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Staking tomato plants
Staking allows more light and better air circulation to plants. Staked tomato plants are less attacked by pests and diseases and the fruits do not easily spoil. By staking your plants, they do not fall over due to the weight of the tomato fruits. Your plants will grow healthy and...
India
2022 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Kick-off meeting of the Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) in Lao PDR
The official kick-off meeting of the project for the development of Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET) in Lao PDR took place on September 28-29, 2022, at the Provincial of Agriculture and Forestry of Xieng Khouang province, Lao PDR, co-chaired by Dr. Thatheva SAPHANTHONG, Director of the Department of Agriculture Land Management...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2022 - Agroecology and Safe food System Transitions (ASSET)
Practices
Nutrition-sensitive fish production in homestead ponds within rice landscapes, Bangladesh
This homestead pond polyculture practice takes a nutrition and gender sensitive approach. Micronutrient-rich small fish are incorporated into the homestead pond. With regular harvest, these small fish are consumed by household members, most importantly by pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls, and children, to mitigate micronutrient malnutrition. To maximize the...
Bangladesh
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Blog article
Farmers in five hard-to-reach communities in Papua New Guinea supported to revitalise their lost cocoa-based livelihoods
Moving forward with its mission to support and empower rural families and communities in the Greater Sepik Region who live on cocoa, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the EU Funded UN Joint STREIT PNG Programme and in partnership with PNG Cocoa Board and East...
Papua New Guinea
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
Strengthening the voice of Pacific fishers’
FAO, SPC and INFOFISH launch the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) in the Pacific
The International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture (IYAFA 2022) was launched in the Pacific Islands, during an event today to mark the occasion, by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Pacific fishers, the Pacific Community (SPC) and INFOFISH.
The IYAFA 2022 year-long regional campaign will highlight...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Organic growth promoter for crops
You can prepare a basic natural growth promoter with locally available ingredients, such as cow dung, ghee, milk, urine, sugar and ripe bananas. To further strengthen the growth promotor you can also add an extract made from urine and aromatic leaves so that it also helps to control pests and...
India
2022 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
Rural Japan | Diversification and Digitalisation on a Dairy Family Farm
What does digitalisation mean from the perspectives of a diversified, dairy family farm in rural Japan? For more than three generations, the Sudo Family has adapted their farm to the challenges and opportunities of working and living in the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula of Japan, Chiba Prefecture. As...
Japan
2022 - Arc 2020
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Agroecological transition in O'kambor and Sakkarach
This activity is conducted by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Preah Vihear with the support from the Department of Agricultural Land Resources Management (DALRM), General Directorate of Agriculture (GDA), and CIRAD. Under the support program Water resources Management and Agroecological Transition for Cambodia (WAT4CAM-CS/04-02)led by the...
2022 - Soil is Life
Technical paper
Agricultural digitalization and automation in low- and middle-income countries: Evidence from ten case studies
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
Digital and automation solutions can solve labour bottlenecks, increase agricultural productivity, resilience and efficiency, and improve environmental sustainability. However, access is limited in low- and lower-middle-income countries, especially for small-scale producers. Based on ten case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Asia, this study investigates the suitability...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article
New Interactive Map of Indigenous Fishing Practices around the Pacific Rim
Dedicated to “the Ancestors who stewarded the ocean” an interactive story map created by the Pacific Sea Garden Collective reawakens traditional ways of harvesting food from the sea from Panama to Australia to the Pacific Northwest.
2022
Book
Potentially Important Food Plants of Afghanistan
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...
Afghanistan
2022
Blog article
Afghanistan: FAO intensifies support to most vulnerable smallholder farmers affected by drought and earthquake
New USD 14 million project funded by the Government of Japan aims to enhance local food production capacity
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is further stepping up efforts to boost food security and support for agriculture-based livelihoods of vulnerable rural communities in Afghanistan most severely affected by continuing drought, deep economic crisis and the devastating impacts of the recent deadly earthquake.
A new USD...
Afghanistan
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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How I make Vermicompost
In this video, Nasira Habib shares her experience of making vermicompost in her garden. Vermicompost is a super compost. Worms turn your kitchen and other green waste into soil rich in nutrients and loaded with microorganisms that create and maintain healthy soil for us. Vermicomposting also helps us keep our...
Pakistan
2022 - Khoj – Society for People’s Education
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
Blog article
Economic empowerment of rural women – Through small enterprises
Majority of the rural women are landless. Invariably, they work as farm labourers. Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal, an NGO has helped women of Sagroli in Maharashtra in empowering them financially by providing the needed credit support in managing their enterprises.
Sagroli, located in Biloli, in Nanded district of Maharashtra, is quite a...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Blog article
Solar energy models for sustainable farming
Sufficient and timely availability of water is essential to irrigate crops during critical stages of crop growth. This shall ensure improved farm productivity and incomes. However, a critical prerequisite is a reliable energy-based system which enables timely extraction and distribution of water supply. Solar models have shown the way.
In rural...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Blog article
Making Urban dairies more sustainable
Dependence of mankind on the non-renewable sources of energy such as coal, oil and gases is increasing worldwide. It is time to switch over to readily available, economical, and environment-friendly renewable source of energy like cattle dung, which is plentily available.
Jammu, the city of temples in India, is flooded with...
India
2022 - Leisa India
Report
Women and men in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in Asia
Barriers, constraints and opportunities towards equality and secure livelihoods
Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and livelihoods of millions of people in Asia. Both women and men are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture. In the past ten years, many actors have worked on raising awareness on women’s contribution as well as promoting gender equality in fisheries and aquaculture....
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
Cooperative development as a response to crisis: The Ishker KG Women's Cooperative in Kyrgyzstan
Women farmers continue to be at a disadvantage position with limited access to resources, financial services, and government subsidies, among other things. Aside from farm work, women take care of their children and the elderly. Thus, the multiple crises such as the pandemic, extreme weather events, and increase in agri...
Kyrgyzstan
2022 - Ishker KG cooperative
Technical paper
LEISA India Renewable Energy in Agriculture – December 2022 – Issue 24.4
As consciousness and awareness on use of green energy has been rising, we also do come across a lot of initiatives on the ground, either at individual level or community level. To share the ground level initiatives, we decided to present this issue focussing on “Renewable Energy”.
The link between water-energy-agriculture...
India
2022 - Leisa India
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