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Farmer Field Schools and agroecology: Tools for sustainable food and agricultural systems
This practice describes the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in the context of agroecology and the use of the 10 Elements of Agroecology as a holistic tool to think about sustainable food and agricultural systems at multiple scales. The practice also explains how FFS and agroecology interventions can support sustainable...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Practices
Manejo agronómico: podas
Las podas son unas de las principales prácticas de manejo agronómico en el cultivo de lima ácida Tahití. Consiste en ajustar el crecimiento y desarrollo de los árboles para tener una mejor distribución de las ramas, mejorar la entrada de luz, y así, aumentar la sanidad del árbol y mejorar...
Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Journal article
Presence of pesticides in the environment, transition into organic food, and implications for quality assurance along the European organic food chain – A review
The use of synthetic pesticides is not allowed in organic production, but traces of synthetic pesticides are regularly detected in organic food. To safeguard the integrity of organic production, organic certifiers are obliged to investigate the causes for pesticide residues on organic food, entailing high costs to the organic sector. Such residues...
European Union
2022 - Science Direct
Blog article
Ukraine | Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The Green Road of Ecovillages is a network of ecological communities and permaculture centers that give shelter to refugees from Ukraine. Some of the displaced people are now elsewhere in Ukraine, others outside Ukraine. It was born organically on the basis of an existing network and due to the incredible...
Ukraine
2022 - Arc 2020
Manual
Guía práctica para la incorporación del enfoque de interseccionalidad en proyectos y programas de desarrollo rural sostenible
En América Latina y el Caribe, el acceso a la seguridad alimentaria y nutricional, la situación de pobreza y la capacidad de respuesta al cambio climático están fuertemente relacionados con las diferencias de género, origen étnico-racial, grupo etario y territorio. Situación que exige observar el carácter entrelazado de estas desigualdades...
2022 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
Video
Understanding Soil Health | Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet Part 1
Part one of the series on "Healthy Soil - Healthy Planet" of Soil Food Web School explores some of the many benefits that regenerating soils can have on the rest of the planet and on humans in a dialogue between Dan Kittredge, Dr. Stephan Van Vliet, Didi Pershouse, Dr. Elaine Ingham and...
2022 - Soil Food Web School
Video
Shescapes: Women in Small-scale Fisheries
The 32 minute film complied by shows a change that has occurred over a decade in different countries across the world — truthful appreciation of women’s role in fisheries. Despite differences in society, culture, politics and economics, their involvement in the sector follows a similar arc the world over. The...
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
ECVC Youth: Navigating Dreams & Precarity Working and Learning Conditions of Young Agricultural Workers, Interns and Volunteers Across Europe
This report assesses the working and learning conditions of young agricultural workers, defined as people who labour in the fields, mountains and farms and also in the livestock or food processing units and who are younger than 40 years old. The report looks at a wide range of issues including...
European Union
2022 - European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC)
Report
Peasant Agroecology
According to ECVC
European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) has released a new publication on its vision of peasant agroecology, capable of offering solutions to the present-day major environmental, social, economic and political challenges we are facing. The publication explains the concepts of peasant agroecology according to ECVC, then offers diverse case studies that...
2022 - European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC)
Blog article
Les légumineuses améliorent les rendements des cultures de plus de 20 %
Introduire des légumineuses dans les systèmes de culture améliore les rendements des cultures principales d’environ 20 %, selon une nouvelle étude publiée dans Nature communications. Les scientifiques ont synthétisé 462 expérimentations de terrain, totalisant près de 12 000 observations de rendement à travers 53 pays. Les plus forts avantages des...
2022 - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)
Technical paper
The effects of major economies’ policies on climate action, food security and water in developing countries
The growing demand for food, water and energy, in conjunction with climate change, puts pressure on land and freshwater resources. This problem can be acute in developing countries, where many households and producers have inadequate access to these commodities. While development is primarily driven by national policies, outcomes are often...
2022 - ECDPM
Fact sheet
Contexto de cadena papaya
En esta ficha de contexto se mencionan los aspectos importantes de la cadena de papaya 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.
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Colombia
2022 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
Practices
Design and plan a field demonstration in six steps: H2020 FarmDemo guide
This practice describes the steps for holding local demonstrations. This guide offers an overview of the essential elements to consider when preparing, carrying out, and evaluating on-farm demonstrations.
It proposes six simple steps to follow when designing an on-farm demonstration event, starting from defining the objectives, considerations on the site, the...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Unseen Faces Unheard Voices: Women and Aquaculture (Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India)
The documentary film Unseen Faces, Unheard Voices showcase the impacts of the boom in aquaculture on women in the floodplain regions of the Indian coastal state of West Bengal. Shot in the remote villages of Purba Medinipur, the film makes a pitch to policy makers, researchers and institutions to adopt...
India
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Report
Evaluation of Agroecology in the villages of Guiè and Douré (Central Plateau Region, Burkina Faso)
The economic and social effects of agroecological systems and practices inside and outside Sahelian bocage landscapes, and preconditions for their development
The objective of the study was to assess the socio-economic effects of agroecological systems and practices inside and outside three bocage schemes, or hedgerow landscape schemes, set up by TERRE VERTE andAZN, and to evaluate the preconditions for developing the implementation of these systems and practices. The study was conducted...
Burkina Faso
2022 - GRET
Article
What it would take to provide structural solutions to food insecurity in Africa
A few weeks ago, my colleague Francesco Rampa rightly pointed out the need to seek more structural solutions to Africa’s food insecurity, rather than focusing only on short-term emergency responses. An important question remains: how can this be achieved? And where does the much-talked-about African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)...
2022 - ECDPM
Case study
An innovation in agricultural science and technology extension system
Case study on science and technology backyard
Food production worldwide is primarily carried out by smallholder farmers. Closing the gap between actual smallholder yield and those achievable through scientific research is vital to increasing the food availability and efficient use of inputs and natural resources. Multiple factors and constraints contribute to these production gaps, including uncoordinated linkages...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Case study
Small fish, huge impact
WorldFish under MYSAP programme promoted the production of dried powder made from small indigenous fish species and piloted portable fish driers, designed to reduce contamination risks. The drier keeps the fish covered while drying them, thereby reducing the contamination risk and the pilot test demonstrated improved safety. The dried small...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Newsletter
Romanian Rural Development Network Newsletter 7/2022
Rural Romania Newsletter 7/2022 - Topics include: Ongoing session sM9.1Producer groups;AgriFish Council 18 July 2022;Wildfires;Come&See Festival;LINC Jeseniky ;Smart rural communities;Workshop Mountain area;Local Development Strategies adhoc seminar&other.
Romania
2022 - Romanian Rural Development Network
Audio
The coffee industry : a catalyst for change in child labour
Have you ever wondered where your coffee beans come from? Chances are it was prepared in Guatemala, ninth largest coffee exporter in the world. In the remote region of Ixil, far off the beaten tracks of the northern part of the country, low literacy rates and poverty have long plagued...
Guatemala
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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