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Report
Forêts villageoises et filières bambou dans les montagnes du nord laos

Ce carnet relate l’expérience conduite par le Gret pour accompagner le développement de filières bambou approvisionnées par les forêts villageoises dans la province de Houaphan au Laos. Il montre comment cet accompagnement, qui a duré de 2008 à 2021, a permis aux villageois, acteurs publics et privés de construire collectivement...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2022 - Éditions du Gret

Case study
FAO supporting the seed sector in the Syrian Arab Republic

Agriculture could be the engine of recovery in the Syrian Arab Republic. However, for productive and resilient agriculture, farmers must be able to access good quality seed of well-adapted and preferred varieties of the major strategic crops. Before the crisis, the General Organization for Seed Multiplication (GOSM) was responsible for the...
Syrian Arab Republic
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Chief Gutu’s community experiences on biocultural diversity management

  Indigenous knowledge and cultural diversity is increasingly being put under pressure as the process of modernization is reaching into every corner of Zimbabwe. Rapid changes are taking place in land use practices, farming methods, health care and the cultural ethos and rituals of indigenous people. Fortunately, in recent years much...
2022 - The Seed and Knowledge Initiative (SKI)

Case study
Algae offers Indigenous fishers new prospects in Panama

FAO is helping women fishers develop new skills amid declining fish stocks
On the edge of the Caribbean Sea is an autonomous, Indigenous Peoples’ territory in Panama that has been inhabited by the Guna people for centuries. It winds its way around the gulf of the same name and includes an archipelago of around 300 islands. Within this territory is Naranjo Grande,...
Panama
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Video
Entrevistas - Cooperativas y Digitalización – Cooperborbon, Costa Rica

Video de presentación de la Cooperativa Cooperborbon de Costa Rica. En diálogo con FAO, se da cuenta de los avances en digitalización y sus principales logros para el mercado y sus cooperados y cooperadas en materia de logística, trazabilidad e inocuidad en la implementación de su e-commerce, que se consolidó...
Costa Rica
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)

Video
New ways in organic fruit growing: intelligent covers and Guyot training system for apple

Even in organic fruit growing, depending on the weather, frequent treatments with plant protection products are necessary. In order to reduce the use of plant protection products, FiBL has set up a trial facility. Among other things, constructions with flexible covers are being tested here. Intelligent covering, controlled by sensors...
2022 - BIOFRUITNET

Newsletter
Innovation & knowledge exchange | EIP-AGRI Organic Farming

This is a special thematic edition of the Innovation, Knowledge Exchange and EIP-AGRI newsletter. This edition focuses on organic farming.
European Union
2022 - Innovation, Knowledge Exchange and EIP-AGRI

Website
FAO SOILS PORTAL

It is difficult to rate the importance of the different soil functions, since all are vital to our well-being, to some extent. However,  the function of supporting food and agriculture worldwide is fundamental for the preservation and advancement of human life on this planet. Soil is also the basis for plant growth and contributes to...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Blog article
Voces de mujeres del sur global en la COP 27 sobre soberanía alimentaria en el contexto del cambio climático

Un grupo de mujeres de Abya Yala elevó sus voces firmes y profundas, para hablar sobre la soberanía alimentaria en regiones tan distintas pero tan hermanadas como América y África en la COP 27 de Egipto el pasado 16 de noviembre de 2022, desde organizaciones como Regeneration International y OMANIAP. En el...
Mexico
2022 - Vía Orgánica (VO)

Magazine article
Mujeres rurales en la región pampeana: problemática y lucha que trasciende el género

Desde los años 70 y más acentuadamente desde los 90, en que se firma la Convención de Brasilia, las mujeres en Latinoamérica, cuyo contexto de actividades se relaciona al medio rural, se han venido organizando en movimientos para llevar adelante luchas que posibiliten hacer visibles sus reclamos, derechos y necesidades, más allá del trabajo doméstico que siempre...
Argentina
2022 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)

Video
Anita Kumari Chaudhary's Path to Entrepreneurial Success

Anita Kumari Chaudhary is a dedicated member of the Kalika Land Rights Agriculture Cooperative in Nepal. Through her affiliation with the cooperative, she gained essential tailoring skills and ventured into entrepreneurship with a cooperative-backed loan. Today, she not only manages her thriving business but has also created job opportunities by...
Nepal
2022 - Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)

Article
Análisis sobre la actividad científica referente a las estrategias de climatización pasiva usada en invernaderos: Parte 1: Análisis bibliométrico

Para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria, bajo el escenario actual y futuro de aumento poblacional y escasez de recursos para la producción, el sector agrícola tiene retos interesantes dentro de los cuales cabe mencionar el desarrollo de técnicas innovadoras y sostenibles para aumentar la producción de alimentos. Dentro de estas técnicas...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Report
Participation and exclusion in mega tree-planting projects: a case study of the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme, Pakistan

Large-scale tree planting programmes have become politically attractive. They are claimed to be vital in tackling climate change and to provide big social and environmental benefits. This is a study of one such high-profile tree-planting project in Pakistan – the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme. With a reported budget of US$700...
Pakistan
2022 - International Institute for Environment and Development

Case study
Potatoes don’t grow on trees

FAO supports a Palestinian farmer and food hero to enhance food security in his Gaza community
Three years ago, 34-year-old Palestinian farmer Mohammad Jaffar Edris Khudair never guessed he would be pivotal to his community’s food security. He had been working in the same farming operation in the city of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip for two decades and had little hope for expanding...
Palestine
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Case study
Colombia: Advancing monitoring and evaluation of adaptation in the agriculture sector

Experiences of integrating agriculture in sectoral and national adaptation planning processes
This case study provides an overview and analysis of lessons learned in developing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of adaptation in the agriculture sector in Colombia, as part of a broader national adaptation M&E system. It presents the policy and institutional context for adaptation M&E in Colombia; the process, theory and...
Colombia
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Experts recommend an integrated approach to develop rural communities

In the countries of Europe and Central Asia, about half of the population lives in rural territories, with those people who produce the food we eat among them. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and addressing the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impacts of the ongoing war...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Magazine article
Simulación de lluvia erosiva en suelos con cultivos invernales y barbecho en situación de sequía extrema

El proceso de erosión hídrica (EH) consiste en el desprendimiento, transporte y deposición de partículas del suelo por la acción de la energía cinética de la lluvia y escorrentía en movimiento. Es un fenómeno complejo, originado por múltiples causas y principalmente influenciado por clima, topografía y factores propios del suelo como su erodabilidad (Cisneros et...
Argentina
2022 - Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR)

Book
Cultivo y ensilaje de avena (Avena sativa L.) en el trópico alto del departamento de Nariño

Este manual recopila las técnicas actualizadas para la producción adecuada y eficiente de avena forrajera para su uso como ensilaje. La información aquí consignada fue generada, en su mayoría, por las investigaciones realizadas en los últimos 25 años por la Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA) y por el conocimiento...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)

Video
Empowering women farmers through cooperatives and enterprises

In Asia, inclusive cooperatives and associations play a pivotal role in surmounting the challenges that women farmers encounter. This video showcases the transformative impact of women-led cooperatives and enterprises, shedding light on how they have empowered and enriched the lives of women farmers.
2022 - Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)

Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 24 – July 2022

This monthly e-newsletter gives a bird’s eye view of all the exciting updates from Access Agriculture, a world-leading organisation for quality agricultural training videos in international and local languages, working across the Global South. The Access Agriculture Panorama features information on new videos, audio podcasts, blog posts, articles contributed by experts,...
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture
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