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Blog article
Vinculación entre el Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas y las Escuelas Agrarias

Finalizó el III curso a distancia para escuelas agrarias de Argentina y Uruguay: "Puesta en marcha desde cero de un criadero familiar porcino y control de manejos reproductivos, productivos y comerciales" que dictó el CIAP para 35 escuelas. El propósito de esta capacitación fue lograr una vinculación entre el CIAP y...
Argentina
2022 - Centro de Información de Actividades Porcinas (CIAP)

Event
Regional Dialogue: The Politics of Knowledge and Evidence for Agroeocology in Asia

This article reflects on the regional dialogue on agroecology held on 12 May 2022 and co-organized by Global Alliance for the Future of Food (GAFF), Asia Farmers Association (AFA), and Andhra Pradesh Community-managed Natural Farming (APCNF) with technical assistance from the FAO. The event was a follow-up to the  GAFF, 2021 publication entitled The Politics of Knowledge: Understanding the Evidence...
2022

Case study
Cinco acciones por las que el avance en el logro de sistemas agroalimentarios sostenibles promueve un entorno saludable

El logro de objetivos medioambientales está integrado en la labor de la FAO
La agricultura se ha practicado durante más de 10 000 años. En aquel momento, no solo nos proporcionaba alimentos, refugio y medios de vida, sino también conocimientos, tradiciones, innovaciones y servicios ecosistémicos. Sin embargo, al haber llevado a numerosos ecosistemas más allá de su capacidad, actualmente la agricultura necesita proporcionar todos esos...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Website
37th Session Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean (LARC)

This site contents the list of Documents regarding 37th Session Regional Conference for Latin America and Caribbean (LARC). More information: https://www.fao.org/events/detail/larc37/en 
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Nigerian Government Ready To Promote Agroecological Practices In Nigeria

The Federal Government with the support of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, has initiated a National Policy Dialogue between countries, stakeholders and experts to promote agroecological practices in Nigeria. Dr. Muhammad Abubakar, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, who made this in a statement in Abuja...
Nigeria
2022

Website
Fostering an agroecological intensification to improve farmers’ Resilience in Sahel'' (FAIR Sahel)

Could agroecology enable sustainable intensification of agricultural production in the Sahel, which is deeply vulnerable? This is the challenge of the ''Fostering an agroecological intensification to improve farmers’ Resilience in the Sahel'' (FAIR Sahel) project coordinated by the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD). Co-funded to the tune of 9 million...
2022

Report
FAO in Europe and Central Asia 2021

FAO’s work in Europe and Central Asia and throughout the world is guided by the FAO Strategic Framework, reviewed every four years. In its support for the 2030 Agenda and its drive for a transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, the new FAO Strategic Framework 2022–2031...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Manual
A technical manual for local poultry improvement using programmed hatching management method

Local chicken production has been identified as one of the livestock enterprises with great potential for reducing poverty and malnutrition among rural communities of northern and West Nile regions of Uganda. Almost all households in the region have been found to rear local chicken which they have used to solve...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development

Report
Bee-Friendly Plant Breeding - Proposals to ensure pollinator's food resources in agricultural areas

Proposals to ensure pollinator's nutritional food resources in agricultural areas
Pollinators, particularly bees, are essential constituents of our ecosystem, first of all as bioindicators of environmental health and second as providers of a variety in food production. They contribute to well-balanced diets and human health. In the EU around 80% of food crops, particularly fruits and vegetables, rely on animal...
European Union
2022 - BeeLife

Journal article
Nutrient interactions and salinity effects on plant uptake of phosphorus from waste-based fertilisers

Many organically managed farms in Europe have low levels of soil phosphorus (P). Arable farms that rely strongly on biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) have been shown to have rather low outputs and a tendency to deplete soil P and potassium (K) compared with arable farms that have a lower reliance...
2022 - Geoderma

Report
Agricultural trade in the Global South

An overview of trends in performance, vulnerabilities, and policy frameworks
The importance of South countries1 in global agrifood markets and trade has been increasing over the last two decades, with growth in their participation, as both exporters and importers, having outpaced that of North countries. South countries, as a group, are net exporters of fruits, vegetables, fats and oils, and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Blog article
Rural Europe Takes Action | Seeds of Collaboration

“Rural Europe Takes Action – No more business as usual”, a policy guide for rural Europe by ARC2020 and Forum Synergies, launched in June 2022. Today’s extract from Rural Europe Takes Action tells the story of the Balkan Seeds Network, a network of scientists and seed savers’ organisations tapping into...
2022 - ARC2020

Report
Inquérito Nacional sobre Insegurança Alimentar no Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19 no Brasil

Relatório - II VIGISAN
A Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Rede PENSSAN) apresenta à sociedade brasileira os resultados do II Inquérito Nacional sobre Insegurança Alimentar no Contexto da Pandemia da Covid-19 no Brasil (II VIGISAN), cumprindo com o compromisso de contribuir para o conhecimento e o debate cientificamente...
Brazil
2022 - Rede Brasileira de Pesquisa em Soberania e Segurança Alimentar – Rede PENSSAN

Miscellanea
Del huerto familiar a la mesa

Recetas saludables utilizando los productos cultivados en las escuelas de campo
El recetario "Del huerto familiar a la mesa" presenta una serie de recetas saludables que incorporan ingredientes cultivados en el marco de las escuelas de campo en El Salvador, implementadas con el apoyo de Mesoamérica sin Hambre AMEXCID-FAO. El propósito del recetario es promover el aprovechamiento de los recursos producidos...
El Salvador
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Practices
Establecimiento: Planificación y diagnóstico

Se busca definir las condiciones de la unidad ganadera, las metas esperadas de establecer el Sistema Silvopastoril, y las actividades y recursos para lograrlo. Con esta información se determinará su viabilidad. 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)

Guidelines
Animal traction technology

Majority of farmers in the West Nile region of Uganda are smallholder farmers who produce for subsistence use and only sell the surplus yet they have vast and productive land for farming. Use of rudimentary tools like the hand hoe that are labour-intensive is predominant. The use of animal traction...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development

Video
The 10 Elements of Agroecology: Enabling transitions to sustainable agriculture and food systems

Agriculture and food systems are facing wide-ranging and interlinked challenges that demand urgent actions. The 10 Elements of Agroecology have been internationally endorsed as a framework to support research and development efforts in the design of differentiated paths for agriculture and food systems transformation. The 10 Elements are interlinked and interdependent and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Practices
Establecimiento: Producción de material vegetal

Siembra estructurada y uniforme de especies vegetales de estratos medio (arbustivas), y medio-alto (arbóreas) Establecimiento de arbustivas en franjas de mayor densidad. Especies arbóreas dentro del potrero y maderables en la cerca perimetral. 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)

Blog article
The essential role of poultry farming in the equilibrium of farming families

After a particularly complicated and violent period in its history under the Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia can boast of having halved its poverty rate between 2014 and 2022. Even if extreme poverty is still far from being eradicated today, this progress proves that it is not inevitable.
Cambodia
2022 - Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF)

Book
Review of existing legislation to protect pollinators from pesticides in selected countries

Honeybees (Apis mellifera), wild bees, and other pollinators can be adversely affected by pesticides as well as other stressors, with potentially large economic and ecological consequences. Legislation is one possible tool which can be used to support actions to protect pollinators from pesticides. Several documents have been published at the...
Australia - China - Dominica - Ireland - Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Samoa - Solomon Islands - United Republic of Tanzania - United States of America - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2022 - FAO
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