference was “Agriculture and food”. This session focused on challenges and solutions for implementing the principles of a circular economy in agriculture, in the context of climate...
2022 - Asia-Europe Environment Forum

Journal article
Nigeria: A Capital Choice

A participatory, bottom-up approach will go a long way in ensuring sustainable livelihoods for communities in the small-scale fisheries sector of Nigeria. Nigeria’s small-scale fisheries are very diverse, providing livelihood and food for millions of people engaged in the fisheries value chain. Fishing activity occurs in the vast network of inland...
Nigeria
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)

Video
Managing Environmental Conditions to Improve Seedling Quality with Christof Bernau

UC Santa Cruz Farm Garden Manager Christof Bernau explains how to influence and manage environmental conditions to ensure quality seedlings.
2022 - UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology

Blog article
Resilient farming – The one-acre model

Farming can be remunerative even from an acre of land holding, when practiced through natural methods, utilizing natural resources to the optimum. Thammaiah, a farmer in Karnataka shows how small farmers can make a decent living adopting the multi cropping system, through his one acre model. Mr. Thammaiah of Chowdikatte village,...
India
2022 - Leisa India

Video
Un processus participatif de préparation de la politique foncière au Niger

La FAO a appuyé le Niger pour mettre en place un processus parti-cipatif de préparation d’une politique foncière. Cette vidéo rappelle les différentes étapes de la préparation de la politique foncière au Niger (adoptée en 2021) et détaille les moyens qui ont été mis en œuvre pour rendre le processus...
Niger
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Fact sheet
EU-Streit PNG's news

EU-STREIT PNG'S NEWS - MONTHLY UPDATES May 2022
Papua New Guinea
2022 - UN Papua New Guinea

Fact sheet
Manejo fitosanitario: plagas del cultivo de soya

Dentro de las plagas de importancia, las de mayor frecuencia son: Defoliador (Cerotoma arcu. Tingomariana), Defoliador (Anticarsia gemmatalis), Chupador (Bemisia tabaco). 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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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)
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