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Leafy Greens and Vegetables of Cameroon
Cakin blooming, pumpkin, purslane, moringa, bitter cucumberUse, key nutrients, common name, scientific name
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants and
describe why human...
Cameroon
2023 - Food Plant Solutions
Article
Rice Diversity in Asian Bowls
One of the most important staple foods, rice, is agronomically- and nutritionally-sound and provides the calories needed by around half the world’s population. There is an urgent need to take all necessary actions to produce rice in a sustainable manner in order to fulfil the future demand for food that...
India
2023 - Thanal AgroEcology Centre
Blog article
Diez años en defensa de la milpa, los maíces nativos y la biodiversidad mexicana
En 10 años, 18 órganos jurisdiccionales han conocido la demanda colectiva maíz, incluida la Primera Sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, se han resuelto decenas de impugnaciones y casi todos dándole la razón a la Colectividad
La autora, representante de la Comunidad Demandante contra el Maíz GM en México, hace un análisis de los logros y retos a 10 años de una demanda colectiva.
Mexico
2023 - Asociación de Consumidores Orgánicos (ACO)
Fact sheet
Important Energy Crops of Cameroon
Finger millet, maize, taro, Chinese taro, Sweet potato, country potato
Scientific name, common name, use, key nutrients
Formed in 2007, Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group (FPS) creates science-based educational materials, which:
identify highly nutritious local food plants,
explain how to grow them in a sustainable, agroecological way,
detail the nutritional value of the plants...
Cameroon
2023 - Food Plant Solutions
Report
Biodiversity in Soil
Soil is our lifeline. It sustains life with a variety of foods, holds and filters water to provide us with clean and safe potable water and maintains ecological balance by storing carbon. But there is so much to understand about soil and how it works. Agroecology is a holistic approach...
Pakistan
2023 - Khoj – Society for People’s Education
Newsletter
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest (April 2023)
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform (FFKP) Monthly Digest showcases the latest contents uploaded in the FFKP to provide its readers with relevant and up to date information on family farming main themes such as agroecology, smallscale fisheries, pastoralism, indigenous people, and more.
2023 - Family Farming Knowledge Platform FFKP
Blog article
Exploring agroecological farming in Karnali, western Nepal
We met Dal Bahadur Kandel, a farmer in Sundwari village, during an ICIMOD/GRAPE team visit to Karnali Province, western Nepal, in November 2022. Kandel gave us a tour of his traditional farm, a 2,500-m2 property around his home. He showed us the different crops he was cultivating – gourds, melons, cauliflower,...
Nepal
2023 - nternational Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Article
Discover and protect Kitarasa Banana
Slow Food reaffirms its commitment to safeguarding banana biodiversity in East Africa
The Kitarasa Banana is an important element of food culture at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. This banana variety is used to make flour for porridge, to produce a traditional local beer and as mixture with traditional dishes. Nevertheless, Kitarasa producers are decreasing, due to changes in culture, lifestyle, poor...
2023
Blog article
A personal reflection on agroecology movements in Cuba
*The Décima is a popular form of improvised poetic expression, which has been used historically by peasant communities across Latin America as a means to express and spread ideological struggles.
We then heard from several influential actors in the Cuban agricultural sector, including Idael Pérez Brito (Minister of Agriculture), Adilén Roque...
Cuba
2023 - Agroecology Fund.
E-learning
Organic Citrus Online Course by BIOFRUITNET
On April 20, from 10:00 to 13:00, via zoom, the expert in organic citrus Rosa Vercher, from the Polytechnic University of Valencia will give the BIOFRUITNET course on organic citrus in Spanish.
The topics to be discussed will be as follows:
Phytosanitary risks. Emerging problems for organic citrus
Functional Biodiversity
Pest management strategies
After the...
2023 - BIOFRUITNET
Blog article
Soil science, different but right
Soil may be the basis of farming, and therefore of almost all of our food, but farmers and soil scientists see the soil in completely different, if equally valid ways. In Bolivia, I was recently making a video with Paul and Marcella on soil tests that extension agents can do...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2023 - Access Agriculture
Video
CSA as a LifeCOACH
CSA as a LifeCOACH, a film developed by filmmakers Ondrej Sovik and Martin Matej, explores the value of mentorship and apprenticeship in small-scale, agroecological farming in the beating world of community-supported agriculture (CSA). To resist the loss of agroecological knowledge, to combat the devastating consequences of climate change, and to...
Czechia - Hungary - Italy
2023 - Asociace místních potravinových iniciativ
Practices
Increasing feed production using legume and cereal mixtures as a second crop (DiverIMPACTS Practice Abstract)
Improved feed diversity and more resilient feed production, less dependent on soybean imports. This strategy helps to mitigate droughts effects, through an “avoidance strategy”, with production of forage during seasons less likely to be affected by such phenomenon. Other benefits include improved soil biodiversity and soil health, reduced leaching during...
2023 - Chambre d’agriculture des Pays de la Loire
Report
State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023
Tackling the Nature Emergency: Evidence, gaps and priorities
State of the World's Plants and Fungi 2023
Our fifth report in the State of the World’s series lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally, and is titled 'Tackling the Nature Emergency: Evidence, gaps and priorities'
It is the second report that is accompanied by a full volume of expert-reviewed scientific...
2023 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Practices
Recycling agricultural residues in organic farming by on-farm compost production
Farmers are frequently facing agricultural waste production problems (which incorrect disposal may determine a damaging environmental impact) and soil fertility depletion. Sustainable valorization of crop residues could allow recovering valuable components as substrates and nutrients in microbial/enzymatic controlled processes, such as composting.
2023 - CREA - Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment
Manual
LEISA India - Millet farming systems – March 2023 – Issue 25.1
Millets have finally arrived on the global scene. With 2023 being declared as the International Year of Millets, by the United Nations, the spotlight is on millets. While half a billion people across the globe consume millets as a traditional food, it has taken decades, for it to get its...
India
2023 - Leisa India is published quarterly by AME Foundation
Book
Mapping the development of agroecology in Europe - Volume 1
his first book volume collects country reports produced by the AE4EU Horizon 2020 project and the European Association Agroecology Europe which involved a large number of organisations, as well as more than 25 "mappers" who conducted the work in different European countries. Among them were many members of the Agroecology...
Albania - Austria - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bulgaria - Croatia - Germany - Greece - Italy - Malta - Montenegro - North Macedonia - Romania
2023 - Isara Agro School for Life
Blog article
Las tortillas de maíz nativo, riqueza en biodiversidad y bioculturalidad
En el artículo, el Dr. Alejandro Espinosa de Cibiogem habla de la necesidad de preservar los maíces nativos mexicanos para cuidar la diversidad biológica y nuestras tortillas, alimento principal de México.
Mexico
2023 - Vía Orgánica
Blog article
Access Agriculture praised for pioneering work in Egypt
The Executive Managing Director of CGIAR, a global agricultural research network, Dr Ismahane Elouafi, has praised the achievements of Access Agriculture in reaching farmers, including women and youth, in remote rural areas of Egypt. Access Agriculture worked with the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and...
Egypt
2023 - Access Agriculture
Guidelines
Manejo agroecológico para el cultivo del algodón y cultivos asociados
Recetas naturales para el control de insectos
Esta cartilla, producida de manera conjunta por la FAO y la Agencia Brasileña de Cooperación en el ámbito del proyecto +Algodón, busca contribuir a fortalecer las capacidades de representantes de los gobiernos, de agricultores y agricultoras, organizaciones, estudiantes y equipos técnicos para que puedan enfrentar los desafíos de lograr una...
2023 - Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO)
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