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Déficits de travail décent chez les travailleurs ruraux. Principaux enseignements et recommandations destinées aux syndicats

Déficits de travail décent chez les travailleurs rurauxPrincipaux enseignements et recommandations destinées aux syndicats
Fondé sur des études de cas couvrant 15 pays d’Afrique, d’Asie, d’Asie centrale, d’Europe et d’Amérique latine, ce rapport examine les déficits de travail décent dans les économies rurales. Il présente également les réponses apportées par les gouvernements et les syndicats concernant les conséquences de la crise de la Covid-19...
2022 - Organisation Internationale du Travail

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena caucho

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de caucho enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Manejo agronómico: Análisis de suelos y requerimientos nutricionales

Es fundamental conocer las características físicas, químicas y biológicas del suelo. Los análisis de suelos, indican la disponibilidad de los nutrientes para el cultivo, los cuales, junto con los requerimientos nutricionales del fríjol, proporcionarán la información necesaria para una fertilización adecuada. Una buena toma de muestra y un adecuado análisis...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Blog article
Sécurité et souveraineté alimentaires : l’agro-écologie est-elle la solution pour l’Afrique ?

L’Afrique est désormais confrontée à deux urgences contradictoires : assurer sa souveraineté et sa sécurité alimentaire en demandant à son agriculture de produire plus et lutter contre le dérèglement climatique en produisant différemment. Pour résoudre cette contradiction, il existe une solution : l’agro-écologie, qui permet d’engager l’agriculture vers de nouveaux modes de...
2022

Blog article
Organic and Biodynamic Viticulture: Adapting the Vine in a Changing Climate

How is a new generation of French winegrowers responding to the extreme temperatures and droughts becoming more pronounced in recent years? This summer, Adèle Pautrat visited Sainte Marie des Crozes, an organic and biodynamic Domaine in the village of Douzens in southern France. Winery Manager Christelle Alias and her team...
2022 - ARC2020

Video
Webinar: Applying the elements of agroecology to agroforestry

As a mode of production and an agricultural system that utilizes land and natural resources in a fundamentally different way than industrial agriculture, agroforestry is a key example of agroecology in practice and represents an important solution for the transformation of food systems. On 25 April 2022, FAO's Forestry and...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Adoption of crop, tree, shrub and livestock systems - What are the constraints?

Is the adoption of technologies in the farming community only linked to their socio-economic performance? Upstream identification of adoption constraints with potential beneficiaries is necessary to remove them and promote technology adoption. What are the constraints to adopting systematic integration of crops, trees/shrubs and livestock?
Burkina Faso
2022 - AFAAS - African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services

Video
AGRI challenge: young entrepreneurs

Ricardo Soares, a Portuguese apple and pear grower, is a young innovator. He has brought many innovations to his farmer colleagues. As a young farmer, he also encountered some obstacles and found some solutions to overcome them.
Portugal
2022 - EIP-AGRI Support Facility

Journal article
Intensified rice production negatively impacts plant biodiversity, diet, lifestyle and quality of life: transdisciplinary and gendered research in the Middle Senegal River Valley

A major programme of irrigated rice extension in the Middle Senegal River Valley has further limited the river’s natural flooding in the floodplain (Waalo), initially reduced by drought. We conducted a transdisciplinary (TD) and gendered study in the region to explore links between agricultural biodiversity and family diets using a...
Senegal
2022 - Agriculture and Human Values

Article
Feeding the world better: crop diversification to build sustainable food systems

Today, major changes are required in global agricultural systems to produce enough healthy food for all, while preserving the quality of land, air and water and safeguarding biodiversity. But producing enough while simultaneously protecting the environment is a particularly complex equation. Agroecology, a key principle of which is the use...
2022 - CIRAD

Video
Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture describes holistic farming systems that, among other benefits, improve water and air quality, enhance ecosystem biodiversity, produce nutrient-dense food, and store carbon to help mitigate the effects of climate change. These farm systems are designed to work in harmony with nature, while also maintaining and improving economic viability.
2022 - Chesapeake bay Foundation

Fact sheet
Leaving no one behind: greater involvement and empowerment of rural women in Turkey and Central Asia

The project will help grass-roots rural women in Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan, gain knowledge and skills to improve their economic status, start businesses and cooperatives, while empowering them to become agents of change in their communities. The project will also contribute to the creation of an enabling environment for rural...
Türkiye
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena cebolla

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de cebolla enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Practices
Manejo agronómico: Cosecha y poscosecha

La época de cosecha del fríjol, depende del tipo de mercado al que vaya enfocado: Fríjol seco o en verde.
La época de cosecha del fríjol, depende del tipo de mercado al que vaya enfocado: Fríjol seco o en verde. 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)

Report
Informe sobre el uso del Instrumento para la Evaluación del Desempeño de la Agroecología (TAPE) en Argentina Resultados y discusión desde el Área Metropolitana de Rosario

A medida que la agroecología se ha incluido cada vez más en el diálogo internacional sobre el futuro de la alimentación y la agricultura, ha habido llamados para producir las evidencias de su desempeño en las múltiples dimensiones de la sostenibilidad y de su capacidad para lograr múltiples ODS. En...
Argentina
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Influence of the density of Piliostigma reticulatum (DC) Hochst on the soil macrofauna in the northern Sudanian zone of Burkina Faso

SustainSahel scientists at the UNB - Nazi BONI University found the populations of soil macrofauna communities increase with the density of Piliostigma reticulatum.
Burkina Faso
2022 - Nazi BONI University

Video
AGRI challenge: sustainable pome and stone fruit

Costantino is one of the farmers in the Operational Group SISCCCA. The project develops sustainable integrated systems to control the brown marmorated stink bug.
Italy
2022 - EIP-AGRI Support Facility

Report
Gender and Generational Differences in Local Knowledge and Preference for Food Trees in Central Uganda and Eastern Kenya

Food trees contribute substantially to the food and nutrition security of millions of rural households in Africa. Farming communities prioritize tree and shrub species on farms based on a combination of factors, including their knowledge of potential uses the species' economic potential and a range of constraints and opportunities that...
Kenya - Uganda
2022 - CIFOR-ICRAF

Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena cítricos

En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de cítricos enfocados a su marco productivo, regional, económico, comercio internacional, así como sus perspectivas y tendencias frente al mercado, dando a conocer su entorno de Ciencia y Tecnología e Innovación. Más Información: Bibliografía completa de la corporación Editorial Agrosavia Repositorio...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Newsletter
FiBL Newsletter October 2022

Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL October 2022 Newsletter News highlighting FiBL’s research, training and advisory services
Austria - European Union - France - Germany - Switzerland
2022 - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL
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