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Using IoT (Internet of Things) in measuring water quality parameters in fish farming
Internet of Things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects that are embedded with sensors, software and other technologies with the purpose of exchanging data via the internet. Devices can be programmed to check the temperature, pH, oxygen and other water parameters. IoT technologies have revolutionized fish farming processes and...
Rwanda
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Video
Using good micro-organisms in fish farming
You can add good micro-organisms to your pond water to ensure good water quality. You can also treat the fry before stocking the pond. By adding good micro-organisms to your feed, it will be safer and better for the fish. At the time of harvesting your fish, sprinkle some micro-organisms...
Bangladesh
2022 - Access Agriculture
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama No. 18 - January 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.
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture
Journal article
Perceptions on the Challenges of Banana Cultivation and Bio-Based Technology Use Among Malaysian Smallholder Farmers
Bananas are one of the most commonly grown fruit crops in Malaysia, but local production has declined in recent years. Through site visits and interviews with 74 smallholder banana farmers, this study sought to know the current situation of the local smallholder banana industry, the challenges faced in commercial banana...
2022 - Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
Newsletter
Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems' Welfare - Newsletter
Ensuring poultry and pig welfare has become a crucial issue for low-input outdoor and organic farms, currently threatened in Europe by the international sanitary and economic crisis contexts. The PPILOW project helps providing keys for proposing and testing strategies and practices favouring welfare in these production systems. In this 6...
European Union
2022 - Poultry and Pig Low-input and Organic production systems' Welfare
Journal article
What Happened to PhilRice's Microtiller? A Scaling Study
This study inquires on the outscaling of the microtiller, a machine developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in the 1990s to address the tedious rice land cultivation in the Cordillera highlands of the Philippines. Stakeholders of the project were interviewed, particularly staff members of PhilRice and the Department of Agriculture; representatives...
2022 - Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA)
Project
The EU-project MIXED
MIXED is a project funded by the EU Horizon2020 programme. MIXED will explore the benefits of mixed farming and agroforestry systems (MiFAS) to climate, environment and society in general and support the further development of such systems. MIXED explores different types of MIFAS. The assumption is that MiFAS have the...
European Union
2022 - EU Horizon2020
Newsletter
Access Agriculture Panorama -October 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
Video
''Biofertilizers and other technologies available to address the Fertilizer Crisis in the Latin America and Caribbean Region''
''Biofertilizers and other technologies available to address the Fertilizer Crisis in the Latin America and Caribbean Region''
Webinar Recordings | 9 June 2022.
Fertilizer prices have increased in recent months due to several factors, such as high energy prices. On the other hand, major exporters, including China, Russia, and Egypt, have reduced...
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Conference/Meeting
How to scale agroecology
As part of its 10th anniversary celebration this year, Access Agriculture is organising a webinar on “How to scale agroecology” on 25 October 2022, in partnership with the Agroecology Coalition.
The webinar will feature an eclectic line-up of distinguished speakers and panelists, including representatives from the Agroecology Coalition, FAO Family Farming Knowledge Platform, ANTHRA, Collaborative Crop Research Program at McKnight...
Belgium
2022 - Access Agriculture
Blog article
''Grandma and the Bees: my connections to agroecosystems''
I spent my summer vacations at my grandma's after my 6th-grade examinations. Grandma lives in a small village in Kerala in India. It was always fun to be at her place, spending my days playing, helping in the kitchen and feeding the cows. I rarely visited grandma every year as...
India
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Blog article
Using genetics to support sustainable aquaculture: results from 20 years of breeding rainbow trout
The world’s oceans can no longer sustain the ever-rising demand for fish. Aquaculture offers an alternative approach – if production is sustainable and high quality. INRAE, the Aqualande group and its selective breeding company Les Sources de l’Avance, and the French Poultry and Aquaculture Breeders Technical Center (SYSAAF) reviewed data...
2022 - INRAE
Practices
Effets de la fertilisation à base de la biomasse du Sida cordifolia L. sur les performances agronomiques et la rentabilité économique de la tomate (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.) en culture irriguée
Publication scientifique, sur l'effet de la fertilisation organique de type "engrais vert" sur la culture des tomates en irrigué.
Niger
2022 - European Scientific Journal
Video
Making cassava snacks
Cassava should have a clean, fresh scent and a pure white center when cut open. Fresh roots also have a pleasant taste.When using bitter cassava, ferment the peeled roots for 3 days to leach out the poison cyanide, Then wash the roots.
Kenya
2022 - Access Agriculture
Video
Working in groups to save water
As collective irrigation canals deteriorate over time, farmers waste resources and efforts in simple daily tasks. With increasing scarcity and degradation of water quality, farmers must pay attention to improve water use.
Egypt
2022 - Access Agriculture
Website
FISH - Know it, Cook it, Eat it
Eating fish is one of the great pleasures of life. This book stems from that notion: it contains dozens of recipes from all principal regions of the planet. If you like seafood, aquatic foods and fishery products, there’ll be something in here for you. At the Food and Agriculture Organization...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
A tale of two towns in Tajikistan
The difference irrigation can make
In the arid south-western borderlands of Tajikistan stand the ruined mud walls of Kuhdomani bolo. The village was once lush and green, but when the irrigation systems failed, the fields and pastures dried up. Unable to earn from their land, one by one the villagers left. Today, Kuhdomani bolo is abandoned.
Yet just...
Tajikistan
2022 - IFAD
Blog article
Digital technology changing the nature of fisheries and aquaculture in Saudi Arabia
A digital technology system developed by FAO and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has begun to transform data collection and the management of fisheries and aquaculture in the country.
The Fisheries Directorate of the Saudi Ministry of Environment Water and Agriculture (MoEWA) worked with FAO to develop the new technology which...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Blog article
The Ocean Foundation and FAO launch groundbreaking knowledge hub for fisheries management
The Ocean Foundation (TOF) and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have launched a new website in support of sustainable fisheries management around the world. HarvestStrategies.org provides a clearinghouse of the latest information on the development and implementation of harvest strategies, also known as management procedures.
The question of how many fish should...
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Video
Producing healthy plantain and banana suckers
Instead of planting suckers directly, you can grow many new healthy plants from each bulb. Learn how to disinfect the bulbs using a natural solution and place them in moist sawdust in a germination box. From one bulb you can get at least 50 healthy suckers that are ready for...
Benin
2022 - Access Agriculture
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